ЃА From Minitel into the Internet, building electronic marketplaces

5TH INTERNATIONAL W3 CONFERENCE
MAY 6-10, 1996, PARIS

From Minitel into the Internet,
Building electronic marketplaces

Yves PARFAIT

MINITEL EXPERIENCE

The figures :

14 Millions Users ; 6,5 Millions terminals
22 000 services on 6000 servers
7 Billions FF revenues (half for the Information Providers)

Electronic directories

The facts :

Simple yet efficient terminal
Counting and billing bundled with telephone
Asymetrical and connection oriented scheme

Open platform

NEW ENVIRONNMENT

New technologies :

Text and alphagraphics ===> Multimedia
Client/server

IP and connectionless world

New business model :

Customer centric : flexibility in pricing , personalization
Asymetrical ===> Symetrical communication scheme

Domestic ===> International

LEVERAGING THE MINITEL HERITAGE

Modernizing Minitel terminal

Make it faster , closer to telephone set for immediate information services

Develop new services including smart cards for telepayment: MAGIS

Moving Minitel services towards the PC world and the Internet

Build a new electronicmarket place capitalizing on minitel experience:
know-how in building interactive applications
know-how in billing small amounts

know-how in directories

WANADOO

An open and fully Internet plattform

Check it at http://www.wanadoo.fr

aimed to

Make communication, information and transaction easy to access for PC user

Make Electronic Commerce easy to operate for Goods and Information Providers

SIMPLICITY

Simple metaphor

Multimedia but not too much

On-line guides and assistance

DIRECTORIES

A 10-year experience in "natural language" queries with the Minitel electronic directories

Implementation of a directory for french speaking web sites using keywords, URLs and natural language queries: YOUPI !

Extension to other languages and technologies (cartography, intelligent agents)

BILLING AND PAYMENT

Allow a great variety of pricing formulas for Information providers

Allow a great variety of payment methods for both Users and Providers, independantly from proprietary protocols

Provide a solution for small amounts billing

Provide a gateway to existing Minitel services

NEXT GENERATION

Broadband: ADSL, Cable , Satellite and ATM

Agents and Objects

Java, "keeping context dialog"
CORBA architecture

Pyramide project using Telescript technology

5TH INTERNATIONAL W3 CONFERENCE
MAY 6-10, 1996, PARIS

From Minitel into the Internet,
Building electronic marketplaces

MINITEL EXPERIENCE

The figures :

The facts :

NEW ENVIRONNMENT

New technologies :

New business model :

LEVERAGING THE MINITEL HERITAGE

Modernizing Minitel terminal

Moving Minitel services towards the PC world and the Internet

WANADOO

An open and fully Internet plattform

aimed to

SIMPLICITY

Simple metaphor

Multimedia but not too much

On-line guides and assistance

DIRECTORIES

A 10-year experience in "natural language" queries with the Minitel electronic directories

Implementation of a directory for french speaking web sites using keywords, URLs and natural language queries: YOUPI !

Extension to other languages and technologies (cartography, intelligent agents)

BILLING AND PAYMENT

Allow a great variety of pricing formulas for Information providers

Allow a great variety of payment methods for both Users and Providers, independantly from proprietary protocols

Provide a solution for small amounts billing

Provide a gateway to existing Minitel services

NEXT GENERATION

Broadband: ADSL, Cable , Satellite and ATM

Agents and Objects

ISSUES TO BE SOLVED

Let the Internet become a mass market

Let the user win the race of innovation, technology and standardization

Let the society build this new world

5TH INTERNATIONAL W3 CONFERENCE MAY 6-10, 1996, PARIS

From Minitel into the Internet, Building electronic marketplaces

MINITEL EXPERIENCE

The figures :

The facts :

NEW ENVIRONNMENT

New technologies :

New business model :

LEVERAGING THE MINITEL HERITAGE

Modernizing Minitel terminal

Moving Minitel services towards the PC world and the Internet

WANADOO

An open and fully Internet plattform

aimed to

SIMPLICITY

Simple metaphor

Multimedia but not too much

On-line guides and assistance

DIRECTORIES

A 10-year experience in "natural language" queries with the Minitel electronic directories

Implementation of a directory for french speaking web sites using keywords, URLs and natural language queries: YOUPI !

Extension to other languages and technologies (cartography, intelligent agents)

BILLING AND PAYMENT

Allow a great variety of pricing formulas for Information providers

Allow a great variety of payment methods for both Users and Providers, independantly from proprietary protocols

Provide a solution for small amounts billing

Provide a gateway to existing Minitel services

NEXT GENERATION

Broadband: ADSL, Cable , Satellite and ATM

Agents and Objects

ISSUES TO BE SOLVED

Let the Internet become a mass market

Let the user win the race of innovation, technology and standardization

Let the society build this new world

5TH INTERNATIONAL W3 CONFERENCE
MAY 6-10, 1996, PARIS

From Minitel into the Internet,
Building electronic marketplaces