Posts tagged: Google

Scalability: scaling past their own products

By , December 26, 2012 5:24 am

Gathering visitors, users, pageviews is not enough anymore. Leading internet firms have scaled past their own products to wider ecosystems.

Product Scale instrument How to make money
Google AdSense which can be embedded into any website. Already
Facebook The Like button which can be embedded into any website.
eBay also integrated Facebook Want and Own buttons.
Monetizing user data
Amazon Display products that are not listed on amazon.com itself First, be the place where people start when they go shopping online

Android mobile messaging apps brief review

By , September 8, 2012 6:49 am

Icon Name Pros Cons
WhatsApp
  • Best for messaging
  • Quick
  • Stable
  • Auto-attempt to resend failed messages
  • Best interface
  • Good for sending photos
N/A
Viber Best for free call
  • Extremely heavy & sluggish
  • Some users find it hard to setup
  • Retrieve the whole phone contact list by default and fail to handle thousands of records
LINE Stickers
  • Frequent message failure
  • Slow compared to WhatsApp
  • Calls are more unstable than Viber
  • Photo sending is sluggish
WeChat
  • Hold to talk
  • Best for audio messages
Unsolicited messages from Chinese users
Zalo Flow & interface very similar to WeChat thus lower learning curve Spam friend requests from teenage strangers with incomprehensible language
Wala N/A Boring interface
TalkBox Hold to talk Old & boring interface
KakaoTalk N/A Uninspiring interface

What product(s) are you using? How can I add you on that service?

What happened to AOL?

By , August 18, 2012 8:01 pm

iPhone vs. Android phones vs. Blackberry | iPad vs. Android tablets

By , March 24, 2012 10:01 am

[Troll] Apple makes you (more) stupid

By , December 28, 2011 1:04 pm

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