I was recently made aware of a new online social network called SiteTalk through a friend. SiteTalk sits under the umbrella of a new startup company called Unaico Ltd (United Nordic Alliance Investment Company) which sits under a bigger umbrella called The Enigro Group.
Yesterday I attended SiteTalk’s launch event in Hong Kong, and after
sitting through the 3 hour event (which included 3 presentations and a
lot of razzle dazzle), I decided that I should write something about it.
I am writing because I’m concerned about their business. More
specifically, I’m concerned for the people who are blindly investing in a
company that promises so much, yet offers very little to demonstrate
how it would become a success.
I left yesterday’s event feeling troubled at heart. Couldn’t the
audience see behind the rhetoric of the presenters Dan Andersson &
Rune Evensen? It was clearly a money-making scam.
As you can probably tell, the overall impression I received from
yesterday’s event wasn’t great. It was a bit like two white foreigners
trying to impress an audience of technically illiterate Asian investors
of what the Internet can do. Except the technology described has been
around since 2006. Believe it or not, they were pitching to the audience
Web 2.0.
In essence, SiteTalk is trying to be a Facebook… but with a lot less
capital and no solid revenue model. In fact, the website hasn’t even
been finished, yet they have already “launched” it. Apparently, basic
social networking features such as photo sharing and friend searching
will appear in “phases”. Funny that.
One of the presenters yesterday also mentioned that a marketing
campaign will commence in 2 weeks time and thus thousands of buses
throughout Hong Kong will bear SiteTalk advertising. Now I’m not sure
who on earth would visit a new website after seeing its web address on a
bus, but for those who would, I wouldn’t be too surprised if they are
greeted with a half-completed social website.
So to conclude my maiden blog post, I’d like you to warn people who
have invested or are thinking of investing in SiteTalk. Reason with
them… plead with them if you will, to pull out before they lose all
their money.
26 September 2011
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