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Yahoo! 360 exodus: where’s the new land?
Facebook will continue to gain momentum in Vietnam, with an increasing rate of adoption. This SNS will be a stand-alone platform that serves Vietnamese first need of socializing on the Net and should not be included as an alternative platform to Yahoo 360. Facebook does extremely well in connecting “already known” friends, and in terms of social graph, I would say this can be moved pretty fast via email invitation.
Email is not dead.
Last week we had a quite interesting debate over the death of email, which was ignited by @dlead‘s translation of the “9 reasons why email is dead“. IMO, a permanent email address (personal, not corporate) is extremely important. Let’s recall the fall of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Suddenly the once mighty and well-connected Wall [...]
Vietnamese search engines: late comers that don’t win
Rick and I have gone to great lengths to discuss local search engines such as Xalo.vn. I guess it’s time we shared what we think about SEs. Before it’s too late. Linguistics It’s easy to realize that in order to fight the big boys like Yahoo and Google in Vietnam, you have to speak the [...]
