http://idcee.org/p/keith-teare/ Keith Teare is a founder at the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. He is also CEO of Chat Center (http://chatcenter.me). Previously Keith was co-founder of TechCrunch, the founder of RealNames, a Palo Alto based company specializing in Internet navigation and search technologies; co-founder of 'The EasyNet Group', a leading pan-European broadband ISP; co-founder of CYBERIA, the world's first Internet Café; and founder of cScape (now Clerkswell), a UK based systems integration specialist dating back to 1983. Keith seed funded NetNames, the first domain name reseller in the world, where he was also Chairman of the Board of Directors. He also sat on the Advisory Board of VeriSign's Naming & Directory Services division. He currently sits on the Board of UK listed company Mind & Machines (MMX). Pic's are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/sets/ More @ http://idcee.org Follow us on: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialIDCEEChannel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IDCEE Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IDCEE-3940138 Twitter: https://twitter.com/idcee_eu Google+: http://gplus.to/idcee Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/collections/

1. How social networks develop in the age of mobile:
challenges and opportunities
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Keith Teare

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Keith Teare
•Context and Products
•What matters today?
•Mobile Social is not Web Social
•Chat Center - An Example

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Context and Products

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Men make their own history,
but they do not make it as
they please; they do not
make it under self-selected
circumstances, but under
circumstances existing
already, given and
transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all dead
generations weighs like a
nightmare on the brains of
the living.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl
Marx 1852
•Context and Products

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Past
•Historical Thinking
Present
Future

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•So….What is Dying today?

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•And what is being born?

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•Context shapes Life Expectancy?

9. •Self-assesment is Key. Is it time to Run?
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•Or Fight?

11. •What Matters Today
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•What is in the process of death?

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•What is in the process of Birth?

14. •Decisions Decisions
If the past is
dying and
your plan is
no longer
relevant, what
do you do?

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•Mobile Social is not Web Social

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•Start with the Context

18. Consumer?
Enterprise?
Mobile
Venture Capital?
Bootstrapped?
Software
App?
Hardware Service?
Crowdsourced?
Curated?
•Decisions Matter

19. •Make a good Soup
Consumer?
Mobile
Software
Service?

20. •Not a bad Soup

21. •And Ship Products

22. •Example: Downtown App

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•Being Relevant, 1. Facebook Example

28. •Being Relevant, 2. Chat Center Example

29. APIs SDKs •Context - Chat Center
Chat/Text
Voice
Web
App Silos
Free
Smartphones
SMS MMS
Web based
Social Networks
Mobile Cloud
Paid Messaging

30. •Context - Chat Center
App Silos

31. What if Chat was
and FREE

32. The universality of FREE like
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Mobile
+
Web
kale

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Mobile
+
Social Media
keith

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Mobile
+
Apps with No Chat
keith

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Mobile
+
Email
keith

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Mobile
+
Mobile
Gené

38. •Revenue - Chat Center
No Advertising. Free Service. Sell Premium Names

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•And if you Succeed?

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Its Huge!

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•Context
•Product Choices
•Success or Failure
•Repeat

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44. http://chatcenter.me/keith
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