Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) chair Dana Todd will ring the opening NASDAQ bell on Cyber Monday, December 1. We hope Search Marketing industry would get further role in enterprises’ plans. Congratulations to all SEM professionals!

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The Google DevFest in Vietnam will be similar with Google giving introductions their APIs like the OpenSocial and App Engine APIs among others, and Social Network giants Friendster and Hi5 talking about their platforms too.

Venue: HCM University of Technology, A5 Building
Date: 4 November 2008, Tuesday
Time: 1pm to 10pm

What’s more, we will be having 5 Google Engineers coming all the way from Mountain View to join in the DevFest and to provide assistance to the developers. Grab this chance to mingle with them!

Here are the short profiles of the Google Engineers coming down:

Jason Costa
Jason has been a Technical Programs Manager at Google since 2005. He’s worked on several products at the company, including Google Analytics, the Google Checkout API, and OpenSocial. Jason likes to help developers find innovative solutions to complex problems, and believes in APIs & the open web. He graduated with a degree in CS from USC, and is currently working from the Google China office in Beijing.

Patrick Chanezon (blog)
Patrick has been a Developer Advocate at Google since 2005. He has built and grown developer ecosystems for OpenSocial, Checkout and AdWords. Previously he has worked on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He’s the co-founder of the ROME - Atom and RSS utilities in java open source project and the OSSGTP (Open Source Get Together Paris) group.

Pamela Fox
Pamela is the Developer Programs Engineer for the Google Maps API. She graduated from USC with her CS masters, where she helped grow the video games department and dabbled in the 3d animation and linguistics departments. She enjoys helping developers innovate with the Maps API and combine it with many of Google’s other amazing APIs.

Conway Chen
Conway has been at Google since 2005 and is a member of New Business Development. Working together with product, engineering and management teams, he has helped introduce and foster a number of new product initiatives and is currently focused on doing the same within the Greater China and SE Asia region. Prior to his time working in business development, Conway was an attorney focusing on venture capital and private company representation at a leading Silicon Valley law firm.

Bruno Rovagnati - Globant
Bruno is a social networks guru at Globant as well as an expert on cloud computing. He joins us all live all the way from Buenos Aires, Argentina! Bruno has worked extensively with the Google Checkout API, and is an active contributor to Shindig - an open-source reference implementation of the OpenSocial spec. Bruno graduated from Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires.

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Some months ago local media bombarded article stating that Vietnamese people were most interested in Sex based on Google Trends. However we just tried the Google Insights for Search with some keywords relating to Sex and found out some interesting figures:

For Sex keyword: Vietnam is the second after Pakistan in volume of search, but plus Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India made South Asia on top, North Africa is the second group.

Update: 21st September down to 4th position

For Porn: no clear winner but Bangladesh is till the runner-up

With Nude keyword: all top five positions went to South Asian countries with Pakistan and Bangladesh shared the top.

Tried a combination of video + sex: Cambodia took the crown, but Bangladesh is the second again plus two other South Asian (India, Sri Lanka)

From these results we can say that Vietnamese people are far behind South Asian people in searching Sex related keywords. Bangladesh is truly the top country that its people most interested in sex matters using search service from Google. Maybe Vietnamese Internet users are not as sophisticated as South Asians in using keywords.

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Two weeks ago our team came to Singapore for some business meeting and we went to Suntec City Convention Center for Ad Tech Exhibition & Conference. Many digital marketing companies attended the event but most are Singapore based. Yahoo SEA dominated the hall and conference as main sponsor. Microsoft MDAS did not have a presence there. If you do not have an account with local ISP you could not use laptop or mobile phone to access the Internet thru Wifi. There are about 5 connected notebooks at the Financial Times booth that visitors could surf the web. Ironically Singapore is trying to be the IT hub of the region but no easy Wifi for travellers. At the evening networking party you could see many web design, translation service firms in Singapore tried to sell their services to the delegates. We left Singapore for the following day and think about the next Conference in Shanghai. I m just wondering why there is no Ad Tech India?

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