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Google goes mobile in numbers

Posted by River Ho in Web Business on November 9th, 2007

I think it goes in right direction, however, it can’t translate to right mirror to Google business growth. Don’t be too optimistic about it. Here, in Hong Kong, I can’t see much improvement on localization. Neither did China and Taiwan. Key to ride mobile is on local search, however they are not in good shape right now.read more | digg story

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Hong Kong Restaurant Directory

Posted by River Ho in Web Business on October 7th, 2007

Here’s the latest release of Hong Kong directory.?? We see that the critical factor of success is on content and map accurancy, ability of lining up many major source of each region and also speed of access.

Source: Hitwise Hong Kong Newsletter – September 2007

Spotlight on Dominant Local Restaurant Directory

Openrice (www.openrice.com), an online food and restaurant guide featuring restaurant and recipe reviews, has maintained the number 1 rank in the Food and Beverage – Restaurants and Catering industry for a consecutive 11 weeks ending 15/09/07, among Hong Kong Internet users.

Openrice accounted for 35.50% of the market share of visits in the Restaurants and Catering industry for the week ending 15/09/07, which represents a market share increase of 13.7% over the 11 week period it held the number 1 rank.
Yahoo! HK Where (hk.where.yahoo.com), an online channel which also offers reviews and a directory of Hong Kong restaurants, was OpenRice’s nearest competitor accounting for 16.54% of market share in the Restaurants and Catering industry as of the week ending 15/09/07. Furthermore, Yahoo! HK Where was the only website to have outranked Openrice over the past 12 months, achieving the number 1 rank and 29.77% of market share during week ending 31/03/07.
Other websites to feature among the top 5 in the Restaurants and Catering industry as of the week ending 15/09/07 include McDonalds Worldwide (www.mcdonalds.com), KFC (www.kfc.com) and Pizza Hut Hong Kong (www.pizzahut.com.hk).

Food and Beverage – Restaurants and Catering ?All sites ?Weekly rankings for the week ending 22/09/2007

Rank

Name

Domain

Market Share

1.

Openrice

www.openrice.com

36.03%

2.

Yahoo! HK Where

hk.where.yahoo.com

19.18%

3.

McDonalds Worldwide

www.mcdonalds.com

7.26%

4.

KFC

www.kfc.com

6.67%

5.

Pizza Hut Hong Kong

www.pizzahut.com.hk

5.33%

6.

Pacific Coffee

www.pacificcoffee.com

5.15%

7.

Pizza Hut Hong Kong Online Ordering

order.pizzahut.com.hk

4.51%

8.

Maxims

www.maxims.com.hk

3.53%

9.

KFC Hong Kong

www.kfchk.com

2.98%

10.

McDonald’s Hong Kong

www.mcdonalds.com.hk

2.35%
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Lifestyle in foucs, some names have never hit to my mind

Posted by River Ho in Web Business on October 6th, 2007


Hitwise Hong Kong Newsletter – July 2007
Making Friends and Money in Hong Kong
Compared to other markets measured by Hitwise, Hong Kong Internet users have the highest volume of visits to Net Communities & Chat (HK 16.6% compared to US 11.9%); and Stocks & Shares (HK 3.1% compared to US 0.65%). At the same time, online retail is still considered a major challenge by businesses.This chart shows the interplay between the three industries, where you’ll note that visits to Stocks and Shares have leveled and overtaken Retail.As Hong Kong is highly urbanised, ‘outdoor’ shopping is considered a popular social activity; secondly it is considered amongst key players in Hong Kong’s online industry that the issue of security in conducting personal transactions on retail websites still needs to be settled in the mind of Hong Kong consumers.As businesses look to overcome these hurdles, advertisers wishing to promote their wares for purchase either online or offline look at Financial Research websites; or alternatively Sports – Fantasy and Sports – Betting websites which offer a recreational form of ‘trading’, another popular activity by Hong Kong users. The table below shows the top 10 websites within the Business and Finance – Business Information industry. In addition, leveraging Social Networking websites in the marketing mix, or having an element of consumer generated content on retail websites, may in fact, provide a compelling reference point for Hong Kong consumers.??
Business and Finance – Business Information ?All sites ?Monthly rankings for the month of June, 2007 ?Ranks by ‘Visits’
????Rank Name Domain Market Share
1. Yahoo! Hong Kong Finance hk.finance.yahoo.com 56.77%
2. Yahoo! Finance finance.yahoo.com 11.73%
3. Quamnet.com www.quamnet.com 2.75%
4. Sina Hong Kong Finance finance.sina.com.hk 2.09%
5. Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com 1.91%
6. Yahoo! Finance China cn.finance.yahoo.com 1.67%
7. Tai Fook Securities Group www.taifook.com 1.67%
8. Money 18 money18.on.cc 1.65%
9. Sina China Finance finance.sina.com.cn 1.50%
10. CNN Money money.cnn.com 1.00%

Fast Mover

Toys R US – www.toysrus.com.hk
Hitwise Hong Kong reports that the website for Toys R US Hong Kong has experienced a market share increase of over 416% amongst websites visited by Hong Kong Internet users in the Shopping & Classifieds industry over the two week period ending 14/07/07. The data shows that Yahoo! Hong Kong (www.yahoo.com.hk) was the most visited website before www.toysrus.com.hk with 19.78% of traffic coming from there, which is an increase of 14.07% from the previous week.

Category Spotlight

Lifestyle – Fashion

This industry includes websites that spotlight the latest fashion trends in clothing, or particular labels. The data below is based on All sites ?罈 Weekly rankings for the week ending 14/07/2007 ?罈 Ranks by ‘Visits’.
Lifestyle – Fashion ?All sites ?Weekly rankings for the week ending 14/07/2007
????Rank Website
1. Yoka
2. Louis Vuitton
3. Glam
4. Style.com
5. Sina Hong Kong – Lifestyle
6. New Monday
7. Abercrombie & Fitch
8. UNIQLO Mix
9. Victoria’s Secret
10. UNIQLO Hong Kong
Local Competitiveness Index
18.1%
of traffic to this category was directed at domestic sites.
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Top 10 Upstream Industries
1. Computers and Internet 47.29%
2. Lifestyle 16.09%
3. Search Engines 15.17%
4. Net Communities and Chat 14.33%
5. Shopping and Classifieds 12.07%
6. Entertainment 11.45%
7. Fashion 7.71%
8. Email Services 7.17%
9. News and Media 6.66%
10. Apparel and Accessories 6.49%
Top 10 Downstream Industries
1. Computers and Internet 37.84%
2. Lifestyle 17.33%
3. Shopping and Classifieds 15.33%
4. Net Communities and Chat 13.35%
5. Entertainment 11.50%
6. Fashion 9.13%
7. Apparel and Accessories 8.35%
8. Search Engines 7.44%
9. Portal Frontpages 6.77%
10. News and Media 5.79%
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Foodfaring Googlemap

Posted by River Ho in Web Business on September 12th, 2007

map_v1.pngThanks for High-Watt programmer’s help Our first mesh-up web 2.0 site has it’s soul.?? Of course, it’s raw, but yet showing me a lot of confidence.?? Stay tuned!??

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Nice Business Toolkit for every startups

Posted by River Ho in Web Business on February 4th, 2006

http://www.toolkit.cch.com/

This is a very nice toolkit for business management

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