What’s happened this week:
- Barclays launched pingit, a peer to peer money transfer service for mobile devices, downloaded 20,000 times in the first two days – important as the banks seek to avoid becoming the ‘dumb pipes of mobile money’
- Twitter launched a self service ad platform allowing many more brands to get involved with real time promotion
- Google have again upped their commitment to Google+ by adding sharing features to their home page
What we have learned:
- eBay makes a sale via a smart phone every second
- By 2016 there will be 10bn smart phones worldwide
- Facebook drives 10x the volume of video shares as Twitter as online video viewing accelerates
Cool stuff:
- Personalised charging technology from Sony
- Facebook in 2025?
- LivePark in South Korea gives us a sense of immersive experiences to come
Where to find more:
- Nike’s new marketing model for the digital era, surprisingly Nike+ from 2006 is the template upon which it is based
- Vinod Khosla’s 12 areas of digital innovation and disruption that are under hyped
- New educational and economic models may be needed in light of approaching extreme automation across many sectors
