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Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Shopping Takes Off!
People used their mobile devices in record numbers on Black Friday. According to Mobile Marketing Watch Shoppers in the U.S. purchased nearly two and a half times as many items via eBay Mobile this Black Friday when compared to 2010. Correspondingly, PayPal Mobile announced a six-fold (516%) increase in global mobile payment volume compared to [...]
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Battle Royale: Mobile Web Versus Mobile Apps
When agency folks gather together to talk about mobile gov, the number one question asked is, “Should we do a mobile app or a mobile web site?” To help people with that question, we’re going to become fight promoters and sponsor THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY!! Mobile Web Vs. Mobile Apps We will have two [...]
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Government Apps for Thanksgiving Weekend!
Believe or not, there are government apps to assist citizens during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Here are some common turkey day scenarios with the apps that can help. Thanksgiving Feast Shopping–Those looking to make the safest yet most delicious Thanksgiving dinner should check out Ask Karen. Developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection [...]
3,152 views | 2 commentsNov 23rd, 2011 | Filed under Challenges, Making Mobile Gov, Mobile Gov Products, Mobile Strategy, Resources -
Trends on Tuesday: A 60 Second Mobile Snapshot
We know mobile information is moving fast, but who knew how fast? Mobile ad exchange company Mobclix crunched through data and found that every 60 seconds 208,333 minutes are played of Angry Birds. 77,244 wi-fi connections are made on iPhones Another 51,937 connections are made via Android. That’s 129,ooo connections a minute over the two [...]
1,235 views | Comments OffNov 22nd, 2011 | Filed under Industry News, Trends -
Training Resource to Hurdle the Tech Expertise Challenge
Agencies Mobile Gov efforts need the right technical expertise to build useful products for the public. Makes sense that agencies might think about training to build some in-house tech expertise. [ht to Sam Bronson] Stanford University–you know that school/high tech incubator on the West Coast–has rolled out a free version of it’s web app development [...]
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White House App
For people interested in President Barack Obama’s activities, the White House developed an app to give users the latest news and stories from the Obama Administration. The White House app provides users with blog posts and news along with live video streaming of White House events with President Obama. The White House app is available for the [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Growth of Mobile Traffic
In 2008, 1% of the traffic to Facebook came from mobile devices. Today–three short years later–one in three visitors are coming from a mobile device. Twitter has doubled their mix from mobile in two years. What About .gov? Take a look at your web traffic and see how much is coming from mobile devices. Check [...]
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Making Mobile Gov Wikthon #1 Recap
What do you think would happen when you ask mobile gov innovators to pile into a coffeeshop with their laptops (and tablets) to share their smarts for the good of helping other agencies make gov available to citizens any time and any where? Well, we did just that. In late October, a handful of govies [...]
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