I’ve written about the importance of using user-segmentation to deliver unique user / site experiences and email marketing. Here’s a brilliant example of Zynga’s Word With Friends (the mega-popular Facebook & mobile Scrabble game).
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I like to check in on Apple’s top grossing applications – it’s a good indication of mobile app and publisher trends. And from time to time, I have written about those trends.

Earlier this week, Amazon launched the Amazon Appstore by giving away Angry Birds Rio for free (the #1 paid and top-grossing app on iOS). That promotion was in conjunction with an announcement that Amazon would …

Today Amazon launched the Amazon Appstore for Android (more here and here). At this point, there are a slew of app stores (from your phone, computer, tablet, browser, television, alarm clock, etc.

I’m a sucker for info-graphics… and here is a really good one to help celebrate the success of LOLapp’s Ravenwood Fair social game (note: LOLapps is a Polaris-backed company).

I regularly cover trends in top grossing iPhone / iPad applications. What makes this update noteworthy is that:

Following up on yesterday’s post about the impact Apple and Android are making on the gaming industry… here is a screenshot of today’s top grossing iPhone Apps. A couple notes of interest:

Two years ago, I wrote about the looming death of portable gaming devices… seems like it happened sooner than we thought.

Fascinating chart on AlleyInsider this week noting that, for the first time ever, pay TV has lost subscribers. A little earlier in the week, the NYTimes argued that TV is changing (web, applications, on-demand) but …

No real news here – unless you are a huge Doodle Jump fan (one of the highest selling iphone apps of all time – and one of the biggest time sinks of all time).

Yesterday was the launch of Madden NFL 11 (coverage here). Yesterday was also my first purchase through Twitter’s Earlybird.

When Zynga launched Treasure Isle, I wrote about the economies of scale that enabled them to drive nearly 17,000,000 monthly active users in the game’s first 18 days… staggering figures. Zynga’s latest game, Frontierville, is …