Mobile Payments Market Guide 2012
April 5, 2012 – 11:05 am | No Comment

The online newspaper The Paypers has recently published The Mobile Payments Market Guide 2012. This useful document provides an in-depth look at the global mobile financial services ecosystem, combining insight from key stakeholders and top-level industry thought leaders with a comprehensive overview of market players (MNOs, banks, technology providers, phone manufacturers or payment processors).

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Brett King’s speech (Istanbul)
May 7, 2012 – 10:43 am | No Comment

Brett King’s speech at the “Era of the Customer Marketing Summit” in Istanbul, 7-8 December 2011.

Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Explained
April 23, 2012 – 5:29 pm | No Comment
Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Explained

A short animated film by Crowdsourcing.org, narrated by Crowdsourcing.org’s Founder, Carl Esposti, describing the four different ways Crowdsourcing works and the five different categories of things you can do with crowdsourcing.

See how to tap the power of the crowd for creative projects (Crowd Creativity), to collect and organize knowledge (Distributed Knowledge), how to use the crowd to develop and test new ideas (Open Innovation), to access an on-demand scalable workforce (Cloud Labor) and how to use the crowd to raise capital (Crowdfunding).

The high stakes world of mobile payments [Infographic]
April 19, 2012 – 10:37 am | No Comment
The high stakes world of mobile payments [Infographic]

Many companies seem to be jumping into the mobile payment game. Since almost every day a new player enters the market Mobile Payments Today has tried to capture in this infographic the companies that are entering the market and how they’re placing their bets.

What Technology Will Kill (video by Erik Qualman)
January 18, 2012 – 9:51 am | No Comment

A new video from producer & author of Socialnomics Erik Qualman showcases what technology will replace this digital decade: from checkbooks to car keys. Leaders will also be replaced by new Digital Leaders, which is the focus of Qualman’s new book.

Social Media Revolution 3 (Erik Qualman's video)
September 29, 2011 – 9:56 am | No Comment

Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman this is one of the most watched social media video in the world.
This is the long version produced June 2011.

Social Media Revolution 2011 (video)
June 14, 2011 – 2:56 pm | No Comment

Social Media Revolution 2011: new version of the famous Erik Qualman’s video.

Caja Navarra's Cancha24 (video)
September 14, 2010 – 11:27 am | No Comment
Barclays Bank Online Game – 56 Sage Street: Game trailer
August 23, 2010 – 9:54 am | No Comment

Grand Theft Auto style game educate people about banking.

The game is build around a teenager that comes to the city in search of making it big, along with characters like landlords, fraudsters, old ladies, partners, banks, businesses, etc. To progress in the game, you have to pass challenges (generally financial ones about managing money) and once you get a roll on you’ll start to make more money, to spend on more things, on your way to creating an empire on 56 Sage Street.

White Paper: Mobile Remote Payments General Guidelines for Ecosystems
July 5, 2010 – 11:11 am | No Comment
White Paper: Mobile Remote Payments General Guidelines for Ecosystems

The Remote Payments Task Force of the Mobey Forum has recently published a white paper, Mobile Remote Payments
General Guidelines for Ecosystems, for industry guidance and consultation. This paper suggests that the mobile phone number, and not any other specific code or identifier, should be used to identify the payer and payee in a mobile remote payment transaction. The paper identifies guidelines for developing a payment “ecosystem” stressing the need for interoperability across different payment systems and stakeholders across the globe.

11 crowdfunding platforms
June 3, 2010 – 4:51 pm | No Comment

Peer-to-peer (P2P) micro-finance is expanding from lending marketplaces like Zopa to peer-to-peer affinity-driven financial support for a wide variety of projects. Several names are used to describe the phenomen is a kind of a crowdsourcing initiative and is usually named as crowdfunding or social finance.

There are a number of websites accomodating crowdsourcing, many of them in creative domains, as described in Ross Dawson’s article How to raise money from the crowds.

Linkedin stats
June 1, 2010 – 6:09 pm | No Comment
Linkedin stats

Linkedin’s statistics can finally be obtained using Linkedin advertise tools.
As shown on Vincenzo Cosenza blog (Vincos blog), Linkedin has almost 69 million members in over 200 countries and finance (12%) is one of the most represented industries with hi-tech (16%), manufacturing (10%) and engineering (15%).