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By: +8* | Plus Eight Star | Mobile & Internet Strategy Consulting in China, Japan and South Korea

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:30:59 +0000

[...] We mentioned previously that we had an “A-Ah” moment when after a conference in Sydney last year with 300+ in attendance, we had several thousand viewers of our presentation, some of which led to… more presentations (we were invited to GSP East in Washington then to San Francisco thanks to it) but also many contacts, leads and several research & strategy projects. In addition to having more time to share insights and interesting stories in conferences than in blog posts, conferences are still a very good value proposition in terms of branding and visibility. Someone wrote that he was now preparing presentations so that they could be posted online. You’ll see below that this is not a bad idea as the “online reach” is way higher than “offline reach”. [...]

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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:48:56 +0000

[...] This leads to a very interesting question for social networks: If Q Coins have been so successful as an online social currency for transactions among community members in China, then why haven’t the western SNS sites such as Facebook, Friendster, etc. created their own currencies which their own members could use worldwide? And why should there not be a secondary market for trading these virtual currencies among themselves, and then with real currencies? [...]

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[...] +8* | Plus Eight Star wrote an interesting post today on ReadWriteWeb Interview: Facebook vs Asia’s Top Social NetworksHere’s a quick excerptWe don’t think Facebook is failing in Asia (the interview might sound like we do). … A | QQ and Cyworld make most of their money from digital goods – from background music to personalization, avatars or casual games…. [...]

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[...] That being said, FB has the potential to turn into a great cash machine, maybe earlier than most expect. … Notably, QQ had 523 million USD in revenues in 2007 and 224 million operating profit, with only 13% coming from advertising!…We reproduce the interview, which comes as a great complement to the presentation (remember this was a 20 minutes speech during which we were actually saying something o n top of PPT slides). … Japan is the worlds #2 online advertising market (FBs model) and is still quite empty yet for business/alumni real-name networking…. … were created there, mainly because the US do not have the lead anymore in Internet infrastructure, so local talent managed to come up with great new ideas. … Second, most non-US markets have not developed a very rich online advertising market, and had no choice but to find alternative revenue models…. source: ReadWriteWeb Interview: Facebook vs Asia’s Top Social Networks, +8* | Plus Eight Star [...]

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[...] +8* | Plus Eight Star wrote an interesting post today on ReadWriteWeb Interview: Facebook vs Asia’s Top Social NetworksHere’s a quick excerptWe reproduce the interview, which comes as a great complement to the presentation (remember this was a 20 minutes speech during which we were actually saying something o n top of PPT slides). … A | QQ and Cyworld make most of their money from digital goods – from background music to personalization, avatars or casual games…. [...]