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2007/4/23

American Idol vs Next Webstar

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@ 07:31 PM (14 months, 19 days ago)
TV show American Idol just came to Vietnam with local version Vietnam Idol. If it had arrived earlier than 2005, it should been a huge success. Some American Idol clones had been on air since then. It is worse now as social media is much more important to youngsters than TV. Next Webstar could be the right answer:

With the explosion of online video in 2006, Next Webstar was born to provide an outlet for anyone to share their talent with the world, without all the clutter of other video sites. The power of the internet has allowed the PEOPLE to define entertainment and has weakened traditional "Hollywood" methods of becoming a celebrity. Innovative sites like YouTube have proven that everyday people can become celebrities if they have that certain something that makes us want to watch. There is no longer the need for years of auditions before you can get your big break. Online video has truly enabled us to choose America's funniest home videos and the real American idols.

Beside Next Webstar, anyone can also enter contest with SingShot, an online singing community that lets you choose from thousands of songs, record your own versions, and share them with the world for free. SingShot was acquired by Electronic Arts Inc. early this year.

Do you want to be the Next Web Startup Star?

2007/4/4

How Big Guy Check Local Partners?

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@ 01:07 AM (15 months, 8 days ago)
I just came across a NOKIA press release on DVB-H mobile TV service launch in Vietnam. I was taken aback by this:”Vietnam Television Technology Investment and Development Company (VTC) is the leading and sole state-owned enterprise under Vietnam Television”. Actually VTC had been brought to Ministry of Post and Telematics since early 2005. Competition between Vietnam Television and VTC was heating up in World Cup 2006 summer. How Nokia manage its communications?

2007/3/10

Social Media vs Traditional TV

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@ 11:23 PM (16 months, 2 days ago)
Stock market has been focal point of Vietnamese people early 2007. Amid the heating fortune quest, Vietnam Television VTV launched InfoTV channel on its pay TV platforms (both cable and satellite) in March 2007. Concept originally as a shopping channel but turned focus to financial news especially stock market related information. How it make content: get archived data on Internet, shooting at exchange floors, interview some investors, finance experts... and collect articles from newspapers as update to its viewers. If Vietnam were ten year back, the channel had been a rock star then. But unlike Thailand in 1996-1997 with poor Internet infrastructure, Vietnamese broadband users can access financial data from local and international stock markets as easy as InfoTV editors. Stock news was updated in near real time in forums. Finance and investment knowledge was shared and tracked back instantly. The ones who watch InfoTV next day are lagged behind the market move as web active users had made decision earlier. The old thinking InfoTV editors are not aware that media shift is happening allover the world. Giant BBC is monitoring the trend with UK regulator Ofcom support. So if you are connected YOU are the ones.