Archive for May, 2007

Jiwai.de and Fanfou: Twins of Twitter in China

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.
At first glance, we can know both Jiwai.de and Fanfou are clones of [...]

QQ To Enter CRM Service Market

QQ, being the most popular IM client in China, has been used by many local companies as an efficient way to communicate with their customers online. Some companies even have to maintain several QQ account simultaneously, because they reach the limit of number of buddies of a QQ account. Now, QQ plans to launch its [...]

Netease Tests Digg in News

Digg, as a community driven social news model, has been copied by many startups globally, but it has never reach its tipping point in China, partly because traditional news portal website still dominate online news market. So Netease’s recent initiative to incorporate digg model in some of its news content may make digg more popular [...]

Douban 9 Doubles Traffic; Newcomer FunP Rolls Out Widgets

The services we talk about today are from a category called social reading. This is not a formal name yet, as sometimes they are also branded as RSS reader, blog search engine, blog community, etc. Like David Weinberger noted in 2004, we can briefly define it as a niche market between RSS reader and mainstream [...]

MyToDo And The Missing Have-Done List

We haven’t covered many productive tools on this blog. The only one I can find is Mangbar, which is an online memo, todo list, collaborative space, and a market for finding new partners. It’s a quite complete ecosystem for getting things done.
MyTodo.cn is a new and relatively simple GTD online tool. Its main feature is [...]

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