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Trends on Tuesday: Great American Smartphone Mirgration
According to a comScore press release last Wednesday, a new study put on by the comScore MobiLens service found that nearly half of the users who acquired a smarthphone during April 2012 had switched to it from another device. This marks a climbing trend with a 9.5% increase of smartphone adoption in the U.S. Out of [...]
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Mobile Gov Wikithon Tomorrow!
We will be having our next Mobile Gov Wikithon tomorrow Tuesday, July 31 at 3p.m. in downtown D.C. This will be the most hackathon-like wikthon we’ve ever had! USASearch and the Mobile Gov are teaming up to cohost the “USASearch” Mobile Gov Wikithon. The USASearch team will be coding updates to the USA Search function AND working on [...]
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Introduction to APIs
[youtube width="450" height="400"]sup8Q_NuIxI[/youtube] There’s an easier way to get content and data into the hands of citizens. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are web services that allow people to more easily consume content and data in multiple ways–via mobile devices, mobile apps, innovative mash-ups, and much more. Simply put, To help agencies better understand APIs, [...]
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Federal Student Aid Responsive Design & Twitter Town Hall!
Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, has recently implemented the Department’s first responsive design site at StudentAid.gov. StudentAid.gov is among several federal websites using responsive design by using technologies that the new Digital Government Strategy directs federal agencies to use in order to deliver digital services to any device, anytime, anywhere. StudentAid.gov [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Separation Anxiety
According to this infographic from T-Mobile , more and more Americans fear leaving home without their smartphone in hand. Most surprisingly, of those surveyed, 11% (1 in 10 people!?) would rather leave their house without wearing their pants than leave without their smartphone. Over half (55%) of women said they would rather leave home without [...]
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Sandia Labs Responsive Design Website
Sandia National Laboratories has recently implemented a new responsive design site at sandia.gov. The website’s flexible content and data embodies the epitome of responsive design, keeping the data structure in place no matter the device or the screen size of the device. Unlike some responsive design sites, Sandia’s mobile responsive design page (to fit smaller screens) [...]
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Intro to APIs Webinar Tomorrow and Other July Events
You need resources and we are here to help! Here are our July events to jump start your agency’s digital gov efforts. TOMORROW! API Webinar Series: An Introduction to APIs API’s are an important data element agencies need to address when implementing the Digital Gov Strategy. In this first installment of our API webinar series, experts [...]
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Trends on Tuesday: Ways Mobile Changes Media Consumption
According to this infographic from Inmobi, there are numerous ways in which mobile devices have changed the way people consume media. Highlights of these changes include: People spend more time on mobile devices than watching television If they are watching television, they are generally using their mobile device at the same time. They are more [...]
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