Web Business Models and how Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, yUp! and CyVee are doing

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A response to Anh Hung’s question on success possibility of CyVee.



Tai Tran's Lab: Technology As Innovator

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    WordPress Publishing Tips - 3

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    WordPress badges

    target=”_blank”

    …because you don’t want people to leave your page when they click a link.

    People don’t want to leave a page when they haven’t finished reading either.

    Describe your link and explicitly say “Click here”

    Quality Example Analysis
    Bad URL Ambiguous. Reader doesn’t know what the URL contains
    Not so bad Tai Tran’s Lab Offers the title of the link, but is still general
    Good Tai Tran’s Lab where you can find information on business and technology Offers title and description of the link
    Better Click here to Tai Tran’s Lab to read information on business and technology Clear instruction of what readers should do: Click
    Very bad This link is super cooool. It’s the best! Click here everyone! Ambiguous & childish

    Throw your RSS subscription options out

    • For tech-savvy readers, RSS icon is all they need. Show off this in an easy-to-spot place
    • For non tech-savvy readers, offer email subscription at the end of an entry. Since around 85% traffic comes from search / social media, readers normally jump right in one post of yours and you want to keep them by offering them the option when they finish their reading.
    • To many who are not familiar with RSS subscription, the word “Subscribe” sounds like they’re being charged to receive service. Make it clear to them that subscription is free.

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    Google Chrome - the Web browser saga continues

    Category: How Products benefit users 4 Comments »

    (to-be-read in reverse-chronicle order)

    3 September 2008

    Positive review: SaigonNezumi, Google Chrome - What a browser should be -> Simple

    A nice coverage: Chip 2.0, Review after the first day launching Chrome

    Not-so-positive review: Google Chrome, it’s not worth the Buzz

    Why Google Chrome is not only a cost-saving basket

    On Finance’s side: GOOG’s Chrome is all about Wall Street.

    TaiTran’s comment: Chrome is only only a cost-saving basket, but a full house for wealth for Google.

    1. OK, the money that Google is saving as depicted in Zdnet’s article is the kitchen.
    2. Chrome knows all your web activities. Google will sell smarter ads and thus their revenue from ads will increase. This is the bedroom.
    3. Chrome is the O/S for the web
      Recall: what’s the 2 most successful properties of Microsoft? Windows and Office
      Has Google got Office? Absolutely. Now Chrome is Google’s Operating System.
      This is the living room.
    4. Chrome being open-source will attract the communities (many from Mozilla) who will work for Chrome (more accurately, GOOG) for credit rather than wages. This is the bath room.
    5. Chrome will be the web platform on which many applications and SaaS will base on: free dependency is never a free lunch. This is the dining room.
    6. Chrome being very light will integrate deeply with Android for penetrating into Mobile market. This is the garden.

    In short, all about making money in the long run, given that Chrome will succeed. How successful do you think Chrome will be?

    Testing Chrome

    1. Is faster than FF3
    2. Failed to import bookmarks from my FF3
    3. Offers more free space by pushing the tab bar to the very top
    4. Doesn’t destroy the layout when zoom in. This is both good and bad.
    5. Doesn’t display XML correctly
    6. Supports built-in 48 languages
    7. Connects to Google services at full speed
    8. Uses same web standard with Firefox
    9. Provides context-sensitive status bar
    10. No RSS auto-detectio
    11. No support for Quick Time
    12. AdBlock will be highly political
    13. Smart start page: recently visited sites
    14. Flickr “Web upload” does not work
    15. The address bar is a search bar
    16. Facebook and Zoho Javascript errors

    Chrome About Pages

    1 September 2008

    Google’s official announcement: we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book

    Tad was skeptical with 7 reasons why Chrome is a bad idea

    Technologizer raised 10 questions

    Agglom scanned the catoon

    Google Blogoscoped threw the first bomb

    Google Chrome Artwork




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