Instagram :: We’ve redesigned mobile photo pages! Our new mobile photo pages have a look and feel consistent with the web-based photo pages and make it easier for your friends to interact with your photos when viewing them outside of Instagram on their mobile device.
Announcement and explainer here blog.instagram.com
ReadWriteWeb :: In this fifth and final installment of our How To Filter The Social Web series, I'm looking at a mobile service called Prismatic. It's a slick looking website and iPhone app that filters social news for you. Filtering news on mobile has traditionally been a tough nut to crack - and there's no shortage of startups that have attempted it.
This time: Prismatic: A review by Richard MacManus, www.readwriteweb.com
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Social web filter: "How To Filter The Social Web From Your Inbox"
Social web filter: "How To Filter The Social Web, Part 2: Reddit"
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Gartner :: Free apps will account for 89% of total downloads in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide mobile app store downloads will surpass 45.6 billion in 2012, with free downloads accounting for 40.1 billion, and paid-for downloads totaling 5 billion
Table 1. Mobile App Store Downloads, Worldwide, 2010-2016 (Millions of Downloads)
|
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
|
|
Free Downloads |
22,044 |
40,599 |
73,280 |
119,842 |
188,946 |
287,933 |
|
Paid-for Downloads |
2,893 |
5,018 |
8,142 |
11,853 |
16,430 |
21,672 |
|
Total Downloads |
24,936 |
45,617 |
81,422 |
131,695 |
205,376 |
309,606 |
|
Free Downloads % |
88.4% |
89.0% |
90.0% |
91.0% |
92.0% |
93.0% |
Source: Gartner (September 2012)
A report by www.gartner.com
VentureBeat :: How can app publishers better monetize their products? - Localytics gives app publishers an easy way to track how smartphone owners are using their apps. By engaging users in a more time-sensitive manner, the company says that app publishers have a much better chance of engaging users and getting them to shell out cash.
A report by Ricardo Bilton, venturebeat.com
TechCrunch :: Appetize.co allows programmers to add one line to their code that can simulate button presses and swipes. You can then play these movies back in the app itself during demonstrations.
A report by John Biggs, techcrunch.com
The Next Web :: Tumblr has updated its iOS and Android apps to bring a raft of new features which makes content creation and sharing easier, while the discovery process has also been aided to allow tag following and make blogs from friends easier to find.
A review by Jon Russell, thenextweb.com
For how long?
Nokia :: Nokia today announced the launch of its free music streaming service Nokia Music in the USA. Nokia Music is a free mobile experience exclusive to Nokia Lumia handsets, providing consumers with a simple and delightful way to discover and enjoy music. Consumers can stream music from a suite of over 150 exclusive playlists that are curated and kept up to date by an expert team of US based musicologists. The playlists span a wide spectrum of musical genres from underground Detroit house tracks to New York Philharmonic favorites. Nokia Music also offers playlists created by global artists such as Lana Del Rey, Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
Announcement here press release, press.nokia.com
HT: discussed here "Listen up Pandora: Nokia Music now playing in U.S. for free" - A report by Kevin C. Tofel, gigaom.com
Guardian :: Buying books or papers isn't a key task on a tablet. The Guardian, Daily Mail, Times and Economist have all made headway, with varying success, with tablet apps, but the position of the iPad-only The Daily – which laid off a third of its 150 staff at the end of July – suggests that it's not a core activity.
Or perhaps that should be: yet.
A report by Charles Arthur, www.guardian.co.uk
Reynolds Journalism Insitute :: A majority of respondents overall — mobile media users and non-users — shared a generally favorable opinion of professional journalists, when asked if they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements on a five-point scale. That’s the good news. The bad news, or shall we say the “more thought-provoking news,” is that respondents in both categories also were about equally conflicted in their attitudes regarding the mainstream news media and the transition to mobile digital news technologies.
Findings rjionline.org
Mail Online :: From telling us when our train is coming, helping us when we're lost and letting us watch our favourite TV shows, there seems no limit to how involved our smartphone is with our day-to-day life. Now the gadget promises something so advanced it verges on the supernatural: it will know exactly what we're doing tomorrow.
A summary of a study by Sara Malm | Lucy Osborne, www.dailymail.co.uk
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