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Combining Social Media with E-Commerce, New Model of Monetization for Sina Weibo

Posted on by jinge

Yesterday (Feb 17) Sina Weibo (China’s leading microblog platform )and Ctrip (China’s leading online travel service provider) just announced their new collaboration through which you can find good hotel and flight deals from Ctrip by simply posting your travel requests on Sina Weibo (similar to Twits) then @Ctrip. I tried it by using my android phone to post shanghai+hotel@ctrip, within several seconds I got suggestion…

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Is Twitter Catching Up To Weibo?: Multimedia and Emoji in Western Social Media

Posted on by An Xiao Mina
The new Twitter interface, courtesy of fly.twitter.com.
The new Twitter interface, courtesy of fly.twitter.com.

There’s an interesting article in Penn Olson recently about Twitter’s new redesign and just how much it resembles Sina Weibo.  It’s been circulating around a few tech circles I follow:

Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to…

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