by Pat Kitano on January 21, 2009 in Events, Facebook, Mass Media, Politics, Social Media, Television, Twitter
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 [...]
by Pat Kitano on January 1, 2009 in Advertising, Domus Consulting Group, Economy, Facebook, Marketing, Mass Media, New business models, Publishing, Real Estate, Social Media, Twitter
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: [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 18, 2008 in Facebook, New business models, Social Media, Twitter
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 [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 17, 2008 in Facebook, Social Media, Twitter
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 [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 6, 2008 in Advertising, Facebook, Marketing, Mass Media, New business models, Social Media, Social networking, Sociology, Technology, Twitter, YouTube
The Portable Social Graph is a killer concept behind the future social media business model. Very few can envision it because few live examples exist melding social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter into more traditional popular websites – ecommerce sites like Amazon, media sites like NYTimes or Hulu, and corporate/organizational sites like Toyota or [...]
by Pat Kitano on December 2, 2008 in Facebook, New business models, Publishing, Social Media, Technology
The universal log-in has been a holy grail concept since “online” became a concept. Now we have Microsoft and Yahoo’s joint effort Open ID, aggregation applications like Meebo for IM/chat clients and Friendfeed/Facebook for social media. Frankly, any popular application login can be used as a login proxy if they partner with other sites to [...]