The9 Says Online Game Rumors 'Completely Unfounded' Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:52:54 +0000 Chinese online game company The9 (NCTY) says rumors regarding its negotiations over renewing control in China of Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft game are unfounded.
In a statement, the company never says which rumors are unfounded, causing further investor confusion, but The9 does say it is currently in contract negotiations regarding World of Warcraft's future operations [...]Read More
China's Internet Offers A Plethora Of Marketing Opportunities Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:05:16 +0000 By Yann Lombard-Platet
For those of us daily embroiled in the Chinese Internet's changing landscape, it's easy to take for granted the five most important reasons why using different channels on China's Internet can realize great return on investment.
5. TRUST through Internet Word of Mouth (WOM)
All marketers try to establish trust in their brands. Behind trust [...]Read More
Wireless Widgets Top China Mobile's Web 2.0 List Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:33 +0000 China Mobile (CHL) has started a semi-secret beta test of its mspaces.net, a Web 2.0 product based on Internet and mobile phone platforms.
The mspaces.net website is quite similar with Google's iGoogle product and the personal portal of Yahoo, which covers many Web 2.0 functions, including RSS feeds and widget managements. Apart from the general functions, [...]Read More
Tomatolei.com's Founder Seized For Software Piracy Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:17:41 +0000 Hong Lei, the webmaster of Chinese download website Tomatolei.com and writer of Windows XP Tomato Edition, reportedly has been taken into custody by the Suzhou Public Security Bureau.
Tomatolei.com was founded in 2003 and offers the download of the latest Windows XP Tomato Edition and also other useful software, as well as online forums, blogs and [...]Read More
Sohu Posts Good Quarterly Profit Numbers In China Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:52:13 +0000 Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com (SOHU) says its revenue jumped to USD102 million from USD39 million a year ago as it reported unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
"We are very pleased with our strong performance this quarter," stated Dr. Charles Zhang, chairman and CEO of Sohu.com. "Sohu achieved another milestone in [...]Read More
Chinese Netizen Number Reaches 253 Million Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:23 +0000 According to the 22nd report on China's Internet development released by the China Internet Network Information Center, the number of Chinese netizens have reached 253 million, making China number one around the world.
In addition, the number of broadband users in China is over 200 million for the first time, reaching 214 million and .CN domain [...]Read More
A 2006
survey from China Internet Network Information Center shows
that there are 17.5 million bloggers in China and about 7.7
million are active bloggers. The survey also finds there are
75.565 million blog readers.
China's Ministry of Information Industry plans to strengthen
the management of blog services and has commissioned the Blog
Research Team under the Internet Society of China to carry
out studies on the development of a weblog real name mechanism.
Under a real name mechanism, users would be required to officially
register their blogs under their official names and with official
identification.
According to Wikipedia, researchers have analyzed the dynamics
of how blogs become popular. There are essentially two measures
of this: popularity through citations, as well as popularity
through affiliation like blogrolls.
The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs
is that while it takes time for a blog to become popular through
blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more quickly, and
are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than
blogrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading
the blog's content and deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific
cases.
The blogdex project was launched by researchers in the MIT
Media Lab to crawl the web and gather data from thousands
of blogs in order to investigate their social properties.
It gathered this information for over 4 years, and autonomously
tracked the most contagious information spreading in the blog
community. The project is no longer active.
Blogs in China, and blog service providers, have often come
under criticism because they allow users to post content that
is "harmful" or illegal according to Chinese law.
Some individual websites have been blocked, while large BSPs
(Blog Service Provider) have been temporarily closed in the
past until they rectified their situations.
