GWC presentation about the GMIC 2010 conference about mobile internet in China

The GWC (the Great Wall Club) of China has published a presentation from the GMIC 2010 event in Beijing earlier this year. This presentation high-lights a number of interesting points about the differences in local consumer and business behavior that you have in China vs. USA/Europe. 


Some key points:

• Everything is focused around micro-payments
• Very little use of credit cards
• A wide variety of competing services, not like here, focus on one Facebook, one Google, one Ebay...
• Extensive use of buying virtual goods
• Profitable companies through the massive user base, 800+ million mobile phones, 400+ million internet users

See presentation below;

Chinnovations on China's new media

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Excellent presentation on how to bridge business strategy and your brand

The Brand Gap

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Check out this presentation from Marty Neumeier and Neutron LLC in San Francisco.

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Sweden National Day - June 6, 2010 and Start of Love Stockholm festival (updated)

Today on the Sweden National Day, the Love Stockholm 2010 Festival begins and will continue for two weeks. See http://beta.stockholmtown.com/en/ for tips on what to do if you get an opportunity to visit Stockholm or if you are already here on this beautiful sunny day.

Google is also celebrating by having a special image for the day.

Updated with pictures!

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Dennis Gabor celebrated by Google today - The man behind the holographic images

In case your have noticed the "strange" Google image today, you may want to read the Wikipedia article, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gabor

Dennis would have been 110 years old today...

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Me On TV and Bar-Deli at the TIE Nordic - SSE Open Mike event for startups Stockholm

I attended the TIE Nordic event (http://nordic.tie.org/) organized by Hannes Dernehl jointly hosted by SSE organized by Bhavik (http://swedishstartups.ning.com/profile/NordicEntrepreneursNetwork) at the Hub (http://stockholm.the-hub.net/) in Stockholm on May 31.

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Jeffrey Cole from Ericsson was there presenting the new service Me On TV where the general idea is to encourage businesses to start using user generated content (UGC) for product development and customer services by providing tools to make it as easy as possible for users to record, edit and mix info to be used using their mobile phones. See the Youtube video below for more details.

These events are covered by Open Entrepreneurship (http://www.openentrepreneurship.com/), Björn Paulsson the TIE Nordic Chapter Manager video records and posts on their site. I can recommend registering and signing up at this site if you are interesting in the start up business areas.

One interesting start-up presenting during the "Open Mike" session (where anybody can grab the microfone and present something) was Bar-Deli. See http://www.bar-deli.se/ for more info. The entire business case is very simple, go to any bar in hotels, pubs, restaurants in any city or country
and ask what snacks you can get. The answer in most cases is nothing put peanuts. So, as a result bar-deli packages, sells and delivers custom snacks that are different and healthier. I talked to Niclas Johansson the founder, you can contact him at niclas at bar-deli.se.


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The Fierce15 - Top Wireless winners for 2010 from FierceWireless.com

Here's the fresh list of companies appointed winners this year by FierceWireless magazine. Read the full article at this address;

http://www.fiercewireless.com/special-reports/fiercewireless-fierce-15-2010

or check out each one of the companies below;

- AirHop Communications - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Bump Technologies - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- ComiXology - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Dashwire - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Full Spectrum - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Ground Truth - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Harbinger Capital Partners - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Illume Software - iZup - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Open Kernel Labs - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Powermat - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- SpiderCloud Wireless - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Swype - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Ubidyne - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Validas - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

- Vitality - Top Wireless Company 2010: FierceWireless, Fierce 15

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Mobile High-tech along the ski tracks of Vasaloppet 2010

Mobile high-tech along the ski tracks of Vasaloppet. I wonder if the old king of Sweden, Gustav Vasa could have imagined that 490 years later, you can as a skier following live streaming on your mobile what is happening up front in the 90 km ski race on your mobile while you are skiing. But thanks to http://svtplay.se/t/107631/vasaloppet services you can in the year 2010, RFID and GPS services combined with video streaming makes this the high-tech race for sure. It was funny to see and hear a guy with starting number 8600 something to talk about the front skiers with Tynell in the lead becasue he watched it on his mobile phone.

I think this is just the beginning of what is to come, just wait until 4G LTE services are widely available.

Google Sweden is also celebrating the 86th Vasaloppet race by a special logo today.

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Projectplace - Collaboration around your projects in the cloud

Here's an overdue post about the growing popularity of cloud services. Projectplace sponsored in cooperation with SalesForce an event to highlight the status of project and collaboration services.

Niklas Zandelin, CEO, Exido talked about enablers such as service buses and a core focus on cloud services allowing processes between all actors. Cloud SLA documents are also now available within the EU and US markets. And recent trends with CFOs who all want to see no CAPex and only modest OPex.

Johan Zetterstrom VP Nordics, SalesForce.com presented the growth and history of SalesForce. He emphasized that at Salesforce you pay per user not apps used. Projectplace is a salesforce app on the app platform.

The scope of SalesForce with their AppForce;
- 125k apps on app platform.
- Service cloud with 6k customer.
The first 100 developers can develop for free first app.

Magnus Ingvarsson, Magnus.Ingvarsson at projectplace.se, Founder of Projectplace.

Projectplace after 2008
- 105 employees
- 129 MSEK revenue
- 18 MSEK ebit result

Magnus illiustrated how Projectplace sees cloud services vs. their project services;

PaaS (Platform as a service) is a vertical one addressing the app layer scope
IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) is the horizontal infrastructure layer
Integration as a service is the vertical management layer
Apps are of course the apps on the PaaS layer
UI
SaaS (Software as a Service) is what the users see and use

There are as he pointed out, of course a certain way of getting sold on a certain architecture. Each one of the major cloud services architectures has their own way of interworking between apps, similar but still slightly different meaning that once you have chosen an environment to use, you have work to do if you would like to change later.

Projectplace also sess a role for their project cloud services as a good fit for BPO services where you have a need for local and remote project management and that you should when you consider cloud services, see the whole picture from on premises, host outsource, cloud and SaaS.

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