June 2011
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Watch@fredwilson Thank you for the PercentMobile shout-out during your keynote at the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit.
The PercentMobile mention is exactly 15 minutes into video.
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May 2011
2 posts
How To Capture Powerful Insights from Retail QR...
by Angie Schottmuller, Search Engine Watch
Can QR codes provide measurable insights that other marketing tools cannot? Check out the powerful analytics from this retail case study and learn five simple steps to capture and leverage metrics for your next QR code campaign.
Read Full Article: http://delivr.com/16oaq
Hyper Books E-Book Reader - Mobile Web-based,...
Hyper Books Mobile Web-based E-Book Reader Launches Today
Hyper Books is a free mobile web based e‑book reader. The currently available books are a selection of copyright free classics from digital libraries such as Project Gutenberg in Australia, Germany and the USA.
Please visit hyper-books.com on your Android, iPhone, iPad or iPod browser or scan the QR code below.
We’re big...
April 2011
3 posts
Update to Amazon EC2 Outage: PercentMobile...
Tracking services taken down by the recent Amazon EC2 outage were restored by 5AM, Friday, April 22nd. Close monitoring since then shows all PercentMobile systems are operating normally.
Thank you for your kind patience and support during this situation.
Sorry. PercentMobile is currently unavailable due...
PercentMobile is currently unavailable due to #Amazon #EC2 outage. We will let you know when the Amazon issues are resolved.
Amazon EC2 troubles bring down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, Hootsuite and more
http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/04/21/amazon-ec2-troubles-bring-down-reddit-foursquare-quora-hootsuite-and-more/
The popularity of Amazon’s cheap, easily scalable hosting is showing its...
Beyond the mobile web by yiibu
Brilliant presentation by Stephanie.
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March 2011
2 posts
UPDATE: Internet in Libya is Data Blackhole....
Unfortunately, the day of our original post the mobile Web in Libya went dark as well.
Internet in Libya is Data Blackhole. ...but what...
According to The Google Transparency Report (via The Next Web)
As unrest in Libya continues to grow, the country once again has no access to the internet, according to online traffic reports.
Google Transparency Report shows a clear drop off on March 3 at 9:30 pm (GMT), when Libya’s traffic– in and out of the country– fell to zero. It has not shown any usage since.
We took a look at...
November 2010
1 post
Samsung Nexus S Sighting on T-Mobile USA
Gotcha. PercentMobile spotted a Samsung Nexus S device running Android 2.3 on T-Mobile USA.
October 2010
5 posts
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“Apps [Native] really aren’t necessary at a UI level. Good software engineering...”
– rafer:
Gmail in mobile Safari: now even more like a native app - Official Google Mobile Blog
Rafer sez: Apps [Native] really aren’t necessary at a UI level. Good software engineering plus offerings like Sencha are making it clearer and clearer. Let’s pick away at the rest of the app process until...
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QR Code Tracking for Everyone
PercentMobile now offers a tracking solution for QR Codes that allows everyone to launch and analyze real-world QR Code campaigns.
Tracking for QR Codes is also available for integration into 3rd party QR Code and other 2D Barcode platforms. This service is currently available by request.
The 3 Steps of our QR Code Tracking Process Explained.
Create, Distribute, & Scan
QR Code is...
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Are Mobile Apps Derailing Your Social Media...
“Jessica is on her phone and sees an interesting tweet from a friend with a link to MTV. But when she clicks on it, she’s taken to a generic, unoptimized mobile Web site, not the shiny app MTV she just installed.” Social media giants Twitter and Facebook are deeply embedded in today’s mobile ecosystem through SMS, Mobile Sites, Apps/Widgets and OS level integration such as on the INQ1....
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USA Mobile Web Overview - Sept 2010
We compiled a compact overview of the state of the mobile Web in the USA for September 2010. Did you know that nearly 23% of mobile Web users in the US use phones that run Proprietary Operating Systems? Did you know that just under 13% of mobile Web browsing in the US is done using Non-Phones, like the Apple IPad, iPod touch, and Sony PSP?
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September 2010
4 posts
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Android OS - The First 100 Devices
Since the first appearance of an Android OS Device in October 2008, PercentMobile has recorded mobile web activity for more than 100 different Android OS devices. This is roughly one new device per week over the past 2 years. Considering that it took almost 6 months for the second Android OS device to appear, the growth rate is nothing short of astonishing. Not everything that Google does such as...
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PercentMobile on the Road to Brazil to Participate...
We have been asked by our friends in São Paulo, Brazil to share PercentMobile findings in regards to global and Brazilian trends during ResultsON Week (September 21-23.)
In the meantime, here are a few metrics about mobile Web access in Brazil over WiFi:
15% of Brazilian visitors to sites tracked by Mobile Analytics by PercentMobile have WiFi capable phones....
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All watched over by machines of loving grace...and...
This post has been sitting in our draft folder since April but with Apple and Google preparing for a mobile advertising battle we figured we would update it a bit and publish.
All watched over by machines of loving grace.
Several years ago Adam Greenfield wrote an article titled, “All watched over by machines of loving grace: Some ethical guidelines for user experience in ubiquitous-computing...
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Mobile Internet in Emerging Markets
The recent Economist contained an article on the expected rise in the mobile Internet usage in the so called BRICI countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Indonesia).
http://www.economist.com/node/16944020
What is their current mobile Internet ecosystem?
Nokia holds the lion’s share of close to 50%, followed by Samsung, SonyEricsson and BlackBerry with 13%, 8% and 7%. The rest splinters...
August 2010
3 posts
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Mobile Analytics With Python, Django, ASP.NET,...
A few weeks ago, the PercentMobile team came to me to see if I could help write some new libraries for them. Contemporary web and mobile web sites are written on a vast array of different platforms… and obviously the more that PercentMobile supports, the better.
Something I love about programming is that there are so many languages to choose from - why restrict yourself to learning or...
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PercentMobile Takes a Look at Which Countries are...
The map below depicts the percentage of mobile Web traffic from devices that have the ability to install a QR Code Reader.
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It's Apple in the Air
In their most lucid dreams the Wright Brothers may have thought of flying to the Moon or having an entire city floating in the sky, but the thought of having instant access to all of the world’s knowledge probably never crossed their minds. This implausible power belonged in the realm of gods. Now with the Hertzian space expanding upwards we find ourselves with this power. What mobile devices are...
July 2010
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PercentMobile Maps - 2nd Quarter 2010
Welcome to our first round of PercentMobile Maps. Our goal is to introduce you to the wonderfully diverse global mobile ecosystem. All maps are based on second quarter 2010 visits to sites that are tracked with our mobile analytics system.
Nokia Devices Web Usage
Lets start with the CEO searching and share dropping Finnish giant. Once globally perceived as the mobile industry leader, Nokia is...
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“But all these “big boys” [Google Analytics and WebTrends and others]...”
– Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Cool Web Analytics Tools | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Avinash Kaushik, Author - Web Analytics 2.0 & Web Analytics: An Hour A Day | Analytics Evangelist - Google | Co-Founder - Market Motive Inc
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Trendspotting with PercentMobile
Just as with the world at large, the mobile ecosystem is in constant motion. It grows and changes, sometimes significantly, sometimes subtly, every day. We want you to easily learn and understand those changes happening right now on your Site using Mobile Analytics by PercentMobile. With this post the team is excited to introduce to you a new feature called ‘Trending’ which, after being...
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11% of Web Traffic Worldwide is Now Mobile
Mobile traffic to sites designed for the desktop Web have increased over the last 6 months from 8.3% to 11%, a 32% increase.
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June 2010
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PercentMobile's Take On @drbarnard's,...
“Oh, and there’s also AdMob’s incredibly flakey “Mobile Metrics” reports. They do such a hatchet job on those it must drive Apple nuts”
— Anti-Competitive AND Potentially Creepy - @drbarnard (via @rafer)
…and Cult of Mac on AdMob, “Don’t be surprised to see a report six months from now showing Apple’s mobile web traffic dropping by half or more. All of which suggests that a...
IAB Aims to Create Standards for Advertising on...
rafer:
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau has launched a task force to recommend standards and best practices for display advertising on tablets and e-readers. An earlier effort by the IAB produced a set of specifications for display advertising on the Web that soon became industry standard. By bringing uniformity to display inventory, as well as creating standards for measurement, the IAB eased...
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ReadWriteWeb Summit - The Real-Time Web - See You...
May 2010
5 posts
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PercentMobile on, "Mobile OS web-browsing share"...
reblogged from: marco
Some people are criticizing John Gruber’s piece on iPad and Android browser share because Apple-product owners are more likely to visit his site (a bias he clearly acknowledged). I was curious to see more widespread numbers, so I got permission to post Tumblr’s OS percentages from Google Analytics for the tumblelog network.
This includes most human visits to all...
“PercentMobile spots iPhone OS 4 on Verizon!!”
– @mobileanalytics
JUNE 7th: Mobile Monday NY Relaunch Event (&...
momony:
RSVP to this free event at: http://momonyjune2010.eventbrite.com/
This month Mobile Monday New York is partnering up with Mobile Monday Brooklyn to throw a huge summer kickoff event at 230 Fifth on the roof.
We are planning the event at the beginning of Internet Week, and we are also teaming up with MMA to kick off their Forum New York events.
The topic is mobile advertising...
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In Defense of BlackBerry...
Over the past several years, the public mobile metrics reports by AdMob (a mobile advertising network that is in the process of being acquired by Google) have been instrumental in proving the relevance of the mobile web. AdMob’s March 2010 Mobile Metrics[1] report illustrates the rise of Android OS[2], a mobile operating system open sourced by their soon to be parent company, Google....
April 2010
6 posts
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How We May Use Mobile Phones (or Login Will...
Several months ago we participated in, “mobile trends for the next 10, a collaborative outlook” - curated by Rudy de Waele (@mtrends). As part of our contribution we predicted, “Login will replace Sim Cards.” What follows is a reboot of a conversation we started a year ago and hope you want to have today.
Have a look in your closet or suitcase. You have multiple shirts, ...
The Business of Fashion | Why Brands Should Focus... →
Scobleizer: Why Steve Jobs is blocking Flash.
I completely buy this. - David Harper
“Hey Adobe, Quit whining and start competing. Use your market position to become...”
– I’m with Cocoa (via rafer.tumblr.com)
“When every one of you complains about the exact same kind of restrictions placed...”
– Tao Effect Blog » Blog Archive » Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1 (via rafer.tumblr.com)
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The Rise of the Experience Phone
Until the day we lay mobile phones to rest and have Internet access directly via our brains as in Geoff Ryman’s Air, we need to occasionally update our mobile device taxonomy. Over the last several years, the mobile industry has labeled any phone with features considered advanced at the time of its release under the umbrella of “Smart Phone.” There have been many articles...
March 2010
7 posts
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Mobile is Flattening the Rhythms of Our Lives
“To not have a keitai (mobile phone) is to be walking blind, disconnected from just-in-time information on where and when you are in the social networks of time and place.”
- Mizuko Ito, Tokyo, 2003 It is clear that the billions of “always on” mobile phones have altered the balance of personal time versus social time. Withstanding group pressure and not being always...
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ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 - See You There
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PercentMobile Live from Las Vegas (CTIA) - All...
Broadcast from CTIA Wireless featuring Bango, PercentMobile, Motally, Localytics, and Distimo.Hosted by Debi Jones, Telefonica.
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The Future is the Mobile Web (not the Mobile App)
The Mobile Internet has finally risen to significance. Mobile applications have been hailed as the harbinger of progress for the mobile ecosystem and there are a few amazing applications available. There is however little attention on the mobile web. We want to put the mobile web and applications in context and shed light on critical differences that will help you form a healthy mobile strategy....
Apple iPad Sightings with PercentMobile
The public release of the Apple iPad into the wild is quickly approaching. In the meantime, PercentMobile is on the hunt to uncover the locations these rare and illusive devices are appearing prior to official release.
View map of iPad sightings across the PercentMobile network of accounts.
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Andrea Trasatti at WordCamp Ireland With Useful...
Mobile for Bloggers
5% is the average Percent Mobile audience of a Blog
30% of mobile traffic to blogs is via Wifi
30% of Mobile Web usage for blogs comes from non-phones
(i.e. the iPod touch, PSP, Archos, etc - expect iPads soon!)
50% of mobile devices visiting blogs are smart phones
90% of referral traffic to blogs comes from search engines
(Source: PercentMobile, March 2010)
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Do All Small Businesses Need a Mobile Strategy?...
Do All Small Businesses Need a Mobile Strategy? (The New York Times)
At the Mobile Premier Awards — an international competition for mobile start-ups held last month at the Mobile World Congress — the message was clear: Web sites are old school, and mobile is a growing requirement for every industry and business.
Investors and entrepreneurs who judged and won at the M.P.A. competition...
February 2010
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At PercentMobile We Compare Apples to Apples Like...
At PercentMobile we care about details.
We recently developed a unique approach that segments Apple iPhone Users into 3GS and 2G/3G Models, rather then into Apple iPhone OS versions that run across multiple models. We hope you find this attention to detail useful.
Meanwhile, here are some usage numbers of selected countries, compare your data against the usage numbers of selected countries...