Articles filed under 'Quick Hitters'
Information is Beautiful
Grammar Attack
That five-second pause during which you’re not sure which form of some word is correct. Spell check isn’t clear. Better safe than sorry, but Googling leaves you even more confused. You feel like an idiot, but you shouldn’t.
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Goin’ Mobile
Juniper Research estimates that the number of mobile web users will grow from 1.2 billion this year to more than 2.4 billion in 2014. While many of these users will be able to surf the mobile web just as they do on their desktop and laptop computers, hundreds of millions of others will still be using smart phones with tiny screens and limited bandwidth and navigation.
‘Stache Your Ride
Somewhere out on the road, there’s a car with a mustache. Three thousand of them, to be exact. That’s how many of its products Carstache® – “the global leader in automotive facial hair” – has sold since the company launched in San Francisco last April.
Color My World
When COLOURlovers was putting together their recent report on the colors of the social web, they were surprised to see that blue was such a dominant color. Taking the study a step further, the group looked at colors in the brands from the world’s top 100 web sites and found almost as much blue there, this time with a healthy dose of red as well.