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Moving Home
[update: done done done. you are now seeing the latest server]
I’ve been suffering from a local server company, called netfinity. It goes down frequently, slow response, almost 22 sec access from states…etc. I’ve had enough.
image credit: ljhooker.com.au
Please be patience when I move to a new home and I promise that this blog will get better, in both speed and content. One quick note, I am changing the direction of this blog.
What are the Benefits of Social Media Marketing?
Posted by River Ho in Featured, Special, Web Business on January 3rd, 2009
There’s no argument about the trend about marketing over social networks (SNS). This research shows all the benefits of social marketing. It’s an interesting survey, especially 51% of them saying about the low cost benefit. Well, the only argument here about the costing is: how do you measure by?
Facebook Becomes Largest Online Photo Storage Site – MarketingVOX
Posted by River Ho in Featured, Social Marketing, Special, Web Business on October 19th, 2008
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
Posted by River Ho in Search Engines, Special on October 17th, 2008
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?
Comparing Search Engine Performance: How does Cuil Stack Up
Posted by River Ho in Search Engines, Special, Web Business on July 30th, 2008
Rand did a great job on comparing Cuil the search engine and rest in market. In layout section, I am interested in Cuil using the three columns and giving out more space to contain more result. First, this is out of box thinking, but I doubt how effective when they come to optimize and arrange more related topics in one page. Check this out!
