Joe Grigsby

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Forecast for smartphone penetration to 35% of global mobile phone units or 504 million units by 2012 - Joe Grigsby

Birmingham digital creative agency Clusta is pioneering a new advertising platform which allows people to move objects around on a big screen using their iPhone. Working with transport advertising company CBS Outdoor, Clusta has developed touch-screen technology letting people control the advertising display on the 57in digital screen at the Westfield shopping centre in London. - Joe Grigsby

FRANCISCO — Three weeks after Curtis Kimball opened his crème brûlée cart in San Francisco, he noticed a stranger among the friends in line for his desserts. How had the man discovered the cart? He had read about it on Twitter. - Joe Grigsby

That there are 65,000 applications in 20 categories in the iTunes App store is great news for Apple, but not so much for developers who struggle to stand out in the crowd. - Joe Grigsby

CSSiPhone is the first ever iPhone CSS Gallery which displays iPhone web interfaces for iPhone inspiration. - Joe Grigsby

AdMob has released its metrics report for May 2009 (PDF download link), and looked closely at the actual distribution of users of the iPhone apps in their network this time. The main take-away? There may be tens of thousands of applications available for the iPhone, but a whole lot of them simply never actually make it onto the device. - Joe Grigsby

AdMob has released its metrics report for May 2009 (PDF download link), and looked closely at the actual distribution of users of the iPhone apps in their network this time. The main take-away? There may be tens of thousands of applications available for the iPhone, but a whole lot of them simply never actually make it onto the device. - Joe Grigsby

Vacation is a time to relax, or a time to seek out adventure. It's a way to let go of your stress and live out your fantasies. That is, if the stress and pain - Joe Grigsby

Bland, black and white QR codes got you down? Well leave it to artist Takashi Murakami to shake things up. Creative agency SET has laced the psychedelic-anime expert's playful, colorful imagery into versions of the machine-readable code for Louis Vuitton that -- amazingly -- still work. The company has also done similar work for Coca-Cola, though nothing quite as luxuriously squeezable as this multi-colored panda. Now, if someone could just dress up those drab bar codes... - Joe Grigsby

Before we delve into the numbers, it is important to note that the data here is represented by metrics pulled from ads served by AdMob to more than 6,000 global sites belonging to its clients and partners. While this acts as reasonable representative sample, it cannot necessarily be used to assume global Internet usage trends. AdMob-served ads don't reach every corner of the globe, don't reside on every site, and not everyone even gets served the ads (depending on the client device and software). So take this data with a grain of salt. - Joe Grigsby

The MOCOM 2020 project is jointly created and managed by simyo and by the innovation agency Ahead of Time. Monty Metzger, Founder of Ahead of Time, is leading the project. - Joe Grigsby

MAGNA forecasts the US market for mobile advertising will grow by 36%, rising from $169 million in 2008 to $229 million during 2009. Although these figures represent downward revisions from our forecast in the middle of last year (prior to the subsequent escalation of the ongoing recession), we expect a re-acceleration in 2010 as the emerging mobile applications market organizes to support the sustained growth of ad-supported apps. - Joe Grigsby