GreenCloud printer wins Eco-Award from ANEDD

5th of April, Toulouse, France.

GreenCloud Printer from ObviousIdea  won the eco-award of the 6th student national conference week for the sustainability. this event was organised at ESC Toulouse, in Toulouse.

In the contest category for corporates, the smart printer driver has been choosed by both the students and jury of professionals.
GreenCloud is a green it software to reduce your print page volume, using both technical technics and education with metrics.

Fabrice Meuwissen GreenCloud Printer print less, print smartly eco award

The eco-award is the first award obtained, but also the result of the first contest. It’s probably not the last.

“I m really happy to have been choosen by the students, as they are the primary target of the users, I really hope they will push their future company to have a better and greener approach of their daily printing task”, claims Fabrice Meuwissen, CEO of ObviousIdea.

The results details ( in French )

http://b3d.fr/fr/actualites/resultats-des-concours-des-6emes-anedd-27/

You can watch this Youtube Video of the pitch

And see the slideshow ( French )
http://www.slideshare.net/brainfight/green-cloud-printer-trophes-numriques-3

If you are using the software already, don’t hesitate to post a comment about the gain you have already obtained, or just why you like it. If you don’t use it yet, download it

UPDATE :
Link to the official press release of the winners

ESC Press Release , Winners of eco award

A cool video done by the french TV TLT

Fabrice Meuwissen gagne l’Eco Award (Toulouse) par teletoulouse-wizdeo
Any comments or share to promote the product is a good thing, so don’t hesitate

GreenCloud Printer Testimonials

Here you can see REAL testimonials about our users ! please use the comments feature at the bottom of the page or contact us to add yours !

Tell us why you use it, the results ( saving, feedback ) and suggestions for future version.

Nick Aitkin, Head of Production, Schoolzine said the 23rd of March

The Green cloud interface is quick and easy to use and has cut our printing costs considerably by reducing the amount of paper and ink we use when printing documents from outlook and the

Obviousidea acquires WPSubscribers

WPSubscribers is a popular WordPress plugin for mailing, popup, and messages generation.

ObviousIdea.com is itself a WordPress web site and was using WPSubscribers since a few months. You may see popup to subscribe our newsletter or download newest version of our apps.

In Partnership with Nicolas Pène, from kianti.fr and Jean-Christophe Bisoux from Cyberandorra, Fabrice Meuwissen CEO of ObviousIdea made this acquisition to boost this marketing tool to a new level of excellence.

WPSubscribers is an alternative to Popup domination and HelloBar, well known tools for marketers. The plugin wasn’t available for french market, that’s why the new team starts to promote it with a french press release

Read WPSubscribers communiqué de presse

Nicolas Pène, Jean Christophe Bisoux, Fabrice Meuwissen are brainstorming @Credit photo twitter @jeanne_delec

Web site is only in english, but will shortly available in French.
Updates of the plugin have already started, including optimization of the load speed, bug fixe for Facebook support. New A/B Testing features will be included.

Contact us for any question.

Visit WPSubscribers 

If you have a wordpress powered website, you should definitly discuss with the new team about the opportunities and real users case who boost their revenues by using dynamic dialog to engage the users.

GreenCloud printer, January 2012 stats

GreenCloud printer is the latest ObviousIdea’s app, and we are proud of it. The green pdf software is available to download since the end of December. Therefore, we have at least one full month ( january 2012 ) to make a first list of the statistic data.

GreenCloud printer usage In January 2012 :
‘k’ means you need to multiply by 1000 to get the exact total.

116k pages printed. In average, the printed document has 2,7 pages
15k pages not printed
2k pages sent by email
8k users ran the software 1 time
5,6k users used the software several times in the month.

91% of print jobs are really printed to a physical printer
7% of print jobs are saved as PDF format.

59% of sessions are 1-page-only job, but it represents only 24% of the volume of total paper printed.

The documents of more than 10 pages represents 28% of pages

11% only of sessions are forced in Black&White
10% of sessions use the n-up ( print several pages side by side on the same face of the sheet papers )

Despite nearly 60% of printers reports to be able to do 2-side printing, only 6% of people select this option.

General Data conversion ( things you need to know to convert the data into more “real world” unit)

Average cost of a printed sheet with inkjet printer : 0.12€

A typical paper rearm in real world conversion.

1 Paper Rearm = 500 sheets of paper = 2,5 Kg  = cost in paper 4€ = Cost in ink  60€ = Cost in Tree  6%  = 10L of water to produce it

Source Easytri , LesNumériques

Conclusion

It’s only the first month, but there is already interesting trends. Some options aren’t used a lot ( 2-side, B&W ) despite it is activable in 1 click in the main screen. It means some ergonomic maniac could find some tips to improve this over the time and the next version. The software hasnt been heavely promoted yet, and hasn’t yet promoted by French organization such as ADEME

Continue to discuss about it and see some tips in our forum

Happy New Year 2012, what happened for ObviousIdea in 2011 ?

Happy New year 2012

ObviousIdea’s team and myself wish you all the best for 2012, starting with health, love and inspiration. We want to thank all the users and providers which have helped the company to serve you.

ObviousIdea 2011 data in a glance

•  Created in 2011 as a breakaway from VSO-Software
•  1.5 Millions unique visitors on obviousidea.com ( according Google Analytics )
•  More than 6 Millions of download from our own servers.
• 12500 fans on Facebook.com/obviousidea
•  Ranked top 40000 site on Alexa in December

It’s a special year for ObviousIdea as the company has been created in March 2011. We didn’t start from scratch as we got the ownership of known software like VSO Image Resizer and PhotoOnWeb, and we got a lot of source code we didn’t promote yet.

We have started and released complete new products, like PhotoLikr, GreenCloud pdf printer, QRCode Magic , and more are coming

in 2012 we will continue to create new products and service for desktop and mobile. We will more actively promote the existing service, and try to engage more users and find talent developers. Our challenge is to get feedback from users, to understand what we need to change and improve, to get more ideas about what to implement. Each comment, even the worst insult is important for us, as it shows we need to work again and again.

Once again, happy new year

Fabrice Meuwissen, CEO ObviousIdea

ObviousIdea and ads,offers and bundle – the truth about the ideal business model.

About 2 or 3 times per week, I receive emails of angry people to tell they don’t like to see ads and offers provided as a bundle with some of ObviousIdea software such as Light Image Resizer, Easy Photo Uploader or PhotoOnWeb.

First of all, we thank the persons e,who takes the time to email us to notify about this, and I m grateful for this, it allows us to remind this is a bad practice. But the truth is we are fully aware about the problem it could cause to some users.

A little bit of history, ObviousIdea is a breakaway company from VSO Software, and I succeed to get the ownership of VSO Image Resizer , PhotoOnWeb, ATOM GPS and GPS Stone because they were not profitable compared to Convert X to DVD

Despite the high volume and popularity of software like VSO Image Resizer ( now Light Image Resizer ), sales doesn’t allow to pay developpers to build new attractive products. The historic business model was to get money for this product thru a “pro” license by displaying a nag screen at every start. But the software itself doesnt contain any limit, no expiration after a trial period, no limitation in the number of runs, no limit in output format, no watermark in output images, and no functions desactivated if you are not using the pro license.

What could be the alternative business models to get revenues ? Advertisement on web site pages could be an option, whatever it’s using Google Adsense program,  it could be with premium sponsor like http://www.partypoker.com/ , adult web sites, selected options, but first you need a huge traffic and in the software market it doesn’t fit, as most users will download and use the software without more visits on the publisher’s web site.

I wanted to try the sponsoring with the download which is used by the biggest software company ( see Adobe Acrobat offers, Nero in the past, even Java runtimes used to suggest some different softwares ). the difference with ObviousIdea is still the traffic volume and the access to some premium partners.

If you are teased in this article, I will ask you to continue and share your opinion in our forum ( a good way to be connected with users )

Continue to read on the forum…

Write a Comment

Easy Photo Uploader for Facebook 0.9.6.6 updated

Facebook seems to have updated their api graph again, and you could have this message :

“problem retrieving albums”

you can fix it by downloading the latest version of Easy Photo Uploader for Facebook :

Download  Photo Uploader for Facebook

this update is free of course, and it is highly recommanded to be compatible with Facebook

Don’t forget to follow us on  the new ObviousIdea Facebook fan page ( you can get a free key for our best seller Light Image Resizer )

As usual, we are happy to hear from your, suggesting idea for new features or new program.

We are looking for beta tester using a Google account to upload their pictures ( like Picasa ) for a new software codenamed PhotoLikr – the rating machine , a software to create online gallery where you can challenge your friends to sort your pictures and select the best one.