HTML5- Google and Arcade Fire team up

via chromeexperiments.com

This is so cool in so may ways. Enter your own street address and get the chills. Best viewed using Chrome. http://www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire/

Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition

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The Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition was held last night and our partners at Inside Hospitality provided the text message voting system (powered by us). Over 5,000 votes were cast.

Our ad for DMS ’10

Here is the ad that Involver whipped together for us in one day to meet yesterday’s deadline.

InSequent signs Promedia as white label partner

We are very please to announce the signing of Promedia (http://prowiz.com) as a white label distributor of our mobile platform. This is our third white label partner with four others, one international, imminent. InSequent is quickly establishing a major international distribution footprint.

Exhibiting at DMS ’10 in Dallas

We will be at the show along with our friends from Involver September 14-16.

Is Foursquare useful? Not according to her FB post.

The following was just posted on my FB:
“I just hid Foursquare. I am no longer informed when my friends, who I like very much, are checking into Target/Starbucks/their proctologist, etc.. The value of such information was negligible anyway.”
In depth research? No, but I think she is not alone.

Pizza Hut exec: Mobile to account for 50 percent of future orders

UPDATE: Pizza Hut expects mobile to account for 50 percent of future mobile orders, not current orders.

Buoyed by the success of its mobile iPhone application, Pizza Hut is about to get more ambitious with iPad and Android apps.

Brian Niccol, chief marketing officer at Pizza Hut, Dallas showcased new menu items that consumers can buy via their mobile device. In addition, the “Your Favorites. Your Pizza Hut” lunch unveiled the company’s new brand campaign.

“We want our pizza to become a favorite memory,” Mr. Niccol said. “When I came onboard five years ago, Pizza Hut didn’t even have a Web site where people could order pizza.

“[In the future, I see mobile] accounting for almost 50 percent of our orders,” he said.

Android Mobile Web Use up 400%, Far Ahead of Apple, BB

The Android platform has garnered much attention lately because of its rapidly expanding number of apps and phones on the market, so additional growth statistics should come at no surprise. Mobile Web usage on Android devices in the U.S. quadrupled in the second quarter of 2010, stealing market share from Apple and BlackBerry devices, says U.K. mobile analytics firm Bango. Apple’s traffic grew just 13% causing it’s share of the mobile browsing market to fall 16%, and BlackBerry saw its similarly slow growth outpaced by Android devices.

via readwriteweb.com

Nielsen: Mobile To Outpace Internet Growth

A new report from Nielsen Wire, with research from The Cambridge Group, says: “Defying classic economic models, the demand for communication (cell phones) leads traditional media growth, signifying a global, disruptive phenomenon.” Growth for the Internet will continue — but at more predictable growth patterns.

Key term “disruptive.” Read the entire article here: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=13…

New Wired Magazine Cover Story misleading

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I just read the debate in Wired magazine between Chris Anderson, Tim O’Reilly and John Batelle. Basically it danced around how the app economy has taken over etc etc and how the web is dead. In the end however, as I suspected would happen, came this from John Batelle:

“As a last word, I’d like to say that if the scope of the piece was really just about the web as a viable model for “professional content” as we see it, then splashing “The Death of the Web” on the cover might be, well, overstating the case just a wee bit…”