The 2011 Nielsen Smartphone Insights Report is out.

From the manufacturers, Nokia has 25% of marketshare, ahead of Apple’s 23%. Samsung and HTC have 15% and 14% respectively.

On the OS side of things, Android runs on 30% of all smartphones, with Symbian following closely at 29% and iOS in third place at 23%. Microsoft Windows Mobile has 5% of the OS marketshare.

An hour long BBC documentary on Zuckerberg.

In just seven years, Mark Zuckerberg has gone from his Harvard college dorm to running a business with 800 million users, and a possible value of $100 billion. His idea to ‘make the world more open and connected’ has sparked a revolution in communication, and now looks set to have a huge impact on business too.

Emily Maitlis reports on life inside Facebook. Featuring a rare interview with Zuckerberg himself, the film tells the story of Facebook’s creation, looks at the accuracy of The Social Network movie, and examines Facebook’s plans to use the personal information it has collected to power a new kind of online advertising.

RSA Animate on misconceptions about incentive and reward.

Ken Barber from the fantastic House Industries digital font foundry gives a video interview about being a type designer to Gestalten.

The World Of Social Media, 2011, from Videoinfographs.

Jonathan Yi got to test a pre-production version of the Canon EOS C300, and made this film as his test report. For some reason Canon didn’t like the result, and doesn’t endorse the film in any way.

In early Fall 2011, I shot some footage with a pre-production model of the Canon EOS C300 for one week in NYC. I created an article and a video for Canon based on my experiences with the camera. The video is meant to poke fun at most camera test videos I’ve seen over the years. Canon, not thrilled with my sense of humor, does not credit or condone this video, but I think it shows a lot of the camera’s strengths.

In my opinion you couldn’t get a better review, but Canon prefers to play it safe and stick to the old time-honoured press release:

The Canon EOS C300/C300 PL’s newly developed Super 35 mm-equivalent CMOS sensor incorporates approximately 8.29 million effective pixels and has a pixel size that is larger than that for conventional professional camcorders, enabling greater light-gathering capabilities for enhanced sensitivity and reduced noise. The sensor reads Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) video signals for each of the three RGB primary colors, decreasing the incidence of moiré while realizing high resolution with 1,000 horizontal TV lines.

Now if that doesn’t get you excited…

Here’s the final article for Canon, without the video

Facebook, which in November extended the number of characters allowed in a status from 500 to 5000, now allows up to 60,000 characters, in what would seem to be a response to Google+’s supposedly limitless post length.

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Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Firefox in terms of marketshare, according to statcounter, taking users away from both Firefox and IE. Apple’s Safari and Opera are both flatlining at 5.92% and 1.82% respectively.

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