Digital Marketer in Hong Kong, meshing up power of social media, SEO and analytics

Huh? Facebook becomes number 1 of photo sharing, not even they have thought thru how to monetize the whole thing.
Facebook Becomes Largest Online Photo Storage Site - MarketingVOX

What I learn from the case of facebook is the power of usability.  Myspace and flickr are the absolute first movers but the experience is far from satisfied.  No matter you talk about album, upload method(sophisticated? who cares!!), big storage or tag, these functions never come close to your life.  Facebook has captured the most important thing in photo sharing: multiple way communications.  Be more precise, it enable you comment on other’s photos at ease.  You know all photos that shared inside your circle, you know what other people comment your photo, you can even comment on your friend’s friends photos (this never happened in other community).  Sneak view is interesting enough to encourage users to share over facebook.

Search box in Google SERP? why? It doesn’t make sense to me.  If you try, it will display one more SERP.  It wastes me one more click to see the right thing… who did that?

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I am frequent, heavy user of browser.  Can’t even imagine how many times I logon, login and logout in a day.  Haven’t come back to flock for a long time.  This time, I truly surprise when I see the new slogan - the social web browser.  I think it’s more like a SEO tag than a original slogan.  Nevertheless, I love to check this out.

The whole installation is smoother than I think.  After installed, it landed me to the welcome page.  Now I satisfied.  With the top toolbar area, it provides the capability to contain any stream from Flickr.  On left-handed side of toolbar, it provides all embedded app of most popular social app nowadays, including facebook, digg, twitter..etc.   Only disappointment is without Myspace.  It almost a self-test that see how connected you are in this web2.0 era.  Lov’n it.

I switch now.  It provides me enough reasons to switch:  I can use almost all add-on in firefox 3.0.  I can use sidebar to connect people and keep everyone update.  I can micro-blogging.  I can import all my password from previous password manager (very important!!), I can upload my photos directly from browser, and even share instantly even without leaving the same screen. What can I say about all these?

Yahoo! BOSS unleash the power of search engine to other publishers. No surprise, Yahoo! strides up and wave their flag as the saver to publishers and advertisers again.  Internet boom makes a lot of people a fortune.  Unfortunately, it also create many unfair trade between publishers - agents - agencies - advertisers.  Haven’t mentioned content contributors in between.

Yahoo! APT Login

Yahoo! APT provide a chance for every party to be efficient and transparent.  If client access of true facts of Adplan, you can imagine some parties may not be happy.  It impacts the most to agent and agency for no doubt, however it also a trend that no one could deny.  It’s kinda scary to me (as an agency guy).  But it’s a thrill to me as a digital marketer. Long before these platforms (we should count in Google’s Adplanner) diminish our competitiveness, at least, I have already enjoyed the benefits of getting data from Adplanner.  It’s can’t be easier for to generate traffic estimation, competitor analysis and more.  Man, can’t wait to test on APT later.

I can’t believe it. What’s going on with Technorati?

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