Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’

VDZ Zeitschriftentage 2009 in Berlin

Saturday, December 19th, 2009 by michael-altendorf

Ende November fanden in Berlin die Zeitschriftentage statt. Da wir für den VDZ ein White Paper über Geschäftsmodelle für Social Networks geschrieben haben, waren wir netterweise eingeladen.

Die Tagung war wirklich interessant. Hubert Burda, Angela Merkel oder Körber, der Co-President des Club of Rome, waren unter den Vortragenden. Die Vorträge waren insgesamt richtig gut.

ABER: Bei der Tagung im alten Berliner Interconti konnte man wieder feststellen:

Die meisten Verleger haben immer noch keine Ahnung, was sie im Internet eigentlich machen sollen. (So schwer ist das nicht!) Einige haben mittlerweile das Problem erkannt und sind auch auf einem guten Weg.
Andere (da wären nun mehrere Verlinkungen möglich) verstehen leider noch nicht so viel davon, wie man im Internet Geld verdient und beschweren sich weiter.
Mit Spannung erwartet man den Paid Content bei Springer. Vor allem, wie lange die Zeitungen das durchhalten. Der Traffic wird völlig in die Knie gehen. Das ist aber ja in Ordnung, solange am Ende unter dem Strich mehr rauskommt. Immerhin probiert es mal einer. Wir hätten da eher eine virtuelle Währung empfohlen. Damit verdienen die Damen und Herren im Ausland schon extrem viel Geld. Aber gut. Einen Versuch ist es wert.

Ansonsten gab es sehr witzige Panels. Hervorzuheben ist auf jeden Fall Roland Tichy von der Wirtschaftswoche, der in mehreren Panels für einige Lacher gesorgt hat. Aber auch die andere Chefredakteure von Spiegel, Zeit online und Co waren exzellent. Dafür zahlt man dann doch gerne mal noch für eine Zeitschrift auf dem Niveau. Im Gegensatz zu Springers Cash Cow -Da sollte man schon Geld für bekommen, wenn man die liest. Die Bild macht übrigens bald “Volks”Events. Das ist sogar eine sehr gute Möglichkeit das Portal als Marketingkanal zu nutzen und indirekt zu monetarisieren.

Da könnte man also fast daraus schließen, dass man für guten Journalismus doch bereit ist zu zahlen? Klar, nur die Abrechnung, die Geschwindigkeit der Information etc. sind da noch weitere Parameter, die man da irgendwie in der Gleichung lösen muss. Ansonsten wird es schwer.
Für Downloads im Musikbereich zahlen die Leute auch, wenn es einfach ist und die Preis-Leistung stimmt. Aber eben nicht alle. Es ist nur EINE von VIELEN Möglichkeiten mit einem digitalen oder gar virtuellen Gut Geld zu verdienen.

Bei normalen Nachrichten wird es nicht möglich sein. Hier ist das Angebot einfach zu groß und die Mischung von User Generated Content, Twitter, Blog etc. macht es unmöglich dafür Geld zu verlangen. Zu viel Anteil der Information ist eh schon bekannt.

Um damit abzuschliessen:
Ja, es ging zum Großteil wieder um die Geschäftsmodelle, wie auch schon bei den Medientagen. Wer da nun weniger Ahnung hat Print oder TV? Im Moment TV. Das liegt auch daran, dass die noch Geld verdienen. Sobald es da weiter bergab geht, werden auch im TV Bereich die Leute über neue Lösungen nachdenken müssen.

Gregor Vogelsang (Booz Allen) hat es ganz einfach gesagt: Stellen Sie doch einfach mal ein paar Köpfe ein, die Ahnung von der digitalen Welt haben.
Dazu kann ich nur auch raten. Es ist im Printbereich ähnlich wie in der Musikbranche: Die meisten verstehen einfach nicht, wie die Netzwerkökonomie funktioniert. Leider sehen nur wenige bisher ein, sich da Rat zu holen, wie man die Sache in den Griff bekommt.
Apple und Google haben in wenigen Jahren bewiesen, dass man eigentlich weder Ahnung von der Werbe, noch von der Musikbranche haben muss, um dort Fuss zu fassen. Man muss nur ein vernünftiges Angebot haben und das Geschäftsmodell daran anpassen.

Ein Auszug aus unserem White Paper, um nur mal die potenziellen Möglichkeiten aufzuzeigen:
businessmodelsforsocialnetworks
 

 
Update: Hier noch eine schöne Powerpoint über das Geschäftmodell der Zeitungsbranche (Link zum Blogeintrag) von Patrick Stähler

View more documents from Patrick Stähler.

 

 

 

 

 

Hier einige Impressionen:

Publishers Night
Vortrag von Booz Allen bei der Tagung im Interconti

Publishers Night
Eigentlich schon ein Highlight: Dietmar Hopp und Theo Zwanziger

Publishers Night
Aber dann kamen auch noch Genscher

Publishers Night
und Gorbatschow

GSB Conference – What's the next big Thing? Tim Draper, Tony Perkins & Michael Moe @ Stanford

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 by Michael Altendorf

Today I attended the last event of the Stanford GSB entrepreneurweek (A great thing by the way. This should exist in Germany too):
“The Next Big Twitter Thing”: A special presentation of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture Series

 The whole Kresge Auditorium was full:
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Here are the speakers:

Tim Draper – a big Venture Capitalist (Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson ) in the Silicon Valley and a blogger. His partner Steve spoke yesterday at the ChurchillClub Event. On Tim’s blog entrepreneurs could get some insights about the life of a VC and what’s important and what’s bullshit. I prefered to read Guy Kawasakis blog on VC but I will give him a chance one page one (of 25 with 500 other blogs on my Netvibes). He also stated to have Tweet Experiences but I couldn’t find him.

Michael Moe – Blogger and author of “How to find the next Starbucks”

+  Founding Partner, ThinkPanmure, and Author (Finding the Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest in the Hot Stocks of Tomorrow)

and Tony Perkins – CEO of AlwaysOn. Also a blog which I read nearly daily.

From the homepage:
As part of the Entrepreneurship Week closing finale, find out what the hot entrepreneurial opportunities are today and tomorrow, as three of the most forward-looking and insightful thought leaders in Silicon Valley weigh in. They’ll debate, argue and discuss their way through an analysis of where technology is going and where to start placing your bets
 

GSB Conference -The next big Thing

 

Short summary, long version will follow tomorrow!!!

The next big things among other things is:

Definitely the overall No 1. with a current validation of $250 million – Twitter.com

In my opinion, spoken in Gartner HypeCycle words:

We are on the Peak of Inflated Expectations now. Let’s remember: 2 years ago, we all had a ”Second life”. I also wrote my thesis on virtual currency taxation - This was nearly the same Hype as it is with Twitter today. Also every VC or analyst  talked about virtual worlds at this time. Today, only view people are interestd in virtual worlds. But like always:Second Life was the first attempt of Virtual Reality online and many more will follow soon and will arise from the through of Disillusionmnt.

So this could be the way Twitter goes to. But it is not such a highly technical tool and very addictive. So the “Through of Disillusionment” could be short. Technical problems we already had last year and seems to be solved.

It is more for fun and to be a wannabe micro celebrity and there for it is great and good for wasting time while wating for the bus and do some viral marketing.

More information:

Facebook will make “Deals” to get money in. Hm, this could be perhaps an ad deal in the end!

Youtube and Hotmail are marketing tools for Google and Microsoft. They were not bought to make money but to save marketing costs.

The new generation is called “The instant messaging generation” (aka digital natives) – compared to some years ago 5 of 10 US Top webpages got replaced by Youtube and MySpace etc. (6 out of 10 in Germany)

They were several more things like Green Technologies

Social Learning will be great

Mobile and Video stuff

 

Off Topic:

Free Trade was preached – There was a fear of protection in the room. I share this. Also in Europe there is a new movement for higher market protection. This could also be in a way of supporting domestic companies via money gifts. So they could offer there products cheaper. This makes the downwards spiral also faster.

Tim Draper mentioned: We need more nuclear plants. For me, as a greenenergy, guy: No, you are wrong. We need more innovation pressure to make Green energy more competitive. We do not want more nuclear material for our children. Tim didn’t get the acid fallout rain from Tschernobyl on his house when he was a child. This could be discussed on a higher level and more differentiated, for sure.

 

New digital monopolist? New rumors about a Microsoft-Yahoo deal?

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

All tech blogs start talking about a new Yahoo- Microsoft deal this morning. In London times is a article which claims that Microsoft only wants to buy the search business.

Kara from “All Things Digital” claim that there is NO $20 billion option that Microsoft takes over Yahoo completely.

After Yang announced his resission, Steve Ballmer already negated a complete Yahoo takeover but was open for a bigger partnership.

 

I think the picture will be more clearly tomorrow…

Micro Trends for start-ups in times of a global recession

Monday, October 13th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Read Write Web Blog writes about 10 smaller trends in times of a bad economics surroundings

1. Transparency.

2. Relocalization.

3. Reduced power of gatekeepers.

4. Micro-trend Slopes replace Chasms.

5. Changing balance of power between big and small businesses.

6. Self-organizing networks beat command and control structures.

8. Ad $$$ will flow to measurable ROI models.

9. Bubbles will form and pop faster.

10. The end of 11 point lists

If you get VC in this times you could easily start riding with your company on one of this trends

more details here: 

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/startups_10_micro_trends_to_bet_on.php 

The Yahoo Superbike

Sunday, October 12th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Yes, Yahoo is building bicycles now and some more famous people in the valley get them for free. Sadly, in there are not available in Germany yet.

–> The Solar-powered GPS Wireless Camera Bike from Yahoo!

The photo was taken by Amit Gupta. You could follow his bicycle tours here:

http://flickr.com/photos/amits_bike

image source: http://flickr.com/photos/superamit/2838707882/?addedcomment=1#comment72157607959892833

What is Enterprise 2.0? Another cool slideshare ppt

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Enterprise 2.0 & The Nature of The Firm

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

Bernard Lunn ist writing about Enterprise 2.0 and Ronald Coase and Peter Drucker!

Quote:

“The break-up of behemoth, vertically integrated enterprises commenced in the 1970’s, got a boost from junk bond financing in the 1980’s, and accelerated in the 1990’s with globalization. Now, late in the 2000’s, Social Media (aka Web 2.0) is adding another gear that will accelerate the fundamental restructuring of the enterprise.

This is a big story. That is why ReadWriteWeb is dedicating a new “channel” to Enterprise 2.0. I will be editing this channel and we are looking for part time writers to contribute. More on that later.

The Firm
Peter Drucker, the greatest management thinker of all time, pointed out that the “firm” is a relatively recent innovation, designed to do the things that individuals cannot easily do on their own. Ronald Coase later created a theoretical model (Coase’s Theorem) to describe why firms exist, based on the difference between internal and external transaction costs. If the transaction cost was lower internally, then it made sense to organize that work internally. If the transaction cost was lower externally, then it made sense to organize that work externally.

Coase’s Theorem underlies countless management books on subjects around reengineering, outsourcing, core competency, spinoffs, spinouts and so on.”

For me as economist are articles that combine the internet innovation topics and economic theory always a pleasure to read! continue here

Microsoft Photosynth goes live!

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

 

One of the coolest betas last year finally goes live!

Read Write Web Blog (ok, the Blog has grown to a news page) reported that you could reach the final version since yesterday evening and I really recommend to check this out:

http://photosynth.net/ (but only with broadband)

-  That is how the web will look in the next years. You do not really feel that this is online. First photosynth was a nice Flickr mashup but now everybody can create such a 3D-”album”

 

 

Gerd Leonhard on Music 2.0 and the future of the digital world (or please create a human media filter)

Monday, August 18th, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

“Tech Talk” at Google London with Gerd Leonhard

I have seen Gerd already two times at Popakademie and at the Cebit and read some parts of his books.

One more or less new thing I want to mention is that he included the important point “filterering” on the web gets today some minutes of his presentation.

Filtering will become one new major functionality for all web 2.0 applications.

Amy Shuen (”The Web 2.0 strategy”) has one chapter on online syndication, or on how to find the right feeds (via Rss) but did not really talk about friendfeed or Twitter and filtering this. At the times she wrote that book the information overflow was not really as hard as today - one and a half year ago. So there was no necessity on filtering all stuff. I had one or two tabs on my personalized netvibes homepage/dashboard. Now I have about 25 sorted by topics, on dashboard in the dashboard + igoogle as a second startpage opening synchronous when opening the browser. This leads in the end to the problem that i only read some of the tabs per day and only 1-5 articles or headlines but never could read the whole bunch of hundreds of new blogs per day. One reason is that there are two much blogs on the web. Another reason for this is that some of the blogs like readwriteweb have grown from a single  blog page to a media network with different  blogs and things with a lot of new stuff everyday.

(I just found out that she was mentioned my blog for recommending her book – yes it is still the best web 2.0 book today – came out in May 2008 – when looked up the link to her blog)

Back to the topic: filtering

We already talked about the filtering which will be one of the most important points in the future in one of our Enterprise 2.0 sessions at SAP. Friendfeed without a filter is horrible. I am interested in some parts of the life of people I follow but not in all things in their life. I am interested in Mr O’Reilly’s tech news but not in his private photos or in his Youtube movie taste.  When I would use Mr Scoble’s friendfeed the whole display is only full with things he is doing. No chance for other people to be shown there. Sorry but in this way I can’t follow him. However I never understood when he is not doing something in real life without commenting it in the virtual world. But he is still worth reading!. And it is different for everybody I follow. But I do not want to build a individual filter with yahoo Pipes. So there must be a filter soon otherwise the people will start cleaning their networks because of information overflow.

When Gerd mentioned that he is one Twitter somebody in the audience shouted “recommender” – and he could be right… while a lot of people think about what could be the business model for Twitter before the go bankrupt…yes, it could be not only a “time waste machine” or viral personal marketing tool or it grows for a “Human Recommender” tool where selected specialists, as of today most of the people are tech geeks and bloggers, recommend what is worth reading on the web.

Popurls, greets to Thomas at this point, is a aggregator the hottest stuff on the web is tracked on a one page overview. This is really a good thing for people how want to get an overview what’s up on the web. That is the best thing for the standard user what he could get on the web. But the power user also needs a  filter or search for topics in a self pre-defined way so that is missing at the moment to put it in one sentence. Perhaps Mr Guy Kawasaki wants to help there with some money to build it like he built allthetop for aggregating….in 2008 we need no more aggregator but a filter!

The SPAM person arrives @ Facebook

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 by Michael Altendorf

After reading this satire magazine in 2004, which had a phenomenal title and outlook what’s coming soon…

Bernd Zeller a former gagwriter of Harald Schmidt was the author of this famous magazine. His new blog is online: http://www.darvins-illustrierte.de/

 

The first SPAM persons wanted to be connected with me. After a lot of bands want to be your friend on MySpace, now, also Facebook has a problem. Ok, sometimes the MySpace bands are like a manual recommendation system of last.fm and sometimes they are really good, but most of the time it is SPAM in your eMail inbox.

Now, this week it there were 2 persons which requested my friendship. The first one was a faked profil…that is really uninteresting but really funny was the second one. I asked who he is and he answered with a personal mail, that he found me in a group xyz and he wants to recommend to invest in oil :-) really cool and also he recommended (sure) a page where I could send my money to…

I think this problem will increase massively in the next years…Sorry, no good analysis on a public holiday. I only wanted to share that with you.