Entries tagged as portal
Monday, May 26. 2008
Sex and Violence to Draw Traffic to the Website of the Vietnam Study Promotion Society
Dantri.com.vn is one of the top 4 news
portals in Vietnam with sensational news coverage style. Celebrity
gossip and trivia could draw attention of teens and office workers
quickly. A recent article in automotive section could scare old
generation people with some high rated violent photos that you can see
in horror films. A Vietnamese version of Pamela Anderson played the key
role attacking the patient that parents should tell their kids to stay
away from those kinds of websites. Ironically the website is belong to
the Vietnam Study Promotion Society (newspapers and magazines must be
managed under State owned agencies or Government licensed
associations/societies). Actually the website is run by a VC backed
company trying to drive readers to its new portal. Using tabloid
tactics could be a good choice for digital content companies but much
abuse could destroy their image fast.
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Thursday, October 25. 2007
Web Portal Racing - Is it Worth The Effort?
Timnhanh - a local Yahoo version - could
be seen the first portal in Vietnam. After two years in operation with
some good VC money, I still did not see a way out of its business model.
With the current burn rate, it is so hard to balance the revenue source.
If it was set up for M&A the chance to find out a potential buyer is
too low since it is an old model of the last dotcom era. Timnhanh's
search engine is from Yahoo and Yahoo
Vietnam is live for nearly one year and it is far from top websites
in Vietnam.
Big boy FPT launched the portal Gate.vn to aggregate its online properties including top online news Vnexpress networks, MMOG sites and photo sharing service. Gate search feature is being powered by Yahoo also. For the aggregation services users rather choose personal start page such as iGoogle or Netvibes that can personalised their news sources and web apps or widgets.
I am surprized that the leading online game operator Vinagame, after making bulk of money from Swordman Online MMOG, joins the race with its portal Zing. Current features: news aggregation from various local sources, music search, link to its blog service Yobanbe. Zing Chat, an IM is being tested privately who could use it since the incumbent Yahoo IM with fully Vietnamese support will be put in use very soon.
In my opinion the winner is the one who can build online homes for its users/members. Users wake up in the morning and log in their "home" like Facebook members in the US, Cyworld fans in Korea, QQ users in China. In their "home" they can read first news from chosen sources, communicate with friends and colleagues, buy goods, look for jobs, dates... Building web portal is a top down approach, building "home" is bottom up, which way do you make choice?
Big boy FPT launched the portal Gate.vn to aggregate its online properties including top online news Vnexpress networks, MMOG sites and photo sharing service. Gate search feature is being powered by Yahoo also. For the aggregation services users rather choose personal start page such as iGoogle or Netvibes that can personalised their news sources and web apps or widgets.
I am surprized that the leading online game operator Vinagame, after making bulk of money from Swordman Online MMOG, joins the race with its portal Zing. Current features: news aggregation from various local sources, music search, link to its blog service Yobanbe. Zing Chat, an IM is being tested privately who could use it since the incumbent Yahoo IM with fully Vietnamese support will be put in use very soon.
In my opinion the winner is the one who can build online homes for its users/members. Users wake up in the morning and log in their "home" like Facebook members in the US, Cyworld fans in Korea, QQ users in China. In their "home" they can read first news from chosen sources, communicate with friends and colleagues, buy goods, look for jobs, dates... Building web portal is a top down approach, building "home" is bottom up, which way do you make choice?
Monday, July 16. 2007
iShare - Indian Model Can Work in Vietnam
The leading India
portal Rediff have launched iShare, a
multimedia sharing site = YouTube + Flickr + Last.fm. This combination
model seems fit into the large portal's expansion roadmap. Some online
service companies in Vietnam are busy building big data centers and why
not an option for the iShare equivalent. Instead of single service of
sharing only video/music/photo, they can utilize the DC for the all in
one services. FPT
Online is quietly testing the file sharing Xiklo and rumors on
Vinagame's music sharing/social networking services arise, who could be
the next to make the iShare.portal.vn
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