Micropayments – A New Revenue Model?

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So what exactly are micropayments then?  As ever Wikipedia is bang on the money.  “Micropayments are means for transferring very small amounts of money i.e. 1/1000th of a dollar.  They are typically payments that are too small to be affordably processed by credit card or other electronic transaction processing mechanisms”.
So why am I [...]

May 19, 2009

The Battle For The Single Web Identity

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I don’t know about you but my web experience is becoming a myriad of logins, usernames and passwords.  Some tools like iGoogle, and Netvibes bring everything into one place but ultimately that’s not solving the problem.  Microsoft identified this problem years ago and went about creating a service called “Passport”.  Although 90% of [...]

March 27, 2009

Social Media Monitoring

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The best analogy I have heard for social media, from the guys at Ryan MacMillan, is to imagine you are at a dinner party and you don’t know anyone.  You look across the crowd and there are several, possibly hundreds of people out there and many different conversations going on. Some may even be [...]

February 22, 2009

Show Me The Money! How To Monetise Twitter

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Twitter is the now quite rightfully the new kid on the block and why not?  It’s about time we had a new poster child for the so-called social web.  Like many startups it has a lot of users, is growing rapidly, and has a lot of VC funding.  What’s more it’s also has [...]

The Real-Time Web

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If a huge news story breaks, where are you going to go first? Switch on the TV, try BBC News, CNN, maybe. But what if you are at work…….? Ok, let’s say a plane crashes into New York’s Hudson River? Like many the first port of call for such an event is the web. [...]

February 9, 2009

Location Based Services

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Location based services are for me going to be one of the next big things in the digital space. The only thing is I’m not sure when! I’ve been following the area closely since I heard about Loopt 9 months ago. In the online advertising business we always say in January “this is [...]