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FrenchPod Introduces The Personalized Learning System
[Translate] ChinesePod is growing, after the SpanishPod, now we have FrenchPod which went live last week. But, if you think this is just a business expanding, you are wrong. As Ken described in his blog, the new FrenchPod represents a new version of the Praxis Language platform which named Personalized Learning System (PLS). Coincidence or...
A Lesson From BBC.com Chinese Media Sites Should Learn
[Translate] Ashley Highfield, the BBC director of new media and technology, said all future BBC digital output and services will focus on three concepts – “share”, “find” and “play”. New BBC.com was officially launched at 27 February, 2008. Guardian commented: “…(BBC) plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with...
Facebook Japan To Be Launched, How Can It Succeed
[Translate] Facebook, as they did with the German and the Spanish language, asked the Japanese Facebook users to translate its site into Japanese and gathered 1,375 volunteers (as of May 19) to contribute working on the translation. Today, after more than 30,000 translations have been submitted, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, came to Japan and...
China Web In Black & White
[Translate] Three days of national mourning for the tens of thousands of victims of last Monday’s earthquake started today. All the major Chinese portal sites (Sina, Sohu, Yahoo China, Tom, 163 etc) are in black and white, China web is deeply in memory of the dead, thinking of the missing and blessing China.
Internet In Peace, Three Days Mourning For The Victims Of Earthquake
[Translate] As a Chinese, as a son of Chengdu, Sichuan, the past week has been really tough for me. Tears is in my eyes everyday when I am watching BBC news, reading reports online. I have left Sichuan for nearly 12 years, but all those towns affected by the massive earthquake still sound so familiar...
italki, Building The Largest Community And Wiki For Language Learning
[Translate] Many language learning services have been covered on this blog, and we are quite excited to see some of them are doing excellent job by using the web 2.0 concept and technology. ChinesePod introduced Podcast to learn Chinese; ECPod is using user generated videos for teaching everyday Chinese and English; Lexdex allows you to...
Tuyuan, A Photo-Centric Social Network
[Translate] Tuyuan, a Beijing-based startup allows users to do the online social networking by using Facial Recognition technology. Surprisingly, Tuyuan was first discovered by TechCrunch, but as usual, Mike seems not very serious about the Chinese market, still. In Tuyuan, once you upload the photos, the faces on these photos can be automatically recognized, i.e....
UCWeb, The Next Maxthon On Mobile?
[Translate] There is no doubt that Maxthon is still the No.1 Chinese browser in the market, but we can see that the competition is getting more intense. Tencent has its so called TT browser bundled with QQ for a long time, Firefox is more and more accepted by high educated Internet users; If you search...
Event: CHINICT Rising Stars Award Ceremony, Beijing
[Translate] We always need more stages to help on the communication between the Chinese IT companies and the west. CHINICT is a quite high level annual event doing this job. Taking place for the 3rd consecutive year, CHINICT 2008 – the largest event in ICT entrepreneurship in Asia – will reward the rising stars in...
Jimdo Launched New Blog Feature
[Translate] Jimdo, a Germany-based online website editor has just launched its private beta version of Blog feature. Like Jimdo’s existing service, the blog feature is very cool. Ajax-based, highly customizable editor, easy-to-use multimedia content publishing system, for me Jimdo just proves one thing, Blog Service can be technique driven too. In China, it seems that...
Visiting Giant Interactive and Shanda
[Translate] It has been a while since I wrote my first post on this blog about international expansion of Chinese Internet companies. I wrote the post during a train ride from Guangzhou to Shanghai. As I am now traveling to Beijing in an olympic themed train, I will summarize some of the findings I did...
Thanks To Facebook, $430 Millions Into Oak Pacific’s Xiaonei.com
[Translate] Microsoft bought 1.6 percent stake of Facebook for $240 millions, which valued Facebook at $15 billion. It has just been confirmed that Xiaonei.com, the Chinese clone of Facebook owned by Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI) sold its approximately 35% share to Softbank for $430 millions, which values OPI at over $1 billion. So the Chinese...
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