記得自己在微信剛推出的時候就開始用,當時還沒有 WeChat 這洋名 ,用微信是為了在約會網站識女仔,微信在手機用,方便溝通溝通嘛!不過,微信推出後的相當一段時間,彼此交換的聯繫方式,仍然是 QQ ,而不是微信。我在約會網站上,見證了由「加 Q 聊吧」到「加微信聊吧」的時代飛躍。 當騰訊的超級實驗-微信公眾號推出的時候,我們對其充滿期待,而且都算是較早一批的微信公眾號經營者,第一篇發佈已是 2012 年 12 月時的聖誕快樂了:後來,騰訊收緊了微信公眾號的經營條件,需要實名認證,這對我們這類海外公司來說,是一大難題。再者,我們對如何通過微信作為營銷渠道,仍然有不少困惑,所以就暫時放下了微信一段時間。隨著我們的深圳團隊開始上軌道,大家再次描準中國式數位營銷的時間已經降臨,Time Read more [...]
You know you cannot officially use Facebook in China. You know there is only 3.8m out of 250m accounts on Linkedin come from China. You know there is tonnes of fake accounts on Weibo. You know if you want to expand in China you need to apply local insights. Here is a brief history of WeChat... ...WeChat, according to our interpretation, is an extension from QQ. QQ is a China version of ICQ, which was (or is?) a prototype of instantaneous messengers. WeChat is another clone of mobile concept which initiated from Western world - WhatsApp. But WeChat also learnt from its main rival, Navier's Line and has gradually shaped into a brand new type of social networking service provider in China, Read more [...]
坊間有很多不同的維度去比較不同的社交網絡,我們覺得其中一個較有啟發性的方向,是從熟人社交與陌生人社交方面去比較:微信或其主要競爭對手 Line,走的是熟人之間的移動通訊對話路線,在形成強大用戶基礎後,再慢慢增加了社交網絡的成份,例如用戶個人的時間軸,品牌公眾號等。Facebook,一開始就是由大學校園內的熟人社區出發,慢慢地向外拓展,變成今天擁有逾 10 億用戶的全球最大社交網絡,雖然是以熟人為主,但用戶間的關係強度上,不及上述的通訊平台。舉例說,你有用微信或 Line(甚至是 whatsapp)連繫的朋友,你通常有他們的 Read more [...]
Facebook公佈了上巿後第二份季度業績,繼續錄得虧損,但因為移動廣告的貢獻超出巿場預期,令股價大升20%,似乎是上巿以來股價表現最佳的一天。這裏不是研究股票表現的地方,我們較在意的是CEO Mark Zuckerberg的言論:"our opportunity on mobile is the most misunderstood aspect of Facebook today." He also complained that company watchers were looking at numbers from earlier in the year, "when we weren't really trying yet" on mobile.我們在日常生活都經常能留意到,很多人在用(玩?)手機,而且在手機上用FB的實在大有人在(不是鼓勵各位故意偷看別人,但Facebook的"signature Read more [...]