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Yiqilai.com: Yet Another Online Music Discovery Service

Yiqilai.com released its new version in late September 2007 and jumped into China’s online music discovery battle field where 8box.cn, Yobo.com and dola.com.cn already compete against each other. We compared these services earlier here and here.
Like its competitors, Yiqilai.com’s goal is to copy the success of Pandora and Last.fm to China. Yiqilai is more like [...]

Best4c: Online Diagram Tool From Lenovo Labs

Best4c (Best for Chart) is one of the product from Lenovo Labs. I can use one sentence to describe this service: It’s like a online version of Microsoft Visio with a smaller set of features.
Creating a diagram is relatively intuitive with a drag and drop multi-paned interface with toolbars and tabs, and you can keep [...]

LinJuNet: Connect Your Neighbors Using Google Maps

LinJuNet (Linju means neighbor in Chinese) is a recently launched service focusing on create a social network by connecting your neighbors using Google Map.
Basically LinJuNet allows users to input their hometown, schools, office and places they visited on google map. Then a social network will be created by connecting the “neighbors” around those areas. [...]

Xianguo: A new challenger to Zhuaxia.com

Zhuaxia.com has been the dominate online RSS reader in China for a while. However, they have to face strong competition from Xianguo.com, which keeps upgrading their features since they launched in May 2007. I will do a quick head to head comparison of the two, mainly covering following factors:

Ease of use and Performance
Useful [...]

Yoho.cn: Social Networks for Young People

Yoho.cn is the website launched in May 2007 by “Yoho!”(潮流志), a very popular fashion magazine among youngsters between 15 to 25 in China. According to Alexa, this website is gaining a lot of page views lately. The magazine promotes the website to drive young people checking out the website, and the nice design and [...]

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