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Found this really great article that talks about how small subtitles in design can make huge differences in results.

We’re delighted to finally announce the launch of snowlocate.com, it’s a simple web app that gathers up north american ski hill webcams so you can check them on the fly from your iPhone or iPod touch.

www.snowlocate.com

11% Increase from Q3 ‘07, Up Slightly from Q2 ‘08 Despite U.S. Economic Woes

NEW YORK, NY (November 20, 2008) — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion for the third quarter of 2008, representing an 11 percent increase over the same period in 2007. While double-digit annual growth continues, the quarter-to-quarter curve remains relatively flat compared to recent past performance. The Q3 2008 figures, published in the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report, are 2 percent higher than the Q2 2008 results. Set against strong economic headwinds in the U.S. economy, Q3 ’08’s $5.9 billion represents nonetheless the second-highest quarter results ever. For the first nine months of 2008, revenues totaled $17.3 billion, up from $15.2 billion in the same period a year ago and surpassing the record set in the first nine months of 2007 by nearly 14 percent.

The growth of interactive advertising that we’ve been experiencing over the past few years has stabilized due in large part to the difficult current economic climate,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the IAB. “Interactive advertising continues to be the most measurable and cost-effective way to reach consumers, and we see more and more marketers seeking to harness its power.”

David Silverman, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, added that, “a weakening economy will continue to be a challenge to all forms of advertising-supported media. However, the Internet should be better poised to withstand the storm given its ability to combine performance-based advertising along with broad-based branding.”

Quarterly $ Revenue Growth Comparison – 2000-2008 YTD

Source: PwC/IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report (www.iab.net)

Using the Gmail interface for our Google Apps install is great, but when it’s running in a Firefox window I always tend to accidentally close it.  By using Flock and Firefox together I can use one browser for communication (Flock) and the other for surfing / developing (FF).  Recently The Gmail blog posted this article describing how to set Firefox 3 as the default mail client when mailto links are clicked.  Below are some instructions to extend this for my setup so FF3 opens mailto links in Flock.  (Note: you need Flock 2..0 beta for this to work)

Follow the steps outlined in the Gmail blog here for your Flock install.

In FF3, Under Tools -> Options (Preferences on Mac) choose Applications

Search for “mailto”

With the Action drop down, choose “Use Other”

Click the Browse button

on PC choose “C:/Program Files/Flock/flock.exe” or wherever you have installed Flock

On mac, navigate to the Applications folder and choose the Flock application.

Now, when you click a mailto link in Firefox, it will open up a new window in Flock via Gmail or Google Apps.

We have released our new Wordpress Theme, Luntra. You can Download the theme here. Please let us know by email if you see any bugs or things that should be changed. You can also easily swap out the background image and change the look of the site. We did this very thing with the following istock image and you can see the results here.

If you want the theme without a logo you can download that here ->luntra_nologo.zip

No matter where you are, or what your doing (surfing the web, using the calculator or even just in locked mode) a quick double tab of the home button brings up music controls.

If you need to detect the iphone with PHP use the following code.

function detectiPhone($query){
$container = $_SERVER[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’];

$useragents = array (
“iPhone”,”iPod”);
$this->iphone = false;
foreach ( $useragents as $useragent ) {
if (eregi($useragent,$container)){
$this->iphone = true;
}
}
if($this->iphone){
echo (”This is a iphone or iphone touch - do something like redirect here”);
}else{
echo (”You are not on an iPhone or iPod touch”);
}
}

?>