Technology As Innovator

shop360.vn, thugian360.com, yeah1.com are apologies to domain selection.

Why? Many Vietnamese computers have UniKey installed to type Vietnamese with accents. If the users prefer VNI method, when they type the domains in the address bar:

• shop360 becomes shôp
• thugian360 becomes thugiân
• yeah1 becomes yeah1

yeah1 has a cool notation: it looks like <strong>yeah!</strong>. But with the mistake above, efforts to create a brand are wasted.

Why did Yahoo! 360 make it? Because the number stands alone: 360.yahoo.com

Another issue is with hi5, but since the service is not originally from Vietnam, they’re not to blame.

CyVee

News feed is implemented in CyVee

faceViet

faceViet launched new Beta with an interface different from that of Facebook.

They provide a rich Blogging platform and Music (both audio and video) embedding which are not present in Facebook core.

More reviews will come later soon…

yUp!

yUp! opens Beta, as previously reported.

yobanbe

yobanbe has been transferred to Zing domain yobanbe.zing.vn

Good move for boosting Zing’s Alexa rank.

yeah1

yeah1 grows from a forum to a community for teenagers. They aim at building a magazine and a TV channel for this market.

CafeF

Not a purely social networking site, but it’s worth mentioning that VCCorp’s CafeF has offered WordPress-powered blogging platform that specializes in Stock, and a Q&A channel at blog.cafef.vn

Any other interesting updates?