Facebook says websites are a dying business

Facebook says websites are a dying business

May 31, 2016 | Marketing, mobile technology, website design

Source: Facebook’s director of product design on why websites may be a dying business App. Bots and Mobile Web Will Dominate Information Distribution In an age of apps, bots and platforms, Jon Lax, head of product design at Facebook thinks websites are a dying business. Designers who focus on website may be loosing out and […]

Travel apps not big for mobile users – Travolution.co.uk

Mar 9, 2015 | mobile apps, mobile technology

ITB 2015: Travel apps fail to grab mobile users, research finds – Travolution.co.uk. A recent Phocuswright study has shown that the use of apps by the study group of travellers was “light” (study of the mobile use of 1,000 European travellers). Berlin, Gasdia of phocusright described the idea that apps are taking over the internet […]

TripAdvisor Says Forget Ads On Mobiles Tiny Screens- Get Commissions Instead – Forbes

Feb 3, 2015 | advertising, mobile technology, TravelShopping, visual tourism marketing, visual travel bookings

TripAdvisor Mobile Strategy: Forget Ads On Those Tiny Screens, Instead Optimize For Clicks And Commissions – Forbes. Its an interesting and maybe accurate prediction that the advertsing business model will not work on Mobile. To some extend we are seeing it fail even on the d4esktop as travelers just are not click on links, banners […]

Mobile Payments to Reinvent eCommerce – Openxcell

Dec 16, 2014 | ecommerce, mobile technology

Mobile Payments to Reinvent the Way We Handle Money – Openxcell. With the launch of ApplePay there was a lot of buzz that it was setting a new standard for mobile payment that would determine the future of eCommerce on all platforms. Not a moment too soon! Merchant accounts and integration into shopping carts is […]

​Why Windows Phone is lagging! Blame Verizon | ZDNet

Dec 10, 2014 | mobile technology

​Why Windows Phone is Lagging! Blame Verizon | ZDNet. This article is a bit of a departure for us at MarkHat.com, but we do cover mobile technology in travel and marketing (see our mobile traval report), and its interesting to see what is happening on the phone supply side. It seems Windows phone is rather […]