Archive for May, 2008

Xiaonei.com Announced its Open Developer Platform

We’ve heard Xiaonei.com is working on open platform for a long time. Possibly because of 51.com’s announcement of open developer platform plan in last week, Xiaonei.com, the so-called China’s Facebook, can not wait to announced its open developer platform before it is fully ready. It even is not announced in Xiaonei’s official blog, but in [...]

Chinese Digital Music Service A8 To Go Public in HongKong

A8.com, an online and wireless digital music service established in 2000 in China, plans to go public in Hongkong Exchange(0800.HK) to raise as much as HK$ 217 million. In 2004 and 2005, IDGVC, TDF, Intel Capital and JAFCO invested in two round of financing in A8.com.
According to its prospectus, A8 mainly sells digital music [...]

Top Chinese Mobile Sites On Opera Mini

Opera released a State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter, 2008 report recently. The report listed the top 10 Chinese mobile sites based on the statistics of Opera Mini.

Web portal content and search engine access is extremely popular in China, accounting for nearly 55% of the traffic.
E-commerce and e-mail are not yet as popular [...]

51.com To Launch Open Platform in June

I’ve heard about it from some friends before, but in this morning, Yonghe Yao, Senior VP of 51.com confirmed in CHINICT that 51.com will launch a open platform, probably in June.
We’ve reported before that some emerging sns in China are working on open platform, but 51.com seems the first large sns to implement it [...]

Earthquake Relief Efforts on China’s Web

Regarding tsunami of late 2004, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web has summarized three ways that people used the Web in response to the disaster:
1) as a constantly updated source of news about the disaster;
2) as a way for ordinary people to respond emotionally;
3) and probably most importantly, to organize aid efforts.
In this post, we try [...]

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