Benchmarking Success: Top YouTube Case Studies | Retailers Explore Links to Social-Networking Sites. Follow Friday: blogs that keep me up to date on the new music in. I’m borrowing one of my favourite Twitter memes called Follow Friday, though I hardly ever participate. On Fridays, many Twitter users recommend their followers to follow interesting people that they themselves are following. It’s kind of like networking. Actually, it’s more than just ‘kind of’ like networking! I always find it really tough who to recommend, but I love the principle. That’s why I have decided to recommend some of the blogs I subscribe to so I stay in the know about developments in the (new) music business. Billboard.biz A rather traditional source of information – not too forward thinking, but has some interesting case studies every now and then.
Digipendent Looks at trends in music & the digital world. Digital Audio Insider Describes itself as a blog about the economics of digital music and I think that’s quite an accurate description. Digital Music News Definitely one of the best blogs out there on this topic! Digital Noise A CNET blog about music and technology. Mobile social networkers to top 600 million worldwide by 2013 -
The number of subscribers accessing social networking sites via mobile device will grow to 607.5 million worldwide by 2013, representing 43 percent of global mobile web users, according to a new forecast issued by eMarketer. Mobile social networkers will grow to 56.2 million in the U.S. by 2013--about 45 percent of the nation's mobile web user segment. eMarketer anticipates mobile social networking will enjoy 46.8 percent CAGR between 2008 and 2014, increasing from 76 million worldwide users to 760.1 million during that seven-year stretch--by 2014, 13.3 percent of all global mobile subscribers will access social media sites.
For more on the mobile social networking forecast:- read this eMarketer article. Inside the App Economy. It's easy to shrug off the kooky world of apps. The bite-size software programs people load onto their mobile phones or tap into on the Web seem mostly to be silly games and pointless novelties. But look past the beer-drinking apps and flatulence programs and you'll see something significant taking shape: a bustling app economy that's creating new fortunes for entrepreneurs and changing the way business gets done. It's happening with dizzying speed. Just two years ago, almost none of this existed. Apple's (AAPL) App Store, the most popular destination for mobile-phone programs, was launched last summer.
Now there are more than a dozen rival stores, and at least 100,000 apps have been created. Some startups that staked their claim in the app economy have become large, lucrative businesses in just a few months. There are serious business tools among the thousands of new apps. Early DaysApps will help determine technology's next big winners.
The company may be just getting started. Yahoo! Social Media ROI. B.L. Ochman's blog: Marketers Need to KISS: Keep it strateg.