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Host an eco-friendly Super Bowl Party
Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by admin.
Downplay the décor. All eyes will be on the game, so cut back on decorations. “Stay away from the ‘Super Bowl XLIV’ stuff,” says Fineliving.com’s Alexis Mersel. Use centerpieces of fresh fruit or flowers. Or hang strings of miniature LED lights in your team’s colors, says Jeffrey Davis, senior editor of the blog “Fun Times Guide to Living Green.”
Go organic and local. Serve beer from your local microbrewery. It’s a great conversation piece, Mersel says. Help guests make healthier choices by serving some vegetarian “junk food,” such as meat-free chili or vegan cookies.
Avoid paper products. Use real dishes, glassware and utensils. Put recycling bins in obvious places. “Do a little homework to find out what you can and cannot recycle,” Davis says. Try Earth911.com for tips. Ask guests to bring containers from home for leftovers, or find a homeless shelter or soup kitchen that accepts food donations.
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BlackBerry Still Dominates Smartphone Market
Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by admin.
A recent report by ComScore shows that, while the iPhone gets all the press, BlackBerry remains the smartphone leader. December data shows that BlackBerry commands 40 percent market share, compared to iPhone’s 25 percent. And that number does not appear that it will change in the near future. In a survey, ComScore found that shoppers of smartphones will be purchasing more BlackBerrys (51 percent) than iPhones (20 percent). At the bottom of the pack is T-Mobile’s MyTouch (5 percent), Palm Pre (2 percent) and Palm Centro (1 percent).
For Web professionals, this is something worth noting. iPhones are slick, but the raw numbers show that the “pedestrian” BlackBerry is much more widely used. This has plenty to do with the number of businesses and employees using BlackBerrys. That means when planning your mobile strategy for 2010, don’t get hung up on the iPhone. Make sure your mobile marketing is aimed across all available mobile devices and that your campaigns will render on every screen, not just the iPhone. For example, perhaps a big-budget app for the iPhone can wait, instead focusing on mobile campaigns like SMS coupons or something as simple as email geared toward reading on a mobile device. After all, the smartphone (and BlackBerry’s dominance) is still centered around communication and connectivity.
The coming release of Google’s phone should make these numbers even more interesting later in 2010. ComScore reports that 17 percent of consumers plan to buy an Android-supported smartphone in the next three months. With the abundance of devices capable of running Android, this is furtner proof that the iPhone should not be the sole, or even majority focus of mobile marketing.
In light of all of this is a very interesting bit of information for mobile Web developers. iPhone users and Android users interact with mobile media at a stronger clip (94 and 92 percent, respectively) than average smartphone users, including BlackBerry (80 percent).
This is going to be a big year for mobile. Keep an eye out for data like this to ensure you are aiming at the largest possible target.
Source: Website Magazine
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Grandma has no computer? Still send her e-mail
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by admin.
A mailbox containing real mail with real family pictures is about as rare these days as a day without e-mail. But for those who don’t use e-mail — like many of our non-wired grandparents — there’s now a service that sends family news and digital pictures from your e-mail account to someone’s snail mailbox for $9.95 a month.
Sunnygram offers one free month trial, so my uncle and I tried it out with my e-mail-free grandmother. It was simple: I just wrote an e-mail to her, attached some photos and hit “send.”
Sunnygram collects all of the e-mails addressed to her and mails out a weekly, cheery compilation of our messages (large font is an option) with embedded pictures. She could have responded to us through a Sunnygram prepaid letter (which would be scanned and e-mailed to us) or a toll-free number (the audio file then would be e-mailed to us), but she found that it was easier to call us on the phone directly, as usual.
For more information visit www.sunnygram.com
Source: USA Weekend
