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Latest research by comScore Inc. covering the last quarter of 2012 reveals that Android has retained its position as the

most popular OS in the mobile space. 53.4% of mobile devices now run on Android OS, and this represents a 0.9% rise from the previous quarter.

For many web design professionals, there was no option but to be self taught. Years ago, the academic qualifications simply didn’t exist. Sure, you could study design, but you’d be left to learn the technology by yourself. You could take an I.T. course, but you’d be lacking design skills.

With so many new websites and start-ups springing up every day, a high-quality, professional web site is no longer optional — if it ever was. If you want your company to be taken seriously, let alone stand out, you need to have a design that is both memorable and professional.

Google isn’t only a social network. It’s the very backbone (and future) of Google itself. As Brian Clark wrote yesterday, Author Rank is the real deal. And Copyblogger is going to do their best to drag entice you over to Google … because we think it has the potential to be extremely beneficial.

Ever since the first website was created, people have “tried” to get more traffic to their sites. We’ve manipulated search engines (or tried to) and coerced visitors through myriad tricks and schemes over the years. We’ve always worked far too hard to attract the attention needed to have a thriving, profitable web presence. Looking through the history of online marketing courses and expert advice, one notices how much trying, scheming, tactics, tricks and so on are preached about.

It may not seem as glamorous as big networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, but with over 50 million users and 20 billion posts, it is unwise to overlook Tumblr as an effective medium for brands.

Because the most successful blog posts are those where the writer has tuned into something that the reader is experiencing. This affects that part of the brain, generating an emotional connection with the reader. For those who understand how people really make decisions, that’s the key. You may imagine that we weigh all the rational choices and do some mental calculation in our heads that helps us make a choice but in reality, all the possible considerations would literally stop us in our tracks if we didn’t have the shorthand of emotions to guide us.

“Tumblr” has surpassed “blog” as one of the most searched terms on Google. Tumblr overtook blog in December for the first time since the microblog network was started in February 2007, tweeted Laura Olin, Outbound social media director.

There has been quite a lot of discontent among Facebook marketers of late due to the apparent decline in news feed visibility. The more cynical among us believe this is Facebook’s way of coercing page admins to pay to promote their posts in order to get the same exposure they once enjoyed for free. Whether this is true or not, the Facebook news feed is becoming an increasingly competitive marketing space – meaning you need to fight to be seen.

Find out how many internet users such as yourself own at least one social media account, how much time they spend on it, how many updates they generate, why they add friends and much, much more. It may not seem like a big deal, but it just might inspire and help you learn more about yourself. Check it out!

So what makes a logo, a good logo? In one sentence a good logo must be fit for purpose, adaptable to a variety of multiple sizes and materials, stand the passage of time without looking old, and be memorable enough that once you look at it, it can be easily remembered.

When starting your own business, you are faced with the mammoth task of trying to brand yourself so new customers can find you in the easiest possible way. Branding has become a super important subject on the Internet lately, and much of that is thanks to social media. It allows us to reach far more customers than what we would have otherwise had access to if we never used the Internet at all.

WordPress is currently becoming the most dominant CMS used on the internet. WordPress is an open source blogging tool which is a dynamic CMS based on PHP and MySQL and is absolutely free. Its ceaseless list of features includes plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by nearly 15 percent of Alexa Internet’s “top one million” websites. WordPress known for its simplicity and intuitive design has limitation in managing editorial teams efficiently.

Does your brand have a social media strategy which includes encouraging engagement with your fans and followers? Have you put it into practice or are you just winging it? In this infographic called Do You Know The Best Way To Engage Your Users by ShortStack, we see some of the most effective ways to spark fan and follower engagement. This data is from a survey taken with 860 respondents. In my opinion, that’s not a large enough group of people to make broad generalizations, but this information is still very relevant.

Branding isn’t your company name. It’s not a tag line. It’s not a logo. Branding is just another name for creating a perception. When marketers ask, “How do we want to brand this product?” what they’re really asking is how they want their audience to think about that product once it comes to market.