Friday, 16 April 2010

关于针对国外华语人员本地化服务的一点想法

最近看mashable的关于yelp和foursquare的这篇文章,发现本地化服务在未来很有市场,特别是智能手机的份额逐渐增加,本地化服务和手机的结合趋势。

整理下思路,可以做的主要是两块,面对Local市场,和留学华语区人员。

Local市场:
社区比较集中,主要是facebook,某些年轻人用twitter,而且后者传播速度更快。
本地化服务商主要是yelp,发现英国本地的老牌公司yell虽然在Alexa和Compete上的比较都高于前者,不过似乎社区化做得不够好,也没有相应的手机服务。而yelp不仅在iphone和android都有app,更在iphone上适时推出了checkin服务,不能让人担心foursquare的前途啊,就本人来说,如果android出现可以checkin的yelp app,也会转向yelp的。yelp也是和facebook紧密绑定,写了review之后可以auto post到facebook。

相比较国内的大众点评网, 虽然有iphone和android的客户端,不过和国内主流sns社区人人网和开心网等结合不够,更没有checkin服务,所以可以做的市场还很大。

结合以上两点分析,针对横跨中西的国外华语区市场,可以结合大众和yelp的优势,做一个自己的平台。

先整理下常见的英国华语区社区

英华论坛 > 卡迪夫妈妈聚会通知

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Thursday, 15 April 2010

上海世博主题曲抄袭门

昨天在twitter上看到好友更新说上海世博主题曲涉嫌抄袭日本歌手
当时只是收藏,没细看,今天依照链接去看的时候发现已经被删除,搜索之下发现很多国内网站都已经删除此条目。没办法,只能自己动手去Youtube找了,听了之后,不用专家了,只要听过这两首歌,对比之下就知道抄袭无疑。
很遗憾,偌大一个中国,竟然连世博会的主题曲都要去抄袭邻邦小国。很气愤,业内专家,主管部门甚至没有发觉及时制止,闹出这么大笑话。
下面奉上这两段Youtube视频,大家看看。
世博会主题曲“2010 等你来”



岡本真夜 "そのままの君でいて"




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Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Try to find a job in UK

From Anti(@mranti), I knew the "纵横周刊" project. From this project, I knew some awesome Chinese guys who are doing very good job.

One of them is 曾飙, who is contributor to this project(his profile page), focusing on politics of UK. He is now studying psychology as a PHD student in Bristol University. After I read his blog, I found something more about him, he is working on his own project called "英伦在线", which also has a column on 1510. What's more, there are some very useful media links on his blog, such as Spectator, which is really a surpise to me. You know, my knowledge about UK media was just from this post, and Guardian is my favorite before that. And he also has a column about student life on BBC.

From BBC's this website(also called "BBC英伦网"), I found more awesome guys who is studying in UK, such as 李文勇, who successfully got a job from Tesco's "China Graduate Programme"; and Alice, who graduated from LSE, finally got a job in an investment bank, cool!

At last, I want to say learning English is essential, I really learned a lot from Anti's story(also well known as "新新闻人自学手册").

Some useful resource for Visa and Work:
Extending your student visa under the new points based immigration system
CARSV-International Students
UK Council for International Student Affairs
Global Visas

Books
你的降落伞是什么颜色? (online)
布施定律


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