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Taobao Launches Collaborative Recommendation

Taobao, the biggest C2C/B2C service of China, has just launched personal portal called iTaobao. If you have added any friends in Taobao, you will be able to have a glance of their latest favorite goods.
What it really does is to recommend goods and stores to users according to their browsing and purchasing history. [...]

Snappark: Collaborative Image Gallery

Snappark, orgianlly called Cnow, launched in August 2007, is a collaborative image gallery. Its core feature is public image set. Every image set has a topic by the creator. Then everyone is able to contribute to the set by uploading relevant images. It’s just like a Wiki page that everybody can add content, but with [...]

Quzhai Enters Deadpool

Beijing based StumbleUpon like service Quzhai has sent out an email to all its users that the service will be shut down very soon.
Quzhai learns users’ interest by asking them to click like or dislike button on its toolbar. Then it will show more webpages to the users according to their interests. Basically it’s a [...]

Product Pulse: Baidu Startpages, Sina Space And Community Search

Baidu has launched personal startpages. Unlike iGoogle, Baidu doesn’t let you add your own news feeds, not to say programmable gadgets.
Currently all you can customize are a couple of handy assistants, news aggregation and search keyword trends. Since Baidu’s news aggregation is the best out there, the product still makes perfect sense even with [...]

Blogging Not Important For Baidu Space Anymore

Baidu Space was originally launched as a blogging service in July 2006, accompanied by its blog search engine. Since then, the service has been growing steadily, but not dominating.
A recent update of the service allows users to change their space into MySpace style in one step. The new style, which is called “Networking Style”, highlights [...]

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