About Me 0125: 2011

Monday, December 26, 2011

Making Money Without

Once upon a time, Facebook game companies like Zynga fattened up their user counts thanks to viral distribution to non-gamers through the news feed. Facebook later curtailed this channel, forcing developers to concentrate on paid marketing and true word of mouth to grow. A new boom period could be coming, this time for mobile developers, as Facebook announced today that it is testing game stories in the mobile news feed. This could attract devs to its recently launched HTML5 mobile gaming platform with bait of reaching hundreds of millions of daily active Facebook mobile users.

Facebook learned a lot about balancing developer success with user experience during that first boom period, often called the wild west days. Game spam such as users asking all their friends to install and give them virtual good overran the news feed, making it a bore to non-gamers. Facebook will surely be monitoring the volume of mobile news feed game stories to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Rather than pepper the feed with individual stories, Facebook is using aggregated stories that read like “Rose Yao and 9 other people recently played games”. Below users see a few friends names and links to the games they played, and can tap to expand to see the whole list. Tapping a game will launch its HTML5 version, or that native app if already installed. The aggregated stories give users control, so those that want to discover something to play can, while those uninterested can breeze by.

Earned viral channels also democratize the Facebook platform, as they provide exposure to small developers without big marketing budgets. Facebook launched the HTML5 platform to make sure Apple and Google weren’t the only ones making money off mobile games. Developer adoption of the channel has been a bit sluggish so far, though. The opening of this viral channel could convince developers to experiment with Facebook mobile.

Can you build a billion-dollar business without venture capital?

Jorn Lyseggen thinks he can. He’s the founder and CEO of Meltwater Group, a major player in marketing intelligence services.

I spoke at a Meltwater event recently, and got to know a bit about the company. I was intrigued by the company’s unusual strategy and its unique sense of corporate culture, so I decided to find out more.

Meltwater got its start with Meltwater News, a media monitoring service that scans hundreds of thousands of news sources and delivers summaries and alerts to its clients based on what they’re looking for. It has since added services for monitoring and engaging with customers on social networks, creating and managing PR lists, search engine optimization and others. The company delivers its products as a service, making it one of many SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies.

The company is 10 years old, and has been almost entirely self-funded. Lyseggen started the company in Oslo with $15,000 of his own money and has been growing it through revenues ever since. The company now employs 900 people, is headquartered in San Francisco and will post $114 million in revenues in 2011, Lyseggen told me recently.

Lyseggen himself is a bit of an unusual character: A Korean-born adoptee with a ready smile, he grew up on a farm in Norway and speaks with a Norwegian accent. He enjoys salmon fishing in his hometown fjords and reading Viking sagas, according to his company’s website, but he also knows how to work a crowd and has obviously inspired his workforce with a charismatic vision of what Meltwater’s culture is all about.

Meltwater has never taken venture capital. That makes it an anomaly among tech firms in Silicon Valley. If Lyseggen succeeds in reaching a billion dollars in revenues, he’ll have done something very few have accomplished. SAS Institute, HP and Best Buy appear to be the only modern tech companies to have reached this milestone unaided by VC investments.

Lyseggen has ignored other Silicon Valley maxims, such as the primacy of engineers and the desire to build a large, impressive headquarters. And the company hasn’t been as widely covered as rivals such as social media-monitoring service Radian6 (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier in 2011), recently-public Jive Software and Google News (whose “alerts” serve some of the same purposes).

“I think we’re a nonentity in many ways. We’ve just been doing what we’re doing,” said Lyseggen. “I believe in focus.”

For Lyseggen, that focus meant building a distribution network first. A veteran of three startups, he says his initial goal was to build software that could easily be sold, enabling him to keep his team super-small.

It didn’t work out. Lyseggen learned quickly that successful sales depended on having local sales operations, so he oriented his company around that mandate and started hiring local sales forces. The company now has 57 offices worldwide, each one with a relatively small number of people.

“Distribution at the end of the day trumps technology,” Lyseggen said.

The small local offices enable another key aspect of Meltwater’s culture: The emphasis on leadership. With small, relatively autonomous teams, there are plenty of opportunities for people in each location to learn how to make decisions and take charge, whether that’s deciding what color to paint the walls, which furniture to buy at Ikea, or what the best marketing strategy is for recruiting new customers in the area.

His conviction that leadership is important runs deep. Lyseggen said that most of what he spent the first five or six years doing was recruiting. For that period, he interviewed every single candidate. (So did many other Meltwater staffers, as the interview process is an intensive two-day audition that involves talking with lots of people and working on group projects with other candidates.) He estimates that he’s done about 3,000 face-to-face interviews. Only 5 to 10 percent made the cut.

Once the company built out its distribution network, Meltwater started developing or acquiring additional products for its portfolio.

But how can a small company whose major business is essentially a high-end clipping service aspire to a billion dollars in revenue? Lyseggen thinks it’s by following a larger trend: The imperative for companies to get savvy about collecting and analyzing data from the outside world.

Companies like Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and IBM have gotten huge by giving their customers tools to manage data “inside the firewall,” through databases and applications built on top of that data. Now, Lyseggen believes, it’s time to build a comparable stack of data and applications based on intelligence about the wider world.

“In the last 15 years there’s been an explosion of information outside the firewall,” Lyseggen said. The need to manage that data will give rise to many billion-dollar businesses.

Managing that data can be helpful for recruiting, marketing, sales development, but also for product development, by giving companies better information about what potential customers want. And it’s not just big companies that need this kind of information. Lyseggen likes to tell the story of a small Norwegian window installation company that is a customer of Meltwater, which it uses to monitor local news sources for news about robberies and break-ins. It then visits each location to see if they need any broken windows replaced.

Ultimately, Lyseggen told me, he thinks that in the next five years, CEOs of every company will demand dashboards that give them knowledge of their customers and potential customers, just as they now demand dashboards showing the state of their internal business processes. Building those tools will take a lot of time and effort, but will also create an enormous amount of opportunity.

“This is food for generations of scientists and engineers,” Lyseggen said.

Photo courtesy Meltwater Group.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Making Money Online Scams

It seems a high number of lonely-hearts are becoming the victims of malicious online fraud scams, according to the Guardian 200 000 Brits have been conned by fraudsters who claim to be on the lookout for love. This shocking statistic indicates just how much of a problem online fraud is proving to be. It seems con artists know no limits when it comes to getting their hands on some cash, using dating websites to sweep victims off their feet before asking for money or expensive gifts.

Although the number of people conned is already an eye-opener, it may not actually represent the full extent of the problem as victims of the online dating scam are often reluctant to tell anyone due to embarrassment. The con artists are scarily becoming more cunning and convincing in their methods as they “woo” their victims, declaring their love and making them feel special.

The scams aren’t necessarily a short-term process either; the longest dating scam allegedly lasted for five years. They take time to earn the victims’ trusts to the extent that handing money or presents over may not seem irrational. They forge a relationship with victims, often offering a virtual shoulder to cry on and share problems with. Some of the victims have reportedly even continued to communicate with the scammer after their cover’s been blown due to the “comfort” they’ve provided them.

Dating websites are aware of these scammers who are creating bogus accounts and luring in vulnerable people who are lonely and looking for love. Despite their awareness of the problem, it can take dating websites time to identify a bogus account and by this time the scammer has usually contacted multiple victims and moved them to anonymous messaging services such as Hotmail and Yahoo Messenger where new email addresses can be easily created.

How to Spot an Online Dating Scam

In order to reduce the numbers of online dating scams, it’s important for users of dating sites to be able to identify a scammer and report them to protect themselves and the rest of the online dating community. There are numerous ways to detect a dating scam, and although not all fraudsters are the same, their methods are typically rather similar.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

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Workplace properties, with their a huge selection of rectangular toes of carpeted area, present unique challenges regarding cleaning companies. Washing organizations must thoroughly clean floor coverings inside workplace buildings in very little time as you can to prevent disrupting daily operations. Inside high targeted traffic areas, in which floor coverings are densely soiled, cleaning gets even more difficult. Therefore, the majority of contractors buy a industrial carpet cleaner built to provide superlative, effective cleansing with regard to commercial places for instance office processes.

Low end carpet cleaning machines may help you save money in the beginning, however frequent complete breakdowns, damage, as well as poor function quality will cost much more in the long run. These lower capability equipment are usually designed for use in the home or even within smaller places. They can not run hour following hr with out a break, as commercial carpet cleaning requires. Furthermore, they are not resilient adequate in order to endure the particular corrosive chemical compounds and dirt a commercial carpet cleaner will be confronted with. As a result, you should look up the particular stock for a supplier that offers commercial carpet cleaner and also pick the best product.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

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Tips on hiring an appliance repair service

1. For almost any selections concerning selecting a major appliance repair organization, obtain recommendations firstly various appliance repair companies coming from people as their ideas anyone believe in, just like the family and also buddies who have got suffers from inside getting appliance repair solutions just before
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on the web or over the telephone. That way, you won't need to have to guide an authentic service call for a tech right away and acquire incurred inflated charges for the basic fix that one could even perform all on your own. Here, you are able to pre-judge whether you should restore or even substitute your defective equipment
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3. A different component that can assist you to consider if it is best to employ an experienced appliance repair tech may be the normal life span of machine. Execute a minor investigating online to uncover should your product may be as well older and if fixing it will eventually you should be a throw away associated with funds and also time period
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4. In some outdated models of dishwashers, units, as well as refrigerators, these people are apt to have a much better top quality in relation to his or her interior pieces in comparison with existing low-end types. Globalization has come to using particular smaller areas of quite a few home equipment to get manufactured in majority in many areas on earth; this specific offered on the generation of low cost, comparatively low-quality central components. There are many very good and very tough old-model home appliances that could be well worth fixing
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5. An easy take action of unplugging subsequently plugging returning a digital machine can occasionally apparent the issue pertaining to small electric failures upon washing machines
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6. Before you get a expert appliance repair technical assistant to come over and conduct the actual repair in your case, you may need to look at search engines like google with regard to appliance repair instructions that may summarize the issue as well as found widespread do-it-yourself steps. Online appliance manuals usually are free of charge and may supply you comprehensive exactly how you can carry out modest maintenance tasks regarding certain types of equipment
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7. When you have this knack for this in addition to will want to complete complex property fixes by yourself, you must behave like an established and also put on basic safety eyeglasses along with steel-toed protection sneakers. It is usually sound judgment in order to unplug the applying very first before you begin unscrewing anything. Sharp sides can be found within dryers so that you should be careful while taking care of a single
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Why you should hire a professional appliance repair service?

Getting an experienced to complete an appliance repair will keep you by wasting your time trying out this operation of any household kitchen appliance which you don't realize. Trying to repair it on your own might cause additional damage on your kitchen appliance. You can find a lot of affordable appliance repair products and services currently being promoted on the web as well as around the phonebook. You possibly can constantly call the right choice who can correct whatever malfunctioning product you might have in the home
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There are particular residence product products which might be far more cost-effective to fix compared to to interchange. Microwaves, refrigerators, freezers, cookers, dryers, ranges, for example. boost each of our day-to-day day-to-day lives; we all from time to time perhaps locate convenience by employing all of them. When they get shattered or maybe leave the workplace correctly, eliminating all of them without delay in favor of a brand new a single may not be monetarily seem. You will discover countless situations wherein this not working is extremely slight, and only a few trivial alterations as well as easy maintenance tasks might make the item become as effective as new once again
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Pros whom present household restore providers are offered online or about the phonebook, and many of them are willing to occur above or speak to anyone about the telephone to supply free of charge estimations on feasible charges regarding solving a certain residence equipment
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What to look for when hiring a professional appliance repair service?

Request through family and also close friends initial pertaining to recommendations. Those individuals whoever thoughts an individual have confidence in tend to be the most beneficial source of facts with regards to different household appliance repair products and services they've already tried using before.

If you utilize possibly the on the net appliance repair forum or a good on-line ad of an commercial appliance repair firm, then you definitely must ensure so it states that “licensed and also insured” to help you make sure that you will be getting the companies at a specialized who's been subject to any proper appliance repair training. The company’s condition licence also need to end up being another thing you need to beware of. The actual licence range should be logical and the insurance policy really needs to be up-to-date. Also, you will need to investigation about how very long that will appliance repair firm has been doing enterprise and also where destinations the item runs; a corporation with a large amount of regional heritage is frequently much more reputable given it will go by means of specific program plans to keep their skilled standing on the market. Another important things to not ever neglect while looking for a good appliance repair service will be set up company is actually stated with key net internet directories much like the yellowish pages, Search engines roadmaps, Bing community, and many others. The item must be shown someplace; a really imprecise one might just be an novice startup or maybe a scam. You have to furthermore keep in mind that appliance repair chicago
which often publicise greatly may possibly charge so much greater than people modest neighborhood ones which really rely less in advertising and marketing yet heavy within the word-of-mouth multiply of the excellent fix companies.

When you've got last but not least decided on that appliance repair firm to look together with, you could question pointedly about the label of the pc professional who will always be maintenance anyone along with instantly consult to talk with your ex first. Here, it is suggested you inquire the technician the length of time she or he have been mending appliances. Supply the pc professional the main points with the trouble. Provide every one of the symptoms and so that she / he can easily consider feasible advantages of the applying malfunction. The particular specialist probably will deliver some possible brings about for the equipment difficulty actually previous to he or she provides the opportunity to come over to your residence. Ultimately, require a great appraisal in the restoration expense once you've given the situation. A professional tech is actually prepared to provide you with one particular

It’s crucial that you understand that when you are seeking a great appliance repair business, make sure you check their particular status. Discover what some other previous customers need to say about them. Go to: www.aaaasc.com to learn more relating to finding an established appliance repair in Chicago or just lookup by utilizing appliance repair Chicago. After you have the website, have a look at their support places to find out if they possess insurance coverage in which your house is positioned. After that contact the number for the region and also schedule a scheduled appointment.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

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Friday, December 2, 2011

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