E-commerce Final Project Proposal
Team 12 John, Kate, Clare
“Sharing” is the key concept of Web2.0. Users not only receive the information but also give feedback and participate. In our term project, we’ll introduce two famous communities in Taiwan, the first-mover “HEMiDEMi” and the new star “FunP”, because these two website represent Web 2.0. In the first part, we’ll introduce these two communities’ background; second, we’ll introduce these two websites in detail and compare them to each other. Finally, we’ll discuss our issue and make a conclusion.
Background Introduction
Hemidemi– is the first famous bookmark website in Taiwan. You can share your bookmarks with everyone here, recommending your favorite articles and join the groups to make friends.
FunP — March, 2007, the students from NCTU created this website called FunP. It’s a homonym for the word ”fart” in Chinese. FunP is a bookmark website and a community as well, the famous function “recommends”, i.e. decides the ranking and order in the website.
Questions about HEMiDEMi and FunP
1. What is the key concept in each one of them?
2. What are the characteristics in each one of them?
3. What are the differences between HEMiDEMi and FunP in functionality?
4. What are their business models?
5. What are the traffic trends in these two websites?
6. What kinds of visitors are likely to visit these two websites? What are the visitors’ characteristic difference between these two?
Issues between HEMiDEMi and FunP
1. What innovations they can do in the future?
2. Is it legitimate to use “iframe” to bed the article from author’s webpage?
3. How to expand the market and increase the number of users?
4. Who will win in the battle? Can the market sustain both?
