SubscribeWhy Widgets is Not Hot in China?
Kaiser Kuo wrote an insightful post yesterday on the development of widgets in China. I would like to echo some of his points and add my ideas as well.
Yes, for almost all new technology in web 2.0 field, it seems widget is the only field in which you can hardly find Chinese copycats. That’s […]
Congrats Netvibes, Sohu Launches UWA-based Open Widget Platform
Sohu has quietly launched Open Widget Platform. It is compatible to Netvibes’ Universal Widget API, and has some extensions. Here’s the developer’s guide. And some applications are already sitting in the gallery.
Frankly, I don’t feel widget is a good name for a platform, because widget is all about outsourcing part of your webpage to the […]
Sohu And QQ Launched Twitter-Like Service
Sohu and Tencent both quietly started to test a Twitter-like feature in their services recently.
Sohu launched this service together with its Sohu Blog 3.0. The service, called Mini Post, is a new module of Sohu Blog, it allows users to input no more than 70 Chinese characters. Tencent’s twitter-like service is part of its […]
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 […]
Sohu Does Video Sharing
Since last week, there were truemors that Sohu was going to launched a video sharing service. Now the wait is over, Sohu video sharing launched.
Instead of promoting video sharing as a separate service, Sohu put video sharing as a sub-channel under its blogging service. Accompanying every video clip, there’s a button to paste the video […]