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Future of Social Gaming: Content, Content and Content! Then Monetize it. | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
Dans le futur , les réseaux sociaux cesseront d’être simplement un des visages de l’Internet et ... L’Atelier, il convient que " les sites web traditionnels intègrent de plus en plus une part sociale ... d’investissements importants et continus dans le web social . Pour preuve, plus de 6 milliards de dollars ont ...
Last week, Paypal did its second developer conference called Paypal X Innovate 2010 aka Paypal As A Platform (you can find all the information on Twitter with the hashtag #XInnovate). The two days were all about crazy announcements in all payment areas: new microtransaction pricing for digital goods , fixed price for B2B payments ( 50 cents per transaction), Paypal Mobile Express Checkout , Facebook will continue to use Paypal as an option for Facebook credits purchasing and which will also pay its developers through Paypal and last but not least, a partnership with Verifone to reach the offline world. Even if Mobile transaction processed represents merely 1% of Paypal global transaction for 2010 ($700M expected in 2010 compare to $72B transaction processed globally in 2009), Paypal bets a lot on it in the near future and their new Mobile express checkout will be a real test for them.
Paypal X aka Paypal As A Platform, Objectives for 2011: Mobile, Offline and B2B | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
One week ago, Paul Graham, famous essayist and more recently founder of the Y Combinator, wrote his monthly post about some Silicon Valley places that made this location so unique. Among them , he named Stanford University , the “lucky office” which has been the first office of Google and Paypal but also the 280 “which is one of the more beautiful highways in the World”. A lot of people did not agree with P. Graham list arguing that some other places in the Silicon Valley deserved to be also in this list. One of the most famous, Robert Scoble, wrote an article few days after “Silicon Valley places that Paul graham didn’t cover” . He added IBM Almaden Research Lab , the XEROX PARC … and the Winchester Mystery House (!).
Silicon Valley Places: create together a collaborative list! | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
SF Mayor Gavin Newsome Lays Foundation for Electric Car Network | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
One week after its speech at the Web 2.0 Summit, Better Place, which aims to build a worldwide electric car network, made a great deal today with the Bay Area’s major cities. In the presence of the mayors of Oakland and San Jose, as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Better Place's founder Shai Agassi, in San Francisco’s city hall, Gavin Newsom announced: “Our aim is to make the Bay Area – and eventually California – the electric vehicle capital of the US.” $1B Investment to Build Agnostic Car Electric Network by 2012
Yesterday, the San Francisco 140 Characters Conference (#140conf) gathered the emerging social media expert crowd from the Bay Area. The topic of the day was “What the Real Time Web can bring to the World?” The 140 charact ers conference objective follows Twitter spirit: “One can change the world with one hundred and forty characters.” @Jack (Jack Dorsey, co founder of Twitter).
140 Characters Conference: What the Real Time Web can bring to the World? | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
Future of Money and Technology Summit: Transparency and Financial Education for the Benefit of People | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
The powerful idea that Internet values will impact all sectors was in play: transparency will bring tremendous added value for financial decisions. Transparency is precisely the value proposition of Billshrink , which wants to provide simple comparison tools for products and services: credit cards and cell phone plans are among the four sectors the company is first aiming at. But as Brad Strothkamp from Forrester warned the attendees: “there is a strong correlation between the usage of comparison shopping and the number of years people practice the web.” He explained that it was still an early-adopter postulate that the web will revolutionize the way people buy and compare products, but it depends on the lack of a sector's transparency: airline-ticket websites are big because it’s painful to find the appropriate tickets on airlines' own websites.
Finovate is the celebration of finance and money from the Silicon Valley perspective. The geeks wear blazers and the bankers leave their ties at home. This year’s trends were simplification, visualizing money to better manag e it, and personalized offers for financial products.
Finovate Spring 2010: When Startups Meet Finance, Good Ideas Emerge | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
Microfinance USA 2010: Storytelling and New Technologies as Key Success Factors for Microfinance | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
Last week, Microfinance USA 2010 conference took place in San Francisco with a clear goal: how to develop and communicate about microfinance in the USA, even though 85% of the American population has never heard of it. The open ing session with Maria Shriver and Kiva CEO Premal Shah highlighted the top priorities of this new industry. The first lady of California gave a clear view of what represented the microfinance area to California as an alternative financing model for entrepreneurs: "[Small and medium enterprises] are the backbone of the California economy and consequently, microfinance initiatives must be supported," Shriver said. As a communications expert, Shriver noticed that microfinance lacks the good storytelling needed to get people to understand its unique position.Social Meets Mobile at the Social Developer Summit | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
One of the key issues for mobile developers discussed yesterday at the Social Developer Summit in San Francisco was how to create a better mobile experience by using “social” recipes as it seems to be a great success factor on On mobile, social networks are the best delivery channels to go viral as the cellphone market is very fragmented. You need also to limit “signup walls” if you want to attract new customers, as no one wants to fill out a form anymore. Last but not least, you need to keep people using your application by pushing notifications, but judiciously.
“Mobile and Geolocalization are the third chapter of the Internet revolution, after Search and Social,” Robert Scoble said during his keynote at Geo-Loco 2010 in San Francisco this Wednesday. Location-Based Services (LBS) are at the peak of the hype cycle, especially with Foursquare, and we are still in the industry’s infancy. The emergence of dozens of LBS startups has been enabled by great progress on the infrastructure side in the last few years.
The Future of Location-Based Services (LBS): Context and Privacy | L'Atelier: Disruptive innovation
One of the panels at this morning's Summit At Stanford 2010 was "Mobile Monetization - Billions for the Taking." Speakers were Sunil Verma from Mobclix (ad exchange system on mobile), Anderson Thees from Apontador (LBS leader in B First postulate: it’s a good time to enter the mobile industry because there are a lot of changes in the ecosystem, and, consequently, opportunities. The carriers and service providers lost the first smartphone battle, as Apple and Google are playing by their own rules on their platforms.