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Geolocation technologies for Web2.0

[Translate] In this post. I’ll talk about technology that excites the startups and wet-the-pants of incumbents. Most big boys love to remain in status quo(especially in parts of Asia). New technologies are always seen as lowering the barrier-to-entry, and this enables startups to challenge the golliath. Here goes a new technology that might spawn some...

Indonesia Observed: The Mobile Internet Phenomena

[Translate] Everytime I travel to Indonesia, I am delighted by the fervour of mobile browsing. So what makes Indonesians and Mobile browsing tick? 1. Mobile browsing is the perfect Substitution As a native of Malaysia, Indonesia’s neighbouring country. I always wonder what is it that Indonesians have that we don’t, as a matter a fact....

Presentation: Word of Mouth Landscape in China

[Translate] A presentation about Internet Word of Mouth Landscape of China. Q3 WP Topic one-The Chinese IWOM Landscape_EN View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: china iwom)

Google Zeitgeist 2008 – Around Asia

[Translate] I am picking up a post written in Malaysiacrunch about a short summary Google Zeitgeist list for 2008. Malaysiacrunch concluded that: Malaysia – Politics-focused news portal occupied no.1, 3, 5 and 9, thanks to the political tsunami in Mac 2008. On another hand, Facebook is becoming very popular, but it is still behind Friendster...

ActiveX Regulations in South Korea (revisited)

[Translate] ActiveX control is widely used by Internet Explorer to load applications or components in Windows. It’s a useful piece of control, but is not without issues. In fact, ActiveX is known for security problems. Despite security short-comings, ActiveX had been welcomed into the community and flourished. Surprisingly, more so in banks where security is...

Numbers on China's Internet Growth

[Translate] Another year of amazing growth for China’s Internet. Today CNNIC, China’s Internet Governing Body, released the 23rd China Internet Development Statistics Report. Let’s take a look at the numbers. 1. 298 million is the number of Internet Users 2. 162 million people blog 3. 118 million people surfs the net using mobile I think...

Battle Royale 2009: AliBaba and Baidu

[Translate] This battle comes in different names. Alipay versus Baidubao, TaoBao against Youa, search giant against C2C king. It’s been brewing big time. Alibaba’s TaoBao (in)famouly blocked Baidu crawlers, sighting purchased ranking as being unfair. Ironically, this happen when Baidu enters the C2C market by launching Youa with Baifubao as the payment mechanism. So now,...