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You’re behind the curve if you haven’t been working on a mobile strategy. Consider this: the mobile sector is a US$ 850 billion global market and will comprise 62% of the total telecom market in 2010 (IDC study, Worldwide Mobile Trends: Steady Subscriber Growth, the Proliferation of Applications, and the Mobile Internet ). Or this: more than one half of internet users worldwide used a mobile device for part of their shopping activities in December 2009 (Mobile Shopping Takes Hold Worldwide – eMarketer).

But before you circle the strategy and tech wagons, step back and think about how you really need to approach this channel. Need help? Read on.

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Mobile Strategy is Key: More Than 50% of Internet Shoppers Went Mobile in 2009

TechRadar recently delivered what they and top experts consider to be key trends for the next 12 months in web design. At the core, is an increased focus on usability. Smashing Magazine sought to promote better user experiences with storytelling, encouraging designers to capitalize on users’ emotions. The bottom line: by focusing on usability, a better website can be built.

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Helping Microsoft put a little bit of social search goodness in its Internet Explorer 8 must have helped OneRiot (news, site) garner a little more attention.

The real time web search startup has just picked up some Series C financing to the tune of US$ 7 million. The funding was led by OneRiot’s current venture capital firms: Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Spark Capital.

The plans for this new funding involve continual enhancement of the OneRiot core product, in addition to efforts to support partners like Microsoft and Yahoo who use the OneRiot API.

The OneRiot Hot Web Topics Internet Explorer 8 add-on is an IE8 web slice offering real time web search results on the most discussed topics on the social web.

With over 3 millions users opted in to share their information with OneRiot, they are able to provide the hottest topics currently being discussed via sites like Twitter and Digg. It does this using their PulseRank algorithm which determines the current social buzz on web content mentioned within these social services — based on their community.

OneRiot real time web search

Obviously OneRiot must be doing something right to get their venture capital firms to cough up more money for development. As they say on their blog, “Yes, we’re really happy about this.”

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OneRiot Picks Up US$ 7m in Funding for Real Time Web Search

It’s here, it’s here, it’s here. After a flirty beta dance, Movable Type 4.3 is finally taking the stage.

We already threw together and pushed out a couple posts about the bread crumbs Six Apart dropped before the release, and since this is sort of like a lightweight Christmas for you MT fans we’ll get straight down to business and tell you about the biggest new features in 4.3:

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Say Hello to Movable Type 4.3

It’s no secret that regulatory policies often dictate the way that information can be accessed, shared or otherwise managed. Internationally-based companies face challenges posed by privacy laws, like the U.S. Patriot Act and the EU Data Protection Directive, which prohibits the transportation of electronically stored data from the U.S and Europe.

Kiersted Systems has addressed this issue by launching a mobile service for processing electronic discovery data. Prompted by such challenges, Kiersted’s mobile processing capability allows companies to perform eDiscovery wherever clients may be: down the street, across the country or around the globe.

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Kiersted Systems Launches Mobile eDiscovery Services