Chinese Blogosphere on Web2.0(Dec 18th-24th)

Written by Undersound on December 25, 2005

Summary of 2005:

At the end of year 2005, blogger are rushing to give their summary, conclusion of web2.0 development in 2005. Webleon sums up the ten biggest merger deals in web 2.0 sphere, including Yahoo with Flickr, AOL with Weblog Inc. Keso collected sayings and maxims in Blogosphere from his bookmark. Undersound gives a conclusion of Chinese Blogosphere in which He called the year of 2005 is a booming year of Chinese blogosphere in terms of number, quality and recognition of blog.

AOL with Google

Google and AOL reached a deal in Dec16th on advertising and Google will acquire 5% stake in AOL. Gaofei, a VC in China, thought that Google is going to find a partner who can produce content and strengthen their relationship in order to gain steady growth. Tangos observed the deal from perspective of IM software. The combination of Gtalk and AIM would make it in prominent status in IM market where even Skype can’t compete with

Structure Blog

Structure blogging is out with two plugins for Wordpress and MovableType. Bloggers tried them out and gave comment on it. 94Smart thought that it is a general trend for blogging to be more structured and formatted. The structure blog would be very useful for podcast and videocast. Doubleaf regarded it as a template and thought it would be very difficult for users to change their blogging behavior.

Ranking of BSP

Baidu, the largest searching engine in China, rolled out its ranking of BSPs. The top ten are as followed:
MSN Spaces
Bokee
Tianya
Blogcn
Mblogger
BlogBus
Yculblog
CnBlogs
163
CSDN Blog
Hexun
Donews Blog
The total number of BSPs were 658 and there were 330 BSPs who have more than 1000 users. There are about 38.6 million blogs and 16 million bloggers.

However some bloggers questioned the validity of the statistics. Virushuo and tinyfool viewed some of the BSPs and found that the number of those BSPs’ users is not consistent with the result that Baidu claimed, while Baidu said that its data is obtained from the BSPs themselves.

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