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Malaysian Do Participate in E-Commerce (mostly for purchase of airline tickets and accommodation.)

Daniel CerVentus — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:04:30 +0000

According to the most recent survey done by Visa e-Commerce Consumer Monitor, 82% of Malaysians do online purchase for flight tickets. This 2010 survey was based on 3,516 online interviews from countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.

These netizen mostly spending on travel and accommodation online to boost the countries growing e-commerce markets. This is mostly in part of the rise of low cost carriers such as AirAsia which made the web its primary means of buying air tickets especially during sales.

Malaysians on estimate, spends around RM 6000 per year on e-commerce according to the survey.

Also according to the survey, security is the most important factor that enables e-commerce. We here in Entrepreneurs.my also believe that e-commerce will have a resurgence in the year 2011.

Coming up, the 50th Episode of This Week in Asia

Daniel CerVentus — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:42:58 +0000

One of Cerventus‘ pet project, This Week in Asia (TWIA), a podcast focusing on the Asian technology community, has been growing since its first episode on 8 November 2009. As one of echelon 2010’s media partners, TWIA has been interviewing many speakers and attendees of the upcoming event, including Daniel Raffel (Yahoo), Gen Kanai (Mozilla), Noah Kagan (Gambit) and many others.

Now for their 50th episode, TWIA is hosting a special live episode at the end of echelon 2010 conference from 4-5 pm on level 2. In this live show, they will invite those who have graced the show from the past to present and come on board to discuss how their thoughts and opinions are after the two days of exciting keynotes, panel discussions and case study presentations at echelon 2010.
If you have been a listener of the show, please come down and give them your support. The whole TWIA crew from moderator John Lim and his fellow co-hosts, Daniel Cerventus, Michael Foong, Bernard Leong and Chew Lin Kay will share how the show has been progressing and also drop a few gifts for those who are here for the event.

Google Analytics Master Class: Actionable Insights

Daniel CerVentus — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:32:07 +0000

Google is doing an Analytics Master Class on the 11th March 2010 in KL and 9 March in Singapore.

When: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 1.30pm -6.00pm
Where:
Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur
Ballroom A
3 Jalan Stesen Sentral,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 50470

What is this event about?
Basically, you will learn on how to read the Google Analytics data and how you can add more value and traffic to your site?

As the site says:

Are you taking action on your web analytics data? Do you know what to do with all those metrics and dimensions? How can you drive value for your business through your web analytics data?

Join us for our annual Google Analytics Master Class on Actionable Insights. Enjoy an afternoon packed with tips and insights from local and international web analytics professionals and speakers from the Google Analytics team. See how analytics helps drive value through case studies from the travel, fashion, retail, technology, and telecommunications industries. Walk away knowing how to improve your site’s user experience and increase your marketing ROI.

Are there others in your office who are Analytics addicts? Then please forward this invitation on to them. The more the merrier!

Google Analytics Master Class RSVP ‎‎(KL)‎‎

More details on the topic covered in KL visit HERE.
More details on the Singapore event visit HERE.

This Week in Asia Episode 11: The Asia Web-Tech Odyssey 2010

Daniel CerVentus — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:47:42 +0000

Last week in This Week in Asia, we talked about our perdiction how 2010 will be like in the technology space.

The whole crew takes the last podcast of 2009 to review the major events that rocked the web and tech landscape and also makes predictions for the new decade of 2010. This is probably our longest episode over an hour long and also a rare one which was done in the afternoon today.

Review of the Year 2009 in the Asia Web and Technology Landscape: The Rise of Asia Social Networks (QQ) with virtual currency and goods and also the mobile web economy beginning with the emergence of location based mobile social networking apps: FourSquare and Gowalla in Asia. Of course, we reveal how often our podcast has been downloaded.

Predictions Ahead for 2010 in the Asia Web and Technology Landscape: Netbooks, Cloud Computing, Broadband Infrastructure in Asia and how it might lead to a new era of content production for podcasts and videocasts in Asia. Short notes on venture capital in 2010 and whether we will see more companies getting next stage funding.