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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 [...]

Monday, July 28th, 2008

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 :
CEO Teemu Arina / Dicole Oy
Contact : teemu@dicole.com
Expansion strategies

Create [...]

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

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 :

Isn’t it a perfect combination? A nice and useful ads that blended into [...]

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

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 [...]

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

SEO for chinese content

Going to try something new again….. I’m not sure which search engine to target as of now, but will just do a general optimisation for the Chinese site. Some of the keywords that I’m interested to target are :
马来西亚, 婚纱照, 结婚, 婚宴场所, 婚礼, 摄影服务, 注册, 结婚仪式, 婚纱店
Some of the basic procedures that I normally [...]

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Chinese forum for Malaysia Brides

Finally we have launched a Chinese BBS for our Malaysia Wedding Portal.
After months or years of observation, I find that lot of of Malaysian Chinese still prefer to communicate in Chinese language, for example to participate in a Chinese forum. In order to capture this segment of users and visitors, it will be wise to [...]

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Made For Adsense Sites

Just found all these spam links from MYB, these are so called Made For Adsense, MFA, sites. Pretty much self explanatory.
MFA 1
MFA 2
MFA 3
MFA 3
More and more people think can earn easy money from Adsense, more and more such sub quality sites get created. I guess after awhile when they realize there is no easy [...]

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Malaysia Webmaster | Malaysia Blogger

How to differentiate between webmasters and bloggers? If you browse around, a lot of “high profile” webmasters are actually bloggers. Sounds strange? Or we should define what is a blogger, what is a blog?
From Wiki:
A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of [...]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

MYB Icon Search 07 Event Night

I was one of the judges, together with Miss Hypertune, Miss Tourism Malaysia, and Mr Manhunt.

Me and the adorable girls. Pardon my look please, I’m not that ugly in real person LOL.

The Men of the event. fred, khai, and Nic.

I suppose to blog about the event, but after so many weeks i still not ready [...]

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Online earnings hurt by USD exchange rate

Thanks to the rate cut, US is creating another bubble again….. poor USD get lowered again…..
My income stream comes from Ringgit Malaysia, USD, and British Pound, in average, USD still bring in the most at the moment. With lousy exchange rate, i am seeing less and less in my monthly statement.
From the available slip that [...]

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Yahoo vs Google Search Traffic

Sample site : Malaysian Babes Forum
I always complaint why I optimise MYB for google search engine, but it get so much more traffic from yahoo, i can’t understand where went wrong, but…… now i’m asking myself, what the sh*t is yahoo doing? I’ve not done any modification for months (lazy me), I just can’t understand [...]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

With and Without Search Engine Optimization

Sample site : Malaysia Wedding Portal

Majority of the new traffic now is from Search Engines, which is very important, especially when you want to monetarize your forum. A lot of publishers will say adsense can’t survive in forum, that is because their “first time visitor” is too little.
When I join MalaysiaBrides.com, the new visitor percentage [...]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007