Posted: January 5th, 2010 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Food for thoughts, Tools, Web 2.0 | Tags: Business, Entrepreneurs, Food for thoughts, Google, Interesting, Internet, Web | No Comments »
The smartphone industry is moving to follow the same path of the personal computer (PC). Both industries have a lot of manufacturers. For example, Dell for computers and Motorola for smartphone. PC and smartphones have operating systems. For PC, the major OS is Windows and for smartphone, there are more than one major operating system. There are iPhone OS, Blackberry and Android (Google). It seems that there is a platform war among the manufacturers and Google. Imagine that a company can implement a system that is used by most of the cellphone manufacturers. This company will be able to control the smartphone industry, just as Microsoft controls the PC industry.
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Google launched its official cellphone with Android operating system today. It is entering the smartphone market by providing a free OS to cellphone and aligning with manufacturer to provide a better user experience through better applications and superior hardware.
Google may reach a dominance in the smartphone market if it can have more manufacturers using its OS. However, manufacturers are not going to rely 100% in one software company. At the same time, most industry players do not have core competency in software development, thus they may rely on Google Android this time.
Meanwhile, iPhone is growing and Blackberry is responding to the new threats in the market. Nokia and other cellphones company are losing ground. It is an interesting time for this fast changing industry.
My 2 cents.
Posted: December 29th, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Startups, Web 2.0 | Tags: Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Interesting, Market, Productivity, Startups, Tools | 1 Comment »
Spudaroo.com
Spudaroo.com is a website that allows people to pay 3rd parties to create website documents, business plan, blog content, slide presentation, and even resume for lazy people. This is a Canadian startup and I wonder how effective is to outsource this type of work to others. I can’t imagine someone who doesn’t know me to write up my resume. Even worse, it is not a great idea to ask someone else to write a business plan for you if that other person doesn’t know the business or the industry at all.
Lastly, I think the name is really hard to spell and search on Google. Though, it is creative.
Posted: December 27th, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Entrepreneurship, Food for thoughts, Tools, Web 2.0 | Tags: Startups, Tools, Useful, Web | No Comments »
It is so hard to come up with a nice name for startup or new blog when most of the basic names are all registered. Then, most people come up with strange or too creative names to their website which are hard to search. But imagine that you can search for domain names with prefix and suffix easily and Nomaine can provide that type of domain name search. I will use this tool and some others (Google Insight for Search) for domain name registration.
http://nomaine.com/
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Food for thoughts, Fun, Startups, Tools, Web 2.0 | Tags: Books, Internet, Productivity, Startups, Useful, Web | No Comments »
Bookhu is a book review website that shows if a book is read more by men or women. It is a food for thought website. It shows if I have more male or female preference. In my searches, most of my books related to entrepreneurship, venture capital and languages are read more by men. However, my books related to culture are read more by women.
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Food for thoughts, Framework, Shopping, Web 2.0 | Tags: AdWords, Business, Food for thoughts, Google, Interesting, Internet, Money, Productivity, Useful | No Comments »
The Science of Managing Search Ads
There is an amazing article about Google AdWords from the New York Times.
It illustrates the management of an online campaign in AdWords for a company called Tiny Prints. This company advertisers on Google and gets a substantial part of its revenue and customers from AdWords. The company has stopped advertising for a day, trying to decrease its acquisition cost, but it ended up losing customers and allowing competitors to grow. Its management team decided to advertise again and it started to manage its campaign more closely, balancing the ads spending, competitors’ bids and profits.
The article gives an accurate view of how advertisers live with AdWords. To have success in that platform, you need to have quick decision, money and knowledge to use this powerful tool.
Read more here: The Science of Managing Search Ads
