How Jack Dorsey's Square Is Accidentally Disrupting The Entire Payments Industry. The new payment system that Square launched today is going to have a profound effect on how people pay for stuff in the real world—perhaps as profound as the iTunes store has had on the distribution and sale of digital media.
And in the process, it will likely upend the entire payments industry. The interesting thing, though, is that it turns out founder Jack Dorsey never really planned this. His initial goals were much more modest: help people who were cut out of the mainstream payments business accept credit cards. To that end, Square’s story holds some important lessons about how entrepreneurs trying to solve a simple problem can sometimes find themselves stumbling onto a huge opportunity. Square’s origin story is well known: Dorsey’s former boss and good friend (and eventual co-founder) Jim McKelvey lost a sale for his hand-blown glass because he had no way of accepting credit cards. This is where Dorsey’s design sense kicked in. The result is the new system. Eightfold Logic Launches InboundWriter, A Social Writing App, And Raises $2 Million.
Lazy bloggers and other online content creators from around the world, rejoice, for Eightfold Logic (formerly Enquisite) is today debuting a cloud-based social writing tool dubbed InboundWriter that should make it easier for you to create relevant and shareable online content.
The company has also announced that it has raised $2 million in Series C funding from existing investors, including Rho Canada Ventures, Castile Ventures, Formative Ventures, and The Entrepreneurs’ Fund III. The new financing brings the total capital raised by Eightfold Logic to nearly $20 million. InboundWriter aims to help online content creators by bringing search and social intelligence straight into the writing process. InboundWriter indexes the social web in real-time to see what target audiences are reading, sharing and discussing online. If it reminds me of anything it would be Zemanta, also an online content production aid. When to use a Facebook App, a Page or Group For your Engagement on Facebook. So, have you decided yet whether to use a Facebook Page, a Facebook Group, a Community Page or a Facebook App for your business?
This post takes you through the major ups and downs of the different options you have on Facebook. These are my opinions based on experiences from the Facebook platform. I need you to share your experiences from Facebook in my comment field. Too few people comment in this blog if I look to how many visitors it actually has. This pisses me off… hehe.. But we were talking about Facebook Pages, Groups and Apps. When to use a Facebook Page The short story: Suitable for dialogue with fans, customers, partnersNot suitable for campaigns and time limited activitiesNeeds launch money A Facebook Page shall be used when you have the ambition to make a lasting footprint on Facebook. The Facebook Page is in itself not suitable for sales oriented campaigns. Web vs. Native Mobile App? Forrester Says Do Both. What is the future of the mobile Internet?
Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction? Will new and developing browser technologies like HTML5 make the mobile Web preferable to apps? 5 Fresh and Free To-Do List Apps for iPhone. We all lead busy, hectic lives, which means that it's all too easy to forget a task here and there.
A to-do list can really help keep you on track, but pen and paper lists are easily lost, especially if you are disorganized to begin with. Making a to-do list on the device you take everywhere — your phone — is a great way to get organized. You can whip it out at any point to add an item, or — joy of joys — cross one off. We've taken a look at the to-do lists in the App Store and have come up with five fresh options that will help your productivity in specific ways. Best of all, each one is free. Next: iPhone app review. Next has just launched an iPhone app with a large range of stock to browse through, and full mobile commerce functionality.
I've been trying out the new Next app to see how user friendly it is... Homepage / navigation The homepage on the app is simple, and provides four options; shop, a store finder, style ideas, and a help section: Users can then navigate to one of four main sections from the next screen by scrolling left or right: There are a lot of sub-categories which, on a standard mobile commerce site, may be slow to scroll up and down, but work well enough on the app, and allows shoppers to be more specific with their browsing.
Crucially, since there are still a lot of products in the sub-categories to scroll through, there are some very useful filtering options, which allow users to narrow their product selections: This is excellent, as it reduces the amount of effort required from customers, and makes it more likely that they will find a product that suits them in the end. Conclusion. Die App-Geschäfte.