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This is a guest post from one of our interns, Marika Nīmante. She is working with us over the Summer and has written an interesting insight into the role Twitter is playing in Online Marketing.
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Amuso’s “Cuisine”: Twitter as the bite-size snack, blogging as the full meal
It will not be a story about high-tech tomatoes, a mysterious milk or supers-cucumbers. This story will be about working in Amuso’s “cuisine”, sharing ideas of marketing recipes, where I’ve understood, how the business ‘meal’ is made; and what are main ingredients of a long-term marketing strategy.
Some marketing bloggers, including me, are swooning over Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious and other instant, fast–paced social communities lately, because they are still the single best place to build a well – trafficked home for yourself or your business on the web. Blogging is alive and well, despite what the cynics say – look around at all the people creating new content and the millions reading it daily.
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This is a guest post from one of our valued interns, Karin Axelsson:  thanks Karin!

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Barcelona is the perfect city to be located in for Amuso, and any other fresh, cutting edge, innovative start-up. The city has been drawing entrepreneurial spirits for decades and is a boiling pot of inspiration, motivation and international influences.

Moreover the quite obvious attractions of the city; (and that draws thousands of visitors every year) the 4.5 kilometres coastline, Mediterranean climate, one of the worlds best nightlife scenes, a grand cultural heritage, fine cuisine, architecture, great football and so on…  the city offers something else.

Being a melting pot for people and organizations from all over the world, the metropolitan city provides a business climate ideal for entrepreneurs. The dynamics of the city enables a varied and constant flow of people, influences, ideas and inputs. This, alongside with the long tradition of entrepreneurial activity (Barcelona was one of the earliest cities in Europe to begin industrialization) makes Barcelona super interesting for creative and innovative start-ups.

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Business Week has just posted an interesting write up about the sucess of social gaming companies such as Zynga, which are thriving in the current economic climate.

“The number of people playing social games is expected to surge to 250 million in 2009, from 50 million in 2008, by some industry estimates. During recessions, people tend to look for low-cost entertainment, often staying at home. Many social games are free; often even power users pay less than $50 a month”

If you’re new to the social gaming phenomenon, this article is a great explanation of why more and more people are seeking their gaming experiences online, and not on traditional gaming platforms such as the Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360.

You can read Business Week’s article here –> http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/apr2009/tc20090429_963394.htm

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FT.com recently published an article about the spectacular growth of social gaming, fueled by the growth of Facebook’s app platform. It makes interesting reading for anyone operating in this space, and demonstrates what an exciting time it is for companies like ours to be designing the next generation of web experiences!

”It’s not the story that we want to tell as game developers that’s important anymore, it’s being able to design an environment in which players can interact and express themselves and tell their own story”

You can read the article here:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7503cade-2222-11de-8380-00144feabdc0.html