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Flying Viral: What Businesses Can Learn from the Flappy Bird Saga

The Realtime Report

Image via Flickr. Such is the story of Flappy Bird , a seemingly simple mobile game created in a matter of days and released last May. The success of Flappy Bird almost seems like satire; however, perhaps it’s simply an experiment in today’s mobile users and the viral nature of the web. Simple enough, right?

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Must-Not-See TV

Social Media Marketing

A recent Motorola Mobility report found that 41% of Americans (36% globally) don''t watch all of their recorded content. But I suppose we can be at least a bit comforted that 40% of mobile searches are performed while watching television. Image credit: lawgeek (Flickr) --. But here''s the interesting part. That''s right.

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Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Amit Kumar via Flickr, CC 3.0. Look at these examples to understand the changes that the Indian media industry has been going through in the past few months: In May, NDTV Profit cut back on all non-market-hour programming, which meant the channel only needed a handful of anchors and reporters.

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This Week in Social Media – 7/24/2013

Social Media Marketing

Facebook’s Q2 earnings show mobile growth, U.S. The mobile space continues to dominate: comScore indicates that time spent on Facebook''s mobile platform more than doubled in Q2. A 61 percent increase in advertising revenue - 41 percent of which was from mobile advertising. These are those links.

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What’s On the New Multimedia Cart?

Waxing UnLyrical

As we all know, we’ve moved from a print-focused world, to desktop and now to mobile and it’s up to us to get better at showing, not just telling. Google recently announced that the number of searches on mobile eclipsed desktop. But we do need to look at the world in a more visual and, while we’re at it, a more mobile way.

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Weekly Roundup: Who Are You?

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: Tom pointed me to this after Friday’s post on making your blog mobile friendly. A better way to produce nonprofit annual reports , by Michael Hoffman of See3 over at Beth Kanter’s blog. Image: Filipe Dâmaso Saraiva via Flickr, CC 2.0. And h/t to Courtney Vaught of Traackr for pointing me to this.

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Saying Goodbye to Digital Marketing: Meet the New Me

Ari Herzog

Looking back at my blog archive my answers were staring back at me: diluting social media , using the telephone , changing blog layouts , leaving Flickr Pro , unfriending , unlinking , and going dumb. Working in a tethered relationship to computers, mobile devices, avatars, and links is no longer happy. I checked email less.

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