With their activities on social networks, users are creating a social capital that they increasingly want to turn into tangible returns. How can this be done, and what is at stakes? Social networks also reshape profoundly the world of media, how can editors and journalists survive in the digital world, what are the new monetization models? The open and transparent movement is also impacting other domains, and we will discuss the open bank, an open source project that wants to bring more transparency to the secret world of finance.