What If Google Stored All Our Medical Records?

An excellent article that takes a common-sense approach to the discussion of Medical Records storage.

One has to wonder: how many texts is the average teenager actually capable of sending?

Some almost current stats on mobile trends by age group

3000 texts/month = 100/day = 6/waking hour
I think this figure can still go a lot higher ;-)

Interesting stats on mobile internet usage up from 40% to 49% among teens between Q2 2009 and Q2 2010.

The maturing mobile market

This article starts to delve into what people want when mobile markets mature (as is the case in the UK).

Essentially, it's stating that users in the UK tend to prefer web-type experiences, over app-based experiences. However, it does also presume that the web-type experiences are already optimised for mobile.

What does this mean for Macmillan?

Perhaps that we need to increasingly scope mobile access into the way we build, maintain and develop our online communications, focussing on ensuring content is readily digestible for people accessing it on the move...? But perhaps most importantly, (how) do we join up our online communications so that they can easily be accessed via mobile?

How the whole User Interface thing started

This 1982 Byte Magazine article describes the design process behind one of the first computer user interfaces.

I find the article so interesting because these guys were amongst the first to consider metaphors for visualising computer tasks.  They originated the Graphical User Interface.

10 Things to do with points in your community

http://www.gloerich.com/

Interesting article about using points system in community - it's worth debating pros/cons!

Digital Britain

This heartwarming video tells a very real story about how digital technology is shaping the everyday lives of people who live in Britain. It's a salutary reminder too of how essesential broadband has become for so many people, personally and professionally.

The film is an entry for the Digital Revolutions competition, the closing date for which has just been extended to 21 October.

Facebook infographic

For those in the team that like Kevin and I, love infographics!




2010 Facebook stats


Too strange a shape to embed in this blog so you'll just have to open it up. Sorry!

Best Techy Gag Of The Week

The prize this week goes to Nigel Green (@mrnigelgreen), a Project Manager here at Macmillan, for this beauty: