[C6.] COMMERCIALIZING WEB 2.0 In a sign of increased interest in online marketing, two corporations have signed sponsorship agreements with a Web site that facilitates offline meetings.
Sleep also facilitates offline memory processing, resulting in superior recall the next day.
A tool called oCOINS (offline COINS) facilitates offline data entry for fieldwork; it features the necessary synchronization and security features (e.g., differential role and permission setting).
Online companies like Craigslist, Match.com, Meetup and Monster.com facilitate offline activity.
A new group of technology start-ups is building online platforms to facilitate offline transactions in this new informal economy: renting out your spare bedroom (Airbnb ) or Volkswagen (RelayRides ); hawking yourself as a handyman (TaskRabbit ) or personal chef (Kitchit ); selling custom-made furniture (Etsy ); or transcribing someone's interview tapes (oDesk ).
In addition to driving sales directly, though, mobile is facilitating offline sales and product pick-ups.
Jenna Wortham, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and rapper JUNGLEPUSSY presented their idea for a pharmaceutical to facilitate offline person-to-person connections in the real world.
Follett says that the platform's mission is essentially to turn anyone into an entrepreneur, while at the same time, facilitating offline meetups, interactions, and hopefully encouraging people to live smarter, happier lives.
In addition to Weibo Payment, Sina Weibo has also added new features that not only facilitate offline payments, but also turn the microblogging service into a CRM platform that allows merchants to manage marketing campaigns and accept payments.
As of today, the expectation of true dissociation between one's offline and online identity and the anonymity intrinsic to that dissociation is a common element in most online communities (online communities do not include tools used to facilitate offline socialization, such as Facebook and LinkedIn).
Today, that wider platform has five different areas of operations: e-commerce, digital entertainment, online marketing, data analytics and "O2O" (that is, tech and apps that facilitate offline-to-online transactions, be they financial or otherwise).
