The sad truth about Flickr’s fall from grace

The photo service that was once poised to take on the the world has now become an afterthought. Want to share photos on the Web? That’s what Facebook is for. Want to look at the pictures your friends are snapping on the go? Fire up Instagram.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we’re experiencing the dotcom bubble of mobile devices and technology.  Content is shifting form to tablet and phone resolutions and the landscape of the web will be forever changed.  

If you are only considering a strategy that includes applications for mobile phone devices, you’ll be frantic in 2-3 years when tablets become the dominant platform. Content should be adaptable to all platforms; web, phone, tablet, televisions, and even gaming devices.  

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(via The Future Of Mobile [DECK])

How often do we encounter these techniques at work?  More often than not, people are predisposed to a solution based on manipulation that is driven by factors that incentivize the individual, not the customer, nor the company.  Meetings should be about managing understanding the problem and outlining the solution, not building consensus on a pre-determined delivery date.

In fact, one in five emails are now opened on a mobile device. Here is how desktop, Web and mobile email clients have fared comparatively over the last two years:

(via From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS - Smashing Magazine)

Not suprising!

Flurry compared its mobile data to stats from comScore and Alexa, and found that in June, consumers spent 81 minutes per day using mobile apps, compared to 74 minutes of web surfing. (See chart below.) The shift comes as combined tablet and smartphone shipments eclipsed those of desktops and notebooks for the first time, according to a recent report by Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

I’m proud to be part of the team delivering the mobile apps here at myYearbook.  This is some good evidence that we’re delivering a great user experience for Android, iPhone, and the mobile web.  

Real life speed tests for the Verizon iPhone vs. the AT&T iPhone 4.

AT&T wins, without a doubt - pictured on the right

Verizon came through with respectable numbers, but at ~60% slower speeds - pictured on left.

No news here, really, right?  Not unexpected due to the manufacturers that lined up to support Google’s free Mobile OS, but Android has come a long way since the G1.  At myYearbook, you’re sure to find flavors of the Nexus [S], Droid X, Droid, Droid 2, Galaxy S, and more recently the Motorola Xoom.  Not only are these essential for ensuring our mobile apps are running bug free across the various custom UI’s on top of Android, but they demonstrate how much growth Android has seen in the past 6 months.  

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LinkedIn InMaps

Create a cool map visualization of all your LinkedIn contacts organized into relationship clusters. My biggest clusters include school friends and colleagues from past jobs (click the image above for a larger view). Interestingly, the map shows a distinction between my past marketing / creative co-workers at Yahoo (green) and the product / engineering folks I knew at Yahoo (blue).  

Make your own map with LinkedIn InMaps.  

Android now #2 in market share behind Nokia.  RIM falls behind Apple.  

It’s going to be interesting to see what Windows Phone 7 does, but I think RIM and Nokia are in trouble.