Archive for the ‘Web2.0’ Category
Publishing PDF online – Scribd
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Social Media with Email Marketing
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Was looking through some online marketing magazine, when I found an interesting article that advocated the mixing of social media with email marketing strategy… Hmm.. maybe there is something I can leverage on?
http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2009/04/23/social-email-campaigns-to-increase-nearly-400-in-2009/
I find it quite interesting, as recently, I was exposed to CNI business school who were willing to pay 1-2k for a solitary blast to eHoteliers database. I guess.. this shows the importance of a targeted group of clientele. I think Social Media.. might be the next easy thing to get a targeted group of clientele. Provide something useful.. and sure.. people should flock there.
Was thinking of Cinema timings and locations. Why not build a site that allows people to very easily locate the nearest cinema showing their favorite shows? Currently, the navigation is pretty unfriendly… On top of it, maybe we can leverage on Facebook for dissemination of the app. The app can also let people review the movies really easily.. and surely.. we would much prefer to read our friends’ reviews over those posted by some crap people. 
Anyway, started getting my intern to GeoCode the cinemas in Singapore….
E-Coupons
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
During my university days, I actually tried to do a start up with 2 other friends I got to know in a technopreneurship class. Well, those were the times when the dot com boom was still raving… and everybody had a start-up idea somehow. We too had ours. We wanted to do a discount site. A site which will agglomerate all the coupon vouchers of Singapore. NTUC, Carrefour, etc… always take up half page ads in newspaper to lure customers in with special buys…. but what happens if say.. the customer lost their copy of the newspaper? Wouldn’t it be nice if they can just go to a e-coupon site to print out the coupon and claim the discounts? Wouldn’t it be nice… if we can sign up at a site to say what kind of products we frequently purchase and be notified of it once it comes on sale?
E-coupons are coming alive once again in the States… maybe its time to start something similar in Singapore.
Publishing UML – Web 2.0 Way
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Giffy… allows you to publish your UML diagrams in a Web 2.0 way. I find it amazingly cool. Check out the diagram below. All thanks to Giffy!
RSS Feed Web Widgets
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009As more and more people start having their own personal web publishing platform – their blog, web widgets have also started to rise in popularity. Why? This very blog (at least for now), has 2 web widgets:
- Meebo (Chatting Platform)
- Gymniee (Weight Charting Widget)
Dynamic content is very important for websites nowadays. Visitors like to see new content once in a while… or minimally… search engines like to see fresh content once in a while. In fact, just to sort of SEO my company website, I have included a dynamic portion at the footer to showcase the latest blog entries of our company blog (which was also started recently for more or less the same reasons…)
I was thinking.. wouldn’t it be much easier if we can just put RSS feeds on the website for dynamic content generation? i.e. when you go to my SEO page, I will have a small widget box to stream out content from RSS feeds consumed from SEOChat. I believe such widgets are already available. However, problem is… I am not able to choose the feeds I want to show on my website. It is all too automatic. What happens if it just shows some trashy article that I do not want to be associated with?
But it will be even nicer say.. if I have a way to bookmark it directly into my website’s rss feed. Heck.. why not just write something that can interface with your delicious account so that it can retrieve all the articles that have been bookmarked with certain keywords… and expose it as a rss feed on your website?
It will be so convenient. I read a cool Web2.0 concept.. tag it on delicious.. and all my web visitors will be able to see it on my website.
