Mobile Year in Review 2010 - Video

via mobilefuture.org

Massive increase in apps downloaded -

FIVE BILLION apps downloaded — up from 300 million in 2009

Whopping expansion of location-based services -

FIVE MILLION Foursquare users — up from 200,000 users in 2009

Surge in mobile social media platforms -

347 PERCENT growth in Twitter mobile usage
200 MILLION mobile Facebook Users
100 MILLION YouTube videos played on mobile devices everyday

Ongoing explosion in data traffic -

3,000 PERCENT growth in one carrier’s data traffic since 2008
3,339: average number of texts sent per month by US teens.

Unprecedented competition and choice -

96 PERCENT of mobile users can choose from 3 or more providers
92 PERCENT of mobile users are satisfied with their provider
4 CENTS: average voice rate per minute in the US
77 MILLION: number of smartphones shipped in the fall of 2010.

WOW!

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Website Review - Jeff Bridges.com

Today after watching a Leo Laporte program, live on http://live.twit.tv/, and following some of their links to Design Tutorials 4U - Top 10 Web Trends for 2010, one trend that was mentioned was the 'Sketches, hand drawn style and illustrations.' An interesting website that includes this trend is the Jeff Bridges' site.

So after browsing through his many pages, which was hard because his navigation links to go back to the main menu only appeared at the very bottom of the page (took ages to scroll down!) I started to really enjoy the look and style of his little sketches/drawing. I also liked that there was hardly any computer text and was mainly done in his handwriting. This made everything really interesting and unique due to the use of different font styles he used while writing headings and paragraphs. Even his links had a unique element to them too...

A truly unique style of web design which revolves around hand drawn elements. The navigation could do with some improvement but overall an interesting site to look at.