From the often excellent Tai Tran explains why he prefers LinkHay over Digg.

At the end of the day, he states that his focus is on the Vietnamese market, and a specialized social news site tacks in exactly the right direction that is meaningful to him.  The signal to noise is high for him at LinkHay, and I imagine that he is not a member of the target audience that seeks “Top Ten Dating Secrets for Wookie Fans.”

I may be wrong though.  He may be a Wookie lover any way.

LinkHay was built by VCCorp, a scrappy group of Vietnamese internet entrepreneurs.  VCCorp was built by a bunch of college friends, who started off with a the mother of all forums in Vietnam “Trai Tim Vietnam Online” aka the “Heart of Vietnam.”  From their experiences there, they went on to build Dan Tri, one of Vietnam’s largest portals.

Since then, they’ve thrown up a bunch of different, and sometimes random sites.  They range from parenting portals, to online karaoke platforms, to classified ads and auction websites.  I’m sure that they have a clear plan internally, but from the outside, it looks like their philosophy is “if we can build it, we should build it.”