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  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Since March this year, HiPiHi has gone through three phases in its private test period. It will finally enter the 4th phase in which the economic system and social systems will be introduced, which is really an exciting news to the HiPiHi residents. Even though HiPiHi world is still in test and currently in Chinese […]

[Ed: The following post was actually written 2 weeks ago, but in Chinese with more details. It seems that Frenzoo has now opened its public test, you need apply for the Membership first.] First please allow me to say thanks to two lovely ladies: Eda, thank you very much for inviting me to attend the private test; […]

HiPiHi Ltd., the China-based founder of the 3D virtual world, announced its global strategy on today in Singapore. This strategy is aimed to standardize the 3D virtual world and establish a world-wide collaboration in this 3D Internet market. “Three parts are involved in HiPiHi’s global strategy. First, HiPiHi will cooperate with global leaders in the Internet and […]