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  1. I've been using Foursquare in London for a few days-fantastic to feel the power of a slick location-based mobile app. Lots of opportunities!
  2. Interesting examples of brand ambassadors & consumer co-creation: RT @thewinfirm: Unilever Social Media in Asia http://adage.com/u/qFMCia
  3. Smirnoff to spend 20% of its ad budget on digital media - leads the way with social media marketing. http://tinyurl.com/yfpk8wv
  4. RT @SamAnnSmith: Interesting article on how Shazam works & how it's leveraged popularity into a pricing model: http://tinyurl.com/ykjywfx
  5. Jive secures $12M in funding from Sequoia: http://tinyurl.com/yjqs5sd. Good news for them, and for enterprise social software space
  6. Shazam closes investment round with Kleiner Perkins (who funded Amazon and Google): http://bit.ly/vXhDq. As a founder, it's a nice moment
  7. Provocative: story says "brand mgrs' should be renamed 'brand advocates': http://tinyurl.com/yfzmtxj. Unilever CEO quoted at length
  8. #Shazam launches freemium app on Windows Marketplace for Mobile. http://bit.ly/14nsFn. Oh and 8 miilion downloads on iPhone already!
  9. Starbucks is introducing mobile payments: customers can use their iPhone to buy coffee. http://tinyurl.com/ybsztpw. The loop is closing...
  10. RT @campfiresteve: "Digital budgets will move from 5% of total spending to 9% for Unilever in 2010" via @r2rothenberg
  11. RT @webpronews Nielsen Says Most Social Media Users Rich and Urban | WebProNews http://retwt.me/n0Cq
  12. Slightly dated (Apr. 09) list of top 100 brands mentioned on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/qpxefg. Several don't even have an account!
  13. Twitter users twice as likely to interact w/ brands: http://tinyurl.com/y8p4dtg. So Twitter use is a good leading indicator of engagement..
  14. Just came across this rating & ranking of corporate blogs: a couple of useful ways of sorting the list as well. http://tinyurl.com/pvto8q
  15. RT@paidContent: Apparently 20% of tweets mention a brands or products. Seems high, but worth noting this analysis. http://cnt.to/hNr
  16. Clever adoption of social media by a consumer brand: Nissan Leaf prominently features & uses social tools on its site: http://bit.ly/4lviqL
  17. RT @McKQuarterly: How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0. Headline - 69% report benefits. Good solid research: http://bit.ly/12Kf0F
  18. Study looks at consumer brands engaged in social media & find a correlation with financial performance - worth a look: http://bit.ly/2pFsl9
  19. Unilever drops agency, crowdsources TV ad - nice example of Corporate Crowdsourcing: http://tinyurl.com/mvgzb9
  20. Brilliant reams of stats on Twitter usage patterns: http://tinyurl.com/m9qu83. If you like numbers and graphs, this is for you!