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IPhone Software Sales Take Off: Apple’s Jobs
The new iPhone apps are moving very briskly, too, with Apple selling about $1 million a day in mobile software. Sega says its iPhone sales have been so strong that the iPhone could quickly emerge as a mainstream gaming platform.
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Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience
Gregor Hochmuth explains the enduring popularity of Twitter, despite its many service hiccups. If you want to understand why Twitter resonates so much with its audience and creates such a fanatical following, read this.
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Holy cow: Apple sells 3 million iPhone in debut month
Capitalizing on the popularity of digital accessories as well as the iPhone’s emerging status as a fashion statement, Apple’s new iPhone 3G had a blowout first month. It took three days to sell 1 million of the new iPhones. For comparison, it took 74 days for the original iPhone to hit the one million sold mark. The new 3G iPhone has already sold nearly half as many as the original iPhones in total.
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Ben & Jerry’s Jumps Into Social Media
The ice cream maker is promoting its new “Imagine Whirled Peace” flavor with a John Lennon-themed social network at which visitors can post “messages of peace” and upload relevant images.
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Citi: Yep, The Kindle’s A Huge Hit. $1 Billion For Amazon In 2010
Kindle might be the iPhone of the book world. Wall Street analysts are euphoric about reports that Amazon may be on track to sell $1 billion worth of the handheld e-book in 2009 and could sell more than 375,000 units this year. That may make e-books a legitimate marketing channel in the not-too-distant future.
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Rich Newman debunks the myth that baby boomers don’t use social networks. While it may be true that they don’t use Facebook, he says, they’re just as active online as people 30 years younger than them. It’s just that they go places that researchers don’t measure.
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Social Networks Surge On Growing Global Audiences
Did you know that Facebook is now larger than MySpace? A surge of international registrations is driving social network growth. That includes traffic growth of 66% in the Middle East and Africa to 30.2 million, Europe increasing 35% to 165 million and Latin America rising 33% to 53.2 million.
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traffic growth of 66% in the Middle East and Africa to 30.2 million, Europe increasing 35% to 165 million and Latin America rising 33% to 53.2 million.
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Excuse Me, Do You Work Here? No, I Just Need to Fold Clothes
The Gap and its retail imitators have spawned a generation of Americans who are addicted to folding. And now that obsession is beginning to have unintended consequences, especially marital strain that results from one partner constantly refolding the other’s clothing.
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AOL Study Says We’re Even More Addicted to Email
AOL released the results of its annual e-mail addicition survey. Among the findings:
*62% of people check work email on the weekends;
*19% choose vacation spots with access to email;
*59% check email from the bathroom(I just don’t get that last one)
More: 46% of email users said they’re hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email 4 or more times a day (up from 45% in 2007). New York, Houston and Chicago top the list of cites “most addicted” to email; 27% are so overwhelmed by their email that they’ve either declared “email bankruptcy,” deleting all their email messages to start anew, or are seriously thinking about doing so. Twenty percent of users said they have over 300 emails in their inboxes.
paulgillin.com
Social Media and the Open Enterprise
In other news, there's nowhere to comment on MediaPost's article about Ben & Jerry's crass attempt at "peace merchandising" social media.