You may hear a lot about a company called Second Life and its counterparts in China, HiPiHi, UWorld etc back in 2009 when the concept of 3D Virtual World was super hot. In those virtual worlds, every user is expected to be able to use the virtual tools to build his/her own virtual world containing […]
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Mamashai – SNS for Mothers and Fathers
Found in 2009, Mamashi is a social network for mothers and fathers to talk about their experience in raising children. Many mothers started from the day they got pregnant. “There is a nature need for parents to recording the everyday changes of their babies,” said Tracy Ji, founder and president of the Beijing startup. Most of […]
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Where Is The Next Virtual World? Interview With Eric Ye, CEO Of UWorld
Probably two years ago, Virtual Worlds might be the hottest concept in the web industry and the Internet space were impressed by those pioneers, such as SecondLife, HiPiHi, UWorld, etc… Now the hype is gone and it’s hard to see coverages about 3D virtual worlds on mainstream media any more. However, Chinese virtual worlds are […]
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HiPiHi – The Chinese Second Life Dream Will Come True
It has been a few times I have blogged about the Second Life (SL) in China. The user base of SL is growing very fast (btw, another SL community just left a comment on my previous post), but we are still waiting for SL’s official movement into Chinese internet. The Chinese Virtual Reality internet market […]
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Interview with HiPiHi in Chinese
I recently interviewed the founders of HiPiHi.com, Hui Xu (CEO) and Xinhua Liu. Over 1 hour’s talk is like brain-storm for me, there is so much we have gone through, such as the Chinese culture, the Chinese Internet, the Virtual Reality etc. HiPiHi is not just a software, it is a reflection of Chinese culture […]
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HiPiHi, The Chinese Virtual World Started Its Limited Private Test
Just a quick post here. 19th, March might be a big day for Chinese Internet because the Chinese Virtual World HiPiHi announced its limited Private test ( you need fill an application form and only 1000 users will be qualified ). At the first day, around 100 users have been qualified and became the first generation […]
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I Live in HiPiHi!
Yes, I am now a resident of HiPiHi – the Chinese virtual world since the first day of its private test. My feeling? Mostly exciting, a bit frustrating at the beginning, plus a bit boring. If you think about your being one of the first 1000 resident and exploring a complete unknown world, it is […]
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HiPiHi – A Virtual World Born in China
You can also read this post on ReadWriteWeb.com. The Chinese version of this interview with HiPiHi can be found here. Thanks to Ben for his contribution. Even though the first millionaire from SecondLife is Chinese and this western virtual world has attracted a lots of attention in China, but till now the SecondLife has not […]
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It is Frenzoo, An Asian 3D Social Networking Company Funded by Skype Co-Founders
This is really an interesting and breaking news. Yesterday, some medias have reported that HiPiHi would close its first round investment (close to $10million) soon. Today, I got an email from Eda, Director of Frenzoo, a HongKong based company. I know Frenzoo is another 3D social networking company months ago, but it was in close-beta […]
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Is HiPiHi Expanding Its Virtual World to World-Wide?
According to the posts in VirtualWorldNews and Centric Thoughts, The Chinese virtual world HiPiHi has talked to the Japan-based company Centric which now became HiPiHi’s first western development partner. Second Life was in Beijing a few weeks ago, and the resource also told me that HiPiHi would have a meeting with another potential partner from […]
