Entrepreneurs are invited to attend the 111th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable at a special time: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m. PST/Friday, January 13, 9:00 a.m. IST in India. This is to accommodate entrepreneurs pitching from the Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Kharagpur’s Global Entrepreneur Summit. You can find more details here and register here. All
Sramana Mitra: What are the top five things you need to do when you design a game to be a cross-platform social and mobile game? Doyon Kim: One thing is you have to understand the technology. One way to do it is have one game for this platform and completely rewrite everything, maybe use the
Sramana: Are you saying that a small publisher could get on your platform and use your technology to sell directly without having a large sales force? John Ramey: Yes, that is correct. The majority of our publishers do not have salespeople. Our largest ones do, but the point is that publishers can participate without having
The year 2012 promises to be a busy and productive one for 1M/1M and the blog as we work to change the very nature of capitalism and help more people start and nurture successful businesses. One of the first events for the year is a talk by Sramana on capitalism 2.0. Also, look for new
Sramana Mitra: This was more about page views. You did the searching yourselves, so they can’t get into searching. Doyon Kim: Right. Content providers had to get some sort of code from us, but that code could track every activity of people on the website. Sites like TechCrunch implement a code, so we track their
SM: There are many classifications of big data and real time. At this point, that’s one of the reasons why there’s so much activity in the space right now. AZ: Yes. Big data can be sold to enterprises because no matter who you are, you don’t have to be a Facebook anymore to have an
Sramana: Was the core idea that resonated with TechCrunch the concept of helping core publishers sell their inventory directly via your platform? John Ramey: That was a big part of it. Our audacious goal was to create a true platform, an infrastructure layer, for advertising. Direct sales for web banners is a microcosm on top