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This entry is for LinkHay product team
By Tai, June 8, 2010 12:15 pm
I’ve always been keen on explaining the Why of things. This entry is about Why I chose to use the local product LinkHay, a Vietnamese social news service, over
- Relevant community: while Digg clearly has a wider range of influencers, the local community gives me networking opportunities much more relevant to what I’m working on
- Relevant contents: contents relevant to the environment I’m working and living in
- Good product: fast, fairly good usability and a pleasant enough design
- Higher buyer bargaining power: I clearly have more bargaining power in giving feedback, suggestions and requests for a product that has 50,000 users (as of June 2010) compared to 3 million of Digg
LinkHay doesn’t only kill Digg in my online usage, but eats up Twitter as a information gathering tool.
In sum, the ingredients to build a local product to compete with global giants are: a good niché, good product/service and relevance.
More on Facebook privacy and data collecting
By Tai, May 17, 2010 12:19 pm
If Facebook offers more privacy options, it makes people feel safer sharing their information, and they would likely share more. Example: I want to share information A to group X but not group Y; I am comfortable with (or even have incentive to) revealing interest B to group T but not group U.
Facebook can then perform data mining on the information, it’s inside Facebook’s great wall anyway.
Privacy can hinder those who want to collect data on Facebook only through information visible to them. But not to those who are willing to pay Facebook for the data mining.
Facebook benefits both way.
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Facebook current privacy issue made clear
By Tai, May 15, 2010 5:44 pm
| Issue | Brief description | Severity | Why this is severe |
| Bugs | Some privacy options don’t work as they’re supposed to | High | Just when you are so certain you have setup the proper privacy protection, your profile and activities burst and your private information is exposed. |
| Version control | When Facebook upgrades functions or migrates data, certain functions are temporarily reverted back to the old version. One that occurred to my account was Live Feed Options. | Low | You thought you have moved on with newer and more interesting things, but suddenly something reverts back to what it was. |
| Default settings | New information or information in sections that are changed by Facebook are, by default, visible to “Everyone”.e.g. Likes and Interests May 2010 | Medium | It takes users a while to figure out how to set privacy for these sections. |
| Lack of settings | Certain settings are not provided.
e.g. Pages I am a fan of Update: this is no longer public on my profile |
Medium | You can’t put control on the items you want. |
| Changing settings | When Facebook upgrade certain features, privacy options related to that feature are sometimes lost.
e.g. Option to set for newsfeed not to display comment one writes on his/her friend’s content. I used to set it, and couldn’t find it again. |
Medium | I am confused. |
Quick note: Google Buzz
By Tai, March 2, 2010 6:34 pm
Strategy: Google Buzz marks a strategic shift in Google’s social effort after orkut & Google Friend Connect lost to Facebook & fbConnect. Expect more subsequent integration of Google’s products.
Product: Google Buzz is a well-engineered product, but not a well-designed one in terms of product experience
Competition: Google Buzz is a better substitute to Yammer for the corporate environment where I can share with co-workers, but it has yet proved a real harm to Twitter
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