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By: Powerful Twitter Tactic To Add To- Your Social Media / Networking Arsenal | KickAss Affiliate

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:46:50 +0000

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By: Info Connections Computer » Moonfruit Raises $2.25 Million To Accelerate Its DIY Site Builder Internationally

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:00:36 +0000

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By: Brad Nickel

Brad Nickel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:17:05 +0000

I’m sorry, but I was pretty excited by the interface screenshots they had available on their site to represent their product, until I went to the featured sites area and realized that all of their sites render as Flash. I could probably have considered a small business using a Flash based tool to build the site, but it is completely unacceptable to build Flash only sites for both SEO issues and usability issues. It was unacceptable before and its even more unacceptable now with 80 million plus new devices on the market that will never support Flash.

Disappointing, because it is a great success and perseverance story and it looks like a nice model.

By: Moonfruit Raises $2.25 Million To Accelerate Its DIY Site Builder Internationally ~ technology | blacklink-tech

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:48:48 +0000

[...] fought back and now over 2.8m websites have been built using its DIY software. But it managed to re-invigorate it’s brand last year by being among the first to trend on Twitter for a laptop giveaway contest. Try that [...]

By: Moonfruit Raises $2.25 Million To Accelerate Its DIY Site Builder Internationally » Tech Reviews

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:00:41 +0000

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By: Moonfruit recauda $ 2.25 Millones para acelerar su Site Builder bricolaje internacional | tech-news

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:16:06 +0000

[...] 08.24Moonfruit recauda $ 2.25 Millones para acelerar su Site Builder bricolaje internacional Se podría pensar que la mayoría de la gente sabe cómo conseguir un simple sitio web en marcha y funcionando en estos días sólo en algo como WordPress, pero el hecho es que millones de personas no tienen estas habilidades. Como resultado Moonfruit , el sitio web de negocio de la construcción que ha sobrevivido el busto puntocom para volver en la era de la Web 2.0, está en un cargo. Es rentable, cada vez mayor a nivel internacional y como resultado, ha optado por recaudar fondos para tener realmente en el mercado. Es sólo garantizado 0,25 m de EE.UU. del banco de inversión Stephens . El banco inicialmente ayudó a comprar Gandi.net Moonfruit, el registro de dominios, pero desde entonces ha surgido Moonfruit a apostar por el crecimiento internacional se aceleró.Moonfruit compite con Weebly , Yola y Webnode , y muchos otros que ofrecen servicios para la construcción de sitios web sencilla pero elegante, a diferencia de los blogs. Está claro que sus arrastrar y soltar apelaciones Flash interfaz para ‘aspirers diseño “que quieren personalizar su propio sitio estilos.Moonfruit es una forma actual de la explosión el pasado vienen bien. Fue fundada en el Reino Unido en 1999, pasó por todo el ciclo de cash de riesgo apoyado a depresión profunda, sino se defendió y ahora más de 2.8 millones de sitios web han sido construidos utilizando su program de bricolaje. Pero se las arregló para un nuevo impulso que la marca por ser de los primeros a la tendencia en Twitter para un concurso d… [...]

By: Moonfruit secures $2.25m funding to accelerate internationally

Moonfruit secures $2.25m funding to accelerate internationally — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:40:02 +0000

[...] managed to re-invigorate it’s brand last year by being among the first to trend on Twitter for a laptop giveaway contest. #Moonfruit thus become [...]

By: What Is ‘Viral Marketing’ | SEO Rocks

What Is ‘Viral Marketing’ | SEO Rocks — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:45:26 +0000

[...] analysed by people and documents were produced and published on slideshare with one website claiming moonfruit accounted for 2.5% of twitter traffic after day two. It had people talking about [...]

By: Bahrain video

Bahrain video — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:59:58 +0000

anyone that will offer a lifestyle brand such as Apple’s macbook, will be the center attention of the universe …

just my opinion

lets say i will give away 5 ipod touches for creative responses, doesnt have to be a text based but it can also be video responses .

do the math!

By: Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit

Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:37:30 +0000

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By: Just Social – Page.ly changes website creation

Just Social – Page.ly changes website creation — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:13:20 +0000

[...] aside MoonFruit, Page.ly is coming in. Instead of the traditional model of leaving users to find their own way in [...]

By: Page.ly Changing Website Creation

Page.ly Changing Website Creation — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:12:07 +0000

[...] aside MoonFruit, Page.ly is coming in. Instead of the traditional model of leaving users to find their own way in [...]

By: More Moo(n) for your money! Moo and Moonfruit partner-up on offers

More Moo(n) for your money! Moo and Moonfruit partner-up on offers — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:42:19 +0000

[...] ran a controversial Twitter campaign recently but it appears to have paid off. Subscriptions are 20% up post the campaign and US traffic [...]

By: To Trend or Not to Trend? :: Logical Juice

To Trend or Not to Trend? :: Logical Juice — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:53:25 +0000

[...] marketing. Don’t gasp. A solid proof point is not only the success that a company such as Moonfruit had in generating impact and awareness, but also the near allergic reaction some web and social [...]

By: Breakdown: 4 Ways Brands Are Earning –and Buying– Followers on Twitter | CopyWriting-AutoResponder EXPERT

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:30:58 +0000

[...] Results: Big wins. Moonfruit is a trending topic 3 days after the contest landed, there are thousands of retweets and tweets about the brand, as well as an increase in followers of about 10,000 a day (graph).Update: It’s now July 6th and the Moonfruit account has stalled out at 43k followers –it didn’t grow 10k as the first 3 days did. It’s also no longer a trending topic. Techcrunch Europe comments. [...]

By: Don't Wait To Get Into Social Video Marketing | Video Army

Don't Wait To Get Into Social Video Marketing | Video Army — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:15:53 +0000

[...] 10 year old company that survived the first dot-com bubble, held a contest on which they spent only the cost of 10 Macbook Pro computers and managed to dominate Twitter for a week. We also know about the power of video; whether [...]

By: Breakdown: 4 Ways Brands Are Earning –and Buying– Followers on Twitter » A Day in the Life of Jonathan “Jon” Gillardi… aka “Johnny Montana”

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:29:18 +0000

By: Moonfruit founder Wendy Tan White shares all... including her Twitter success | Women Unlimited

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:51:58 +0000

[...] In Wendy’s words, she founded Moonfruit as a single over ambitious 28 year old during the dotcom boom, and is now managing to grow a multimillion pound company and has massively accelerated the business while also raising a young family. You can read more about Wendy and her success in the FT and on TechCrunch.com [...]

By: Kunal Kripalani

Kunal Kripalani — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:16:30 +0000

Moonfruit were able to increase website traffic 600% and sign-ups for their product trial by 100% so the campaign obviously worked for them.

Twitter has shown a clear distaste for commercially biased hashtag trends and I think many (but not the majority) of Tweeps are starting to associate hashtags with spam. The ability to block hashtags is a great solution, and no doubt we will see an application for it in the near future. Twitter might even include spam filters that automatically block Tweets containing hashtags that, for example, have been reported to @spam 100 times. The original offending Tweep can then also be traced and suspended.

Perhaps another option is to use an Adwords type quality score to weight the relevance of a Tweet to its hashtag which could help control what appears in the top trends list?

Perhaps charging for such campaigns is one way Twitter could monetize and also limit abuse of hashtags.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:41:38 +0000

Fascinating. Looks like it was well worth it for moonfruit

By: MyDragnDrop get a mention in Techcrunch « SQLFusion Blog

MyDragnDrop get a mention in Techcrunch « SQLFusion Blog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:57:09 +0000

[...] strong traction with some major partnership I can’t mention yet. They just got a mention in Techcrunch Europe along with the other big player in the do it yourself web [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » What The Hashtag: Your Guide To Enigmatic Twitter Hashtags

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:57:42 +0000

[...] about and makes it easier to search for Tweets about specific topics and events. This weekend’s “Moonfruit” and “GorillaPenis” trending topics on Twitter were examples of trending topics that aren’t [...]

By: New Guide to Twitter Hashtags…07.07.09 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:28:26 +0000

[...] and makes it easier to search for Tweets about specific topics and events. This weekend’s ‘Moonfruit‘ and ‘GorillaPenis‘ trending topics on Twitter were examples of trending topics [...]

By: How are Twitter coping with trend spam? | Tamar

How are Twitter coping with trend spam? | Tamar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:19:04 +0000

[...] to use the tag #Moonfruit in their posts to be entered in to the prize draw, and this had the desired effect very quickly, with the tag appearing at the top of the trending list throughout last week. But as [...]