online advertising
Is the demise of Vietnamese online newspapers nearing?
A new advertising law being drafted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Vietnam and circulated among different parties for feedback is putting an end to online newspapers.
According to VnExpress, the draft, once ratified, will forbid all the online newspapers, including VnExpress itself, to display ads on their front page. What does that [...]
No API for Vietnamese Web Services?
I came back from Google DevFest with a big question in mind. I care less about how all the programming is done, but more about how the end-products can end up with a revenue stream.
I turned to Tai Tran and asked him about API for web services in Vietnam, for example, social networks such as [...]
Can Vietnamese Web 2.0 start-ups make money?
Web 2.0 start-ups are surely hot, with a slew of new-comers springing up every now and then, caravat.com, yume.vn just to name a few of the latest. But how will they go about making money? Running these stuffs is not cheap, and I think the launch event yume.vn was not cheap either, even though it [...]
