For today’s podcast, I reached out to Cia Romano, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of InterfaceGuru.com for her thoughts on the current state of the Web today. Cia is a ten year veteran of the Web profession and is a hands-on user interface expert living and working in her home state of Arizona. Cia was in between flights and in this three minute interview Cia shares her thoughts regarding the need for education within the Web profession and a technical baseline for those that hire, employ and contract with Web professionals.
A full transcript of this podcast will be available in forty-eight hours.
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The holiday season is upon us and its time to send in your wish list to Santa. The Droid Smart Phone is an ideal gift suggestion that’s bound to please the Web professional in all of us.
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Droid is the first handset to sport the latest version of the Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG – News)-backed Android operating system, version 2.0. It costs $200 after a $100 rebate, with a two-year Verizon Wireless service contract. Besides Verizon stores, the phone will be sold at Best Buy (NYSE:BBY – News), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT – News) and Costco (NasdaqGS:COST – News).
Avian Securities analyst Matthew Thornton estimates 800,000 Droid phones will be sold through Dec. 31. Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S – News)sold about 700,000 Palm (NasdaqGS:PALM – News) Pre handsets in the first three months of that smart phone’s release this summer, while Apple sold 1.1 million iPhones in its first three months, in 2007. “The Droid reviews have been overwhelmingly favorable,” Thornton said according to a news report in IBD last week.
Motorola (NYSE:MOT – News) needs a hit. Market tracker iSuppli says Motorola had a 5.4% share of the global market as of June 30, down from 22.5% three years ago.
“Droid is potentially a game changer for Motorola,” iSuppli analyst Tina Teng said in a statement.
Seven handset makers have licensed Android, including Samsung, LG Electronics, Sony Ericsson (NYSE:SNE – News) (NasdaqGS:ERIC – News) and HTC. Carriers providing service also include Sprint and T-Mobile.
Android’s share of the market for handset operating systems will rise to 9% in 2013 from 2.4% in the second quarter, forecasts iSuppli. Research firm Gartner, however, projects Android’s share will hit 14.5% by 2012, moving into second place behind only Nokia (NYSE:NOK – News)-led Symbian, surpassing Apple and Research In Motion’s (NasdaqGS:RIMM – News) BlackBerry. Android is open and free to all handset makers, while Apple and RIM keep a close hold on their operating systems.
Tim McLaughlin, president and founder of Siteworx, a Web site and application developer for computer and mobile platforms, has yet a different outlook. He says the smart-phone market will become a two-horse race between the iPhone and Android phones, with Android winning. “In the long run, Android will prevail,” he said. “Droid represents the first real competitor to iPhone.” according to last weeks IBD.
There’s a comparison with the PC and Mac battle, he says. The Microsoft Windows/Intel platform was essentially open and accumulated 90% of the market. Apple kept a close hold on its Macintosh platform, which gave it a much smaller — albeit loyal — following.
“Unless Apple changes its business model, the Android will prevail,” McLaughlin said according to the IBD.
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comScore, Inc. released its monthly Search analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Here’s the 411:
In October 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share, up from 64.9 percent in September. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.9 percent market share, up 0.5 percentage points versus September.
October 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings
Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in October with 65.4 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (18.0 percent), and Microsoft Sites (9.9 percent). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.9 percent.
comScore Core Search Report* October 2009 vs. September 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Share of Searches (%)
Sep-09
Oct-09
Point Change Oct-09 vs. Sep-09
Total Core Search
100.0%
100.0%
N/A
Google Sites
64.9%
65.4%
0.5
Yahoo! Sites
18.8%
18.0%
-0.8
Microsoft Sites
9.4%
9.9%
0.5
Ask Network
3.9%
3.9%
0.0
AOL LLC Network
3.0%
2.9%
-0.1
*Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.
Americans conducted 14.3 billion searches in October, up 3 percent from September. Google Sites accounted for 9.4 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites (2.6 billion), Microsoft Sites (1.4 billion), Ask Network (552 million) and AOL LLC (412 million).
comScore Core Search Report* October 2009 vs. September 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Search Queries (MM)
Sep-09
Oct-09
Percent Change Oct-09 vs. Sep-09
Total Core Search
13,836
14,309
3%
Google Sites
8,975
9,362
4%
Yahoo! Sites
2,600
2,571
-1%
Microsoft Sites
1,305
1,412
8%
Ask Network
541
552
2%
AOL LLC
416
412
-1%
*Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.
October 2009 U.S. Expanded Search Rankings
In the October analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led the search market with 13.5 billion search queries, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.7 billion queries and Microsoft Sites with 1.5 billion searches. Bing experienced the largest growth of the top ten expanded search properties with an 8-percent increase in query volume to more than 1.2 billion searches.
comScore Expanded Search Query Report October 2009 vs. September 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch
The global recession is still upon us but according to recent reports some marketing executive’s say companies are set to booth ad spends. It appears that consumer sales are back in the game. Third quarter sales for online ad spends were up for 2008. According to analyst the fourth quarter increase should continue according to the report in IBD.
A recent JP Morgan poll of 20 big media buyers released mid October found that 12 expected second-half ad spending to be up 5% to 14% vs. the first half of the year. Only two expected a decline and six seeing no change.
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Today’s Web Professional Minute podcast topic is Design for Learning. To better understand this topic from an industry professional’s point of view, I interviewed Steve Barth, Principle Consultant Reflected Knowledge. I asked Steve to summarize what Design for learning all about and how can Web professionals benefit.
A full transcript will follow in twenty for hours.
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