Psychology, data, future gazing, and the internet.
Courtesy of the guys at Widgetbox I’ve been exploring what’s available out there to embed and add value to visitors. The answer is, unsuprisingly, “what isn’t available out there”. I picked up couple of examples at random that I thought were interesting. Added value? Well…
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This story caught my eye - quite possibly as I’m flying tomorrow… 12,000 laptops EVERY WEEK, that’s 624,000 per year, or one for every 500 people.
What’s even more astonishing is that 70% of those aren’t reclaimed. Is everyone feeling that flush despite the crunch?
Ironically, 40% of the lost laptops are left at the security checkpoints. [...]
As an example of the data that a server can already pick up from a simple visit, have a look at the table below (visit a couple of those sites and come back and see the difference).
I’ve also added a widget to the right of this page which shows some of the other (quite simple) [...]
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