Marcus told us that while Zong is currently being used on a limited number of apps to buy currency at the moment, the mobile payments system will be rolled out to a greater user base "soon".
Through integration with major media companies and publishing platforms, coComment increases the visibility and exposure of comments to a greater user base of active commenters, bloggers and the public – creating more interesting user experiences, driving users to the commenting sites and linking conversations with a community.
"I don't think a traditional media company would dovetail with Yahoo's vision, but eBay would give them a great way to monetize their large user base," said Paul Noglows, an analyst with Chase H.& Q.
"Its success is guaranteed - there's a great user-base already out there, but more importantly the Raspberry Pi has a level of name recognition that nobody else has been able to match yet," said Chris Green, principal technology analyst at the Davies Murphy Group Europe consultancy.
The greater the installed user base (Apple reached one billion registered devices earlier this year), the more purchases will come through Apple's software ecosystem.
Without a dramatic turnaround in advertising income, there are only two strategies – neither mutually exclusive – for the continued existence of newspapers, in digital or any other form: Having established the paywall model, the goal, in a race against time, is to extend it to a greater and greater part of the user base.
Today, we're seeing the most user-facing of these efforts as Snapchat debuts a new Lens Explorer section which will give the user base greater access to scouting out new face filters beyond what's sitting in the oft-refreshed Lens Carousel on the app's central camera screen.
I worry that great swaths of Facebook's user base, especially in emerging markets and countries where the service bloomed later, are missing out on one of the great joys of the social web — the instant, collective conversation surrounding the day's news, tragedies, and triumphs.
Probably not helping the service was its failure to ever open to the public; even today it's still an invite only service, great for initial buzz but not a great way to build up a user base over the long term, unless of course you're Google.
Grindr isn't "all about" gay activism, but that doesn't mean the company can't leverage its influence and user base for a greater good.
