From TechCrunch: Breaking: Facebook Surpasses 175 Million Users, Growing By 480,000 Users a Day (population of Atlanta = 520,000) Is Twitter Worth $230 million? Probably - Last week’s big social media topic was Twitter’s new $35 million round. It’s growth rate will continue to be remarkable as it moves mainstream. Currently 10.5 million users.
News media organizations derive close to 100% of their revenues from advertising or some form of it. With the traditional spot ad business drying up, news media can’t just report the news, broadcast Viagra ads, and leave for the day at 11:30 in a limo as they have always done. They now need to demonstrate [...]
Recently, there has been new commentary on the unmanageability of massive social networks, particularly on Twitter and Facebook. In October, we addressed how Twitter was the most easy social media application to build massive stranger networks. However, many use Twitter like an IM tool to keep track of their closer friends and others they find [...]
I sometimes ruminate over new concepts for 24 hours to figure out their implications rather than jot down a quick “yowza” blog post. CNN.com and Facebook’s integrated coverage of the Obama Inaugural yesterday was striking because it was the first time I saw all my Facebook friends come to life in a unified, mostly coherent [...]
The Portable Graph is essentially a massive database of contacts residing in various social networks. Some social networks can be defined as either “walled” or closed, for intimate or group association, or open, for amassing a broad, popular network. Cartoon from Office Offline Closed networks like LinkedIn and Facebook require “two-click” friend confirmations. A salutation [...]
Happy New Year! 1) 2008 Crushed the Old Media, 2009 will see New Business Models Two blog posts describe the destruction: From Editor & Publisher 12/30/08: No Bull: 2008 — The Year Newspaper Stocks Collapsed (h/t Inquisitr ) The statistics behind the collapse of newspaper stocks in 2008 are sobering as New Year’s Eve approaches: [...]
Twitter should position itself as the defacto platform for broadcast micro-blogging/messaging, and establish universal access standards for public use. They’re executing on the strategy with integration together with both Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect, allowing Google/Facebook users easy to access to Twitter and offering content distribution channels for their broadcasts. Twitter’s Open API platform [...]
List of Facebook Connect live sites at the Facebook Developers Wiki Facebook Connect Plug-In Directory at the Facebook Developers Wiki Adding Facebook Connect to your Site/Blog seems really complicated. Here are two tutorials that I’m not even going to try until Facebook/Wordpress makes it more simple: How to Add Facebook Connect to your Blog in [...]
I have been discussing over the past half year a new paradigm for capturing committed loyal readership to websites using “Breaking News”. Consumers contemplating any major financial transaction based activity – real estate, securities, cars, even retail – need continual flow of real time news to evaluate when to pull the trigger on the transaction. [...]
Patrick Kitano is founding Principal of Brand into Media, a unique strategy group working with corporations and organizations to develop social and media-based strategies that engage hyperlocal communities.
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