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August 15, 2010

A look at mobile websites

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Businesses are always exploring different ways to reach clients and customers. From traditional techniques like print advertising to TV advertising, to the more modern and interactive technologies available on the internet, like social media networks.

Is it worth giving mobile websites a look?


A little background…

  • Wireless devices are everywhere these days, thus it is visible that mobile web access is a trend that is growing fast and will continue to grow.
  • According to research, web visitors using a mobile device increased 34 percent year-over-year.
  • Facebook, a very popular social networking website with OVER 500 million active users, announced its redesign of mobile websites m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com because of its growing mobile user-base, which has hit 100 million total active users (in other words, around 25% of total user base - see http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/facebook-mobile-stats/).
  • And new study reported by Mashable shows the mobile web will rule by 2015 (see http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/mobile-web-stats/).


Now for some opinion...

One thing the internet has taught businesses is to move with the trends. If you sit and wait for everyone to come around before you start working on something is reckless, and usually too late to take advantage.

Building a MOBILE WEBSITE for your business, which is a small version of your actual website designed for smaller mobile screens with slower internet connections, is essential to ensuring and improving your mobile web presence! 

At KAYWEB, we have already built dozens of mobile websites and are authorities in this field.

It won’t hurt to be ready for the change!

Take your phone and view KAYWEB’s mobile website at m.kayweb.com.au.

Posted by: Haig Kayserian

The United Kingdom is known best known for its Royals, football, bad teeth, bad weather and the Beatles.

Now a video produced by UK social media firm Simply Zesty shows how the phenomenon has spread across the masses in the monarch.

In the last few weeks, the world saw Facebook users reach 500 million in population, meaning 1 in 14 people globally maintains an active Facebook account.

More locally for UK audiences, as well as Commonwealth folk like us down here in Australia, Queen Elizabeth herself became a member of a social network - in her case, photo sharing website Flickr.

It is little wonder when you see the stats revealed in the video below. Most astoundingly, 64% of Brits have Social Media profiles while 60% admit to reading blogs. Enjoy all the numbers!


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Playing World of Warcraft can teach a gamer how to be good follower, a good leader and develop positive relationships because of the social interaction available in today's gaming world.

Video games have long been thought of as distractions to work and education rather than aids.

But there is a growing school of thought that says game playing in moderation and in your free time can make you more productive and successful in your career.

In our daily lives, we will encounter challenges that we learn something from. Video games can also present players with unexpected challenges.

Gamers learn to respond to, and even seek out, new challenges in order to progress. They also learn to improvise and are thus more likely to be able to solve real life problems creatively when there is no solution to be found in a manual.

Video games can train you to manage and organise high volumes of information.

Elliot Noss, chief executive of domain name provider Tucows, says spending some time playing World of Warcraft helped him become a better leader.

One of my favorite quotes from World of Warcraft is "Always take things in moderation, even World of Warcraft".