Roundup: Mojiti, Yupoo and China’s Twitter

Written by Tangos on April 2, 2007
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Mojiti to release new version: Mojiti, the online video annotation service, will unveil their new version next week. You can go beyond text annotation, it supports multimedia annotations as audio or video spot, new freehand annotations allows you to draw directly on video. Rss feed spot is an awesome idea, it enables you to import a rss feed as annotation, the content in the feed will be streamed dynamically on top of the video, which is something like news tickers in news channel.

You can find more information on this upgrade on Mashable and Mobinode.

Yupoo supports OpenID: Yupoo, a photo sharing site, announced that it now support OpenID. Though Microsoft, AOL, Digg and many other sites in US have planned or started to support OpenID, there is no sign that China’s big internet companies will turn to this identity 2.0. But some startups and bloggers in China have begun to promote or support OpenID, Yupoo has made a good start. Two weeks ago, there are also a small gathering in Shanghai to discuss how to promote OpenID in China.

China’s Twitter: Twitter is so hot recently, so it is not surprised to know there is a Chinese version of Twitter. The only question is when. Though Weazone and V2ex both have rolled out features as Tumblelog, it is not Twitter. Now Popwu intends to make itself a copy of Twitter in China. As Twitter, it allows you to update what you are doing and to follow your friends’ updates. Popwu has a MSN Messenger bot for users to update and receive messages, but no SMS support so far. Will it be successful? I doubt it. But maybe copying a mobile Twitter makes sense in China, anyway, SMS is very popular in China.

2 Responses to “Roundup: Mojiti, Yupoo and China’s Twitter”

  1. xorms on April 2nd, 2007 8:50 am

    popwu has little function now. And has no official blog to tell user which new functions will be added. So everything is unsure.

  2. China Web2.0 Review » » Jiwai.de and Fanfou: Twins of Twitter in China on May 31st, 2007 1:44 am

    [...] Each successful company in silicon valley will have a dozen copycats in China, Twitter is no exception. Popwu is the first Twitter-like service in China, if we don’t count in the tumblelog feature of Weazone and V2ex. Now come Jiwai.de and Fanfou. [...]

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