Douban Testing New API, But We Want More

Douban has rolled out a new set of API several days ago. Originally it has limited types of feeds called Douban Service. Now you can play with it further with either server or client side scripts.
My take? Too simple. They are all about GET. We want PUT, DELETE and POST.
If you are rolling out a [...]

News Roundup: Douban, Qzone, iNeZha and Tianji

The change of China’s foreign investment rules to influence China’s Internet industry: Last week, China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced the issuance of a revised Catalog for the Guidance of Foreign Invested Enterprises (Revised 2007). According to the new catalog, the news website, online video and audio service, the operation of Internet cafe and [...]

Douban Ninetaps To Launch Personalized News Channel

Douban Ninetaps is testing article recommendation on its channel one. Originally it only has blog level recommendation. 100 users have been invited in the closed test.
Unlike existing channels, which shows hot articles on a specific topic, channel one only shows relevant articles to single user. It removes articles the user has read or recommended. It’s [...]

Douban Adds Miniblog Service

Maybe someday miniblog would be a standard service of a website, Douban, the most famous web 2.0 service in China, adds miniblog service called Douban Yulu(豆瓣语录) today. (There is no public page for the service, therefore no link to the service is available)
The service allows Douban users to write miniblog post within 128 Chinese characters, [...]

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 [...]

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