Sunday, July 06, 2014

World Cup from 1998 to 2014 - A transition from PC Era to Mobile Era

Two years ago, influential web portals in China began planning topics related to the World Cup. In addition to compliance with the "high invest, high return; low invest, low return", they also focus on how to maximize the ultimate user experience in order to establish their reputation and brands.


Besides these web portals, a growing number of Internet companies begin to enter the game with the development of the Internet technology. The most popular technology terms, such as big data, cloud computing, O2O, social dividends, and inter-screen strategy, have become the weapons of these technology firms to get a slice of cake from the World Cup.

From the 1998 World Cup in France to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Sina not only dominated the Internet coverage of the contest, but also led the PC-era version 1.0 reporting mode: PC-side plus Sina blog, and lots of information, pictures, and videos. However, this is the last carnival of portal era.

With the continuous evolution of Internet technology products, microblogging began to play full force in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The Internet technology began to rush to news apps during the 2012 London Olympics. In 2013, video apps came. Nowadays, everything moved to mobile end. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil witnesses the shift from PCs to the mobiles.


Compared to the PC era, the mobiles emphasize more on user activity and stickiness. Quite different from the simple pursuit of huge numbers of clicks, mobiles pursue better user experience.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/27/in-nadellas-post-post-pc-era-apps-trump-devices-and-information-finds-you/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/post-pc-era-or-not-we-are-firmly-in-the-mobile-era/4766

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