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By Tai, September 8, 2009 6:28 pm

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Why

1. Social Media is about ease of creating and distributing information at low cost. The market always hungers information.
2. Investors do not only absorb information from mainstream media and securities companies’ analysis, they expect information from other investors.
3. Some investors are worth following than others.

Why Vietnam market

1. Investors are able and willing to pay for information.
2. Stock market in Vietnam is an unpenetrated niché which global firms have not entered.
3. The only form of user-generated content in stock websites in Vietnam is forum, which does not support follow and notification features. Users demand more, create a market for it.

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By Tai, September 7, 2009 12:41 pm

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KhaiVQ, the head of Zing division of Vinagame confirmed that the whole market for Social Networks in Vietnam amounted to 1.4 million.

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By Tai, September 5, 2009 7:28 pm

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Yahoo! Meme, the tumblelog service originally launched in Portugese, rolled out its English interface.

This won’t pose a threat to Twitter, but to Tumblr.

Especially in Vietnam, where Yahoo! Messenger still plays the center role of communication on the internet. If Yahoo! integrate Meme and Messenger, definitely the adoption rate for Vietnamese users will be high.

Frankly, Yahoo! Meme can’t be compared with Tumblr in product innovation and features, but network effect plus simplicity give Yahoo! a good starting point.

Let’s hope Yahoo! Meme can stand the load of millions, unlike its crippled elder sister Yahoo! 360.

If you’re interested, follow me at meme.yahoo.com/taitran

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By Tai, September 2, 2009 7:00 pm

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1. To post on the go with push email
2. To post complicated articles with a lot of notations and photos such as this one. For this usage, Posterous = Scribd + WordPress
3. To post professional photo albums, such as one from a professional event. Facebook won’t do since it resizes the images to 604px width. Plus, posting to a blog-like site like Posterous gives more feeling of going-with-the-event than uploading the photos to Picasa, Photobucket
4. To post materials for collaborative team projects. It’s easy enough for my non-savvy teams
5. To post my old swf files

How about you? What do you use Posterous for?

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By Tai, August 29, 2009 11:17 am

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Click here to read part 1.

1. Dilemma: content or relationship?
   1. Since the two are mutually exclusive, it solves the problem with Facebook Lite. Both Facebook Full for content and Facebook Lite for relationship will run simultaneously
2. Content
   1. Attract more users
   2. User retention
   3. Market research
   4. Monetization with partner
3. Competition with Google
   1. Bing search
   2. Real-time search
   3. People search
   4. Event search
4. Competition with Twitter
   1. Facebook Lite
   2. Friendfeed acquisition
   3. Update statuses from Facebook Page to Twitter
   4. Real-time search
5. Payment
   1. More aggressive with virtual gifts and payment option
   2. Make way for micro-payment gateway
6. Public party
   1. “Everyone” privacy option
   2. Facebook API for status and messaging