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ChineseSavvy, An All-in-One Package for Chinese Learning

[Translate] We have been tracking ChineseSavvy for a while. It is always a nice site for learning Chinese online, but we felt it was a bit hard to properly pitch ChineseSavvy because it has so many things in one place, until recently it is nicely revamped. We email-interviewed and had a discussion with Emily Shen,...

Meet Jet Li! Interview with Stephen Wang, CTO of AliveNotDead

[Translate] alivenotdead.com (AnD) is a self-funded Hong Kong based social network for artists across the Asia. You probably never heard of it and they never proclaimed its web 2.0 loudly, but having 800 artists including Jet Li and Kelly Hu as its official artists, AnD is indeed very special! We have the great pleasure to...

DCCI Reports: Average 80 Millions Chinese Users Tracking Olympics Online Daily

[Translate] The exceptional Beijing Olympic Games have drawn to a close with a glittering closing ceremony. The Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI), a third party providing the uniform market monitor and audience measurement on China Internet has been tracking the online Beijing Olympics for 2 weeks. The traffic to Beijing Olympics authorized online...

SocialOyster Searches For Your Friends’ Online Life

[Translate] There are many lifestreaming services trying to put our online social life together, such as FriendFeed, SocialThing! etc.  Here comes another one called SocialOyster. Developed by Marcus Reimold from Cologne, SocialOyster is only two weeks old, at very early stage but it does bring something interesting. Three services now can be found on SocialOyster:...

VeryCD, The Leading Chinese P2P Media Directory Will Be Revamped Soon

[Translate] VeryCD is an eMule based Chinese P2P media directory. The open source software eMule was first introduced by the VeryCD project to Chinese Internet in September 2003. Driven by the user communities, with thousands of contributors publishing and sharing their media resources everyday, VeryCD has become one of the biggest, well-categorized and easiest P2P...

Muecs Trying To Mashup Social Services With E-Commerce

[Translate] Muecs.com is a new web site that allows people organize and share media contents with others through various services provided on the site. It is started in middle of 2007 and released in April 1st 2008 by Benjamin Law, a university student in Hong Kong and his friends. The name Muecs stands for Make...

The Explanation of Open Web Asia

[Translate] OpenWeb.Asia (OWA) Workgroup is a network of premium blogs focus on Asian Web industry, this is the definition read from its web site. People in the blogosphere see OWA as a blog network similar to Alltop China; technical people link it with some technical terms such as OpenSocialas Google has launched OpenWebFoundation. We titled...

Open Web Asia Conference 2008 Is Coming

[Translate] In the past two months since we announced the OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup, our members together with many other entrepreneurs, thinkers and bloggers have been working very hard on our first event, as promised, the Open Web Asia Conference. Today, we are very happy to officially announce that Open Web Asia Conference ’08, the first pan-Asia...

Famento, Focus On Your Life and Your Family Story

[Translate] We believe that the family-centered social networks can be more than building the Family Trees and they will be accepted as an efficient way to connect family members as well as friends. Famento, a new service just launched its beta version yesterday has the similar insight. It encourages people: share your family stories. Famento...

Barcamp Malaysia 08

[Translate] The first Malaysian barcamp was concluded last month. I was invited to talk about my participation in SummerOfCode but was unable to make it. Judging from the feedback on the blogosphere, it was a spectacular event. Volunteer Kamal Fariz told me that the success of the barcamp in the capital of Malaysia has spawned...

Share Your Olympics Moments From Your Mobile Phone

[Translate] ReadWriteWeb has wrote an excellent post introducing the online video coverage of Olympics 2008. It is about mainstream video broadcasting. If you are interested in seeing what is happening in China from the perspective of those who are there on real time, what can you do? Qik, the Silicon Valley based company which has...

Tomorrow is a Special Day, Join #080808 Twitter Campaign

[Translate] Olympics 2008 is coming tomorrow! 8 is a lucky number for Chinese, and 08/08/08 is definitely a very very special day. Now we have #080808 twitter campaign to celebrate and support Beijing Olympics. The campaign is started by Chinese blogger, Flypig, Webleon and Babechloe. If you search for #080808, you will see a new...