Comments on: Uzyn, the next “Kevin Rose”?

By: Best of Slideshare.net?

Best of Slideshare.net? — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:19:32 +0000

[...] checking my slideshow on this blog and on SlideShare.net, I found that the views were 50087 views as of [...]

By: Web 2.0 talk at CISAA, NUS

Web 2.0 talk at CISAA, NUS — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:18:46 +0000

[...] Note: The slideshow is now featured on a similar post with a different title and intro. [...]

By: Top Posts in Ping.sg & Tomorrow.sg Reveal That…

Top Posts in Ping.sg & Tomorrow.sg Reveal That… — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:17:33 +0000

[...] Uzyn, The Next Kevin Rose [...]

By: J.K.

J.K. — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:41:20 +0000

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

By: nerdie

nerdie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:50:42 +0000

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

By: uzyn

uzyn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:05:45 +0000

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.

By: offpoint

offpoint — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:15:30 +0000

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.

By: Hanne Sena

Hanne Sena — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:34:33 +0000

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

By: malique

malique — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:24:13 +0000

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.

By: Kor Shu Yen

Kor Shu Yen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:57:32 +0000

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.

By: J.K.

J.K. — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:20:41 +0000

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.