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Social Media: little to no effect on purchasing behaviour

Friday, April 29, 2011 By John Garner

A report from Forrester Research and GSI Commerce illustrates the fact that social media has little to no effect on purchasing power.

I’ve often thought this was the case and that people were far more inclined like myself to follow results from search engines and newsletters I get especially reghardware for example, but that might show a bit about what types of things I purchase.

I like to make up my own opinion and with what I know about Social Media I rarely trust what I see. What I can obtain myself through searching the web I trust more but not fully.

Having seen among the people I know, who are so called Social Media experts or gurus (for the others I don’t know, don’t take this personally) I wouldn’t trust them one bit to help a company truthfully promote their product nor do it in an efficient way.

Filed Under: Advertising, Business, Social Media, Strategy, Trend Tagged With: Advertising, Business, linkedin, Social Media, Strategy, Trend

Android now has the most free Apps

Thursday, April 28, 2011 By John Garner

A report that you can find over at Distimo (you need to register to get it) shows that there are now more free apps for Android than there are for any other platform as you can see below in the chart:

More free Android apps than any other platform

More free Android apps than any other platform

So the journalists and bloggers that just can’t spend enough money at Apple were right, people do spend more money when they own an Apple (for now) and maybe even for what would be cheaper on Android? 😉

The report shows that PowerAmp is at the top of the paid apps, it is really good and has some nice functions. Beautiful Widgets (which are great I must admit) is in at 7th place…

Filed Under: Analytics, Android, Business, Handheld, Smartphone Tagged With: Analytics, Android, Business, Handheld, linkedin, Smartphone

Android now wins over the hearts

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 By John Garner

Following the situation whereby Android OS has taken lead in market share, the latest Nielsen report on the mobile market shows that it is taking over the hearts of the market or should we say the “wants”. People are now more swayed towards an Android phone than any other as can be seen below (click to enlarge):
Android wins over the hearts for most desired OS

From the same report (see link below) this is reinforced in the recent acquirers trend in the chart below where Android takes 50% of the market share:
Recent Acquirers: Android takes 50% of the market

Via Nielsen blog

Filed Under: Android, Blog, Business, Smartphone, Tablet, Trend Tagged With: Blog, Business, linkedin, Smartphone, Tablet, Trend

Lego guys gone wild

Monday, April 18, 2011 By John Garner

Below is a video of a Great Ball Contraption circuit that takes nearly 8 minutes to complete and probably took weeks to build if not months. This is like Lego 5.0 compared to what I used to be able to do with Lego when I was kid!

Reblogged from TNW

Filed Under: Gadget, Tech, Unusual Tagged With: Gadget, linkedin, Tech, Unusual

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