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This might be fun, but I can’t get it to work in Chinese on my Mac. : ( I can use the English, however. It’s called woocall (available in both English and Chinese), and has been in beta at Sina for the past few months. Woocall, as Jason reminds me below, is similar to Gabbly: it allows…
Continue readingwoocall: sina’s new embedded website chat tool
Ladies and gentlemen,
On your left, China. And on your right, USA. They are the default male avatars from Cyworld China and Cyworld US respectively.
(The original Cyworld is one of South Korean’s most popular portals/social networks; they now have branches in China, Japan, Taiwan and America.)
I assume the Chinese avatar…
Continue readingThe Americanization of Cyworld Avatars?
Stock market analysis site Seeking Alpha‘s China section has a summary of research on Chinese blogs done by China Market Research, a group in Shanghai. CMR estimates that 80% of Chinese online urban youth 18-25 (50 million people) are actively blogging OR participating in BBS. Add in another 25 million between the ages…
Continue readingChina’s blog portals: expanding public communication space
I’ve been trying to understand more about both new features and competition in the Chinese search engines market–with an eye toward having something to say about where innovation is happening and how ideas are flowing from one online space to another. (Tip: if you’re interested in search, you have to visit Webmaster World.com’s excitingly useful Asia Pacific Search Engine…
Continue readingUser-generated Q&A in Virtual China
iResearch has compiled the Alexa data for us: Sina has the greatest reach (defined as how many Alexa users per million are using it everyday. Alexa says that in the last 3 months of this year, Sina’s reach has grown by another 8%.
While we are busy writing about Xu Jinglei’s blog knocking BoingBoing off the top spot at Technorati, bloghoo.Sohu.com puts Xu well below China’s really popular blogs–at least on Sohu, one of China’s top portals. Nydia Chen, who’s working with us at Virtual China this summer, will be doing a comparison of the top portals’ blogging ranks, so watch…
Continue readingSong Zude’s 宋祖德 nasty gossip blog: big on Sohu
网易社区, Netease’s online social space, located at club.163.com has been hacked! See:
The question (floating around the Chinese web) is, what did they do to provoke this, and who did they do it to?
Via PostShow.
