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 create […]
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Tuyuan, A Photo-Centric Social Network
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. your […]
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UCWeb, The Next Maxthon On Mobile?
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 for […]
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Event: CHINICT Rising Stars Award Ceremony, Beijing
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 the […]
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Jimdo Launched New Blog Feature
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 we […]
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Visiting Giant Interactive and Shanda
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 in […]
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Thanks To Facebook, $430 Millions Into Oak Pacific’s Xiaonei.com
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 social […]
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SOHU Stands At Mount Everest, A Quick Review Of Chinese Portals
I was chatting with a friend today on MSN. I asked him where he was, and his answer absolutely surprised me. He is at Mount Everest! No joke here, this guy is working for SOHU and he is there together with his CEO, Charles Zhang to broadcast the Olympics Torch Relay. So SOHU, very popular […]
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Tudou’s 3-Year Birthday Gift, $57 Millions Forth Round Fund Confirmed
The rumor about Tudou, the leading Chinese video-sharing site’s forth round fund is confirmed today. $53 $57 millions, the 3-year birthday gift is from IDG, GeneralCatalyst, GGV and Rockefeller family. “The money will be used mainly for the company’s management and operation, bandwidth-consuming and revenue-sharing with video producers (the third parties and individuals are expected […]
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CityIN Joins OpenSocial
We have reported that Tianji.com was the only Chinese SNS in OpenSocial’s partners list. But it has been a long time we have not seen any implementation of OpenSocial on Tianji.com. Like many others, announcing the support of OpenSocial seems just a PR strategy. However, CityIN, this very young startup is going to release its […]