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Pages That Display Tweet Buttons See 7% More Social Mentions
Sep 1st
In a recent report released by BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO company, stats were released showing correlation between social buttons and social shares. Data showed that pages that displayed the Tweet button saw 7% more social media mentions than pages that didn’t feature the button. This…
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Rumor Alert: Android 4.0 Coming to New Nexus Phone, Hardware Buttons Disappear
Jun 17th
For mobile developers, one of the greatest challenges is keeping up with the ever-changing nature of hardware platforms. Devices, seemingly overnight, become thinner, lighter, faster, and more powerful. Google has typically offered developers unlocked Android devices, for a fee and has been known to hand out its “Nexus” phones for free at times. But there’s always excitement when rumors of the next Nexus phone hits the Web, as these serve as the gold standard for delivering the pure Google experience.
Now, there are hints that a “Nexus 3″ is on the horizon, possibly coming from HTC.
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According to a scoop from BGR, the still unconfirmed future Nexus device being called the “Nexus 4G” has the following specs:
- A dual-core 1.2GHz or 1.5GHz CPU, either an OMAP 4460 or an ultra low-power 28nm Krait-based Snapdragon
- 720p HD display
- A “monster-sized” screen (uh?)
- 4G LTE radio
- 1 GB RAM
- 1080p HD video capture/playback
- 1-megapixel front camera/5-megapixel rear camera
- Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
- No physical Android buttons! Everything will be software-based.
The lower megapixel rating for the camera may be attributable to what BGR says is “class-leading image quality” and “superior low-light performance.” Megapixels aren’t everything, you know. And it makes sense that HTC would be behind the next Nexus phone, considering that the company has, according to CEO Peter Chou, the largest group of Android developers outside Google.
What’s more interesting is the note that it will run Android 4.0, the version which will merge Android Gingerbread (for smartphones) and Android Honeycomb (for tablets) into one.
The reported timeframe for launch – Thanksgiving – makes sense, too, given Google’s official announcement from I/O that Ice Cream Sandwich would arrive “later this year.”
It looks like this fall is going to be an exciting time for mobile industry watchers. We’ll have the commercial release of Windows Phone “Mango,” news of the iPhone 5 and some serious changes to Android all occurring around the same time.
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It’s Here: Google +1 Buttons For Websites
Jun 1st
As expected, Google is now offering +1 buttons that can be placed on any web page via a short code snippet. The code/button is supported in 44 languages, but +1 activity continues to show only on English-language search results on Google.com. (Google says it’s working to expand +1 worldwide.)…
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The Facebook “Like” Starts to Replace the Share Button’s Functionality
Feb 27th
Facebook is rolling out a change to its social sharing buttons: “Like” will now act a lot more like “Share.”
In other words, when you hit that “Like” button to express your thumbs-up approval of a particular site or story, Facebook will now post an update to your wall that includes a lot more details about what you’re approving. A Facebook “Like” will now include a picture, a headline and a little blurb, along with the option to comment, just as it does when you purposefully share a story to Facebook.
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Facebook spokesperson Malorie Lucich told Mashable that Facebook will continue to support the share button but that like will be the “recommended solution moving forward.” Calling the changes today “a test,” Facebook says it’s looking for developer feedback on how this new functionality works.
But Inside Facebook reports that the old version of the share button has been removed from developers’ documentation. Up ’til now, developers had several options about how the button would push content to Facebook – a share button, a simple, comment-less like, and a recommend-with-comment option. Unless the latter was chosen, users only got a link to the story on the recent activity section of their wall. Now the Facebook buttons will all generate a full story.
This change will likely be a boon to publishers who will see more of their content fill more news streams, and in turn, hopefully gain more referral traffic as a result. But it may not be a welcome change to Facebook users who find their feeds full of likes-are-now-shares.
Will the auto-publishing to your wall change how you use Facebook’s Like button?
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Google Maps Test New Interface For Layer Buttons
Oct 27th
The Google Operating System blog has a picture of a possible maps experiment for testing how users interact with the layers available in Google Maps.
The new buttons seem to be cleaner and easier to read and use.
Here is a picture of the new test:
Here is the existing user interface:
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Twitter Preparing Official Tweet Buttons: Report
Aug 11th
Twitter is planning to launch an official “Tweet” button this week, according to Mashable. The button will come in three forms, according to internal Twitter documents that Mashable has published.
When asked to confirm Mashable’s report and the authenticity of the internal documents, a Twitter spokesperson would only tell us, “Stay tuned.”
The button will be embeddable [...]
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