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Congrats! 100.000 Apps in just about 15 month. Not too bad;)
The following link gives you some information about the market of iphone apps (about 2,4 billion $ per year >> WOW;): http://gigaom.com/2009/08/27/how-big-is- apple-iphone-app-economy-the-answer-migh t-surprise-you/
Source: mashable.com
Apple has officially reported what we figured out last week: the App Store now has over 100,000 apps. Keep in mind that the App Store didn't even exist until

conceptbakery Ups... We really missed the 10th anniversary... BUT... The Manifesto is still pretty much up to date... Amazing! Really worth reading it... At least once a year;) And... Almost every time I ask myself which is my favorite statement... Answer... Could be 1, 2, 12, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27...? How about you?
Source: www.cluetrain.com
The Cluetrain Manifesto is ranked #6 on Business Week's list of top books of 2000.

conceptbakery Happy Halloween!!! Here they come... Some YouTube Videos of the "Top 10 Movie Monsters (Beware: Really Scary)". The Exorcist, Clockwork Orange, Hannibal Lecter, Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Pennywise: The Dancing Clown from IT, and many more... So... Enjoy! And have fun tonight!!!;)
Source: www.bitrebels.com

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Facebook wins case against a spam king and gets awared $711 million. Spamming isn't nice. But I am wondering of the verdict was sponsored by an American company running a few stores across the nation selling slurpees and other goodies?
Anyway: Spamming in any form isn't necessary - we can all do better...
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20091030/w r_nm/us_facebook_court_award
Source: tech.yahoo.com
Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million in damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace, court documents show.

conceptbakery Interesting Study and thoughts how Facebook can drive traffic to a website, how loyal these users are, etc. The article also describes Budweiser's Facebook strategy. What where the objectives they wanted to accomplish with Facebook? What where the results? ...
Source: www.webpronews.com
WebProNews recently covered a study from Chitika, which found that Facebook was the most valuable social media tool for driving repeat readers to content sites. The study was based on 33 million unique users across Chitika's publisher network in September. ...

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Well done KFC. That guerilla stunt made it through the world press.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi cs/howaboutthat/6444738/KFCs-Colonel-San ders-tricks-his-way-into-UN-to-pose-for- official-photo.html
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
A man impersonating the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders managed to dupe his way into the UN headquarters in New York and shake hands with a senior official.

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You can count... The Social Web and Mobile Industry!
Check out these living statistics. With two little Flash Apps, who are still on development, you can see how active the Social Web and Mobile Industry is.
Source: www.personalizemedia.com
Two little Flash apps (still in development)showing how active the Social Web & Mobile Industry is, the text below is an abridged version of two post

conceptbakery Great/funny idea... Reminds me a little bit of "Be Kind Rewind"... What a funny movie!;) So I'm already looking forward to see how this "Star Wars Crowdsourcing" project will evolve.
Source: mashable.com
Talk about crowdsourcing: a group of Stars Wars fans is trying to make an entire movie out of fan-generated versions of Star Wars scenes. The

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Do you like our Fan Page? Than please nominate us. We don't expect to be a contender for the "Best Facebook Fan Page" category. We are not trying to compete with pages with millions of fans. We are rather trying to encourage others to take the same approach we do: More relevant info & less self promotion. You can help ...us by nominating "www.conceptbakery.com" in the category "Social Media Agency". And yes... You can do this once a day until 15th November 2009;)Read More
Source: mashable.com
MOTOBLUR from Motorola - the only service that automatically delivers and organizes your conversations, contacts and content from all your favorite sites and sources in easy-to-manage streams.

conceptbakery Nice idea: "The winning three-person team will begin their journey on January 1, 2010 and attempt to travel more than 150,000 miles in 365 days, visiting each of the 206 countries where Coca-Cola is sold." I think that will definetly be an amazing trip that changes the winners life! And... Of course the activities will be covered on various social media sites (Twitter, Youtube, Blog, etc.).
Source: expedition206.com
In 2010, Coca-Cola is sending a team of Happiness Ambassadors around the world to visit 206 countries in 365 days. Their mission: Find out what makes people happy. But which team gets to make the trip? You decide.

conceptbakery Why Google and Apple are successful and you are not - It's all about usability ;) Check out these simple manuals… Is this the key?!
Source: www.scottmonty.com
Common sense dictates that the easier something is to accomplish, the more readily it will be passed along. What information do you ask your customers to submit? And of that, which is really necessary? Less is more.

conceptbakery The most important thing about the homepage redesign of Facebook is that the newsfeed will have some new features (like top stories filter). Also some old features (lost in the last update / we were really missing) will be back again (especially interesting for advertisers and fan pages). So we are really looking forward to this update! How about you?
Source: mashable.com
A few weeks ago, we caught wind that Facebook was testing a new homepage design. Screenshots revealed a few interesting changes, such as a decrease in size for

conceptbakery That is something we tell our clients as well... Thanks to Facebook Connect & Co. Online Shopping will get much more "social"! And there are still many possibilities to be a first mover and get ahead of your competitors.
Source: www.businessweek.com
They're reaching customers via new tools such as Facebook Connect and pushing the social network toward profitability.

conceptbakery Interesting slideshow: How many Fortune 100 companies use Twitter, Facebook or a Blog? What do they communicate via which channel? ...
Source: hkotadia.wordpress.com
Social Media use by Fortune 100 companies http://bit.ly/2kVn4b #socialmedia #sCRM #CMO #PR #marketing #brand #ad #CRM #socmed #socbiz@1hourago

conceptbakery Interesting... "A study revealed that 80% of the people use Twitter for Business. But who are the cream of the crop?" What I also like about this article is that success is not only defined by the numbers of followers but by the number of interactions and engagement of these followers.
Source: www.penn-olson.com
Penn Olson - Your Social, Media, Brand Catalog.

























