Dear reader,
This is the October edition of our ViralBlog newsletter. In this past month we’ve seen some great virals and social media trends that inspired us.

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Hope you enjoy the newsletter!

Community Marketing
While New Balance invites the audience to search for their shoes and claim their NBs new methods are being used to raise awareness about breast cancer and the Quirky community sells your product worldwide.

Mobile & iPhone
Check out this funny iPhone app from Puma or the newest feature within mobile augmented reality browser: Layar 3D. If you’re a gadget lover, you have to try out the new Powermat.

Online Marketing
Campbell-Ewald decided to utilize what’s already out there to build their new website and Sony is celebrating the power of its low light photography technology by hosting a unique event called Twilight Football. Dell and MTV invite visitors to participate in a massive choir singing “Lollipop”.

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Online Video
BLU and David Ellis teamed up for this year's Fame festival and created an amazing animation called: COMBO and FIFA just released the 2010 version of the popular video game. Visit Denmark got a lot of attention with their new campaign about Danish Karen.

Research
In the Research category an interesting reading about Data Portability and the Open Web. Also have a look at the top 5 trends of 2009 and singer songwriter Lilly Allen who announced that she is ending her singing career.

Social Media
Did you know 4.0? Learn more here. Have a look at a great document called Kodak Social Media Tip or look into the speech from the head of social media for Ford Motor Company.

Viral Cases
Learn more about becoming a hashtag here and see the new campaign from Cadbury.

Viral Commercials
Watch the new video from The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, how the official opening of Oprah Winfrey’s 24th Season went and see if a bunch of bees can make a video go viral.

Viral Friday
Enjoy our great Viral Fridays! One to read every week.

Widgets & Social Apps
Get an early preview of Google Wave or see 87 cool things from Google's Creative Lab.

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Igor Beuker
Chief Editor
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