: “When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard…a lot of what we then considered “working hard” was actually “freaking out”. Freaking out included panicking, working on things just to be working…
: “What about iTunes? Doesn’t that show people will pay for content? Well, not really. iTunes is more of a tollbooth than a store. They offer a convenient list of songs, and whenever you choose one…
This also doesn’t even have to be a separate app, but could instead be one of the main viral hooks in the dance game (sending song, dance and message to a friend for a certain occasion or for fun/trash talking/cheer me up/joke, etc.) On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Josh Hubball wrote: > Loudcrowd Music Greetings app? Doesn’t have to be someone’s b-day and you > could select a song that conveys the desired theme, select a dance, and send > to a friend. And when it IS someone’s b-day, you could use the first 30 > seconds of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club”: > > “Go shorty, it’s your birthday, we gonna party like it’s yo birthday, we > gonna sip Bicardi like its your birthday, and we don’t give a f*ck if it’s > not your birthday!” > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nabeel Hyatt wrote: > » Number one gainer was Birthday Cards from RockYou, which gained 5.2 » MILLION installs this WEEK! » » And while Inside Facebook is not really sure why it turned around, we know » — they launched My Zoo inside of Birthday Cards, and it’s their first game » they’ve gotten to go viral. » » “It was gradually declining over the last few months, started growing at » the end of August, and reached around nine million users as of the first » week in this month>. » Since then, it has for whatever reason found the curve in the hockey stick » of growth: The app has gained 5.23 million MAUs in just the past seven days » to reach 16.3 million.” » » » http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/09/21/the-20-fastest-growing-facebook-apps-mostly-social-games-as-usual/ > > > > > — >
Loudcrowd Music Greetings app? Doesn’t have to be someone’s b-day and you could select a song that conveys the desired theme, select a dance, and send to a friend. And when it IS someone’s b-day, you could use the first 30 seconds of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club”: “Go shorty, it’s your birthday, we gonna party like it’s yo birthday, we gonna sip Bicardi like its your birthday, and we don’t give a f*ck if it’s not your birthday!” On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nabeel Hyatt wrote: > Number one gainer was Birthday Cards from RockYou, which gained 5.2 MILLION > installs this WEEK! > > And while Inside Facebook is not really sure why it turned around, we know > — they launched My Zoo inside of Birthday Cards, and it’s their first game > they’ve gotten to go viral. > > “It was gradually declining over the last few months, started growing at > the end of August, and reached around nine million users as of the first > week in this month>. > Since then, it has for whatever reason found the curve in the hockey stick > of growth: The app has gained 5.23 million MAUs in just the past seven days > to reach 16.3 million.” > > > http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/09/21/the-20-fastest-growing-facebook-apps-mostly-social-games-as-usual/
Number one gainer was Birthday Cards from RockYou, which gained 5.2 MILLION installs this WEEK! And while Inside Facebook is not really sure why it turned around, we know
Good amount of numbers and details here. 66 community managers!