Some Stats On China’s IM Services

Just two weeks after Baidu Hi launched its public beta test, Baidu announced on yesterday that over 1 million users has tried Baidu Hi. An IM service from Baidu will definitely attracts users’ attention, similar to Google’s GTalk. The real challenge is how many percentage of registered users will remain active six month later.
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Baidu Hi: The IM from Baidu

The IM penetration rate is in China is much higher than email (81% vs. 57%), and Tencent has built a cash machine around its popular IM client QQ. So it is totally not surprised that Baidu will roll out its own IM tool, and it has been rumored in the market for about a year. [...]

Meebo’s Trademark Violated In China

Any long-term reader of this blog knows we are basically kind about copying proven product from developed countries, because we understand this is an efficient way to have a standing foot in the market. While reviewing such kind of services, we friendly prevent from using the word “Clone”, and we suck deep into the product [...]

Sohu’s New Web Messenger and 3.0 Product Line

Yesterday, Sohu formally announced its 3.0 product line. Besides video sharing, other two important components are web messenger, called Little Note, and Camp. Little Note and Camp both first launched in March. These two products take important roles in integration of all other Sohu products.
Little Note, which just rolled out a new version yesterday, is [...]

Lava-Lava Long Way From Being A Platform

Today instant messenger service Lava-Lava announced it’s out of beta, Sina is reporting. It also has a corporate version called GK-Express.
The company behind Lava-Lava is Dianji, which was founded by Wang Zhidong, also founder and former CEO of Sina. It’s reported that Lava-Lava now has 20 million registered users, of which 1 million is [...]

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