Alimama Will Launch New Online Advertising Model Tue, 06 May 2008 22:49:13 +0000 Alimama, a new service of Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba, says it will launch a new online advertisement product in the middle of this month.
According to ccidnet.com, Alimama's new product will rely on up to 400,000 websites and 180,000 blog sites currently served by the company. Though the company has refused to make any comment on [...]Read More
Xiaonei.com Gains Investment From Softbank Sun, 04 May 2008 19:30:42 +0000 Chinese Web 2.0 company Oak Pacific Interactive's Xiaonei.com announced on the cusp of the Chinese May 1 Labor Day holiday that its hard work had paid off in the amount of a US$430 million infusion of capital.
Japan's Softbank led the investment with other companies for approximately 35% of the company.
Xiaonei.com is one of many social [...]Read More
Google Invests US$1 Million Into Chinese Tech Startup Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:15:51 +0000 Google (GOOG) has announced a US$1 million investment into Comsenz, an online community network technology provider in China.
Reports of Google's investment in Comsenz were first seen in Chinese media in August last year. At that time, it was reported that Google would put roughly US$5 million into the Beijing-based company. Prior to that, Michael Moritz, [...]Read More
New Mobile Location Services Coming To Beijing Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:32:23 +0000 Geo-location and mobile social networking company GyPSii has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Shen Yingchao, general manager of Shanghai Rannuo Information Technology Company, said, "UGC and social networking are the future, and the GyPSii service will help drive the value added business [...]Read More
Fastap Keypad Technology Receives Chinese Certification Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:30:33 +0000 Digit Wireless' Fastap enabling keypad technology has been certified under the Chinese text-entry standard GF 3006 — 2001 Standard Scheme of Chinese Phonetic Alphabet Input with Universal Keypad by China's State Language Commission.
"This Chinese certification we have received will help pave the road for mobile device manufacturers enabling them to launch mobile phones featuring Fastap [...]Read More
Total Revenues Climb For Netease.com In China Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:36:04 +0000 Chinese Internet company Netease.com (NTES) has posted its unaudited financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.
Total revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were RMB622.1 million, compared to RMB571.1 million and RMB540.3 million for the preceding quarter and the fourth quarter of 2006, respectively. Revenues from online games were RMB507.0 [...]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.
