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Dot Asia Sunrises in This Summer

[Translate]   We dont know when the .Asia domain will be available to the public registry yet, and we probably have to wait for an official press release for the Dot Asia Sunrise, but it now has been confirmed by the Skype mood message of Ching, a great guy behind .Asia: http://www.registry.asia. A nice introduction...

QQ Bookmark and Tencent’s Web2.0

[Translate]   Even though a report from Baidu said only 2.3% Chinese Internet users were using Tag, the Chinese social bookmarking market is not that quiet than we thought. Quite a few social bookmarking services have been running for a while, and the in-complete list includes QQ Bookmark, Baidu SouCang, Yahoo ShouCang, eYou, INU.cc, Gotou, Otag.cn,  MyURLWorld, BBmao and...

Is HiPiHi Expanding Its Virtual World to World-Wide?

[Translate] According to the posts in VirtualWorldNews and Centric Thoughts, The Chinese virtual world HiPiHi has talked to the Japan-based company Centric which now became HiPiHi’s first western development partner. Second Life was in Beijing a few weeks ago, and the resource also told me that HiPiHi would have a meeting with another potential partner...

Travel in China Web (3) – Web2.0 is For The Content, Web1.0 is For The Money

[Translate] The Web2.0 is not that attractive to everybody, at least that was what I felt about the China web. Here are the highlights when I was there one month ago. After a busy schedule in Beijing and Shanghai, I went to Chengdu which is regarded as the most important developing city in south-west China....