First 10000 users of i2istudy since the moment of the test launch of our service on the eve of the New Year. Yes, it is a reason to rejoice, but testing has revealed massive problems in operation of the service
IT PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS PROJECTS IN ENGLISH WITHIN A MILE FROM THE MOSCOW KREMLIN12/12/2012 The TechCrunch conference organized by the eponymous technology blog took place in Moscow on December 9-10. It is one of the most popular world-wide festival forums, where venture investors and developers of IT business projects can meet. In San Francisco where I take part in several startups as an entrepreneur and a coauthor, the TechCrunch conference is one of the best-known events. About 40 Russian companies were present at TechCrunch Moscow 2012 and presented new IT developments. This is done in two ways. The first way is the “Elevator Pitch” presentation, which is traditional for TechCrunch. The background of this concept was the task of telling about your project to an investor who you meet in an elevator, i.e., you should tell very briefly about all the investor may be interested in. In the conference format, it is a demonstration of a brief, three-minute long presentation on a big screen.
Time bank (time-banking) is the idea of gamification in our educational project i2istudy. www.i2istudy.com is a free multilingual web service for studying and teaching foreign languages online. The main idea of the service is based on the principle of a “Time bank”: I teach. I am taught. For free. For every minute that I teach my mother tongue I am rewarded with a minute that I can use to learn a foreign language. This allows using the system free of charge. i2istudy is the first specialized time-bank. The time bank operates with a special internal currency - minutes, which are part of gamification, motivating people to teach and to learn foreign languages. We hope that the idea is attractive. In my opinion using "time" as the currency is very promising, attractive and understandable to users.
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AuthorIlya Osipov - Entrepreneur, expert on freemium products, author of articles about virality, retention and gamification. |