Web 2.0 in SEA

Join this conference on 2nd and 3rd July, 2009 and learn advanced SEO & SEM skills from experts.

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Fiera de Manila and DigitalFilipino Club in cooperation with SME.com.ph and Bizster.com, are organizing this event (Apr 23-24) geared towards companies and digital marketing/advertising professionals who are interested to use social networks for advertising/marketing their products and services.

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gothere.sg is the latest street directory site for the Singapore map. Since the “official” street directory site was asked to close by the local authority last year, there has not been another site that is good enough to take over the crown. gothere.sg has that potential and the first impression is good.

Using Google Maps for the navigation maps, gothere.sg is a beautiful mashup that provides useful information about the places in Singapore. You can either specify a source and destination which the site will then show you the directions with detailed instructions on the transport to take, or a location and the amenities around it.

When I searched for the person or company who owns the domain, I found its address pointing to the local university, NUS. Which I suspect the site could be a project by the university. In any case, I do hope it will gain popularity and serve the common public good as a street directory site as good as the previous “official”.

Fupei is social networking site from Indonesia and it is focused on its social-networking capabilities among the country’s Internet users and its member-based friends network.

Its wide social-networking features cover basically all kinds of activities you will expect in a social networking website and they include members, blogs, chat, events, games, photos, videos, music, ecards, themes. It also has its own browser toolbar which is created and served by Conduit.

Basing on Alexa’s data statistics, Fupei’s current members base is almost entirely its own countrymen. This somehow is expected as some of the pages in the website are written in its own country language. Indonesia with a population of 237,512,355 and 20,000,000 Internet users (8.4% of the population) as of May/07 has a healthy no. of internet users for a small local website like Fupei.

After you bought something, do you want to inform the whole world about it and anyone to post their comments on your purchase? If yes, then Shoplette is for you. 

Shoplette wants to create a community where shoppers post their purchases and where the purchase was made e.g. which shopping malls in which country. Users in the website interacts by posting comments on others’ purchases. Posts can also be done using MMS by mobile phones. Google Maps are used to show the location of the places where its users’ did their shoppings.  Copying a page from Twitter, users can follow another user or be followed.

Shoplette is built by Mobrick and as informed by the website, its founders are Shannon Low and Marcus Lim. Both are ex-workers for Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore and my guess they are embarking on their own business in the web industry.

Hope to see more products and websites from this 2-man team in the near future!