SubscribeQuzhai: Web Casual Surfing Toolbar
Beijing based Quzhai is a StumbleUpon like service, where users can casually browse interesting web pages by clicking the next button on browser toolbar or iFrame embedded pages.
Users can train the filter by submitting web URLs they like in various ways including toolbar and javascript button, etc. The homepage shows hot pages organized by different topics in columns.
Quzhai is founded in 2006 by Zhang Youwei and Wu Ling. They received RMB 1 million seed funding from BV Capital after they won BV Capital-Tsinghua business plan competition.
Quzhai has learned several useful spreading methods from other successful services. It provides Quzhai Badge for webpage creator to show how many users has voted the URL, like the Digg vote button. They also provide embedded code for bloggers to show their readers in sidebar just like MyBloglog widget.
Like StumbleUpon, Quzhai also supports summiting video. Users can paste sharing code from other video sharing service, the same ways as embedding videos in any web pages.
The main challenge of Quzhai is not the feature, all of which are not new and have been proved, but whether it can build a self growing community. Any social filtering service can do nothing for you if there isn’t other user with similar interest existing in the system. As such, the homepage may do good or bad for the growing of the community. Users don’t feel the needs to try the service if the featured content on the homepage is not really interesting to them.
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[…] Quzhai latest foreign clone — Quzhai is a clone of StumbleUpon, with a little Digg thrown in. Notice how most clones seem to originate in Germany and China, somewhat understandable since they have two of the largest domestic non-English internet markets. Quzhai raised RMB 1 million seed funding from BV Capital. […]
[…] Quzhai is a student startup which has received RMB 1 million from business plan contest. We first mentioned the service in last June. […]