Eric von Coelln digs into the numbers behind social media, marketing, casual games and more.
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Quick Hits: Playdom Launches Two Titles; Mafia Woes; “Game Friends” Gains Support

After being fairly quiet since early August’s launch of (Lil) Farm Life, Playdom launched two games in the last two weeks: TikiFarm (a South Pacific themed farm sim) and Wild Ones (an artillery/strategy game with pets – still in alpha).
CrowdStar and Zynga have been greatly accelerating the deployment of games and it’s possible [...]

Call to Bookmark, Become a Fan Intensifies for Game Apps

The push by marketers to be “bookmarked” has been going on since the Favorites tab first showed up in web browsers. A bookmark on Facebook is the Holy Grail for an app developer: sitting in the footer of every Facebook page is the only way to be consistently “above the fold” and in the view [...]

Between the Tweets: Analyzing How Whole Foods Got to 1 Million Followers

Whole foods is one of the rare brands that don’t revolve around celebrity, tech or media in the top 1000 Twitter accounts by followers. Analyzing over 500 tweets, you can the success of Whole Foods is their commitment organic foods. Now watch them reach out and engage users on the local level using Twitter and Facebook.

After the Tweet: Exploring Twitter Click Through Rate Benchmarking to Measure Engagement

After looking at HOW Zappos engaged customers via Twitter in a previous post, now looking at measuring the engagement rates from those Tweets and also compared to Southwest Airlines, Jet Blue and Zynga (as well as take a stab at measuring engagement from Facebook Fan Pages).