Jeremiah Owyang interviews me
Jeremiah Owyang of Forrestor Research very kindly posted an interview with me on his blog a few days ago.
Jeremiah was very kind to mention on his twitter feed that he enjoyed meeting me and considers me as a ‘web strategist’.
Jeremiah, Thank you for the encouragement. I hope I can live up to it. I’d like to thank my colleagues at Outblaze for their support and the interesting discussions we have
I made a comment in that video that I considered ‘Facebook as a fad’ and there were some rejoinders to it with commentators disagreeing with me.
I’d like to respond by making a few points
- The interview was late in the afternoon and I was really hungry and thirsty , Jeremiah was visiting us during Ramadaan 🙂
- Somebody much smarter and with a killer throwing arm has also said the same thing
- Said person also dipped into the companys piggy bank to hedge his statement
What I was trying to mention to Jeremiah that based on my observations, I felt that Facebook was a fad at present “within the Hong Kong Internet userbase”. Maybe it can sustain itself but its still early days.
Hong Kong like any other place people has its fads including collective obsessive behavior!. Ask anybody if the recollect the ‘Snoppy mania of 1998’.
As the above article states
Fads are nothing new in Hong Kong, where the crowded living conditions and a gregarious population make it a hothouse for all sorts of trends.
About the 150% mobile phone penetration rate, I apologize. The latest published numbers (July 2007) from OFTA who is Hong Kong’s regulator says its 139.8%. Maybe its 145+% today but 150% gets your attention better than 145% 🙂
Yusuf Goolamabbas 