Quzhai: Web Casual Surfing Toolbar

Beijing based Quzhai is a StumbleUpon like service, where users can casually browse interesting web pages by clicking the next button on browser toolbar or iFrame embedded pages.
Users can train the filter by submitting web URLs they like in various ways including toolbar and javascript button, etc. The homepage shows hot pages organized by different [...]

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 [...]

Douban moves on in collaborative filtering, launches a clustered blog portal

On last day of the last month, social recommendation community Douban launched a clustered blog portal, Douban 9. So finally users know where their voting resulted into.
Douban 9 is organized into 5 channels. They don’t give an explicit name to each channel, just name them with channel 2, channel 3, etc. But this is not [...]