Sinan Ata

Today I was checking out my daily Twine Digest and linked to an interesting research here. There I saw 51.com is leading in Chinese local market for social networks.

Here’s a small brief about companies bacground. Directly copied from companies about page in English.

• August, 2005. 51.com was founded by IT entrepreneur Mr. Pang Sheng Dong, in Shanghai.
• May, 2006. First round funding of USD 6 million led by Sequoia Capital and joined by SIG.
• July, 2006. Listed in the “2006 Red Herring Top 100 Asian Most Potential Science and Technology Innovation& Investment Companies”.
• Suptember, 2006. Listed as No.21 among IWebChoice’s Chinese language websites.
• November, 2006. Register user number reached 50 million.
• May, 2007. Acquired Pixoart Design, successfully integrated its avatar service into 51’s platform.
• June, 2007. Register user number reached 70 million.
• July, 2007. Second round funding of over USD 15 million led by Intel Capital and joined by Redpoint, Sequoia and SIG.
• January, 2008. Register user number reached 100 million.
• According to Baidu’s 2007 China Online Space and Blog Report, 51.com ranked overall No.2 among all online space and blog web sites, with No. 1 user activity ranking.
• May, 2008. Company moved its Headquarter to Zhang Jiang High Tech Industry Park.
• July, 2008. Third round funding of over USD 50 million led by Giant Interactive.

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I’d like to introduce trendhunter.com today. It has s usable and pure user interface for a news site.

This kind of pure design not only makes everything easy to understand, it also lowers the hosting cost for company. Congratulations for the design.

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Nissan & Xtranormal just signed a creative campaign. You have to take a look at this microsite for the details.

With Xtranormal technology you make your “Nissan cube” movie and get the chance of earning special prizes including a Nissan cube too.

Hope to see this kind of creative ad-campaigns.

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Today I saw a chart at business insider which shows Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo’s ad-income in quarters.

It’s interesting. How could this be commented?

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Today I saw Amplifeeder, an application featured in RWW. I must say that I’m not impressed that much. Maybe I was expecting more cuz of RWW title “Friendfeed’s Much Hotter Sister”

Amplifeeder is an asp application that integrates with your Friendfeed account and gathers your online data to show in a place just like your own domain.

It’s stylish, but not social. That’s the biggest minus I think. Social actions, isnt it that forced us to use friendfeed?

I can only see twine as a tough rival of friendfeed these days.

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SocialTwist’s Tell-a-Friend is activated on my blog. It seems like a useful widget. It enables you to track your page’s WOMM data. Here you can try yourself.

I can see this bright idea is spreading quickly around. They’ve served 727 million buttons till now and counting.

Dont forget their premium tracking services inside.

You can share my posts with Tell-a-Friend and I can track what you do :p

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As you know, I started an interview set with “one man show” online ninjas of internet market for Turkey’s #1 web2.0 blog Webrazzi. First was Shaun Inman of Mint. Now, here Jon Yongfook Cockle comes and our small chat on his new business approach, new company (Egg Co.) & new product; Peashoot.

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I started an interview set for Webrazzi. Turkey’s #1 web2.0 blog. Shaun was the first rockstar that I wanted to show Turkish local market as a “cool” role model. If you love reading interviews like this, please spread it.

Shaun Inman is the creator of Mint and sIFR image replacement technology. You can learn much more about him in this post.

Sinan: How long are you working for new media?

Shaun: I have been creating websites and following/participating in the online discussion since 1999 and professionally since 2001.

Sinan: Can you tell us about your story.

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I just made an interview with Shaun for webrazzi. Maybe I can publish it in English here. Rockstar interview series gonna continue. Enjoy! Any rockstar suggestions as a role model?

Here’s the interview.

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In a conference subjected  Venture Capital in Emerging Markets which Golden Horn Ventures set-up in Istanbul, I had a little chat with Umair in coffee break and he told smt really interesting that I didnt realise before.

I’d like to thank Golden Horn squad for such a great event.

Umair get my attention with his awesome presentation named Finance 2.0 and the term he used in his presentation. Human Capital. That’s why I’d like to chat with him.

The talk just came after that “we want ideas to change the world” cliche of some VC companies. A small but effective part of it;

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me & studentSN ceo ibrahim tarlig

I just wanted to upgrade you all!

• I started to direct studentSN’s Turkey operation as Country Manager.
• I joined in “Hayal Ofisi” as #2 after #1, Erhan Erdogan. First Human Capital co.
• I started to “guestwrite” in Turkey’s #1 web2.0 blog; Webrazzi!
• I just updated the “about” section of my blog.

It’s going really fast, hope to write much more on here.

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I’ve been working for setting up some interviews with popular guys on new media. I can say that I took some steps on this way. I’ll be publishing here.

photo by ♥ Littledreams ♥

Actually I’m writing this post to ask you about who do you want to see talking? Who’s your rockstar on new media?

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by Marc Wathieu

I’m a registered member of Facebook for 2 years or more. But my account was deactivated. Before 2 months I started using Facebook again cuz extraordinarily I realised that Facebook can be a great place to communicate with “non-tech” people in Turkey. I inspired from Erhan’s talks actually.

All pr actions may bring us feedbacks in there. For collecting the feedbacks from other non-tech people in Turkey; I created myself a Fan Page and decided to use Fan pages effectively.

When promoting both myself and the company I’ll work with, I’m going to use Facebook. I recommend you to use it if you’re trying to reach non-tech internet users. I was doing it from my blog but I’m only writing English in here right now so it’s impossible for my market after-now.

Facebook Fan Page for Sinan Ata

I’m using Friendfeed for sectoral communication. So much people in new-media using Friendfeed here.

At the end I wanted to announce that I’m working on building up first “human capital & new media company” of Turkey named Hayal Ofisi.

Here you can find out smt about what Hayal Ofisi is…

Of course we’re going to make a detailed English presentation of our champions club. Wait for it! Love it!

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Today I was making a little research about Palestine popularity on online platforms after Israel attack. There we can see some results.

From Facebook Lexicon

From Google Insigts for Search

From Google Trends

As shown in the graphs, palestine popularity’s getting bigger everyday. Specially after Erdogan’s Davos storm-out.

I just wanted to share my interest. Hope you enjoy.

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