Comments on: Zing Chat prepares to sword Yahoo Chat

By: HarryD

HarryD — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:21:06 +0000

I would like to warn Lam that my blog is for a well grown up readership that deserve you kid’s respect, so be tamed when you write down something and if not please keep shy away from my blog. This blog might be more suitable for kinda old people with lower IQ and mathematic skills than you, and you well deserve to be recognized somewhere better.

BTW, if you are a little bit more tamed, you would certainly see the blinking difference between the Chinese population or the “Chinese Internet population” addressed in the article.

By: Lai Tung Lam

Lai Tung Lam — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:35:15 +0000

“Tencent is worth $8b, so why Vietnam with 17 million Internet users, a tenth of China’s Interent population, should not be worth north of $800m?”
I think before you do any analysis of this kind you’d better check your mathematic skills.
How come to you 17 millions = a tenth of 1 billion (1000 millions) ?
I give you a WOAAAH for that.
Youngsters in VN are becoming more ‘internationalised’. That means a considerable portion of them are ready to get rid of Yahoo and start to use MSN, Windows Live Messenger .. Zing Chat also allows conversation between MSN and Yahoo, so, why not give it a try ?
I’m sure Vietnamese teenagers are always open to the new, the improved ones. Yahoo are getting a bit off the way (when i was in VN the Yahoo servers ‘dies’ quite regularly, and Yahoo 9 can’t even connect to them).
About the music, I agree with you that to some people it seems unnecessary. But, according to you, while some Vietnamese can’t even surf the web to get news, how can they get access to those music sites ? Isn’t it better to listen to music directly in the chat windows ?
Last of all, I want to tell you that your sarcastic skills really deserve sarcasm. Next time do a better research and I might drop off to see how far you will have progressed on the skills. =B

By: Truyen

Truyen — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:42:23 +0000

Interesting. Of course beating Yahoo! is possible with something like Google version 2.

Something must not be right here. QQ to Chinese is just the Internet, as people say. Same to YIM to many Vietnamese. I know some people don’t even use email or read VnExpress, but they jump directly to YIM and chat.

QQ may have been following ICQ, but that time the Internet was almost nothing to people, and there were virtually no other competitors in China. For Vietnamese right now, kicking people out of YIM is almost impossible because of the network effect: every friend is there, so why must I leave for a new chat service with no one talking to me?

Can it be any new experience for Vietnamese chatters?

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By: Khaivq

Khaivq — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:32:05 +0000

Really like your analysis. Hope to have a chance to meet you in Hanoi.