Growing up, we frequently heard the saying “If you build it, they will come”. Who are they? Curious consumers that are often attracted by new store openings.
In the age of the internet, this statement is never more true. However, now instead of shiny signs, you need proper SEO to promote your service. Take 87id for example, it launched as the premium OpenID Provider in China only days ago, and with some pretty slick SEO, has attracted incredibly attention to the internet community.
In addition to the Online VOIP service targetted at helping people Learn Chinese, Attigo Corporation is about to launch several more services. And surely, we think they’ll keep coming.
For the past few days I’ve been trying to convince people to try out OpenID, while the concept seems very good to them, I’m immediately faced with the question. Which websites accept OpenID? A quick Google reveals that many of my favorite sites in fact do support the standard, but the problem is I’m a geek, and what I see are mostly geek sites.
It’s always incredibly tempting to have a lengthy registration process from the perspective of the website owner, the more data means potential revenue from data-mining + advertising. How do you weigh convenience with potential revenue?
OpenID seems to be getting a decent start now in Asia, will it be more popular there? Chinese OpenID providers are still scarce, but give 87id a try. It’s leading the China OpenID revolution.
“Interactive Data’s depth of financial content delivery capabilities, coupled with its sophisticated technology platform, helped provide our Web site with top-level functionality spanning several international locations,” said C.S. Hsia, vice president of business development at Firstrade Securities, Inc., a leading online discount broker based in the U.S. “Interactive Data’s ability to design our Web site to deliver a wide range of financial content in three languages underscores its commitment to customizing solutions to help meet complex client needs.”
Getting quoted is so much fun, Googling my name now generates quite a few more hits than before 
