Sales, Social and Tech

The biggest problem of most social media search engines is that they search the World Wide Web. But what if your account is only Singapore based? Sorting out the social media sites from Singapore alone can be a daunting task. I found a new search engine called Crowdsview dedicated to Singapore-Only Social Media Sites which seemed to have been just release by the Singapore team at Crowdsis. The search engine seems to be still in the infancy page but the potential looks great. For example, if one were to do a search on Pastor Ronny Tan, who apologised for his comments on Buddhism that was aired and shared on YouTube, it can be seen that the discussion in the forums started as early as Feb 04, 2009 with 34 mentions of the Pastor.   Crowdsview can be found here .

  I used to work at Hardwarezone many years ago and one of the competing sites then was VR-Zone. Hardwarezone.com has since been acquired by Singapore Press Holdings but VR-Zone is still going strong. How do they compare in terms of stats? I found this new interesting analytics site, www.quantcast.com , that gives more than just numbers. From Quantcast, The Quantcast audience service is a new and innovative solution that enables the direct-measurement of traffic and audience, empowering both publishers and marketers to operate in a more connected way through the strategy, buying, implementation and evaluation phases of a campaign. In a major advancement over existing panel-based measurement methodologies, Quantcast's breakthrough solution couples machine learning with massive quantities of directly measured data and a variety of sample-based reference points to deliver detailed audience data in real-time for all forms of digital media including websites, video, audio, ...