What is happening to Cyvee, what will?

As my prior prediction on Cyvee’s booming traffic rank on Alexa that “this won’t last long”, you might find something interesting here: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/cyvee.com
After peaking in early November following an IDG Ventures Vietnam funding clamour, CyVee is experiencing its first challenge. Though subscribed members have climbed from 12,000 to more than 13,000, its ranking on Alexa [...]

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Vietnamese Facebook clones’ face off: FaceViet vs. GuongMat vs. Tamtay vs. VC Corp vs. you name it…

More Vietnamese Internet players are joining the Facebook cloning bandwagon, and there are 15 billion reasons they may end up like their Chinese counterpart Xiaonei.
Coming earliest to the field should be GuongMat.com, an exact Facebook clone from design to functions to everything. It is rumored GuongMat is put up by an oversea Vietnamese. GuongMat’s advantage [...]

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Giant FPT experiments new social networking services

As I wrote earlier, more players are crowding into the social networking services game in Vietnam. Newest comer: FPT Online, a poster child of the FPT conglomerate.
Joining Yobanbe, Timnhanh Cafe, Cyworld and hoping to take a bite at Yahoo when its Yahoo 360 services is having problems remake it Yahoo Mash, FPT Online introduced [...]

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My crazy comments on the future of Google

I wrote a comment on Google’s future recently on New York Times. Repost here for Vietnamese entrepreneurs as a food for thought. Some day I will come back with a fun prediction on who will be the Google of Vietnam.
WHY GOOGLE SHOULD BE WORTH MORE THAN P&G, MICROSOFT AND GE COMBINED
I would predict GOOG surpass [...]

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