March 3rd, 2007 by ketyung

I’ve been in the IT field for couple of years, I know clearly there is always a fight between the sales personnel or the product manager and the engineers! Here is the story between Google and Yahoo.
According to UberPulse, through their conversation with Yahoo‘s director of Real-Time Communications, Jeff Bonforte (pictured), Google is just not conducive to create products. Bonforte’s best product manager went to Google but eventually came back after six months due to he got sick and tired with Google‘s chaotic culture! According to the product manager, he had no control of what he wanted during his 6 months at Google. In Google, simply engineers rule! And this guy claimed that Google‘s products never show a dent in the market.
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February 25th, 2007 by ketyung

I’ve talked about before that the next step shall be taken by web 2.0 is to monetize it! Here is a website, first in the world from web 2.0 that helps you and me and itself to monetize. Monetizing by lending or borrowing money! I’d call it the loan shark 2.0, which it’s simply building path for loan sharks. It’s ZOPA, a company in UK, which has taken web 2.0 to another step by putting money where its mouth is!
ZOPA is the acronym for Zone of Possible Agreement, which is the world’s first online lending and borrowing exchange. If those gadgets introduced by TechChee are simply too fascinating and irresistable to you and you’ve almost burnt out most of your bucks, then ZOPA should be where you should turn to, to borrow some bucks.
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February 18th, 2007 by ketyung

Are you pretty sick of web 2.0? If you’ve been online and joining the online social networking and been a loyal TechCrunch‘s readers for years, then you’d say that you’re really damn sick with it. Ya, this term has come to the Internet and created lot of buzz and now even you and me are so fed up of hearing it. It seems like web 2.0 is still pretty hot before “web 3.0″ comes to us. It’s still the most popular aim by young enterpreneurs seeking for venture capital to achive their million or billion-dollar dreams.
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February 17th, 2007 by ketyung
You’d have noticed that there was a little rise of your subscriber number of your FeedBurner feed. TechCrunch even has a double up of its subscriber number. It had around 140K subscribers about a week ago, but now has raised to 270K! This is due to Google has announced that it will begin reporting the number of subscribers any RSS feed has through Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage.
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