A new way to get subject line standout Getting the email subject line to standout in the inbox is a continual challenge. Here I’ll show you how you can experiment with a technique you don’t see discussed much in email marketing. It’s about the potential of symbols, such as snowmen and hearts, to achieve this. I say “potential” deliberately – do you think it’s a useful technique – would you use it and when? Email clients have been improving their support for world languages and this has meant also support for the many symbols that are defined in the world character set, known as Unicode. I decided to try a few symbols and see just how well email clients did in correctly showing them. The webmail clients for Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail all had good support. Hotmail Yahoo Gmail Outlook 2003 to 2010 support Unicode symbols, this is how the Outlook 2010 inbox looks: iPhone and iPad had no problems either, however the standard Android 2.2 email client whilst showing the heart symbol (♥) did not show the snowman (☃) or smilie (☺).
List of best-selling albums worldwide This is a list of the world's best-selling albums. The criteria are that the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies worldwide. This list can contain any types of albums, including studio albums, greatest hits, compilations, various artists, soundtracks and remixes. The figures given do not take into account the resale of used albums. Legend Groupings are based on different sales benchmarks, the highest being for claims of at least 40 million copies, and the lowest being for claims of 20–29 million copies. 40 million copies or more Markets' order within the table is based on the number of compact discs sold in each market, largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom.[5] 30–39 million copies 20–29 million copies Timeline of the highest selling albums Notes See also References
Subject Line Checker - Litmus Discover your perfect subject line Use this free tool to craft the perfect subject line for your next campaign Your subject line is the most important factor for deciding whether people open your email. Depending on the email client they're using, your recipients might see just 25 characters of your subject line. This Subject Line Checker lets you preview your subject line across a range of email clients and devices instantly. Optionally, you can paste in your email's body content to check the excerpt text that each email client will show, to make your email as inviting to click as possible. Outlook 2003 Outlook 2007 Outlook 2010 Outlook 2013 Outlook.com Gmail Yahoo! BlackBerry
What's funny? - SciForums.com The results of a humour study are in. I found the differences in the kinds of jokes found funniest by people of different nations interesting. For example: People from The Republic of Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand expressed a strong preference for jokes involving word plays, such as: Patient: “Doctor, I've got a strawberry stuck up my bum.” Americans and Canadians much preferred gags where there was a sense of superiority – either because a person looked stupid, or was made to look stupid by another person, such as: Texan: “Where are you from?” Finally, many European countries, such as France, Denmark and Belgium, liked jokes that were somewhat surreal, such as: An Alsatian went to a telegram office, took out a blank form and wrote: “Woof. These European countries also enjoyed jokes that involved making light of topics that often make us feel anxious, such as death, illness, and marriage. Interestingly, Germany was the exception. Top joke in USA
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'PlayStation 4K' and 'Xbox Durango' will be key to Ultra HD adoption Nate Lanxon Editor of Wired.co.uk Next-gen TV -- with a 4K "Ultra HD" picture resolution -- was this year's hot topic at CES. But its success may be in the hands of console gamers. With leaked details of octal-core processor banks paired with 8GB of RAM, the PlayStation 4 "Orbis" is sounding powerful (just for comparison of RAM alone, the 8GB of system memory is roughly 32 times more than the current model). In 2005, very few people had an HDTV. Then along came the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. That's about to happen all over again -- the next battle is 4K Ultra HD, and every major television manufacturer at CES this year was showing off their best entrants into this arena. But it's like deja vu. It's such perfect timing when you think about it. They have to focus on the high end of gaming (because Apple's eating the casual market) and the next-gen of television and media distribution. How it will happen I believe we will see 4K in consoles enjoy a staggered rollout.
Phoenix Fly Meet Andy Hobsbawm, the man making coffee mugs smarter than you Son of the late and venerable historian Eric Hobsbawm, Andy Hobsbawm may make history, not write it. That’s because he, along with technologist and serial entrepreneur Niall Murphy, as well as computer scientists Dom Guinard and Vlad Trifa, are making great strides with EVRYTHNG, a software company bent on connecting objects to the Internet — making them “smart,” as it were. Powered by the EVRYTHNG Engine, the technology makes real the “Internet of Things,” a concept first named in 1999. In that schema, objects are given virtual identities (perhaps through RFID tags, maybe through a barcode or QR code) and connected in a Web-like structure. Hobsbawm will tell us more at JUMP in New York in just two days time when Venky Balakrishnan, VP of Global Marketing at Diageo, joins him on stage. Together the two will present a case study of EVRYTHNG in action, but first, a sneak preview of what we can expect to hear. It’s hard to imagine how your technology would manifest in the physical world.