Technology As Innovator

Private-owned high school Ngoi Sao (translated as Star) was probably the first non-international school in Ho Chi Minh City to provide edu email to their students. Read the story here

First, since the capacity is 7Gb, I have reason to believe that the school’s IT utilizes Gmail service.

Second, providing students with the school email address makes it more professional for communication than a personal mailbox on a free service. The students can use their school email to apply for part-time or free-lance job.

Third, I wonder if there is any difference between email addresses of students and email addresses of the school’s staff?

Last but not least, maybe these students can use their edu email as credentials to join a network on Facebook, instead of the current introduction mechanism.

How to join a network on Facebook

1. Location-based network has no restriction

2. For organization-based network, members must have an email address belonging to their company / organization where they find the verification link from Facebook

3. High schools also have their networks, but since many high school don’t provide school email, joining process is done on introduction basis. Person A requests network N to which s/he belongs. When person B who is a member of that network in real life want to join N, B has to add A as a friend and asks A to confirm that B is actually in N before Facebook adds B to N. Then C shall have to add either A or B and ask for confirmation. This process goes on for subsequent members…

Eventually after aggressively penetrating Vietnam market with a lot of properties such as the colorful Zing portal, the controversial Zing chat and the very successful social-networking site Yobanbe, Zing MP3…, Zing is preparing to roll out Email service.

• 30Mb attachment, 3 times as much as that of Yahoo! Mail
• Server in Vietnam so bottle-neck effect is eliminated.

Through a short interview with Zing team’s Chief Developer, I learned that the following will be supported

• Unlimited storage
• POP3
• Screen capture
• e-cards
• Music embed. This is a smart move to integrate with products together.

When I logged in using Safari, the message “System is busy” pops out. I retried with Firefox and it went well. The message looks like a facade to the incompatibility of many browsers.

My prediction is that many users will utilize this service as a music-sharing channel.

Will you explore this email service?

Previously MediaMax had provided 25Gb of free storage. One constraint was that only files under 10Mb can be downloaded.

However, even with files less than 10Mb, I always had errors with downloading.

Furthermore, the MediaMax uploader was heavy with .NET 2.0 platform and very slow in response to file management functions.

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I have quit using MediaMax for a while. In 19/4/2008, they announced a new line of service: The Linkup. While scanning the site, I could see that it has not been complete.

Meanwhile, all free MediaMax accounts will be removed.

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So I’m facing a major issue: I’m having some Gbs of data which can’t be downloaded, and they’re gonna be removed by 25/4/2008 unless I pay for using the service.

Monetization with advertising is quite okay for me, but upgrade enforcement doesn’t look very nice.

So find me on megaupload, box and mediafire next

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