As an email company, we see our customers thinking more and more about how they communicate with readers on small screens—namely on mobile devices via HTML emails. We know to design for mobile first, but what does that mean for HTML emails being read on iPhones and Android devices? We wanted to find out what people really want when they read email on their smartphones.

We spent four months researching the way email is consumed on mobile devices in an effort to define best practices for this communication channel.

Fantastic article on scientific innovation: Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle: #AIDSCure #research

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79% of all U.S. Moms with Kids Under 18 are Active on Social Media #Research

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It's good to know that Jewish voters remain a strongly pro-Democratic constituency. Dems would be in big trouble if they began to tilt Republican in this cycle. But what is more interesting about Barone's op-ed is his description of the geographic distribution of Jewish voters in the context of the November elections.

Decision makers, press, media, and users are hungry for numbers, so I’ll start to aggregate them as I see them.

How I interpret stats
Numbers don’t tell us much without insight and interpretation, in fact, you’re going to see conflicting numbers of usage from many of the agencies and social networks themselves. The key is to look at trend movements, don’t focus on the specific numbers but the changes to them over time. I put more weight on active unique users in the last 30 days vs overall registered, in fact, the actual active conversion rate will often range from 10-40% of actual users sticking around and using the social network, so don’t be fooled by puffed numbers. No single metric is a good indicator, you have to evaluate the usage from multiple dimensions, so you also have to factor in what are users doing, time on site, interaction, and of course, did they end up buying, recommending products, or improving their lives.

A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009
I’ll be updating this post throughout the year, bookmark it, and share it with others

Nielsen recently released a slew of 2009 consumer electronic data from their numerous 2009 surveys and studies. There are some interesting Twitter and Facebook stats here along with the sheer number of people and amount of time being used to access social networking and online video sites. Here are the U.S. social networking and Internet usage stats:

The percentage of online Americans in each demographic category who have a profile on a social network website:

A new report by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research states that usage of social technologies increased markedly in 2008: three in four US online adults now use social tools to connect with each, up from 56% in 2007. According to the report, the largest growth came from ratings and reviews, "voting" on websites, and user-generated video. Blogging and tagging were also popular.

Forrester predicts that if growth of ratings and reviews continues at its current pace, then "reading peer recommendations will fast become a permanent stage in the purchase decision process."

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As she demonstrated in the video, using the example of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, this experimental tool from Google can be used to learn more about events that surrounded your ancestors' lives. If you know that one of your ancestors participated in a specific event, or was affected by one, use the tool to learn more about that event.