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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Posted by J.K. in Business, Singapore, Social Media, Visual, Writing | 11 Comments |
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.
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.
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.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
cool ’slideshow’. ermm, at 18/22, it is really you, look like liewcf.
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.
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.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:50 am
how do you keep up if you’re really far behind them?
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:
January 16th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
[...] Uzyn, The Next Kevin Rose [...]
January 16th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
[...] Note: The slideshow is now featured on a similar post with a different title and intro. [...]
January 16th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
[...] checking my slideshow on this blog and on SlideShare.net, I found that the views were 50087 views as of [...]