by Pat Kitano on September 24, 2009 in Events, Twitter
Programming motivational speaker Tony Robbins at the 140 | Twitter conference was a stroke of genius. Not only did it inject spirit into the staid normality of a tech conference, but Tony presented how he’s integrated Twitter into the Robbins’ philosophy. Simply put, Robbins laid out the Maslow-like six human needs and demonstrated how Twitter [...]
by Pat Kitano on September 20, 2009 in Mass Media, New business models, Social Media, Television, Trends
GigaOm features an article by Joshua Auerbach “New Media Demands a News Media Company“. His conclusions mirror what we’ve been thinking: 1. Creative / experimental media development will become business drivers Media is entering a stage where the new media development of media properties will differentiate successful companies. As media technologies and the social media [...]
by Pat Kitano on September 14, 2009 in Mass Media, Newspapers, Publishing, Trends, Web tools
Google Fast Flip launched today to uniformly good reviews because this is an application that should have existed even ten years ago. It’s like a magazine rack display of major press that uses the “like” feature to push the more popular articles up. So why didn’t the packaging of news into a virtual rackspace take [...]
by Pat Kitano on September 9, 2009 in Celebrity, Mass Media, Social Media, Sociology, Television, Trends
This week’s Time declares on its front cover ” Jay Leno is the Future of TV”. By parading Jay’s new show at 10:00 to compete with expensively produced dramas like CSI: Miami and other scripted shows, NBC is beta testing whether live content will be as attractive as or more cost effective than canned content. [...]
by Pat Kitano on September 4, 2009 in Events, Social Media, Twitter
We’re delighted that our Breaking News Network is one of the event sponsors of 140 | The Twitter Conference in Los Angeles on September 22-23. The Parnassus Group (we like this friendly group a lot) has lined up a Hollywood-inspired roster of speakers that should provide a lot of personality for a tech conference. We [...]
by Pat Kitano on September 1, 2009 in Advertising, Hyperlocal, Local advertising, Marketing, Mass Media, New business models, Social Media, Trends
Witnessing the Consolidation of Hyperlocal News into Media Companies Examiner.com has accumulated 15,000 contributors nationally in developing a citizen journalist task force, and today announces the addition of NowPublic’s global citizen reporting staff. Consolidation of hyperlocal news reporting by media groups like Examiner.com, CNN iReports, MSNBC (recently acquired Everyblock), and AOL’s Patch, together with the [...]