Tag Archive for 'Social Networking'

Social Media Rush….

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ron
on April 1, 2008
in Social Media
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Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later (Social Media Will Change Your Business, BusinessWeek Online)

“Blogs werethe heart of the story in 2005. But they’re just one of the tools millions can use today to lift their voices in electronic communities and create their own media. Social networks like Facebook and MySpace, video sites like YouTube, mini blog engines like Twitter—they’ve all emerged in the last three years, and all are nourished by users. “

A good primer for business executives that are just starting out in social media initiatives. We’re just standing at the beginning of the social media revolution. In the next three to five years the entire media world will be turned upside down and advertising, communications/PR, market research, etc will be performed in ways never seen before.

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What’s on my mind these days?

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admin
on November 15, 2007
in Global Strategy and Ranting and Raving
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Planet Earth as seen from the moon!

  • What the next big thing will be?
  • What I was doing exactly a year ago?
  • What will happen if China stumbles? Alright, Daniel Altman was so kind to answer my question here?
  • Why “innocent drinks” are so little and overpriced but so damn tasty?
  • Why there is still no usage of cameras and other technologies in football matches to rectify the referee decision?
  • Why greater flexibility is advised for logos and branding? ooh wait Wolff Olins comes with a solution here and here! Love it!
  • Why Wordpress doesn’t let me wrap text around an image easily?
  • Why I didn’t come up with the idea for Facebook?
  • On the Facebook note, would it be better for a company/charity to have a profile on Facebook, or a group? I think my preference now goes out to a profile. Makes it easier to follow what they do, since it’ll show up on the feeds on my Facebook homepage. I still haven’t figured out how (if) to get the changes on my groups on my RSS feeds.
  • Why brand management or advertisement agencies always have the coolest and most innovate website designs? Please check out the new Wolff Olins site. Lovely!
  • How International Herald Tribune (IHT) can always pull it off to be higher ahead of the curve with respect to usability of its webpage? I was quite some time I visited the webpage but I think the current layout is quite 2.0! E.g. you can listen to each news article, write a comment, and even translate the text. Furthermore, the layout is very comfortable, dynamic, and interactive, and still clean!
  • How cool this new project (the World Beach Project) at the V&A is.
  • How interesting it is that Ebay is copying Kiva’s idea at their new website Microplace (source: this article in Businessweek).
  • Where my favourite (blue) t-shirt has gone?
  • Where I will work and live in three and ten years from now? Asia? Europe?
  • Where I will go for my next holiday? USA, Canada, Brazil?
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OMG Chinese Facebook Copycat

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admin
on November 4, 2007
in Emerging Markets and Social Media
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Facebook China - Xiaonei

Yes, that was my reaction when I saw this webpage. The image above is just a Facebook clone, Xiaonei.com. It looks like the portal was started around 2005 (less than two years after Facebook was born), and since then, it has grown exponentially to cover around 2,000 university campuses in Greater China. They have just recently started to pan out their services to cover high schools and companies.

Facebook is about to enter the Chinese market will they be too late as Chinese fancy local stuff?

The future will tell.Thanks to a friend (since my Chinese is not sufficient) I am enrolled at Xiaonei.com! Now I am a proud student of Nanjing University. Add me! :)

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My Flickr Favourites

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admin
on April 11, 2006
in Ranting and Raving
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Flickr Favourites
There are several webpages that have become part of my daily routine one of them is Flickr. However I always have to control myself cause browsing on Flickr can extend itself to extremely time consuming. BusinessWeek reported yesterday in this article that social-networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr amongst others are finally starting to make money. My top favourites are LinkedIn and Flickr, although I haven?t tried many others.

On Flickr I always admire the people that are way more artistic as I am when taking photos and stuff. Sometimes I wish that my eyes were observing the world in a more artistic way. However at the other hand each person has its own competences and capabilities, therefore we have to be proud of what us is given and make the most of our own talents.

If you have some time, please check out my Flickr favourites and start explorer the ubiquitous world of photos!

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My Flickr Favourites

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on November 5, 2005
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Flickr Favourites

Have you ever checked out my favourite Flickr pictures taken by others? Well, to give you an advice maybe you should give it a try and start explore. Since I not really have the professional equipment and theoretical knowledge about photography I can use Flickr as an unique source and wonderful place to learn and get inspired. Hopefully someday I am able to see and capture such beautiful moments as included in my favourites’ collection!

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