SubscribeArchive for December, 2008
139.com: China Mobile’s Social Network
Maybe this is old news, but it’s new to me, or at least the domain is new. China Mobile launched a social network at 139.com. The service is said to be live since September, originally on a domain hard to remember.
You don’t need to register to the service as long as you have a mobile [...]
Ju690 Shows You What Chinese Users Are Sharing
Ju690 is a social memetracker, which we firstly reported in July 2007, when it was still called onejoo. Since then the service has been improved a lot. The newest addition is a social recommendation aggregator.
Different from earlier ones like Zhuaxia hot article and Douban 9taps, which is centralized that you will have to vote [...]
Sogou Released Its Own Internet Browser
Sogou, the search engine service under Sohu, today released a Internet browser, Sogou Browser. It is an IE kernel-based browser with some features to improve users experience.
Sogou Browser claims that it is using a multi-task asynchronous browsing technology which can make each tab browse the web independently. When a tab is crashed, other tabs [...]
Papaya: Turning Your Phonebook into A Mobile SNS
Papaya Mobile, which is a startup co-founded by an ex-Googler, who worked on mobile applications and services in Google, and one of her alumni in Tsinghua University. Papaya currently only has English version, and only targets to overseas market.
On its website, Papaya describe itself as “a mobile phone application that allows you to communicate [...]
Anti Opensocial?
Today, some of my friends is twittering a new website called Anti-opensocial.com. The site said, “Not real open but just cheat, this is OpenSocial in China. We think Google could do better than just support fake Open Platform. Could OpenSocial do something really useful to help these surviving third party developers?!”.
Why they boycott Opensocial [...]