The Data Briefing: Highlights from 300 Federal Mobile Moments
DigitalGov’s theme this month is mobile moments, which explores the impact of mobile applications in the federal government.
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Trends on Tuesday: Focus on Mobile Performance to Provide Better Mobile Moments
The New York Times recently published a report evaluating the cost of mobile ads on news websites and found that on many of the major sites, the ads were taking as much bandwidth and time as the content (if not more, in some cases). This comes after the recent hubub over Apple starting to allow
Trends on Tuesday: Is Crowdsourcing the Future of Mobile Design and Development?
NASA recently announced the winners of a smartwatch app interface competition. A Canadian duo won the design competition, and NASA’s plan is to build the app with 2016 funding to have it available for astronauts to use when they are aboard the International Space Station. This is the first government smartwatch app development we’ve talked about
The Data Briefing: White House Asks Data Scientists and App Developers to Help Suicide Prevention Efforts
This article describes some of the data sources that could be leveraged for building data analysis and apps to aid in the suicide prevention effort.
Trends on Tuesday: The Rise of Apps, The Decline of TV
Move over, 60 inch widescreens—for the first time ever, U.S. consumers are spending more time in mobile apps than on TV. An article from Flurry Insights, the blog for Yahoo’s mobile analytics service, covered the recent viewing trends. Apps are now the top media channel in the United States: on average, people spend 198 minutes on
The Data Briefing: Connecting the (Data) Dots—NASA’s NYSpaceTag App
OpenNASA has recently completed another redesign of their site. With over 31,000 data sets, 194 code repositories and 36 APIs, OpenNASA probably has the largest collection of open data of any of the federal agencies. An especially helpful feature is a set of icons devoted to five types
Trends on Tuesday: How Much Does It Cost to Go Mobile?
A penny saved is a penny earned. But spending your pennies on mobile development is necessary to meet 21st century needs.
The Data Briefing: Surrounded by Fields of Federal Data—U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s PatentsView
Hello, everyone. My summer sabbatical was short but educational, and I am glad to be back in the federal government. I am also excited to again take up the weekly API article that is now expanded to include all things federal government data. Much has happened in the open data realm, and there is much
Trends on Tuesday: Content is King for Mobile Apps
Yahoo’s mobile analytics service, Flurry, released a new and provocative report about mobile apps versus mobile browser usage, in which they found audiences are spending almost an hour more with their mobile phones than last year.
Trends on Tuesday: The Mobile Internet is Dead. Long Live the Mobile Internet.
Benedict Evans, a leading mobile analyst with the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, published a provocative post last week about the death of the mobile Internet. He details the history of the mobile Web and posits that the mobile Internet is the Internet now. The desktop version of the Internet audience is smaller
Trends on Tuesday: Prepare for ‘Mobilegeddon’ II—Interstitial App Ads
Google has announced a second wave of Mobilegeddon search penalties for websites using mobile app install interstitials.
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Messaging and Social App Research Released
On DigitalGov, we frequently talk about some of the most popular app experiences, and research almost always shows that mobile messaging and social apps are the most frequently used. Pew Research released a new report specifically about
DigitalGov Summit Recap: The Need for Change Agents, plus the Internet of Everything, from A to Z
The Internet of Things is already here. How will we prepare for the Internet of Everything?
Trends on Tuesday: Web Standards Advocate Advises Adaptive Web Design for Government Sites
This August, Aaron Gustafson, Web Standards Advocate at Microsoft, industry thought leader and speaker, and an author who wrote a leading book on adaptive web design, spoke to the government tech community at the U.S. General Services Administration
Trends on Tuesday: The Rise in “Mobile Addicts”
Yahoo’s mobile analytics division, Flurry, released an interesting report, in July, comparing mobile usage among three distinct types of users around the world based on how frequently they launch mobile applications each day: Regular Users, Super Users and Mobile Addicts. According to Flurry, of
Trends on Tuesday: The Impact of ‘Mobilegeddon’ on Non Mobile-Friendly Sites
Adobe released its quarterly Adobe Digital Index report this month, which showed websites that aren’t mobile optimized are seeing more than double-digit drops in traffic from Google’s organic search referrals. This is after the leading search engine announced it would start penalizing websites, after April 21st, that weren’t optimized for mobile—also called “Mobilegeddon.” Microsoft’s Bing search engine also
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Web Audiences Abandon Sites with Interstitial Ads
David Morell, a software engineer with Google, posted an interesting case study from the tech giant, sharing data about how users interacted with interstitials (ie webpages displayed before or after an expected content page) on their website. Their analysis showed that 69% of users completely abandoned the page and their original intent after being shown an interstitial. Interstitials take many
Community Rock Star Round Up
Around this month’s Communities Theme, the DigitalGov team thought we’d round up your community rock stars. These are people in your communities who’ve gone above and beyond, who’ve contributed content, organized events, participated in developing toolkits and more.
Trends on Tuesday: People Over 55 Soon to Be Mobile-Majority Users
In July, comScore released a research paper, The Global Mobile Report: How Multi-Platform Audiences & Engagement Compare in the U.S., Canada, UK and Beyond, covering a lot of areas from smartphone penetration to Android vs. Apple preferences.
Trends on Tuesday: GOV.UK Weighs in on Mobile User Habits
England’s Government Digital Service (similar to our own U.S. Digital Services and 18F) did a study of how content on their websites is consumed on mobile and non-mobile devices and learned several key points for a future-focused and
