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By TaiTran, March 24, 2009 12:21 pm

1. Facebook Fan Page turns out to be their depot for businesses.

See the URL facebook.com/business/dashboard/

A quick note that interaction with pages is the only thing you can’t put a privacy setting on. This is a rather aggressive move of Facebook.

2. Facebook redesigned its Fan Page to take after Profile layout

• Save the time to learn how to manage Pages for owners
• Save the time to learn how to interact with Pages for users, respectively businesses’ customers
• Increase interactions between users (customers) and Pages (business owners)

3. Facebook redesigned its homepage which gives more space coverage to applications. The more applications monetize, the more Facebook earns commissions.

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By TaiTran, March 24, 2009 11:45 am

My caution toward Google was unnecessary and over-acting.

Google has increased their involvement in Vietnam online market by investing in the infrastructure and services. I consider load time is a quality of service.

Yahoo! is extending their presence by marketing and education efforts.

Friendster is crawling in through localization and services.

Meanwhile, Microsoft hasn’t shown a visible sign of interest in monetizing the Vietnam online market. It’s understandable as they’re putting efforts on the competition against Google and Mozilla.

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By TaiTran, March 24, 2009 11:32 am

Through muds and sweats, Zing mp3, Yeah1 TV and Sannhac ^(*) prevail…

…which are not clones.

Even if they are actual clones, no one would bother remembering the original product.

Good lesson.

^(*) @Web2Vietnam mentioned sannhac to me in February H3.

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By TaiTran, March 24, 2009 11:25 am

Twitter-like services have 2 usages: status update and micro-blogging.

1. As I clearly stated in my previous slide, it’s safe to drop the term “micro-blog” for discussions in Vietnamese context. That leaves status updates which is a highly desirable feature among Vietnamese users.

2. I gave a wow to LinkHay’s blast collection feature. My impression that it was a Twitter clones killer.

3. A closer glance into Ola Me reveals that it is more than a Twitter clone

• ASAO, the company behind Ola, has the capability to build alliance(s) that offer SMS incentive to users
• Which means values to users are tangible and can be quantified
• And the differentiation is in terms of quality of Service, more than that of Product

4. Two channels to keep track of Twitter usage growth in Vietnam: the Facebook group ‘Twitter Community in Vietnam’ and the Twitter account @twitvietnam.

In terms of (relatively) measurable quality, check out the Grader’s list.