The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. We’ve said much already about Facebook’s booming popularity in both Indonesia and India. But a fun infographic from the folks at Ogilvy attempts to put the growing numbers into new perspective. The graphic notes that Facebook has 179 million users in Asia, which — if it were a country — would make it the region’s fourth largest. Only China, India, and Indonesia have a higher population. Ogilvy’s Facebook graphic actually comes in two portions, ...
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179 Million Citizens: Asia’s 4th Largest Nation is Republic of Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
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A Solar Powered Mobile and Facebook App? Sort Of…
Watch maker Titan recently launched a new series of solar powered products, called HTSE (Hi-Tech Self Energized) watches. Like most new products, Titan needed to do some marketing to tell the world about its watch series. The campany did it in style by launching a solar powered mobile and Facebook app. Well, sort of... As the app launches, it tells users to point the camera at any light source to power the app. The app “charges” up and only loads when the power bar is full. So how does the app ...
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Sumally: A Sexy Encyclopedia of All Things
Sumally is a growing community that connects what you love with the people you love. Its ultimate goal is to become the new generation's encyclopedia of all things. I've been using the service for less than a day, and I am already hooked. The name "Sumally" combines the two words "sum" and "all." It's where you register what you have and what you want. One of the Penn Olson editors noted that it reminded him a little gdgt.com in some respects. You can also browse through people's Sumally pages to discover other interesting ...
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Vodafone Facebook Phone Set to Take on HTC’s Chacha in India
Last month we reported on how Tata Docomo and HTC had partnered to launch the ChaCha in India. But another company, Vodafone, is reportedly now set to bring its Vodafone Blue 555 to India to capitalise on the huge market of 25 million strong Facebook users in the country. The phone will be manufactured by Alcatel. According to Peter Beckker Pennrich, director at Terminal Marketing: Vodafone Blue is meant for the emerging markets and was tested stringently for its resistance to dirt and water. We are not device manufacturers but we ...
Sep 8 2011
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Beer Brand Offers Coolest Job in India: Went Viral On Facebook
Update: Mayank Agarwal, co-founder of Geek Creative Agency told me that they are the one who planned and ran the campaign. Sutra Lite was hired by them just to provide HR consultancy. The coolest job in India? You got it — “SABMiller is launching the Miller High Life beer in India and is looking for qualified individuals, who embody and endorse the spirit of the brand - Work Hard, Party Hard.” The job offer is being primarily spread across Facebook, where it was posted in July. I was told that ...
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TackThis Now in Open Beta, Makes Social Commerce Stores Embeddable By Anyone
Singapore-based start-up TackThis is a platform that allows anyone to create an e-commerce store and embed it on their Facebook pages, blogs or any website. I like the concept and thought that the team has made a solid product that helps non-techies to get the job done. I learned that TackThis is now in open beta. Yes, everyone is now invited to use its service, and it's free for basic account. Damian Chow, co-founder at TackThis, gave me a run through of his creation. The backend of the product looks very ...
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Facebook is Finally Looking At Asia SERIOUSLY
I love Facebook as a product, but sadly its team in Singapore doesn't live up to the standard. Why? Because the Facebook team in Singapore isn’t very friendly and responsive to the blogger community (or maybe it’s just me). Google Singapore, on the other hand, is doing an awesome job friending the tech community here in our tiny island. Every Googler — from sales and analytics to the PR folks — are open to talking to anyone. And whenever we have questions for the articles we’re working on, they respond quickly ...
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Japan’s Mixi Takes a Page From Facebook
Japanese social networking site Mixi followed the lead of Facebook today by launching public pages for companies and individuals. ‘Public’ is an important word here, since Mixi usually requires a login to view content, so these new pages will be accessible by anyone, and by search engines too. The new pages are said to bridge the public space on the net with Mixi users’ private social graph. And companies will will be sure to try to capitalize on the new feature. Disney is one company already on the bandwagon. A ...
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Asia’s Internet By the Numbers
We had a little bit of free time this afternoon to dive into some figures about Asia’s internet that we’ve been meaning to crunch for a while. Internet World Stats updated its Asia figures a few weeks back, and so we jumped in to try to make some sense of it. {"dataSourceUrl":"//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ankqe-fbHOHIdGdYb25reEJNYzB3UlAzS3BWN2ZmUHc&transpose=0&headers=-1&range=A1%3AB36&gid=0&pub=1","options":{"title":"Pecentage of Asia's Internet Population","backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF","legend":"none","colors":,"is3D":false,"hasLabelsColumn":true,"hAxis":{"maxAlternation":1},"width":298,"height":230},"state":{},"chartType":"PieChart","chartName":"Chart 1"} As far as which Asian nation has the most internet users, there’s not much question that China beats everyone by miles, slowly coming up on half a billion. The Chinese are still far ...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Social Media in India
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. We've seen rise of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter globally. India is one of the most prominent countries on social networks, despite the fact that only 8.5 percent of the population has access to the Internet. Facebook has 31 million Indian users making it the third largest country on Facebook after the USA and Indonesia. It has around 13 million Indian users on Twitter. For more great information on how Facebook and Twitter are ...
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96% of All Page Views in China are Local – Just 4% Away From North Korea
A researcher at Harvard University has calculated that “96 percent of all page views in China are to web sites hosted within China.” This points to both a thriving web scene in China - where you can shop on Taobao whilst watching videos on Youku - but also to the extent of web controls in the country. Harvard fellow Hal Roberts - who specializes in internet filtering circumvention, web surveillance, and hack attacks - came up with the number by combining Google AdPlanner’s list of page views on China’s top 250 ...
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Consumers in Southeast Asia Are More Influenced By Social Media Ads
As social media turns into the Internet's new playground, brands and products are flocking there en masse in an effort to catch customers. And according to Nielsen's latest study, consumers in the Southeast Asia region are highly influenced by such online advertisements, especially when ads are displayed on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The study reveals 73 percent are 'highly' or 'somewhat' influenced by ads in social media. The rate jumps to 80 percent if social context is factored in, showing who has liked or followed the advertised brand. (See ...
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