Chinese Web2.osphere (May 7th)

Written by Tangos on May 6, 2006

Technorati And China: Last week should be a China week for Technorati, not only because of its uncertain fate in China, it goes live again in China after having been blocked twice, but also because a Chinese blog by famous actress Xu Jinglei tops in Technorati Top 100 Blogs. However, Technorati is still undercounting Xu Jinglei’s blog, this time, Xu’s blog hosting service, Sina, should be blamed. Keso, famous Chinese IT blogger explained the reason, you can find the English version from Danwei and Sam Flemming.

Tim Wu Meet Xiong Chengyu: Xiong Chengyu, a personal advisor to Chinese President Hu Jintao on internet policy, met with Tim Wu, author of the new book “Who Control the Internet” recently. “But then why so many controls [in China], I asked him? He said, “to provide room,” and to “make development possible.” ”

Opera Opened Chinese Office: Opera Software opened Beijing office on April 25th to capture the growing opportunities in Chinese telecommunication market. The Opera browser is being used by Datang Mobile to demonstrate the capacity of China’s new 3G network, and it also partners with ZTE, a major telecommunication manufacturer in China.

Interview With Daqi.com CEO Ma Xiaolin: Pacific Epoch interviewed with CEO of Daqi.com, a Chinese BBS and blog content aggregator. But I think it ridiculous for Mr. Ma to said Daqi.com is the only player in the BBS and blog search sector.

Hexun Use CN Domain to Attract Users: Hexun introduced a new service for its blog users. Any new users can apply for a .cn domain name to link with its Hexun blog upon registration, then users can use that .cn domain to access its blog.

MOP Launch Movie Review Service: Since Oak Pacific failed to acquire Douban, the most successful book, movie and music album review site in China, it launched a movie review site by itself. It obviously copies a lot from Douban, and even copied some of the movie reviews by Douban’s users.

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3 Responses to “Chinese Web2.osphere (May 7th)”

  1. keso on May 6th, 2006 6:55 pm

    Tim Hu, not Lessig, met Xiong.

  2. Undersound on May 6th, 2006 8:58 pm

    Even keso is wrong
    It is Tim Wu not Tim Hu
    But he is the consultant to Pre.Hu ;)

  3. Flavien on May 13th, 2006 10:55 am

    God! there are more than one Tim Wu and I took it for this guy;)

    ent.sina.com.cn/y/2005-07-26/1456791783.html

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