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We've pretty much reached the stage where tablets and smartphones are no longer lumped together under the mobile umbrella, as each device encourages entirely different user behaviours and outcomes for brands.

Fragmentation of media across all digital disciplines such as display, search, social, mobile and video is changing the way that people view, purchase and manage their media budgets.

SLARToolkit is a flexible Augmented Reality library for Silverlight with the aim to make real time Augmented Reality applications with Silverlight as easy and fast as possible. It can be used with the Webcam API that was introduced in Silverlight 4 or with any other CaptureSource or a WriteableBitmap. SLARTookit is based on the established NyARToolkit and ARToolkit. SLARToolkit uses a dual license model and could be used for open or closed source applications under certain conditions. See the License page for details.

Ad agencies are always telling clients they need to be customer centric. The paradox is that agencies, for the most part, are still structured and positioned by line of channels/capabilities. We have digital, traditional "creative", experiential "event", social media, PR, mobile agencies and more.

"The use of mobile phones for offline shopping has increased dramatically over the past few years, and even if consumers aren't actually making a purchase with their mobiles, they are often using them to research products and prices while shopping."

If you were confused before about the differences between liking a website or story and sharing one, Facebook has confused the issue even more to make it simpler for us all. "Like" it, "share" it - either way you're posting the details on your wall and onto your friends news feeds. If anything, "like" is more prominent than "share" now.

Quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser. \n\nNotable helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that everyone can express their opinion. \n\n

Ever see an odd pixelated square graphic like this one on a web page, print magazine or as someone's social media site avatar? If you haven't yet I guarantee you will now. This type of graphic is called a QR Code and something you'll want to take note of and to creatively use in the future.

Brands and businesses are looking for ways to leverage Facebook's recently unveiled Questions tool in ways that differ from what they're already doing on Q&A sites such as Quora, Yahoo Answers and LocalMind.

Congratulations: you have 50,000 Twitter followers! Respect: you have a million 'likes' on Facebook! Kudos: 5,000 professionals on LinkedIn have joined your group! But scratch beneath the surface and ask yourself three big questions: 1. What does this really mean? 2. What is this worth? 3. Who owns the data? I'm not a social media cynic by any stretch of the imagination. I know what it has done for our business, but that's not to say there aren't threats and challenges on the road ahead.

Normally when I go to events or blogger meetups I always tell myself that I'm going to come home and write a post right away so that I don't forget anything that happened. What usually ends up happening is that I get home, bum around on Facebook for a while and tell myself I'll do it 'tomorrow after work' (just like with the Heston Blumenthal sherry tasting I went to last night).

Smashing Magazine\nSmashing Magazine Smashing Network Multivariate Testing in Action: Five Simple Steps to Increase Conversion Rates\nBy Paras ChopraNovember 24th, 2010\nDesign24 CommentsPublishing Policy.Advertisement\nThe attention span on the Web has been decreasing ever since Google had arrived and changed the rules of the game. Now with millions of results available on any topic imaginable, the window to grab a visitor's attention has decreased significantly (in 2002, the BBC reported it is about 9 seconds1). Picture yourself browsing the Web: do you go out of your way to read the text, look at all the graphics, and try to thoroughly understand what the page is about? The answer is most likely to be a straight "no." With bombardment of information from all around, we have become spoiled kids, not paying enough attention to what a Web page wants to tell us.\n\n

This post begins with a particular dilemma that SEOs have often faced: *websites that use AJAX to load content into the page can be much quicker and provide a better user experience *BUT: these websites can be difficult (or impossible) for Google to crawl, and using AJAX can damage the site's SEO.

بما أن سيري هي عنصر اساسي في نظام iOS، فلا يمكن تحديث النظام بدون ذكر سيري. فقد حصل المساعد الظاهري لأبل علي نصيبه من التطوير والتحديث من خلال تكامله مع تويتر، ويكيبديا ومحرك البحث بينج. هذا بالإضافة لإمكانية الخيار الآن بين عدد من الأصوات الجديدة منها الرجالية والنسائية - كما تدعم سيري الآن 3 لغات هي الانجليزية، الفرنسية، والألمانية.

Elevation Partners and Facebook investor Roger McNamee, who is also a rock musician, gave an amazing talk recently where he goes over some of the biggest trends affecting the technology industry.

Many people predict that mobile devices will be the only important user interface platform in the so-called "post-PC" future. Some even recommend designing websites for mobile first, and then modifying the design for the desktop PC as an afterthought. I disagree.

Facts and stats about social media in video format

Is there a science to optimising retweets? Or is it a combination of luck and network reach?