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Tom-Joost and Vakaka, Chinese Joost and Vatata, Video Streaming System

[Translate] Joost is coming to China, partnered with Tom.com, a popular Chinese portal which is also running a Tom version of Skype. A friend said the Chinese version Joost was planned to be launched around Chinese new year (7th February) of 2008. I guess more Chinese channels will be added into Tom-Joost and the service...

Innobook, A New Open Publishing and Sharing Platform

[Translate] Innobook, co-founded by Xinyu Mao, Anbudangche and Jia Liu, was launched in late October, 2007. It is a free Chinese e-book publishing and sharing platform. In cooperation with Yeeyan, five e-books have been translated in Chinese and now free to download (25,000+ downloads so far) on Innobook, including Personal Branding (William Arruda), Next Generation...

Christmas Tragedy – CFO of Baidu Passed Away in An Accident

[Translate] It has been a profitable 2007 for Baidu.com, the leading Chinese search language search provider. It takes over 60% share in Chinese search market. According to the Q3 2007 financial report from Baidu, its total revenue reached 497million RMB. It is 107.5% growth compared to Q3, 2006, and 23.8% increase compared to Q2 this...

Is Your Web2.0 Business Tasty For Chinese?

[Translate] It was the Boxing day, I was sitting with a friend in a PizzaHut here in Sheffield, UK. The food is OK, but minutes later, we started talking about the PizzaHut in China, the Chinese KFC and Macdonald’s, then came the conclusion, those food in China is so great and much more tasty! I...

If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free

[Translate] If you love someone, set them free, set them free… If you are a fan of Sting, you must know this song (video on YouTube). OpenSocial, Facebook F8, Bebo API, Friendster platform…, yeah, the Internet is suddenly open up. The big players will be all open, load’s of companies will be following, so what...

IE7Pro and Orbit Downloader, You Probably Don’t Know They Are Based in China

[Translate] [Ed: I have been in touch with the teams for a long while but never got chance to blog about their work. I was very surprised when I heard that they were actually based in Beijing (although both teams are quite international), and impressed by the features their software provides.] IE7Pro – When Internet...

Three Chinese Virtual Worlds In Conversation

[Translate] [Ed: This post is republished on KZero which provides strategic insight, research and guidance to companies wishing to maximise metaverse platform. KZero is founded by Nic Mitham. Thank you Nic.] Recently, three pioneers in Chinese virtual world industry, Hui Xu (H.X), founder of HiPiHi, Weijiang Zhan (WJ.Z), founder of NOVOKing and Peng Ye (P.Y),...

Celebration, BlogBus’ 5th Birthday; Reflection, China’s Blogosphere

[Translate] Tomorrow, the 4th Edition of Le Web 3, the biggest European blogger conference will take place in Paris, France. Amazingly, there will be 1700 participants coming from all over the Europe. I was there last year ( read my live blogging ) and my eyes were first time opened to see the power of...

Mash Up Your Music With Map and Mini Blog On 8Box.com

[Translate] A web mashup is a web page or application that combines data from two or more external online sources, you can find loads of mashup services in the web2.0 business. However, an interesting point is that many of you, including me, never asked ourselves one question: where this jargon, mashup originally comes from. According...