Good day! Thank you very much for attending our August 09 event at Paris Hoa Le. The event was well received by both audience and industry, with over 25 people attending.

Ken Leong from Macera Technology shared the update & examples of social networking services, the business model for Mobile Social Networking:

•  Advertisement
•  Product affiliation groups
•  Partnership
•  Micropayment/Micro-transactional
•  Subscription 

as well as the challenge & struggle of SNS:

•  Retaining audience
•  Reach out to advertisers
•  Knowing the audience
•  Identity
•  What makes you different from MySpace/Facebook?
•  Identify business model at the start  

Mostyle has demonstrate different microSNS developed by them that work with different party such as Telstra's BigPond, Smart Sandbox, etc.

During the Q&A & networking session, audiences were sharing their thoughts and opinions about Vietnamese situations, relationship between telcos & content providers, challenges between both party.

Anyway, the presentation slides from August 09 event - Mobile Social Networking Services & Revenue Model is available.... please check the "Download " section. Enjoy!

This is to cordially invite technicians and developers to the N97 Widget Challenge Workshop organized by Forum Nokia next  weekend. This event is open to all mobile and web developers.

   * Speaker: Nicholas Foo - Head of Technical and Consulting Service - Forum Nokia APAC
   * Topic: Widget technology - This is relevant topic for mobile developers as well as web developers
   * Agenda: 1. Talk on widget technology and how to create widget. 2. Hands-on practice under Nicholas' guidance.
   * Timing: Two sessions - 15/8 in HCMC and 16/8 in Hanoi

Please note participation requires a simple registration form on this website

http://thuthachwidgetN97.com.vn/dkhoithao.aspx

Workshop details are also available at http://thuthachwidgetN97.com.vn/hoithao.htm