Archive for July 2010
A Short Film to Celebrate Wendy Woo’s Birthday – 27th July 2010
No explanation required. Best enjoyed with the volume turned up.
Thanks to all those that took part and to Mix Master Domino for twiddling the knobs in the edit suite. Nice.
Watch on YouTube here or watch below
And for those that didn’t make it to Brooklyn, here’s what you missed.
True Stories (1986) – Film by David Byrne of Talking Heads
Watched the film True Stories last night as part of Architecture on film season at the Barbican in London. I’m neither a huge Talking Heads fan or very fond of musicals but loved this film. Beautifully shot, some incredible characters and IMHO quite visionary given it was released in 1986 - the film wasn’t a huge commercial success but I’d thoroughly recommend it – big screen or small. Review by Roger Ebert here
YouTube clip below (you can find many more on YouTube)
Mobile Device Shipments, OS and App Store Statistics
During my time at Taptu, the mobile search and discovery service, I was regularly reading reports and posts about the meteoric rise of new mobile devices, platforms and app stores. However, I would often find myself trawling Google for a specific stat that I read in a report but couldn’t find the reference when I really needed it – so I started collecting reliable mobile ecosystem statistics. The sorts of things I snag are installed base estimates by platform, apps store data, advertising impressions by OS, handset shipments etc…with references/links to the full report or article. Taptu also produced in-depth reports on the mobile “Touch Web” (the mobile web optimised for touch screen mobile phones). These reports include detailed category analysis of the type of sites and services flourishing on the mobile web vs the closed app environments. You can view the Taptu report here.
As and when I find new stats I’ll update the deck – hope it’s useful.
UPDATE : I’ve just added today’s Percent Mobile Stats – the most current deck can now be found on Google Docs here
