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November 19, 2008
23:01
Xiami: P2P music sharing
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We have been hearing about Xiami’s new beta from multiple sources. Xiami is a P2P music sharing community. The key services include a P2P client, web based metadata directory and economy system.

To have a preview of the music, you don’t need the client. There’s a web based music player. But to download the music, you will need the client. It’s like verycd, but focused on music.

All music is uploaded by users. To encourage users to upload music, it has its economy system. Uploading music or others downloading your music will earn virtual coin for you. Certainly, to download music you will need to spend virtual coin. You can also buy virtual coin with real money.

Have they solved the copyright issue? After carefully studying the website, I think no. They don’t mention how artist or labels will get anything from it. Its main business is not selling music, but enabling automatically swapping music album. It also has a feature to let you create costumed album like Baidu Zhangmenren. These albums can also be downloaded and earn virtual coin for you.

Here’s a blog post introducing the website by the founder.

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November 05, 2008
22:14
Video News Roundup: Layoff, Ads Revenue and LeTV.com
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In last two weeks, there are quite some rumors or news on China’s video sites, most of them are related to layoff. 6.cn, a video sharing site backed by Ceyuan Ventures, announced that it to cut its workforce from over 200 to about 60. UUSee, a p2p video streaming site backed by Sequoia Capital, also confirmed its recent layoff rumor. There are more layoff rumors about Tudou and PPLive. But Tudou already denied it, and said it has no layoff plan.

Even these video sites backed by big amount of capital investment of venture capitalist are experiencing hard time and need to cut cost, it is not surprised to find out that a large percentage of China’s over 200 video sharing sites have already gone into dead pool.

But to cut cost is one thing, another more important thing is to generate more revenues. According to a report on Sina, Gary Wang, CEO of Tudou, quoted data by Zed Digital, which shows that the revenue of Tudou on first half of 2008 was RMB 11.3 million, while revenue of Youku, its biggest competitor, was RMB5.5 million. But Youku responded that many ads on Youku are ads embed on videos, which is hard for third-party ads monitoring service to track. Therefore, the data of Youku’s revenue is not correct. On the contrary, based on traffic, Youku thought its revenue would be three times of Tudou.

No matter whose revenue is bigger, if the revenue need to support the high band width cost, they all have to increase revenue substantially.

On recent announced Deloitte Technology Fast 50 China, the third place went to LeTV.com, a video-on-demand service provider, which enjoyed 8,331% three-year average revenue growth. LeTV.com will charge users a monthly fee of about RMB 30 for watching movies or TV dramas online. Actually its model has nothing new, but it is said that LeTV is profitable already. ShenZhen Capital Group, with another two investors, has invested in RMB50 million into LeTV in July 2008.

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Post tags: 6rooms, LeTV, Tudou, Youku

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21:52
Going East Asia Web Survey
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Going East Asia is a survey conducted by web2Asia for companies considering expanding their business to East Asia.

Web2Asia is conducting the worldwide first survey of its kind with the most up to date research into the expansion status quo and the expansion plans of Internet, gaming and eCommerce companies to East Asia.

The Going East Asia expansion survey is an initiative that aims to delve deeper into the opportunities and challenges startups and established companies face and anticipate when “going Asian”. The survey seeks to identify the type of interactive media enterprises that want to expand to East Asia and their motivation and expectations from their engagement.

The deadline of the survey is just one week away. The results of the survey will be announced on Nov 14th in Shanghai during China2.0 Tour. So if you are interested in Asian and China market, and haven’t take the survey. Go click the button on the right now.

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October 29, 2008
23:28
Xiaonei Integrates Payment System Into App Platform
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Xiaonei, the leading Facebook-copycat in China, announced today that it has started to allow third-party apps to integrate Xiaonei’s online payment system, i.e. Xiaonei Dou, to monetize the traffics.

What is Xiaonei Dou? It is the virtual coin of Xiaonei.com, you can use Alipay, Yeepay, mobile phone or pre-paid card to pay for Xiaonei Dou, then you can use Xiaonei Dou to pay for services on Xiaonei.com. Now apps developers can develop apps to try to charge users and make money.

When Xiaonei rolled out its developer platform, it was criticized by many developers for its not-so-open policy, but it became more and more developer-friendly, for instance, in August, it changed policy to allow developers to have online ads in apps. Now the new Xiaonei Dou payment system offers new way for developers to make money, it’s good for whole eco-system. Currently, there are about 800 third-party apps on Xiaonei’s platform.

Actually, it is not the first developer platform to integrate virtual coin system. On Oct 20th, 51.com also announced developers on its platform can use 51 coin in apps. The system is there already, the widget developers now need to focus on product, to think out how they can ask users to pay for it.

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October 27, 2008
23:47
Baidu E-commerce Platform Is Finally Online
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Today, Baidu finally rolls out its much-anticipated C2C e-commerce platform, a little more than one year after Baidu announced its ambitious C2C plan. This e-commerce platform is called Youa.com, together with Baifubao.com, Baidu’s online payment platform, they are the only services by Baidu which don’t use a domain name under Baidu.com.

During its private test, about 10,000 sellers has participated in the private beta, and created shops and added goods, or copy their listings from Taobao. That’s why you can already find about 1 million listings when Youa.com is online.

I did not try the whole platform as a buyer, but I still feel its web design is very similar to that of Taobao, in terms of either UI of webpage, or design of transaction procedures. To be a seller on Youa.com, you need to submit the copy of you ID card to be verified by Baidu, and also to have your bank account verified. It is also similar to Taobao’s procedures. So generally, Youa.com is quite similar to Taobao.

In Sept. the transaction volume on Taobao.com has exceed RMB 10 billion in a single month, it is not easy to compete with Taobao. Moreover, Youa.com is somewhat un-related to Baidu’s core business, search business, so whether Youa can be a strong challenger of Taobao, or it just make Baidu spreading itself too thin, let’s wait for another one year.

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Post tags: Baidu, c2c, ecommerce, Youa

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October 26, 2008
22:39
Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 in Guangzhou
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This year’s Chinese Blogger Conference will be held in Guangzhou on Nov. 15-16, it is the forth year of this annual event. For those who are not familiar with Chinese Blogger Conference, it is a very grassroot annual gathering for China’s bloggers and tech startups, you can use “cnbloggercon” to search blog posts and photos about previous events.

On this year’s event, we will have Shel Israel, author of Naked Conversation, to have a keynote on social media and its influence on culture in various countries; Christopher Adams, editor of Free Soul, to share the new publishing autonomy under new sharism environment. Christine Lu from The Chinese Business Network is organizing a China2.0 Tour, you can also meet them in Guangzhou.

You can also find other interesting speeches and panels on the conference, including Internet word of mouth, education and social learning, Creative Commons, NPO 2.0.

If you are interested in attending this year’s conference, please register online ASAP.

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October 22, 2008
13:31
Baidu IM Launches Web Version
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Starting Yesterday, if you visit Baidu space, you will be able to chat with other Baidu users within your browser. If you logged in your Baidu account, you will see a little Baidu Hi logo right beside your user name. Clicking it, you will be directed to the web version.

The launched product is the Web version of Baidu’s instant messenger. Baidu’s IM, launched in March this year, is sharing the same name with Baidu space and tightly integrated with it.

The web version is quite simple. It doesn’t show you a buddy list, as most of your expected. To start a conversation, you just click the button on the upper left side of the screen, then input the user name that you want to chat. The user on the other side will be notified, if he is on the site as well. So it’s not a rich and fancy web product with tons of javascript to compete with other web IM. It’s good for a quick catch of someone that you really have something to say. From my point of view, it works and is enough.

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October 17, 2008
10:28
Taobao Launches Collaborative Recommendation
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Taobao, the biggest C2C/B2C service of China, has just launched personal portal called iTaobao. If you have added any friends in Taobao, you will be able to have a glance of their latest favorite goods.

What it really does is to recommend goods and stores to users according to their browsing and purchasing history. The main section of the page shows 8 recommended goods for you. You will be able to filter the result via 5 category. This way you will get more focused 8 recommendation for specific category. Below that, it recommends 4 stores for you with their latest 4 listed goods.

There’s no clue what’s the main technology used in this recommendation, but we believe collaborative filtering does the main job. An interesting finding is that if you use two deferent browsers to visit the site, you will get very different recommendation result. It seems that it records some history information via cookie and stored in user’ computer.

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October 15, 2008
22:56
Open Web Asia Conference Videos Online
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On Tuesday, Open Web Asia Conference 2008 was held in Seoul, it is the first pan-Asia tech event to bring together startups, investors and industry players in Asia and western countries. I’ve heard many positive feedbacks from Twitter and blogosphere.

Yes, I’m one of the organizer of the event, but it is a pity that I cannot go to Seoul this time. If you also missed this awesome event like me, you can still check out these videos of the panel. Thanks Masaru IKEDA from Asiajin.

Session2: Innovations in Asia (Coordinated by: Gang Lu & me)

Session3: Collaboration (Coordinated by: Benjamin Joffe)

Session4: East meets West (Coordinated by: George Godula)

You can also check the interviews of speakers by Netease, a web portal in China. Many of the interviews is in English.

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October 09, 2008
23:43
Comsenz Sells ECShop To ShopEX
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ECShop, a Comsenz’s software which enables users to build up their own online shops, today was sold to ShopEx, a Shanghai-based company and its biggest rival.

On August 2007, Comsenz, the famous social software enabler in China, acquired ECShop, after the acquisition Comsenz developed ECMall, which allows you to build a online C2C platform. And on October 2007, Comsenz rolled out Maifou, which is a hosted online shops service. It is said there are totally over 100,000 websites are using ECShop to sell goods online. Now all these three services are sold to ShopEX. ShopEX, established in 2002, is another leading player in the market, whose ShopEX software and hosted service Wdwd.com are also very popular.

Just in Sept., Comsenz also sold its ~~OpenV~~ SuperV to Ku6.com. ~~OpenV~~ SuperV is a software which helps you to build your own online video sharing sites. After selling ECShop and ~~OpenV~~ SuperV, Comsenz will focus its resources on two products: Discuz!, a popular BBS software and the core asset of Comsenz, and especially UCenter Home, a SNS software and which is critical to Comsenz’s future development.

ps. Kevin Dai, founder and CEO of Comsenz will present at OpenWebAsia Conference in Seoul next week, he will be on the panel of “Innovation in Asia”.

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Post tags: Comsenz, ECShop, ShopEX

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