Keith Teare
Keith Teare
Keith Teareis a British technology entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded several IT companies since the early 1980s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 August 1954
becomes center mobile replace users web
As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone.
Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.
hard
It's very hard to cheaply build anything significant in a multi-platform, mobile world.
address brand declare messages money permission send using whatever
We've patented the idea... of using the address book as a place to declare that you like a brand. By so doing, the brand has now got your permission to send you personal messages - it could be money off offers, coupons, promotions, just information, whatever is appropriate.
clear twitter understood
The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention for a mobile-centric world with no clear strategy to make revenue.
far great less mobile pay phone publishing sponsored stories tool users
Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.
advise companies hundred taking
Would I advise early-stage companies against taking debt? One hundred percent yes.
designed group share sharing singular solely users
Path is a well designed app with a singular purpose. For users who solely want to share with a small group of friends, and share everything with the whole group, it is very effective. And of course, it is wonderfully designed. Just.me isn't better or worse, it's just very different. Just.me is a messaging application, not just a sharing app.
challenged continue flock platforms primary provider services users
As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.
becoming primary rapidly socially
Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.
created endless good images number serve social video
Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.
failure
I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.
moving iphone pages
As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.
firsts funding increase
The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.