I was inspired…..
I was inspired by 2 things during last Saturday.
1. I saw a western guy carrying 2 backpacks, each of them is like 70+10 little type. At that moment I told myself that may be he really need such big bags to go around. Soon after him, I saw a lady with a small bag and a baby pram, then followed by their kid. Wow…. so cool to go backpacking with your 5 year old kid right?
2. Watch Kong Fu Panda, very funny, and inspired by this phrase from Master Wu Gui:
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that is why it’s called the present
Again….. reminded me to enjoy my life while I can.
Web 2.0 Business Models (2)
Types of innovation
Technological Innovation
- Remixing old new ways (mountain bikes) or inventing new technologies
Business innovation
- Supply chains (Walmart), processes (Toyota), business models (Dell), brands (Nike)
Product/service innovation
- Products (Skype), marketing (Apple), services (Salesforce.com)
Design innovation
- Look & fell (Apple), emotion & experience design (Idean)
Cultural innovation
- Leadership (Linux), organization (Google), transparency (Seismic)
Eric Schmidt - Google CEO
Virtually everything new seems to come from the 20 percent of their time engineers here are expected to spend on side projects. They certainly don’t come out of the management team.
Web 2.0 Business Models (1)
Just read this presentation not long ago, some of the items are worth to be referred back again and again, I’ll put some of them to share with you guys as well. I may put them into different posts, and I’ll just cite the author here :
Contact : teemu@dicole.com
Expansion strategies
- Create an API (Application Programming Interface)
- Distribute source as Open Source (eg. Sugar CRM)
- Create developer ecosystem (eg. Amazon)
- Create browser plugins (eg. del.icio.us)
- Create plugins for other platforms (eg. blogging)
- Create embeddable widgets (eg. Meebo)
- Advertise on Google Adsense (eg. everyone)
- Utilize SEO (search engine optimization)
Example of revenue
- 40% premium memberships
- 42% Google Adsense
- 10% selling one ad directly to advertiser
- 5% text link ads
- 3% referal money from amazon.com and linkshare
Minimal self funded startup costs, focus on a specific community, value created to the user base through a clever combination of services driving repeat visits and premium subscription, viral growth, advertising revenues and eventually(hopefully juicy) sponsorships.
This week’s purchase
Finally my 40 inch Samsung Series 5 came. Worked with the contractors to mount that on. I chose a lower position for the TV, suit my height, and which is the same height as previous TV as well. 1080 is suitable for normal TV program viewing also, satisfied. Still not able to test my HDMI DVD player as I can’t find DVD with good quality to test lol, how sad.
The waterfall that I designed not function as intended yet, the water does flow beautifully, but I think water will leak into cement and become lesser over time. I should have make a plastic container to hold the water instead of cement one. Still think of a way to rescue it without heavy modification. Else I will have to hack the wall, redo the piping and flow again….arg…..
Nice plastic roof for middle section of the living room, it give the good lighting, but it can be abit hot sometimes because of the direct sun light.
Adsense tips and techniques
Nah…. Not like those make money blog or get rich blog that always got lots of tips to share, I am just an ordinary webmaster that would like to try different ideas in order to maximise the income.
My latest attempt is here :
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Isn’t it a perfect combination? A nice and useful ads that blended into the design, not only can achieve good CTR, it can complement our content as well. Got the Adsense ads?
The very first BBQ
As part of the celebration for moving to new house, I decided to have a small BBQ at home. This is to mark a milestone for all busy weekends since moving in as well. Over the weekends, we got our main door with auto gate fixed, we got our sofa, dining table, tv console, coffee table, bed frame, and wardrobe from Rustica, phone line partially fixed, etc. The other 2 major outstanding stuff are the oven(i got lots of things to blog about it), and fish pond.
We got this BBQ pit almost 10 years ago, and just unboxed and fixed it not long ago. It was a free give for our 29 inch Phillips TV.
Some of the foods that we prepared : cocktail hotdog with cheese, sotong ball, sotong, kampung fish, prawn, chicken wing, etc. Not a lot of variety but is enough for 5 of us. We got dessert, lots of beer, coke, and red wine. The red wine was Coyam from Chile, pretty nice 
Anyway, today I wanted to buy standing fans, one for dining area(to share with study room), another for second floor’s living room. I can’t find the Mistra standing fan, so just get 1 Panosonic standing fan first, coz can’t stand the heat while eating. While I was looking for the Mistra fan from other shops, I ended up bought a TV back. This was kind of unplanned, but I always wanted to buy that model, just either now or later. Arranged my 40 inch Samsung Series 5 to be fixed next week
I’ll be happier if I never see Series 6 before, anyway, I should be grateful.
Finally I’ve moved
After months of waiting, months of preparation, months of hard work, finally I’ve moved to the new house. There are so much to talk about, but not at this moment, coz I’m very sleepy now. Just wanted to post some pics that I took since the early days. Will be blogging more about that .
Landing page load time will affect your Adwords soon
A few months ago, google announced that landing page load time will soon be incorporated into Quality Score.
In short:
Why are we doing this?
Two reasons: first, users have the best experience when they don’t have to wait a long time for landing pages to load. Interstitial pages, multiple redirects, excessively slow servers, and other things that can increase load times only keep users from getting what they want: information about your business. Second, users are more likely to abandon landing pages that load slowly, which can hurt your conversion rate.
And it means:
After the one month review period, this load time factor will be incorporated into your keywords’ Quality Scores. Keywords with landing pages that load very slowly may get lower Quality Scores (and thus higher minimum bids). Conversely, keywords with landing pages that load very quickly may get higher Quality Scores and lower minimum bids.
Basically the the shorter loading time, the better position and lower minimum bids you might get. May be is a good news for web hosting companies as well?? LOL
I’m wondering will this affect Adsense users eventually. Say if my site has shorter loading time, isn’t it give Adwords users a better platform to show their ads as well? Should I be rewarded as well?
ad:tech Singapore 2008
Register here to get access to exhibit hall and a set of keynotes
ad:tech - 26/27 June 2008
ad:tech brings together brand advertisers, traditional & interactive agencies, portals, on-line publishers and technology providers. With the rapid growth in technology and use of digital media, ad:tech offers an unrivalled opportunity to discover new practices and technologies, and to learn how many of the great names have utilized the net, built brand recognition and immersed themselves in digital technologies. Companies are realizing the meaning of ROI on ad spend like never before.
Exhibiting companies
- .FOX Networks
- 88DB.com
- Acronym Media
- AD2ONE GROUP
- adma
- Admax Network
- Aktiv Digital
- Charged Media
- ColorZip Singapore
- dgm Asia Pac
- Easy Ad
- Eyeblaster
- Friendster
- Google, Inc.
- Hong Kong Association of Interactive Marketing Limited (HK)
- i-POP
- Innity Sdn Bhd
- Internet Industry Association of Singapore (IIAS)
- Interwoven
- m.Net Corporation
- Marketing Institute of Singapore (MIS)
- Nielsen
- NTT Resonant Inc
- Omniture
- Premiere Global Services
- Recruit.net
- RedHat Media
- SEMPO
- Singapore Press Holdings Limited
- Sivrin Technologies
- StrongMail Systems
- Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd
- WebDNA
- XM Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
- Yahoo! SEA
Venue
- Suntec City Convention Center
See you there !!!