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Bill Buxton - Long Nose of Innovation

19 Moore’s Laws ago, Casio sold a wristwatch for $94 with a capacitive touch screen that allowed you to use a calculator through touch-handwriting. How good are we if we had that technology in 1984? How far have we really progressed?

And the peculiar evil genius of Amazon is that Amazon seems to be trying to simultaneously establish a wholesale monopsony and a retail monopoly in the ebook sector.

Agile is a Sham

williamedwardscoder:

As I wade through my spam folder, it’s full of invitations to expensive courses to make me certified this or trained in that.  Selling the whole new agile way forward is big business.  Some are on-line but most are proper hotel things where, for some four digit number of dollars, I can bring home my own pack of playing cards and be qualified to use them!

For the first time in our history, Facebook drove more traffic to guardian.co.uk than Google

Eighteen months ago, search represented 40% of the Guardian’s traffic and social represented just 2%. Six months ago – before the launch of our Facebook app – these figures had barely moved.

A recent Pew report echoed these figures, revealing that just 9% of digital news consumers follow news recommendations from Facebook or from Twitter. That compares with 32% who get news from search.

But last month, we felt a seismic shift in our referral traffic. For the first time in our history, Facebook drove more traffic to guardian.co.uk than Google for a number of days, accounting for more than 30% of our referrer traffic. This is a dramatic result from a standing start five months ago.

She made her point with a graph showing the crossing of the two traffic lines, even though the Facebook referrals now appear to be receding:

Since 2005, print advertising revenue has dropped by 56%. And the $20.6 billion it brought last year has to be compared with the $3.2 billion scored by digital operations. Overall, despite the growth of their digital business, American newspapers have lost 52% in revenue from advertising since 2005.

• 46% of U.S. adults use smartphones as of February 2012. This means smartphone owners now outnumber those with basic mobile devices. (source)

• 48% of Americans (according to another source) and 66% of Americans 24-34 year olds owned a smartphone January. (source)

• 47.6% of mobile Internet customers use native mobile apps and 47.5% use the Web browser on their devices. This is the first time (in ComScore data) that native apps have had more use than the browser. (source)

• 50% of the World’s second largest (Facebook) Web site’s total audience (845 million) uses the service on mobile devices (425 million). More people access Facebook on the mobile web than from all their native mobile apps combined. (source)

• 49% of smartphone and tablet owners are using native apps to find local information. (source)

• 46% of holiday shoppers used a mobile device before buying offline. (source)

• The number of Internet companies with more (over 50%) of their traffic on mobile continues to grow.