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2007/4/26

Can Yobanbe Survive?

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@ 02:14 AM (14 months, 16 days ago)
The leading Vietnamese game operator Vinagame launched a Yahoo360 clone yesterday. Yobanbe is planned to open beta April 23rd but delay to 25th due to fixing technical backend. Still some problems with forgot password and sign-up as account management shared with gamers data warehouse. Yobanbe even lures Yahoo360 users with import instructions as hot news. The reasons that Yobanbe could face hard future:
  • The brand name is not cool.
  • Launch date: just before long Holiday, Vietnamese people will take 6 days off until May 2nd and traveling is the top choice. Cyworld Vietnam was opened 10 days earlier.
  • Associate with hardcore gamers: Yahoo360 users are female dominated while Vinagame gamers are almost males.
  • Revenue model: what is revenue source for Yobanbe while Vinagame is used to collecting gamers' subscription fees.

2007/3/24

Yahoo and Ebay who moves first?

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@ 01:31 AM (15 months, 19 days ago)
Yahoo! Singapore Pte. Ltd. has Vietnamese version recently, some sections are being developing, News was being sourced from largest circulation newspaper Tuoi Tre. Ebay does not want to be late in this potential market, Ebay Vietnamese version are live now. It seems that Ebay is betting on Vietnam after losing to Yahoo! in other Asian markets. In order to beat Ebay in Vietnam, Yahoo should find out local partnership as it did in other Asian markets. Who are the targets? Will IDG Vietnam bring its Chodientu to the table?

2007/3/7

The First Vietnamese YouTube Clone

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@ 09:21 PM (16 months, 6 days ago)
Following many China firms cloning YouTube recently, Vega Technology Group launched Clip in February 2007 as the first Vietnamese YouTube clone. The user interface is similar to almost other YouTube clones. Color scheme is exactly the same with Chinese YoQoo. Clip streaming speed is better than YouTube at Clip site (access from Vietnam), but no significant different at users' blog as most Vietnamese bloggers use non Vietnamese blog services (Yahoo 360, Opera, Wordpress, Blogger and others descending order). There is no revenue model at Clip now and no social networking partner yet. We would see some MySpace, Facebook clones soon so that Clip could team up.