VCCorp and expert content composition in Vietnam
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VCCorp is aggressively penetrating the “expert” content composition in Vietnam with their new products: CafeF, bnok, gocnhin and thenao
1. CafeF
A group-blog service on Finance and Stock developed basing on WordPress
2. bnok.vn
A group-blog service that hosts multiple professional and interest groups.
Currently, bnok is limited:
- Registration done manually
- Each blog is associated with only one group
- Maximum 3 blogs are associated with 1 account
bnok supports import from these platforms
- Blogger
- Blogware
- DotClear
- RSS
- GreyMatter
- WordPress
- LiveJournal
- Movable Type / Typepad
From this list, it is observable that their development team utilize plugins for WordPress. To penetrate the Vietnamese market, they should have started building a tool to import Yahoo! 360 blog now.
3. gocnhin
A techmeme clone
4. thenao
A Vietnamese wiki platform. I believe that with their financial base, VCCorp will introduce incentives for contributors in the competition with Wikipedia Vietnamese.
The name “thế nào” gives me the impression of “how stuffs work”.
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VCCorp seems like the only player on this field. Will expert content have any potentials for monetization?
Apart from traditional monetization by advertising on web, selling analysis and contents to consumers is also a good idea.
What do you think about these products?
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Hmm, I don’t think CafeF is a blog-group service, and Thenao still reminds a question :) They must have a great algorithm, analyzing every queries.
I think LinkHay has a great potential, the concept and the tech. It’s going to bloom soon.
Bnok’s ideas are surprised, but I’m not sure ppl who directly implement Bnok understand its whole conccept. And there is some prob about its orientation (…). Anyway, it’s just my own opinion, kind of common sense.
@Chip
1. I also put my bet in LinkHay. The only reason I didn’t mention this service was because this post was intended for a niche in Vietnam Web 2.0 market: Expert Composition.
2. Group blogging like bnok is not new, but it is first in Vietnam. As you can see, relationships flourish through conversations on many Vietnamese tech-savvy weblogs, micro-blogs and social networks. Therefore, the need for group blog is real.
One important note I put on this model is monetization. If they (VCCorp) can attract the real experts in, they will have the potential to make a hit in the market by benefiting from news and analysis.
Great to see what’s next…
I’m sorry, I didn’t see the word “expert” :|, and “GocNhin” and “Thenao” made me confused ‘cos I don’t think GocNhin is for experts only, and “Thenao” is still a question.
What I can tell now, VCCorp seems to be better at entertainment rather than something too tough. And with the way they spend, it’s my pleasure to see how they can bring their money back.