Ching's Weblog 敬.網.誌 (2004~2005)

ETToday's Bloguide

ETToday新推Bloguide服務. 東森與亞太電信系出同門, 那亞太Q!Ba跟這個更糟糕的blog服務, 到底一個集團可以包容幾次錯呢? --搖頭--

提出三點建議:

Blogger 小聚

昨日約有近三十人參與Blogger小聚 :-)

比起三月份的BoF, 這個小聚似乎就是我原先規劃BoF之初衷. 能夠為Blogger們建立一個open forum, 在輕鬆愉快的氣氛下討論/鬼扯blog大小事, 激發創意靈感, 並進一步認識彼此~~

以下是參與名單. 照片已經upload至flickr.

感謝參與的BSP分享經營概況--
無名小站: Wretch | 養樂多: charlesc, schee, 取中 | Xuite: 怡如, jonesfish | Webs-TV: daniel, sean, 晶菁 | Q! ba: Ann, Kenty

對於各位Blogger功德主百忙之中還要在週五晚上悶在冷氣壞掉的會議室感到萬分抱歉: jedi, rachel, judysmile, albert, tm, alice, 銀色快手, 冰霧之淚, yoshigi, doobop, dearjohn, jimmypu, 凱洛, 工頭堅, jeph, fred, aaron (from nokia-tw)

另外special tks 議題分享: jedi (CC-Taiwan), schee & aaron (moblog), 工頭 (光華商場), fred (bpp).

會議心得待我靜思冥想後補上. 現在要打包去Miami開會, 飛機上要趕簡報.....回程時在舊金山還約了Sixapart的人見面, 探聽阿多仔他們的想法....

Good Husband's Blog

Thanks to the invitation from Mr. Lin, Chairman of GBC, tonight I had a wonderful dinner w/ Reed and Josh, THE key men from www.matchbin.com. We chatted mostly about Internet / Ecommerce stuff in Taiwan, as they are planning to launch a new auction service in Taiwanese market soon. My best wishes to them!

One funny idea I came up with at the dinner, is to ask the gents to post some comments on my blog. By doing so my wife would know (through the public domain--Internet) whom I was with and what I was doing.

Obviously the comments they made shall be positive ones or those comments will be treated as spam :-)

So, "Good Husband's Blog" could be an idea for blog business. Purely male community driven, always a back-up plan available, neutral third party observation for husband's social behavior. There will be "positive comment template" for people who don't know how to write good comment, as paid service. Who's paying it? Of course the person who needs positive comments will be on the list of account receivables.

$1.99 for "John and I were having good times in the poker gathering, wish you were here...", $5.99 for "Bob and I took John's kid to the violin class and we've enjoyed so much". :-P

夏日的Blog傳說

「夏日的Blog傳說」串聯活動

雖然我不是養樂多的會員, 但也支持這好玩但稍稍有點複雜的Blog活動....

Q! ba

Q! ba 網路誌. 又有一個搞不請楚Blog是什麼而試圖想要以Blog力挽狂瀾的ISP...

不過, domain name取的不錯. 從WHOIS record上來看, 去年八月就(才)買了. 拖了將近一年才推出服務.顯然台灣二類電信被政府真的搞的軍心渙散, 連這種好名字到2004年中還可以註冊.
(註: .net.tw註冊者必須要有二類電信執照)

有一些觀察建議--
1. 有些CSS在Firefox下不work.
2. 為何不與亞太3G服務整合? 我知道了, 反正寬頻和3G是不同的BU, 先各做各的, 賺到錢再說.
3. 我發現台灣這些ISP或是Portal推出blog時, 火力都放在模板, RSS, 但卻沒有強調Comment和Trackback對於blogger authority (作品權威性)的描述, 也不重視search服務. 這樣的model, 一年之後整個社群還是一盤散沙, 毫無忠誠度. 這點無名倒是可以K.O.其他業者. 加油!

Recommend Blogpulse

I took a look on www.blogpulse.com today and tried to use its trend analyzer to find out something in the blogosphere.

So, firstly I simply wish to Coke vs. Pepsi. The chart (click to enlarge) shows in the last two months, bloggers have talked about Coke more than talking about Pepsi.

If I wish to how bloggers compare 3G handsets from Nokia or Moto, I need to make a boolean query like <nokia AND ("mobile" or "3g")> and get a chart as below. Obviously Nokia wins more attention, and controls the market temple far better than Moto.

This is really effective for marketers who wish to figure out in real time of what exactly consumers are thinking, in the world of "I"....blogosphere is the world of many "I"s. But at this moment I assume (could be wrong..) that bloggers who post opinion on specific products and services could be most early adopters, providing extreme feelings / experiences which are not fully representable for the mass market. But as the total number of bloggers grows, search engines like Blogpulse and Technorati could be THE powerful market / opinion monitor.

Tomorrow.sg

Tomorrow.sg, an interesting blog initiative in Singapore (via James Seng). As ".sg" domain name opened up second level, tomorrow.sg is a good naming strategy which identifies, I think, that "tomorrow" is more fun and more of the direct voice of the Singapore netizens, whereas "today" has been determined, by the government and the media. In its about page, it says:

We are just a bunch of Singapore bloggers trying to kick Straits Time ass do bo liao (zh-tw 閩南語 無聊) things. Really, this comes from a bloggers dinner we have dunno how long ago, sound like a fun idea and so we just do it....

....and no, we are not political - among us, we have people who don't vote for PAP

Cool! Wish them luck lah! :-P

Nokia 7710 Blog

Nokia promotes 7710 using Blog.

Good Phone, lousy Blog, don't believe it's an official blog for 7710, very unorganized, poor art-work, nothing triggers buying intention....Nokia's Lifeblog is cool, I am planning to switch over when I get the 3G Nokia phone. What went wrong this time?

Guang Hwa Market

The famous Guang Hwa Computer Market (zh-tw 光華商場)in downtown Taipei will become history on Feb. 2006, after the Chinese New Year. Taipei City Government announced that the market which was build under the bridge will be torn down for the subway construction.

Guang Hwa Market (similar to the Akihabara 秋葉原 in Tokyo) is the HOLY LAND for worldwide computer shoppers for over 30 years. It came along with the success of Made-In-Taiwan personal computer products (and accompanied with unofficial MS Windows as the key feature :-P)  There will be a new building to replace the market 1 1/2 year later but it is expected that the "Chi" of the market will not be retained easily....

Kenworker (zh-tw 工頭堅)initiated a "flickr it" project for the market, a common memory for all residents in Taipei~~

(zh-tw)二十多年前中華商場拆除時, 沒能為它留下什麼...伴著我長大的光華商場, 一疊疊的報價單, 一排排永遠最不缺貨的CPU和RAM(問你盒裝或散裝), 一桶桶的光碟, 大補貼, A片, 古董, 舊書, 幾百年才沖依次水的男廁, 殺價會要人命的表情...Let's Flickr it!

BW Online: Blogs Will Change Your Business

Excellent article by BW Online. Read full article and access BW's blog, www.blogspotting.net

Several things to note here (excerpt from the article. BW has not adopted CC license yet I guess..):

....Web we've come to know is mostly a collection of documents. A library. These documents don't change much....Blogs are different. They evolve with every posting, each one tied to a moment. So if a company can track millions of blogs simultaneously, it gets a heat map of what a growing part of the world is thinking about, minute by minute. E-mail has carried on billions of conversations over the past decade. But those exchanges were private. Most blogs are open to the world. As the bloggers read each other, comment, and link from one page to the next, they create a global conversation