Posts Tagged ‘Business Portal’

Social networking: where we are at?

February 23rd, 2009 Web No Comments
There is no doubt that social networking is thriving, well in most parts of the world. It’s so popular that, even a six year old kid knows there is something like-bebo, MySpace, facebook (not in any particular order). Like most of the web 2.0 stuffs Social networking’s popularity relies on power to engage massive community. The enormous success of social network startup like-facebook, twitter, bebo, MySpace definitely attracting hungry businessman. Why? Off course they are trying to figure out a way to utilize this to gain profit. To be honest 99% social network still lacks any business model that can produce cash, apart from advertising revenue. More scarcely only a very handful companies really have figured out how to capitalize on all that coveted word-of-mouth and networking. So clearly the problem lays within the social network nature such it is, where lack of room for business to fit in. For example—Twitter, a mighty social networking tool that growing in lightning speed and bagged couple of awards in recent years. Not only awards but as well they grabbed US$35 million in VC funding lately. But still now there is no sustainable business model. Social networking monetization is still just a topic…
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ICANN will test non-roman character TLD

October 12th, 2007 Web No Comments
Up until now ICANN, the organization that assigns Internet domain names was busy with different TLDs to make free domain hosting more custom, but always limited within roman characters. It’s been a long time coming. A little over seven years ago, ICANN, committed to the idea of providing support for internationalization of those names. ICANN has now announced that the first sites using fully internationalized domain names will be accessible to Internet users starting Monday (15th Aug 2007). On Monday ICANN will begin testing of whether allowing the character sets of 11 languages to be included in top-level domains (TLDs) causes widespread online anarchy. Currently, the use of non-Roman characters is allowed in all portions of the domain name before the TLD extension. As a result, a site with content that’s entirely in the Japanese alphabet can have the TLD name portion of its URL in Japanese, yet the TLD still needs to end in an “.org” or “.com” in Roman characters. The changes that come Monday are an important step towards the ultimate internationalization. ICANN’s president, Dr Paul Twomey says- This will be one of the biggest changes to the Internet since it was created….This evaluation represents ICANN’s most…
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Online business portal-Alibaba

September 24th, 2007 Web 1 Comment
There was such a time when business community used to gather in country clubs or aristocratic restaurants/bars to exchange views and information for mutual benefits. Those sorts of clubs still do exist, which are strictly limited to members and memberships are hard to come by. But business world did changed a lot, especially when more and more industry started to have their cyber journey. In this new age we have new kinds of portals, the online portals where business community gathers for mutual benefits, by breaking down the aristocratic, national, international, and cultural barriers. Sounds world-shattering isn’t it . As you must know by now that, we are living in age which sometimes referred as crowdsourced or more popularly as “Web 2.0” era. There are lots of social community portals, where people mingle, find friends, mates for their social life. But business isn’t just about meeting people, which require a lot more, since common benefits are at stake. So obviously business needs to have its own portal or community, where sole purpose of people’s gathering is one common goal-“Doing Business”. So let’s get on with it, here is my choice for this series: Alibaba Most probably the biggest and most…
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