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August 17, 2008
18:33
The U.S. iTunes App Store - O'Reilly Radar
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what's hot in appstore?
August 16, 2008
23:43
Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking
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Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking
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Global Instant Messaging Market Share - Open Data | Billions Connected
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各国IM市场占有率的数据

22:52
抱抱–摔跤
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带雁之去看奥运会比赛，雁之一点兴趣都没有–最感兴趣的环节是跟着大家高兴地使劲鼓掌。

逛奥林匹克花园，其实还蛮不错的，尤其是晚上半条河都是音乐喷泉，配上壮观的灯火夜景（中国红的鸟巢、透蓝的水立方，五彩变幻的玲珑塔），和十六的月亮，给半天的游览划上一个完美的句号。

爸爸给雁之买了一套贴纸，雁之一个一个指着说：游泳、骑马……抱抱！

爸爸更正：这是摔跤。

第二天，雁之再拿起贴纸，说：游泳、骑马……抱抱，然后摔一跤。

August 13, 2008
14:28
Open Web Asia Conference: The First Pan Asia Tech Event
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When we talk about Asian tech industry, we can think of online gaming, mobile applications, virtual item-based business models and many other innovations in Asia. But till now, we never have an event which bring together Asian tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and industry people. Open Web Asia ‘08, to be hosted on October 14, 2008 in Seoul Korea in its inaugural year, marks the birth of the first truly pan-Asia web technology event.

The event is organized by members of the Open Web Asia Workgroup and other prominent entrepreneurs, thinkers, and bloggers from within the Asian web industry. This year’s Open Web Asia Conference will be held in association with the World Knowledge Forum (WKF).

The one day conference will be divided into four sessions focusing on the following key areas: Insights and Best Practices, Innovations in Asia; Collaboration - An Introduction to Asia’s Social Web; and East Meets West - The challenges of Internationalization To and From Asia. We already have 16 top executives and entrepreneurs as confirmed speakers from China, Japan, Korea and USA.

Remember to mark the day, October 14, 2008 in your calendar, and reserve a place ASAP.

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August 11, 2008
0:43
TrendsSpotting Handbook Of Online China
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TrendsSpotting blog published an informative slideshow, “Handbook of Online China“, just before the Beijing Olympics. The report, data collected from various sources, provides an overview of development of China’s Internet and user behaviors, the competitive landscape of some main Internet services, including search, IM and Web 2.0, and overview of online ads market and mobile market in China.

The slideshow can be viewed on Slideshare.

I added this slideshow to a new group I just created on Slideshare, China Web Research, and I will add more slideshows on China’s Internet and mobile web into the group. Welcome to join the group and subscribe the rss feed of the group.

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August 07, 2008
18:07
The Olympics and Social Media in China
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As Kaiser Kuo said Beijing 2008 is the first web 2.0 Olympics ever, we will start to consume and enjoy the Olympics in social media, rather than only in main stream media. I will try to summarize China’s social media campaigns on the Games. If you know any good Olympics social media campaign, please leave a comment below, I will add it into the post.

Online Video

Online video is the most important part of social media for the Olympics. CCTV.com, the website of China’s Central TV station, owns the online video rights of the Beijing 2008. CCTV.com partners with Adobe to operate The Olympic Network TV Station, CCTVOlympics.com, to provide 5,000 hours of on-demand protected streamed video content including full event replays, highlights, features, interviews and encore packages.

CCTV.com also licensed online video rights to some Chinese web portals, video sharing sites and P2P video streaming services, including Sohu, Sina, Netease, Tencent, Ku6, UUSee, PPStream and PPLive(UUsee, PPsteam and PPlive are all P2P video streaming services).

Youku.com, which doesn’t have rights to broadcast the Olympic Games video, launches an Olympics campaign to call for users to upload videos related to the Olympics. Youku also partners with China Mobile’s M-zone service for a cheering for the Olympics with musics campaign.

ps. check this post for the Olympics video streaming guide, esp. for outside China.

Twitter

Steve Lin (aka. Flypig), Wang Li’ang(aka. Webleon) and Chloe Gu (aka. Babechloe) launched a Twitter tag campaign #080808, actually not only on Twitter. From Danwei:

The #080808 campaign allows microbloggers to participate in a worldwide timeline of online Twitter chatter about August 8, 2008, the start of the Beijing Olympics games. The campaign only requires “#080808″ to be included in a Twitter update so that it can be easily indexed by Tweet Scan or Twitter Search.

If you want to to see the latest Twitter buzz about the Beijing Olympic Games in English, Chinese, and several other languages, link here or here (timeline results should be the same). Also, check out the #080808 campaign Web site which includes a “tag timeline” widget along the right-hand side of the page with all the latest #080808 Twitter updates.

The campaign is not limited to Twitter. The #080808 tag can be used to tag any online content (Flickr pics, YouTube videos, text blog postings, Technorati / Google Blogsearch, etc.). Click here for a mash-up Web site created by Junyu Wang that aggregates all the latest multimedia postings tagged “#080808″ into a single, simple interface.

The collection of #080808 Twitter user image by Yuki.N.

Blogs

Of course, almost all the blog services have feature pages on blog posts about the Olympics by bloggers, for example, Sohu and QQ. A special blogging platform need to be mentioned is Lenovo Athletes blog, Voices of the Olympic Games.

Others
- Hoodong, a wiki service, launched a book crossing event for an Olympic book edited by Hoodong.
- Baidu Baike, Baidu’s wikipedia-like service, has an Olympics encyclopedia campaign.
- Youku also partners with China Mobile’s M-zone service for a cheering for the Olympics with musics campaign.
If you know any other interesting social media campaign on the Olympics Games, please leave comments below, we are sure there are many more.

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Post tags: 2008, Beijing 2008, Olympics, social-media

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August 06, 2008
17:23
Web InfoMall
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August 04, 2008
23:31
Google China Launches mp3 Search
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It has been said in the market for quite a long time that Google China invested in Top100.cn, a legit online music download service, and will release a mp3 search service soon. Today the news is official. Google China’s mp3 search service is online already.

Google mp3 search now allows users to search mp3, listening online streaming, download lyrics and mp3, and use the music as mobile phone’s ringtones. Since it is a service partnered with Top100.cn, therefore, it can only provide musics from the labels cooperated with Top100.cn, and based on different rights licensed from music labels, not all mp3 in the search results are downloadable.

Google China MP3 search

The service will be free of charge, Google China plans to share advertising revenue with music labels. Previously, Top100.cn charged users RMB 1-3 yuan per download, and it provides wma file with DRM protection. Since August Top100.cn has suspended the charged music download, and will switch to free of charge and DRM-free mp3 download service.

MP3 search is an important weapon of Baidu to beat Google in China, according to Alexa, music related search services, Baidu mp3 and Baidu Zhangmenren, account for about 9% of all Baidu’s traffic. Will it be affected by Google China’s music search? I don’t think so, at least in short term.

Google China’s music search is not a traditional search service, in fact, it is a dedicated digital music free download service. Currently, the music library is still quite limited if compared with Baidu mp3 search. So in terms of music database, Baidu has clear advantage, though it might need to face lawsuits on copyright from time to time.

Secondly, Baidu mp3 search has its brands in the market already. When looking for a music, almost all users will rely on Baidu mp3 search. Since Google China’s mp3 search doesn’t provide better features than Baidu, why should they bother to change to use Google?

On the other hand, Baidu also start to cooperates with music labels on advertising revenue sharing, such as EMI. Considering the potential traffic difference between Baidu mp3 service and Google China’s mp3 search, if Baidu seriously changes to ad revenue sharing model, it is obviously who can make more money on advertising. Baidu has yet been serious on this, but it is not so much time left for Google.

ps. read this article for more about Baidu’s mp3 service and revenue sharing strategy.

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Post tags: Google-China, music, Top100.cn

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August 03, 2008
22:26
Rumor: Google China Partners with Kingsoft on Office Products
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WPS, developed by Kingsoft, is a very important name in the history of China’s consumer software industry, it was the only main competitor of Microsoft’s Office products in China. But its market share keeps shrinking in recent years.

We has been expecting Kingsoft can exploit its technology in office software development to build an online office service, and continue to compete with MS Office. However, obviously online office is not what Kingsoft want, it has made up its mind to develop itself into an online gaming company. It was rumored that Kingsoft will spin off its non-profitable business from the listed company in Hongkong, including WPS and Kingsoft Dictionary.

Kingsoft said in May that it is cooperating with an international Internet company on WPS. Today, Sina reported that it is Google China who will partner with Kingsoft to release an office product. The product is believed to be a WPS-based desktop office software, but closely integrated with Google Docs, the online office service by Google. The strategy makes sense, because pure online office service, as Google Docs, is quite difficult to attract users in China, people still like using a desktop software. On the other hand, to partner with WPS can also help Google Docs to leverage WPS’s current user base, though it is quite small. But both Google China and Kingsoft denied that they are cooperating on WPS product. Is it really a rumor?

In May, Google China launched a dictionary software called Google Kingsoft Ciba, which is based on Kingsoft’s popular Ciba dictionary software and adding some online features.

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MIT Press Journals - Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization
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MIT's journal on social innovation
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MIT's journal on social innovation
August 02, 2008
14:03
Startup School 08 | Omnisio
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Startup school is an annual free conference for hackers interested in startups.
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Startup school is an annual free conference for hackers interested in startups.
July 31, 2008
23:10
人立方关系搜索
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23:09
YouTube - Sam Flemming on China Event (part 1)
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11:14
吕欣欣-思想有什么未来 » 中国能有自己的博客营销准则吗？
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Pony Ma Downplays Facebook Developer Platform
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In this two months, we heard a lot of open platform news in China. Actually there are two big Internet companies we all expect them to be more open, they are Baidu and Tencent.

In an interview with journalist from 21st Century Business Herald on this Feb, Pony Ma, founder and CEO of Tencent, talked about QQ’s future development, and his experience on Facebook inspired him many ideas. He also said that “there will be many applications on QQ SNS in the future. Not all apps need to be developed by Tencent. We can open API to allow third-party apps. Users can get these apps on IM or on blogs. But it should not be too open, to avoid advertising behaviors and cheating, we will control it by some means”.

However, several months later, in a recent interview, Pony Ma changed his attitudes, and begin to downplay open platform. He said, “[Open platform] will be easily outdated, and touch the ceiling soon, just as what happened to online chat room”. He don’t think open platform really bring something valuable. He insisted that a good platform should also provides applications and services by itself, at least for main part. He said, “In fact, if they are good apps, it is inevitable that platform provider will develop it by itself, the [third-party] apps will be replaced sooner or later. For those apps which platform provider does not develop, they are definitely not good”.

By the interview, we know it is almost impossible for Tencent to launch an open platform in foreseeable future. Instead, Tencent will build everything by itself, rather than building an ecosystem around it. Tencent has hundreds of millions of users, that’s its big advantages. But I still believe the future of Internet is about openness, even in China. Tencent’s walled garden will give competitors more opportunities to win the game.

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July 29, 2008
23:14
Lost in Beijing? Maybe Try Guanxi
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The Olympic Games is just one week away, more and more people arrive in Beijing to visit the city and watch the Games. But you know, language is a big problem you will encounter when you are in Beijing.

Guanxi, a mobile search service by mInfo, may offer some helps to you. Check this video from the Wall Street Journal. (You may need to visit the blog to view the embed video)

Besides Guanxi, which is an English SMS search service acquired by mInfo, mInfo also operates Chinese SMS/WAP search. Recently mInfo was selected by Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG) as the mobile search provider for the official Olympics mobile site.

According to an article on Shanghai Daily, mInfo will announce a new round of financing from existing investors and new investors within two months. mInfo has raised about $10 million from investors such as Staenberg Capital.

The article also said “The company’s revenue will jump four or five times in 2008 and it will become profitable in the first quarter of 2009″.

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July 28, 2008
23:38
Sohu Upgrades WebIM-like Service and Launches Satellite Map
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Sohu recently rolled out a new version of its Little Notes service, making it more like a webIM. About one year ago, we reported that Sohu launched a service called Quick Notes, which enable users to chat with other users. The new version of Quick Notes launched on July 25th mimics the way that Facebook Chat functions.

When you log in to some Sohu’s products, such as Sohu blog, you will notice a chat bar at the bottom of your browser, no installation or assembly required. From the bar, you can view the list of your online and offline friends. You can chat with online friends, or leave message to your offline friends. It also allows you to change you status to “offline”, “busy” or “away” mode.

IM is a very important service for Chinese Internet users, since over 77% of Chinese netizens are using IM service. All major Chinese websites have their own IM tool, such as QQ from Tencent, Wangwang from Alibaba/Taobao, Baidu Hi from Baidu and UC from Sina. Now Little Notes can be a Sohu’s answer to IM service, it is web-based and integrated with Sohu’s social networking products.

Besides webIM, Sohu launches a satellite map feature on its Sogou Map. Currently, Sogou Map provides satellite maps for 21 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and etc.

Some users compared Sogou Satellite Map with Google Earth, they found that for some cities, Google Earth’s satellite image is more updated than Sogou map, but for Beijing, Sogou map is more updated.

Sogou Satellite Map integrated with Sogou Map very well, and it has marked the name of main street and buildings on satellite images, which make it very easy to locate the place you are looking for. You can also find businesses and places of interests, such as restaurants, hotels, cafes, directly on the satellite maps. Therefore, it is more convenient to use for China’s users.

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