SubscribeOnejoo: Memetracker in China
This post was written by Yanqing Chen and edited by Tango Chan
Onejoo is an aggregator service which tracks the hot topics among Chinese blogosphere. Onejoo intends to become a Techmeme in China, but it is not a copycat, its algorithm and features may be more suitable to Chinese users.
Yun Zheng, founder of Onejoo, thought Onejoo can not just copy the widely-adopted linking analysis algorithm, even though it is proved to be effective in Techmeme, Tailrank and Megite, because the way bloggers in China writing their blogs are usually different from the bloggers from the western world. Typical Chinese bloggers don’t like including url links, so the linking analysis based algorithm is not a good solution here. Instead, Onejoo tries to find related blogs and hot topics by analyzing the semantic of blog. Yun Zheng believes it is the core competence of Onejoo. After testing it myself, I think the algorithm is quite good. Almost all the hot topics out there are relevant.
Different from Techmeme which tracks and aggregates related discussions in blog posts, you can not comment on topics on Techmeme, Yun Zheng feels like most Chinese netizens like discussing topics using classic forum model, rather than writing a blog post. Therefore, Onejoo allows users to leave comments in its topic page to get users more involved.
Each topic in Onejoo has a specific topic page, Onejoo will keep tracking the development of each story, you can also subscribe the topics to know the latest development. This feature is also quite different from Techmeme, Techmeme mainly tell us what’s hot today and make a snapshot for it, but it will not show us the development of a yesterday’s hot topic.
Users will have a profile page in Onejoo, which listed the topics you subscribed, the topic recommendations to you based on your interests, and some social networking features. We believe recommendation engines would also be an important part of Onejoo later.
I’m not sure how Onejoo find hottest topics every day, but it seems its engine need much improvement, because hot topics in its homepage only changed a little in last week. On the other hand, instead of directly putting the topics from the memetracker engine to the homepage, we think Onejoo may edit topic pages manually. I don’t know how they can handle scaling problem in editing when hot topics grow significantly.
Overall, Onejoo seems to be the first memetracker in Chinese Internet market, we hope they can be successful, and become a perfect example of successfully copying ideas from overseas by being innovative and taking advantage of knowing the Chinese market better.
Shortly after we wrote this review, Onejoo starts to test its new version privately (The test link is broken now). I like this new version, but it seems Yun Zheng changed some features, such as comment on topics.
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hi,
tks for your interest!
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you can see http://www.onejoo.com:8000/,another “not alpha - not beta - just not done yet” site,which emphasized how many hot topics our hot-spot engine could find every day.
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In this site,every hot topic connect with other relevant topics by connections,which we called “connections engine”.You can explore the connections among stories and topics.
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Only “highlights” are selected from hot topics each day by our editor team.
In addition,everything is almost auto.
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we are tracking 300 million bloggers everyday by our crawlers and hot-spot engine.So we could find almost every hot thing in blogsophere.But sina bsp blocked our cralwer for days,hot topics were decreasing.
sorry,not “300 million”,but “3 million”.
Hi, Zhengyun, I just cannot access your new test site since yesterday, but at my first glance, I like it, and I’m aware that you add some new elements as connection, which is similar to Daylife.com.
Connections Engine of Daylife is a great idea.It is as greate as The Big Picture of News.com.com.We learned a lot from daylife.
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Now the new version of onejoo.com can visit.