2010 Oct Midterm

Midterm exam
Rachel Ju
Date: 2010. Oct. 20

Site Name: Sogi

Link: http://www.sogi.com.tw/


Site description: Sogi is one of the biggest website for cell phone information in Taiwan. It is a website that provides information about any type of cell phone. It introduces cell phones’ standers and prices. It includes the latest cell phone or wisdom handset.

What make the site unique: Sogi offers handset price ratio, handset news, telecommunication news, software teaching and a discussion about the cell phone. It also provides rings, games, photos and themes that people can free upload or download. In addition, the most unique function for this website is Sogi provides the price of each cell phone. Customers can get the information they need and also get feedback. Sogi can quote the approximate price for the latest cell phones that are not on the market for the customers’ reference.


Summary: Sogi is a really good website to discuss cell phones. Since every cell phone has its own discussion area, the customers know the cell phones’ advantages and disadvantages. Most of the points are objective opinions and reliable. The cell phone price on Sogi is based on Telecommunication Company; for this reason, the cell phone price on Sogi won’t affect the market.






Site Name: Yahoo knowledge


Link: http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/

Site description: Yahoo knowledge is a new manner for network information exchange service. It is divided into three parts: questioning, answer and search. Yahoo knowledge provides many kinds of categories, such as daily life, study and professional. It is a free community driven question-and-answer (Q&A) site. It allows users to submit and answer questions. In English, it is named Yahoo Answer.

What make the site unique: It is unique because this site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage people to participate in Yahoo knowledge. It is a different form of “Wiki”; Yahoo knowledge is a “question-and-answer” way. Every question will vote the best answer, in order to earn the points.


Summary: Yahoo knowledge is a useful website for us to get knowledge. However, many of the questions are similar. Some of the answers are answered by people who are not professionals in the subject area. Therefore, the answer might not be accurate.







Site Name: BBKZ

Link: http://www.bbkz.com/forum/

Site description: BBKZ offers Bulletin Board System (BBS), forum, survey, and net blog for budget travelers. This website solves many problems for travelers regarding their trip, for instance, living, transportation or famous spots information. It’s an information website for domestic and international travel.

What make the site unique: For this website, it is unique because BBKZ provides the prices of many hotels in order for the traveler to choose the hotel that is in their budget. The traveler can search and compare the price on BBKZ, no matter if it’s a domestic or international vacation. BBKZ has many travel information for budget travelers.

Summary: It is a good website for travelers to find more information about the location where they are traveling. This website is especially helpful for travelers on a budget because BBKZ can compare the prices of many hotels. Since the travelers know the price of the hotel before they go on vacation, they know how much money is needed for the vacation.