Uzyn, the next “Kevin Rose”?

24 Mar 2008 (Mon)

WILL PING.SG FOUNDER Uzyn Chua become the next “Kevin Rose” (Digg.com founder) in Asia?

When I gave a talk on Web 2.0 & Its Business Impacts at COM1, NUS last month, I cited various real-life examples of how the blogosphere “chatter” could affect a company’s corporate image positively or negatively. Also discussed briefly the people (how they get younger and younger!) and the milestones behind successful Web 2.0 apps such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, etc. This slideshow provides a quick overview, featuring famous Web entrepreneurs such as Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Kevin Rose (Digg), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)… and Ping.sg celebrity Uzyn Chua (slide 19) ;-) :

 

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Response

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• COMMENTS SO FAR:

  1. J.K. says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    This is just a little experiment to find out whether a post with similar content but different title (i.e., mentioning the name of Ping.sg founder Uzyn Chua) would get many more readers from Ping.sg members and visitors. ;-)

    Uzyn, btw, is featured on slide 19 while Kevin Rose is on slide 13.

  2. Kor Shu Yen says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    It is still a long way before Uzyn becomes Singapore’s Kevin Rose equivalent. While his efforts are recognized, note that ping.sg’s typical contents are mainly sex-related blog entries compared to genuinely interesting stuff from digg.com. While the congregation hyper-local content is great, certain topics are often repeated to the point of saturation, and that is on top of certain users plagiarizing contents from digg. That I feel is hardly beneficial for ping.sg.

  3. malique says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    why not? Uzyn could be sg’s kevin rose. he created a site that is user driven. all he needs now is to start podcasting. Think rev3/diggnation/totally rad show.

  4. Hanne Sena says:
    March 24th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    cool ’slideshow’. ermm, at 18/22, it is really you, look like liewcf.

  5. offpoint says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 2:15 am

    Since it’s a community based voting, and that’s what most of the community decide to highlight, we can’t fault Uzyn for what and how his users are gaming his system.

    The newer features have helped users that are interested to improve the quality of the site to perform actions to help (like poof etc).

    Perhaps more can be done… but do keep up the great work.

  6. uzyn says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Thanks for the mention. I’m really flattered to be compared with those people. I’m still really far behind them, but I will try to keep up.

    Thanks.

  7. nerdie says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    how do you keep up if you’re really far behind them?

  8. J.K. says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    Nerdie, et al.

    Singapore has a population of only 4m while the US has a population of over 300m. PLUS: Web 2.0 activities in Singapore only started very recently. So from what I can see, proportionately, what Uzyn has achieved is no mean feat.

    By the way, perhaps Ping.sg’s “next stop” could be to get onto the Alexa Top 100 list for Singaporeans.

    Also by the way, here are some statistics from Ping.sg’s Advertise page:

    • Total average number of posts pinged per day: 300
    • Total average number of pongs per day: 2800
    • Current Alexa Rank around 40000
    • Current Google PageRank 5
    • 100,000+ unique visitors per month
    • 1,000,000+ unique pageviews per month

 

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