Archive for March, 2008

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 [...]

Ex-Yahoo China CEO Taking On Facebook, Launches Yiqi

Last big news we heard about Xie Wen was in 2006, when he resigned from CEO of Yahoo China, one month after being on board. Yesterday, he formally announced Yiqi as a project he would spend the next few years on.
Yiqi is not available for registration yet. But from the appearance, it’s very like yet [...]

Sogou Launches Click-to-Call

Several days ago, Chinese search engine Sogou launched Click-to-Call service, Sogou 800, which is identical to Google similar service.
The service makes it easy for customers to call any business direct from search result with one click for free. Registered company will have a green button beside their search result entry. The customer just enters his [...]

Interview with Robert Mao on His Open Portable Social Networks

Robert Mao works in Microsoft in Europe. Prior to it, he was founder of UUZone, one of the first social network websites in China but entered into dead pool in last year. He is now working on a hobby project called OPSN, which stands for Open Portable Social Networks. In last week, he made a [...]

Qihoo To Focus on Search-Based Q&A Service

Qihoo.com, founded by Zhou Hongyi, former CEO of Yahoo China and the founder of 3721, is well known for its user generated content search and aggregation service, mainly BBS and blog search. It recently makes big change on its strategy.
Qihoo used to aggregate posts from various BBS forum and blogs into a Sina-like content portal. [...]

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