my rating from 1-4 (4=best)
Mycubi - crowd local mobile service marketplace 4
Passpack - private data management 1
Avatars united - games mmo 3
Fits.me - robots for fashion industry 1
NetOff - japan 2hand marketplace with stocking 1
RouteBox - global limo service 2
BlooSee - wikipedia for sailors on maps 3
Satalia - the solve engine ?? 2
Efans - facebook for sports 1
Accesco virtual - secondlife f entrepreneurs 1
Active conversion - ??
Arcalife - family tree + social 2
Asat - smart grid technology 1
Atlantis research lab - solar panels more efficient and less costs 4
Awesense - wireless smart grid system 2
ItSportsNet - platform to organize private sports events 3
BCS - tools for easy database usage 1
Bluehome - all in one mobilephone remote control 1
Togetthere - mobile car pooling concept 2
Darkmatterlabs - 1
EnviroSpeak.tv - environmental social media network like utopia - 2
Radial viewer - software to
Stalqer - iphone app like latitude
Digitrad - consolidated address book from twitter, facebook, google etc. 4
Jostle - b2b social software 2
and some more:
locarna
Kryos
Mobovivo
Msr
Naco
Omni
Oprius
ResQ
S4ds
Sgr/2
Solido
Teampages
Titan
Voice 123
Pankaku
Syphan
Sokohealth
Vi-clone
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
#twitter meetup - apps for twitter
Here some short notes about the first twitter meetup I attend at
hacker dojo last night.
My summary about this in one sentece: The valley is now developing
apps based on twitter traffic and content like hell.
This will become a new universum, regarding realtime- content and
interaction, because now you can react on customer needs or buying
decisions in realtime. So its the right time to think about
monetization of this and cpa is the right currency, using
http://apps.zanox.com There is real potential for the next killer
application.
hacker dojo last night.
My summary about this in one sentece: The valley is now developing
apps based on twitter traffic and content like hell.
This will become a new universum, regarding realtime- content and
interaction, because now you can react on customer needs or buying
decisions in realtime. So its the right time to think about
monetization of this and cpa is the right currency, using
http://apps.zanox.com There is real potential for the next killer
application.
#twitter meetup
Hashtag: #Tmeetup
#arktan
Connecting your digital activity
Like friendfeed and allows you filtering and auto posting by topics in
different channels
#twihotels
Realtime Hotel queries via tweets and RT
#twitsnaps
Shrina patel
Fotosharing on twitter like tweetpic plus community features and editing
#yourversion
Twitter tool for sharing, search, review and sharing like tweetdeck,
but much more
#krillionkritter
Automatic direct messages for followers and tweets like price comparison
#140h.Me Hashtag tracker
lawrence sinclair
Collects all hashtags and offers in realtime a url for this under
140h.me/hashtag
hashtag plus a wiki page. So everybody can contribute to the same
hashtag to setup up a hashtag-ipedia
--
Sent from my mobile device
Thomas Hessler
CEO/Co-Founder of zanox
Friday, August 21, 2009
Why I believe in social networks like facebook and twitter
A real business success story – including Twitter, Facebook and half a million Euros
Are you curious, maybe even still skeptical about Facebook and Twitter? Are you of those who have been wondering about what the real advantages of social networks are? Have you been asking yourself what the hell all that buzz is about anyway? Yes? Good! Because here is my answer, including a real business success story, half a million Euros and the importance of being always on!
First of all, here’s a little background information, because this is where our story begins: At the beginning of June, the holding group Arcandor filed for insolvency. At that point, nobody knew for sure what would happen to its subsidiaries Thomas Cook, Primondo and Karstadt-Quelle. We were especially worried about the future of Karstadt-Quelle, a major retailer and one of our biggest advertisers. So we had to make a decision: Either shut down the Quelle affiliate programme, like most of the other networks did – or continue it, and take the risk.
We truly believe in the internet as the most successful and efficient sales and marketing channel – and it was this belief, which made us continuing the Quelle programme. Also, we didn’t want to let down one of our best partners during this tough time. However, we knew that we would have to get in touch with the insolvency administrator immediately. We needed to learn what their next steps were to be, get clarification on the potential risks, and also their confirmation of payments. So we assumed risk, continued the programme and informed our publishers about our intentions and what it would mean for them. At the same time, we tried to get in touch with the Arcandor insolvency administrator via our lawyers and account managers – without any success.
On June 11, I took a look at the Linkmafia blog, a personal German affiliate marketing blog, written by our employee Denis Maibaum, and read the following statement: “I think it’s cool that we don’t shut the Quelle programme, but keep it open for our publishers […] Supporting a client in tough times cannot be wrong. And Quelle is still a major retailer brand, which just won’t disappear from one day to another.”
This blog post motivated me to go public with the whole story – so I personally got in touch with the Quelle insolvency administrator via Twitter. That’s what I wrote:
June 11 at 6:30pm • via Twitter
Thomas Hessler: @arcandor-insolvenzverwalter: We believe in online!
My tweet caught the attention of Paulus Neef, founder of Pixelpark, so he contacted me on Facebook:
June 11 at 10:22pm
Paulus Neef: Hi Thomas – what’s your idea? Maybe I can help. I know him…
June 12 at 12:15pm •
Thomas Hessler: thanks paulus. we’re running about 40 affiliate programmes for arcandor subsidiaries, quelle and karstadt are among them. we were supposed to shut them down because of the announced insolvency, but we really believe that online channels are the most important assets of arcandor right now, so they should definitely survive. it would be pure madness to shut down arcandor’s most efficient sales channel. I think mr piepenburg [the insolvency administrator] would be really grateful for that bit of information. we need a clear statement of him, otherwise we can’t longer take the risk here.
Only a few days later, one of the Arcandor board members got in touch with me and asked for a conference call with the zanox board. At the end of June, the call took place; we discussed the current situation and our cooperation. Only two weeks later, we received the official payment confirmation of 500,000 Euros.
Quelle is still one of our best-performing advertisers and we were even able to enhance the success of our cooperation during the last couple of weeks. The story isn't even over yet, we'll cross our fingers for all of them.
Well, if this isn’t a real business success story on Web 2.0!
See you soon on facebook ;-)
P.S. meanwhile the story of Quelle is over and the company went insolvent
Thomas
Or if you like numbers more, watch this video:
Are you curious, maybe even still skeptical about Facebook and Twitter? Are you of those who have been wondering about what the real advantages of social networks are? Have you been asking yourself what the hell all that buzz is about anyway? Yes? Good! Because here is my answer, including a real business success story, half a million Euros and the importance of being always on!
First of all, here’s a little background information, because this is where our story begins: At the beginning of June, the holding group Arcandor filed for insolvency. At that point, nobody knew for sure what would happen to its subsidiaries Thomas Cook, Primondo and Karstadt-Quelle. We were especially worried about the future of Karstadt-Quelle, a major retailer and one of our biggest advertisers. So we had to make a decision: Either shut down the Quelle affiliate programme, like most of the other networks did – or continue it, and take the risk.
We truly believe in the internet as the most successful and efficient sales and marketing channel – and it was this belief, which made us continuing the Quelle programme. Also, we didn’t want to let down one of our best partners during this tough time. However, we knew that we would have to get in touch with the insolvency administrator immediately. We needed to learn what their next steps were to be, get clarification on the potential risks, and also their confirmation of payments. So we assumed risk, continued the programme and informed our publishers about our intentions and what it would mean for them. At the same time, we tried to get in touch with the Arcandor insolvency administrator via our lawyers and account managers – without any success.
On June 11, I took a look at the Linkmafia blog, a personal German affiliate marketing blog, written by our employee Denis Maibaum, and read the following statement: “I think it’s cool that we don’t shut the Quelle programme, but keep it open for our publishers […] Supporting a client in tough times cannot be wrong. And Quelle is still a major retailer brand, which just won’t disappear from one day to another.”
This blog post motivated me to go public with the whole story – so I personally got in touch with the Quelle insolvency administrator via Twitter. That’s what I wrote:
June 11 at 6:30pm • via Twitter
Thomas Hessler: @arcandor-insolvenzverwalter: We believe in online!
My tweet caught the attention of Paulus Neef, founder of Pixelpark, so he contacted me on Facebook:
June 11 at 10:22pm
Paulus Neef: Hi Thomas – what’s your idea? Maybe I can help. I know him…
June 12 at 12:15pm •
Thomas Hessler: thanks paulus. we’re running about 40 affiliate programmes for arcandor subsidiaries, quelle and karstadt are among them. we were supposed to shut them down because of the announced insolvency, but we really believe that online channels are the most important assets of arcandor right now, so they should definitely survive. it would be pure madness to shut down arcandor’s most efficient sales channel. I think mr piepenburg [the insolvency administrator] would be really grateful for that bit of information. we need a clear statement of him, otherwise we can’t longer take the risk here.
Only a few days later, one of the Arcandor board members got in touch with me and asked for a conference call with the zanox board. At the end of June, the call took place; we discussed the current situation and our cooperation. Only two weeks later, we received the official payment confirmation of 500,000 Euros.
Quelle is still one of our best-performing advertisers and we were even able to enhance the success of our cooperation during the last couple of weeks. The story isn't even over yet, we'll cross our fingers for all of them.
Well, if this isn’t a real business success story on Web 2.0!
See you soon on facebook ;-)
P.S. meanwhile the story of Quelle is over and the company went insolvent
Thomas
Or if you like numbers more, watch this video:
Thursday, June 11, 2009
#collective intelligence examples
The power of the crowd and peer 2 peer services
#Research
http://www.innocentive.com
http://www.innocentive.com
#Design
http://yovoto.com
http://yovoto.com
#Work
http://mturk.com
http://mturk.com
#Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/symphony
http://www.youtube.com/symphony
#Translation
http://bab.la/
http://bab.la/
#Knowledge
http://wikipedia.net
http://wikipedia.net
#Video
http://youtube.com
http://youtube.com
#Finance
http://kiva.org
http://kiva.org
#Funding
http://Seedmatchm.com
http://Seedmatchm.com
#Software development
http://www.getafreelancer.com/
http://www.getafreelancer.com/
#Stocks
http://sharewise.com
http://sharewise.com
#Storage
#News
#University
Feel free to make comments for more examples
more examples: http://www.socialtext.net/mit-cci-hci/index.cgi?examples_of_collective_intelligence
wikipedia list of projects:
wikipedia list of projects:
Monday, April 6, 2009
web2expo 2009 in a nutshell - The power of less #w2e
Web2expo 2009 - "The power of less"
+++ "What's coming html developments?" +++
Category: Web development tools
-Canvas: for browser graphic apps
-fast java script: dramatic faster
-web workers: doing things in the browser backround
-desktop integration: cutting edge desktop/web link
Example developer tools:
-Ms Silverlight, adobe flash, apple cocoa, sun javaFx
-Open Web Platform: home, documentation, dashboard, directory and roadmap for developers
-Firebug: mozilla environment for developers
-safari: (like firebug)
-chrome (only fiew tools)
-Yui: yahoo framework
-Blueprint: cross browser styling framework
-ms super preview
-thunderhead: grid based layouts from mozilla
-atlas: future web apps
-open web tools: there are hundreds, check out on: open web tools directory
>Thinking of starting, iterate or improve something? - Start today!
+++ "The Lean startup"- Eric Ries +++
http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/eric-ries-lean-startup-presentation-for-web-20-expo-april-1-2009-a-disciplined-approach-to-imagining-designing-and-building-new-products
Category: Strategy and business models
Startup #1
Good startup? Plan, vision, best team, well organized - but failed! (40mm lost)
Shadow beliefs:
-we know what customers want
-we can predict the future
-advancing the plan is progress
Startup #2 (Imvu)
No plan
-Shipped product in 6 month (horribly buggy beta)
-charged from day one!
-shipped multiple times a day (50 times a day)
-no pr, no launch (focus on customer needs)
-results: 10mm dollars in 2007
Learnings:
-Commodity technology stack
-Customer development
#a book recommendation http://Bit.ly/tptte
Product development
Old: waterfall process from requirement to mainten.
New: Agile - experiment/feedback/experiment (picture) =customer development + extrem programming
Minimize the total time through the loop:
Ideas - code - data - ideas - code ...
How to builld a LeanStartup
(Learn- code- measure- faster)
-continous deployment (severals a day)
-Tell a good change from bad change quickly
-revert a bad change quickly
-work in small batches (large batch 3 day work)
-break large projects into small batches
-run tests locally
-continuous integration server (buildbot)
-incremental deploy
-alerting and predictive monitoring
-fix problems from customers
-a/b testing is key to validating
-make it simple and measurable and auditable for everyone
-asl why five times when something unexpected happens
-make proportional investments in prevention
-behind every technical problem is usually a human problem. Fix the cause, not the symptom
+++ "Situation normal, everything must change." - Simon wardley, canonical.com ´+++
-Shift: from Innovation, bespoke, products, to services
-Componentisation is the right strategy (focus on your core competency)
-Cloud computing is the future
-Examples of the shift: amazon ec2, google apps, salesforce, Ubuntu: operation system based on cloud computing (from canonical)
+++ "CRM with Facebook" - clara shih +++
Category: Fundamentals
New solutions with facebook connect:
#a Facebook + salesforce
#a book recommendation: Thefacebookarea.com
Facebook ad campaigns to people
Appirio: facebook recruiting tool (employee recomm.)
Customer service: salesforce with twitter
+++ "Its the people, stupid" - Deborah Schulz +++
Category: Marketing and communication
Join, not interrupt people
Be a part of the community
Help users participate
Stay for some value
Love you give, you get back
>Experiment, listen, rinse, repeat
Examples:
-Dopplr
-Photojojo
-Etsy
-Thradless fotos on t-shirts
-Overnight-prints
-Moo business cards with your flickr fotos on the back
+++ General +++
Presentations: http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/proceedings
Tags: w2e web2expo
Twitter #w2e #web2expo
Groups: Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr
Full schedule: http://Web2expo.com/sf/events
+++ "What's coming html developments?" +++
Category: Web development tools
-Canvas: for browser graphic apps
-fast java script: dramatic faster
-web workers: doing things in the browser backround
-desktop integration: cutting edge desktop/web link
Example developer tools:
-Ms Silverlight, adobe flash, apple cocoa, sun javaFx
-Open Web Platform: home, documentation, dashboard, directory and roadmap for developers
-Firebug: mozilla environment for developers
-safari: (like firebug)
-chrome (only fiew tools)
-Yui: yahoo framework
-Blueprint: cross browser styling framework
-ms super preview
-thunderhead: grid based layouts from mozilla
-atlas: future web apps
-open web tools: there are hundreds, check out on: open web tools directory
>Thinking of starting, iterate or improve something? - Start today!
+++ "The Lean startup"- Eric Ries +++
http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/eric-ries-lean-startup-presentation-for-web-20-expo-april-1-2009-a-disciplined-approach-to-imagining-designing-and-building-new-products
Category: Strategy and business models
Startup #1
Good startup? Plan, vision, best team, well organized - but failed! (40mm lost)
Shadow beliefs:
-we know what customers want
-we can predict the future
-advancing the plan is progress
Startup #2 (Imvu)
No plan
-Shipped product in 6 month (horribly buggy beta)
-charged from day one!
-shipped multiple times a day (50 times a day)
-no pr, no launch (focus on customer needs)
-results: 10mm dollars in 2007
Learnings:
-Commodity technology stack
-Customer development
#a book recommendation http://Bit.ly/tptte
Product development
Old: waterfall process from requirement to mainten.
New: Agile - experiment/feedback/experiment (picture) =customer development + extrem programming
Minimize the total time through the loop:
Ideas - code - data - ideas - code ...
How to builld a LeanStartup
(Learn- code- measure- faster)
-continous deployment (severals a day)
-Tell a good change from bad change quickly
-revert a bad change quickly
-work in small batches (large batch 3 day work)
-break large projects into small batches
-run tests locally
-continuous integration server (buildbot)
-incremental deploy
-alerting and predictive monitoring
-fix problems from customers
-a/b testing is key to validating
-make it simple and measurable and auditable for everyone
-asl why five times when something unexpected happens
-make proportional investments in prevention
-behind every technical problem is usually a human problem. Fix the cause, not the symptom
+++ "Situation normal, everything must change." - Simon wardley, canonical.com ´+++
-Shift: from Innovation, bespoke, products, to services
-Componentisation is the right strategy (focus on your core competency)
-Cloud computing is the future
-Examples of the shift: amazon ec2, google apps, salesforce, Ubuntu: operation system based on cloud computing (from canonical)
+++ "CRM with Facebook" - clara shih +++
Category: Fundamentals
New solutions with facebook connect:
#a Facebook + salesforce
#a book recommendation: Thefacebookarea.com
Facebook ad campaigns to people
Appirio: facebook recruiting tool (employee recomm.)
Customer service: salesforce with twitter
+++ "Its the people, stupid" - Deborah Schulz +++
Category: Marketing and communication
Join, not interrupt people
Be a part of the community
Help users participate
Stay for some value
Love you give, you get back
>Experiment, listen, rinse, repeat
Examples:
-Dopplr
-Photojojo
-Etsy
-Thradless fotos on t-shirts
-Overnight-prints
-Moo business cards with your flickr fotos on the back
+++ General +++
Presentations: http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/proceedings
Tags: w2e web2expo
Twitter #w2e #web2expo
Groups: Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr
Full schedule: http://Web2expo.com/sf/events
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