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Internationalized Domain Name – The Road Ahead
[Translate] Call it cultural hegemony, call it digital monopoly. Why can there only be 26 roman characters variant in a domain name? Well, not anymore. It’s now possible for every language in this world to have domain names of their own language, thanks to Internationalized Domain Name (IDN). Mobinode probably can have one called 动点博客.com...
Breaking: Novoking – The New Chinese 3D Virtual World Unveiled
[Translate] After nearly 23 month intensive development, another large scale 3D virtual world - Novoking is finally unveiled. We are not sure yet how this new virtual world will stand out in this hottest market, but we do believe the release of Novoking will further drive the popularity of 3D virtual world raised by Second Life, There and...
Technorati Is Back to China
[Translate] Technorati is finally unblocked by Great FireWall of China (GFW) after more than a year time. The latest news from my friend Rick is that a guy from Technorati is also visiting China. We have reported that Technorati was planning its Chinese version, not sure if there will be some further action responding to this good...
Friendster.com Is Visiting China
[Translate] Kent Lindstrom, CEO of Friendster.com is in Beijing. A friend who met him told me Kent was there for the market research. I am not sure about what the impression of Chinese web is in Kent’s mind, and also dont know what will be his next action, the news is Friendster, another successful western...
Event: DotAsia Organization Ltd. Press Conference, Shanghai
[Translate] DotAsia (.asia) finally comes to China. The DotAsia Press Conference will be hosted in Shanghai this Friday. Here are the details: Event: DotAsia Press Conference Organizer: DotAsia Organization Ltd. VIP: Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia Date: 14:00, 24th August, 2007 (Friday) Place: Shanghai Hilton Hotel (No.25 Huashan Road), Shanghai China 上海希尔顿酒店 华山路25号 If you are...
Who needs Adsense? Malaysia’s Advertising Community
[Translate] Countless people blog. Who says bloggers’ revenues come only from Google Adsense? NuffNang and Adverlets are two companies that believe there is life beyond Adsense. Both companies are based in Malaysia and were launch less than a month between them. They are banking on bloggers to make their wallet fat. The idea is simple,...
Is TechCrunch Learning Chinese Web?
[Translate] If you search for the posts with the keyword ‘China’ on TechCrunch, there are eight posts which are China web related in the past month. The latest one is HiPiHi Seeks To Standardize 3D Worlds And Develop Interoperability which I also covered here. It is quite unusual, I would say. If you ever read a post titled...
Hoodong.com, the Chinese Wiki Named as “Red Herring 100 Asia” Award Winner for 2007
[Translate] Hoodong.com, the No.1 Chinese Wiki service provider has been officially selected as a winner of the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia 2007 awards. This exciting news is confirmed in an email from Haidong Pan, the founder of Hoodong. The winners were selected from more than 600 applicants based in 16 countries/regions in Asia including...
HiPiHi Announced Global Strategy – Standardizing The Virtual World
[Translate] HiPiHi Ltd., the China-based founder of the 3D virtual world, announced its global strategy on today in Singapore. This strategy is aimed to standardize the 3D virtual world and establish a world-wide collaboration in this 3D Internet market. “Three parts are involved in HiPiHi’s global strategy. First, HiPiHi will cooperate with global leaders in the Internet...
Tencent Launched Twitter-like Service and English Version of QQ Bookmark
[Translate] Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and so on, what is the impact of these emerging Instant-Messaging or Non-Instant-Messaging on the traditional IM markets. Particularly if we discuss this topic in the context of Chinese market, the question would equal to What can Tencent (owner of QQ) learn from these new Internet messaging approaches. I have been...
GownFull, An Online Ajax-based Input Method
[Translate] I still remember when I first came to UK years ago, I logged on the university computer and tried to send a few emails to some friends in China. Minutes later, I was so frustrated because there was no IME for Chinese pre-installed and as a student I was not allowed to install a IME into...
Lifesterblog.com Updated
[Translate] It could be HongKong Web2.0 Week this week on MOBINODE, another HongKong based site will be covered here in the coming post shortly. But before we finish that post, let’s give more words again to a very young but unique open blogging platform in China, Lifesterblog.com. Edmund, founder of Lifesterblog pinged me last week...
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