1. Most of Vietnamese are using Yahoo for chatting, and 360 is kinda simple (but not flexible and fun, though). Therefore, people are a little bit hesitated with Facebook. Thus, FB is very very new to Vietnamese, so it takes time for the whole Vietnamese community to migrate from 360 to FB. However, absolutely, they will.

2. It is hard for one to use domestic (Vietnamese) products if they dont have good quality. Sorry guys, in fact, people don’t have the morality to do good stuff for the community. We are selfish, therefore, we all want to buy good products at the least costs. Therefore, our companies must be competitive with foreign products if they want to sell these to domestic consumers. Companies have to hit us economically but not morally.

3. There is a chance for us to do so. Since, foreign companies such as Google and Facebook do have difficulties to understand Vietnamese culture and trends, therefore, Vietnamese companies have greater advantages in using those information for competition.

My point is, quality is what matter to the game of competition. There is not morality for Vietnamese to use Vietnamese goods here. Government and business have to invest smartly and efficiently to produce good goods and hence, we will buy it as the result. Remember, we do have much more advantage compared with foreign corporations.

Per the quality regard, like I said, they would fit okay for mass local users, implying an accepted degree of quality for this segment. If you ever have a chance to hear from an experienced engineer who has worked in multiple environments, i.e. U.S. firms in the U.S. and Vietnamese / U.S. firms in Vietnam, you will get the deep truth. Think about this, google around, and answer in your head (or out here):
1. Why have so many U.S. IT businesses have failed the outsourcing model?
2. Why are most outsourced IT works limited to coding, testing, and maintenance (designing accounts for a very small percentage). Even testing already has written scripts for testers to perform.
3. How much does the language barrier affects Vietnamese people’s abilities to learn and communicate with knowledge bases out there, in comparison to Malaysians, Filipinos, and Indians.
4. Are Vietnamese inventors, or are they followers / invention & concept appliers?
5. How many hours a day do you think a typical Vietnamese worker spends and concentrates on his / her job, comparing to those in developed countries?

If Vietnamese companies and their products would like improve their stance, they’d have to fight all of the above issues, and MORE.

Going off the topic here, “good products” are usually rated on the followings:
1. Usefulness
2. Innovation
3. Technology
4. Price
5. Reliability
6. Look (necessary for some)
…

The relationship between Group A and B is a big factor for your answer.

Most of the time, I am in Group B and I spends my time to convince ppl to move to my group.

As usual, marketers call group B : Opinion Leader. Since they are leader, they tend to persuade other group to join them.

Take exclusive Blogger network for example. It is hard to get in unless you are qualified. Once you get in, you are proud of yourself as a Group B members.

Recalling the time when I looked at Cyvee users and smiled coz I have been Linkedin for long time.

Once we expand to N products or N groups, the loudest group wins or the product paying most will win.

For VN market, most of web 2.0 services are developed by programmers not marketers hence we doesn’t have a chance to see a massive marketing campaign.

However, VNG is a big player who use Cash wisely. Every new products from VNG, we can see VNG banners at all top 100 Alexa websites/forums.

So…that’s the end of my 2000vnd. I am going to my bed, coughing again