Chat-rooms strike back ! Facebook groups as chatrooms

Fashion is a loop. We discover something and that becomes the hype. We use that thing and it becomes popular. We overuse something it becomes old. Then after some time, we re-discover what we had discovered before.

I sense that chat-rooms have a great potential. The never-ending quest of discovering new people continues on web. Online-dating is still one of the main motives of people eventhough they try not to mention it.  Did you remember how we used to do that in 1990`s or early 2000`s?  Sure: Chat rooms. No, I don`t mean Instant messaging like MSN-messenger, facebook IM or ICQ. I mean real chatrooms where you don`t have to add somebody to talk. Real chatrooms where you can chat about topics and discover new people.

Facebook, intentionally lacks some features that helps people to discover new people. But it has groups. The problem with the groups is that, eventhough some of them are really creative, the only way you can communicate in a group is the wall=posting, which is not a very bright.

If I were a developer at Facebook, I would allow people to add Applications into their groups. And If I were to develope a Facebook App, I would develope a chatroom application to be used in groups. Since every group or network is like a chat-room in IRC, I think people would addapt easily and it would be very usefull.

Technology evolves. Now we can have chat-rooms where users can send photos, embed videos in their messages, share your music and carry their profiles (real or fake) with them. So why not use that in facebook or any other social network ! It will work!

So this one was a free idea. Next time I`ll charge

facebook effect: LinkedIn and other Social Networks ! (also bit of class fight)

facebook surely had an enormous effect upon the industry. It is most likely that for some time, many firms are reconsidering their strategies to stay alive. Consider linkedIn, linkedIn had a business by asking people to pay for golden membership in order to send mail to a contact they search for. But hold on a second, you can do that for free in facebook !  I am writing these based on no data. So, don’t rely on them. Also, there is another issue: some firms, in order to keep up with changing trend, tried to use facebook in their favor by adapting their services into facebook(application). I am not sure if that worked for them, but it surely worked for facebook !

I am going to give 2 examples about companies that facebook most probably annoyed alot.

Linkedin : Linkedin was always old-style, no-fun, a little bit anti-technological business networking website in my opinion. Surely they have the strength of business search and background info`s, however Their strength of having business community could have made them think they are quite invincible, and most probably invincible to any other social network. Why? Because social networks are for dating ! or lets say that they are low-professional places. Thus, they can not be a threat to linkedIn. However, facebook changes that ! Surely, facebook has still not managed to be a business portal but it is so popular that you can find many business contacts there. I was trying to get in contact with some some business guy I found to have similar interest. Google result gave me his linkedin page, and linkin asked for money (upgrade membership) to contact him !  Sorry dude, facebook does that for free. I searched him in facebook and voila ! sent the message.

My suggestion is that: linkedIn has to add something clever, smart and innovative to their systems. Something that has a background. In a way, it is good that linkedIn is stable, but adding wisely choosed features in the purpose of business life won`t breake its stable title.

Day is the day of smart systems who tries to decide for you. (check my project iletken below)

Other `social network`s:  I suggest that, instead of fighting with Facebook on the field of `social networking & sharing`, these firms should revise their strategy to focus more on `online dating` activities. These websites were doing good a couple of years ago. But now social networks are struggling to find a market share while facebook grabs them all ! On the other hand, It is clear that `online dating` business never ends and demand rises every day as we spend more time online. A great example of how social networks strugle can be observed in a market in which facebook has recently entered. Lets consider my country, Turkey. Before facebook was international, we had a market leader called Yonja. They had everything you can have in a primitive social networking like: user can view any member, golden membership to add more photos and better search etc… But now what? It is a website only low-class users attend while (what we call) high class, english speaking members switched to facebook!. The interesting point is that, Yonja started as an `English` website, in which they got the members from best universities in the first place. As a counter act, other social networks like mynet or siberalem, concantrated on, non-english speaking users and newbies. Now, Yonja looses their active users. it is obvious that their fight with facebook is hardly to be in their favor if they don`t switch strategy or do something very innovative.

It is also true that, Yonja in this example, started to loose their `elite` users a little before facebook emerged in Turkey. Social network reflects the simple basics of human societies: Class fights ! People don’t want to be on the same social network with people who they think to be a member of a lower class. In non-English speaking communities, English knowledge, most of the time, works as a social level filter, while `elite` members are to understand a website while others don’t. However, this is only a temporary barrier. Class struggle always exists. facebook also solves this issue a bit by having automatic privacy settings that allows people to view onlye people in their network. Since, network mostly means the school or the work place a user belong to, it is a quite accurate social class filter.  I`ll make another article about the class system.

Sperm prezervation

You waste millions of them every week. Have you ever considered storing them? You newer know when you`ll need it.

Life is dangerous. An accident, a disease, a genetic disorder or most probably an angry girlfriend !! It is not possible to know when some can loose fertility.

We waste thousands of them on napkins with the confidence that we will produce more and more whenever required! What if not? What if, when the time comes to intentionally spread some of these little buddies to the woman you want to have kid with, you discover that you had lost that skill some time in the past ?

So here comes my next super big incredible innovative project:

Would`t it be comforting to have a facility, like an insurance company or hospital that preserves your sperm or womanish things (does woman not have sperm? hmm..) for you? You`ll always know that even if you loose your sperm producing facilities (I mean balls) you can still have children. Even if you are dead !

Yes ! So I am looking for Venture Capitalist who will send me aprx. 2 million dollars to start my project

ps. I checked, somepeople did that !! Damn! Evertime I have a project, somebody outsmarts me

ps. guess how did this idea came to me?

Diet food delivery service – On siparişli diyet yemek servisi

• A service in which one can order diet food in packages of 1 week-2weeks or 1 month. The point is to make them pay in the first place for the whole diet program they are following so that it would be harder for them to break it since they have already paid. Food is delivered daily (or depends) including everything one has to eat in 1 day. The service is expected to be promoted by doctors since they will be receiving commissions from whatever their patient orders from the service. Here is the Turkish presentation.

” Rejim kararı tok iken verilir, aç iken bozulur ! Öyleyse, tok iken verilen bir kararı uygulatacak bir sistem gerekiyor! “

Kısaca, insanların 1 hafta-15 gün- 1 ay gibi paketler halinde ön siparişli diyet yemekleri alabilecekleri bir servis. Her gun kisinin yemesi gereken (atistirmalar dahil) her sey firma tarafindan tek bir seferde gonderilecek. (calisanlarin is adresine, ogle yemekleri sicak digerleri soguk sekilde gelecek)

• Kilo vermeye karar verildiği an uzun süreli sipariş alarak disipline girmeye yardımcı. (spor salonuna gaza gelip kaydolan ama sonra gitmeyen insanlar icin )
  
• Yemek yapmakla uğraşamadığı için kilo veremediğini söyleyenlere uygun.
• Diyetisyenden diyet menüsü alan ama bunu hazırlamakla uğraşamayan.
• Falan filan gibi insanlar için. Detaylar sunumda var.
• Diyetisyenler icin hastalarini kayit edebilecekleri ve verilen siparis uzerinden komisyon alabilcekleri bir servis.
  

Ayhan Sertel’in  ”bu dönem zamanım var, bir proje bulalım da uğraşayım” demesi üzerine, hali hazırda deneyimi olan yemek sektörüyle ilgili kafa yorarken bulduğumuz bir proje.

Araştırınca yurt dışında çok benzer örneklerinin olduğunu da gördük ki, bu iyi birşey. Başlarda gaza gelmesine rağmen, öğrencilerin giriştikleri projelerin yüzde 99 unda olduğu gibi bir süre sonra gaz kaçınca projeden vazgeçti Oysa ilk kez girişimci bir işe girişecek bir genç iyi fena proje sayılmazdı.

Hareket planı şu şekilde olacaktı

1- Menüleri hazırlayacak ve siteye profesyönel görünüm verecek diyetisyeni bulmak
2- Pilot bölge olarak maslak – etiler de başlamak.
3- Diyetisyenlerle konuşarak sistemi anlatmak ve hastalarının siparişlerini takip edebilecekleri bir sistem kurmak. Bu sayede
- Hastalarının neler sipariş ettiklerini görebilir, onlarla konuşarak menülerde değişiklik yapabilriler.
- Sipariş başına komisyon alırlar.

Projenin sunumu burada. isterseniz bakınıverin.