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Sina, the most popular Chinese web portal, today quietly launched a new product called Sina Mofun with an iPhone-like interface.
Sina Mofun, similar to Yahoo Widgets, is a desktop widgets client, which closely integrated with Sina’s web 2.0 services, including blog, photo sharing, video sharing, groups, forums and others. On Sina Mofun, you can read your friends’ latest activities, or newsfeed, receive instant notice for new comments on your blog posts, photos or videos. It can also be used as an IM tool for real-time chatting with your friends in Sina. Currently only limited widgets for Sina’s services are available on Sina Mofun, and it does not support any open developer platform now. Sina Mofun is just a tool to bundle Sina’s various services and build a walled garden for users, at least so far.
We noticed that on a conference in last week, Charles Cao Chao, CEO of Sina, mentioned that Sina will launched four services in near future, including Sina Space, which has launched in March, Sina Mofun, Sina TV and an open platform. So it seems 2008 will be a year of open platform in China’s Internet, Taobao, Tencent and Sina all said they are considering an open strategy. Then who will be the first one to make it real?
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Sina goes IM again, not widgets.
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Don’t forget Sohu OpenWidget when we talk about open platform in China’s Internet. ^_^
You mis-spelled Sina CEO’s name. It should be Charles CHAO. Read corp.sina.com.cn for more.
@bfishadow, thanks for correcting me, it’s very interesting that it is not Cao for 曹.
@Cloudream, in fact, sina has never given up its im tool, Sina UC, so I think Mofun is mainly for their user-generated content services.
As a sina blog user, i’m quite disappointed with the recent moves taken by sina, like the launch of sina space and the so-called Version 5 blog…I think sina is just making things complicated, why bother add those SNS, IM elements into the blogging? Yeah, integration is generally good, but the point is, with its limited technology and the existing status quo, sina will hardly surpass QQ or MSN( when it comes to IM) and facebook or xiaonei( when it comes to SNS），even in the respect of blog designing, sina is far worse than sohu or netease…
talking about the Version 5 sina blog in particular, you can see it imitated sohu blog an aweful lot, but it failed to learn the core…I’m afrain Charles Zhang and its sohu are now laughing at sina’s recent moves…
Shame on sina!
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