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08/10/2005
A Reuters article about Bokee.com and China’s blogging market went online this morning, Many thanks to Sophie Taylor, Reporter from Reuters and the author of this article.
Bokee, which was set up in 2002, claims the biggest share of China’s blogging market with about 2 million registered users, and said it is adding 6,000-10,000 daily.
Since blogging services are usually free, companies make most of their revenue from advertising.
Bokee’s Wen said he might begin to charge for blogging services at the end of this year, but still saw most of the company’s revenue coming from advertising and wireless charges.
Bokee’s site carries ads from the likes of Dell, Nokia, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, although the firm declined to say how much revenue it generates.
I’ve exchanged some emails with Sophie in the last two weeks. She had done a phone interview with me and Fang. Since Bokee had some mis-leading report before due to the bad news translation, we are carefully dealing with the numbers and figures this time, especially the funding amount, IPO plans and amount other issues.
Tags: blogging, bokee, china
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05/26/2005
Notes from David Kirkpatrick’s Fortune article: China’s Future: A Nation of Geeks?. A summary of recent FORTUNE Global Forum 2005 - China and the New Asian Century which take place in Beijing on May 16.
China with:
350 million cell phone users.
100 million internet users, its NO.2 behind the U.S.
“Yahoo’s Terry Semel and eBays Meg Whitman say that the China could be their biggest market within a decade, but they’ll face competition from Chinese companies.”
eBay’s competitors in China:
Taobao.com: A subsidiary of Alibaba.
1pai.com: Yahoo auction joint venture with Sina.
Yahoo’s competitors in China:
Sina, Sohu and Netease: Major Chinese portal sites.
All of them are among the worlds top 10 Internet sites in terms of traffic.
Shenda - World largest online game company:
200 million register users.
2 million players online at any given time.
President Hu: Country’s top priorities was to “improve democracy”:
People seems more interested in personal progress and business success than in political activism.
Focus on Environmental issues:
“The proper future for China is green… socialist eco-civilization,” says Pan yue, Vice Minister the State Environmental Protection Administration.
“vigorously develop the circular economy and build a resource-effective and environment-friendly society.” said President Hu Jintao.
China has about four times as much university research into efficient battery technology as in the U.S
Tags: china
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Reuters reported:
Software giant Microsoft today launched MSN China, a Chinese-language portal with content provided by Chinese partners, The portal will offer much more communication, information and content than available through MSN’s other services, including Hotmail and Messenger, that are already available in China. Messenger has around seven million users there.
Nothing new on MSN China, the site are pretty much Chinese-style. No wonder that the portal are running through Shanghai MSN network Communications Ltd., a joint venture media company with government-operated Chinese firm Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd.
Keso point out that MSN China didn’t support Firefox browser which makes their layout totally massed up. He criticize the new launches of MSN is a bad move in China: no innovation, no new ideas, even no informative contents.
Chinese Government restrict solely foreign company to apply for a ICP license which forced Microsoft to establish a joint venture company in order to obtain a content provider license. From the starting point, MSN China will provide their major web services such as MSN messenger, MSN spaces, Hotmail in Chinese language. Microsoft also said it would buy assets from Chinese mobile phone software provider TSSX to offer MSN-based services to China’s 340 million mobile phone users. One thing strange is MSN China didn’t integrate their own MSN search but licensed Yahoo owned Chinese search engine “3721”.
Tags: china, internet
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05/13/2005
Kantianxia.com, China’s first web-based RSS news aggregator and RSS consulting company had relaunched their service.
Kantianxia first launched their service on last April, which provided a web-based RSS news aggregator and RSS news reader software in Chinese language. It had been ordered to shut down by Chinese officials on this February. The company, urPOS Technology didn’t declare the shut down related to official’s censorship but it was widely believed that the closure is due to some sensitive content had been aggregated in their service.
The new presence of Kantianxia.com was impressive, They are not only had better design of the outcome, but also enriched their service functionalities such as RSS search-engine, RSS knowledge-base and RSS feeds index. They have three kind of RSS products: a RSS reader software, a Outlook edition of RSS reader and a web-based RSS aggregator. I’ve been noticed that kantianxia had officially partnered with popular RSS aggregation company NewsGator, and the Outlook edition of RSS reader and online RSS reader service are developed based on Newsgator’s product.
Good luck Kantianxia.
Tags: blogging, china, rss
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05/12/2005
Recently, I had seen a lot of buzz around that Google plans a China operation in Shanghai, one of my blogger friend Topku (currently working at Baidu.com) had post a picture of Google’s office building on his blog couple weeks ago, Some sources point out that Google hired Victor Koo, the former COO of Sohu.com, to lead the company’s Mainland operations. Updates: rumor was declared by Google.
Yesterday, Retuer’s story confirmed that Google won a operation license in China. which will allows the web services leader to step further into China’s market. Google didn’t disclose the company’s hiring of Victor Koo, but some media sources says Mr. Koo was taking a vacation in South Africa and will back to Shanghai soon to take his new role.
Baidu, Google’s largest competitor in China which also planning a IPO to Nasdaq, didn’t make any direct response to Google’s new move. Baidu’s PR policy highly restricted their employees to contact outside media, so no one really get to know their marketing reaction after Google’s setp in.
Google currently has two job vacancies posted under the China section of its Web site, including a marketing communications manager and a marketing director. (It seems that Google take away of those hiring information today).
More curious of Google’s China operation is that how they will deal with Censorship in China to avoid evil.
Read more:
Retuer: Google steps up fight for the China market
Interfax: Approval of Google’s plans to expand Mainland China operations
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04/14/2004
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China have devised a distributed information retrieval system that promises to help. The system could eventually become part of the Internet infrastructure as an extension of the domain name service.
The Domain Resource Integrated System (DRIS) provides a unified search interface for information that resides on Web pages and in databases.
The software organizes resources on three levels -- an individual domain like a university or company, a subnetwork domain like the China Education Network (CERNET) that includes all the universities in China, and a top-level domain like the Internet in China, he said. via AO
I am not sure what the system is, this kind of integrated system probably works with EDU network more than public internet.
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