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Over 117 Million Online Forum Users in China

July 27, 2010
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More than 117 million people in China used online forums in 2009, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since the 1990s, online forums have become an increasingly important gateway for expression of public opinion. Internet usage in rural areas, such as western China, has increased at a quicker rate than in more developed [...]

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China Internet Users More Comfortable with Companies who Microblog

July 14, 2010

Research from Fleishman-Hillard found that while internet users in China overwhelmingly felt more comfortable with companies that microblog, those in North America and the UK were largely unmoved. China Internet users also show very positive attitude toward companies monitoring microblogs: Edison Research found that while 87% of US consumers had heard of Twitter, only 7% [...]

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Tencent Launched Social Networking Site: “Friends”

July 12, 2010
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Tencent last week launched a new social networking website in China called “Peng You” which means “Friends” in English. Pengyou clearly targets two groups of audience, “students” and “white collar workers”. At first login, users will be asked to select which group they belong to: The “students” SNS features come from Tencent’s previous product called [...]

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How to Buy “Twitter” Followers in China

June 8, 2010
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As little as 10 cents, you can “grow” your fan base in China social media such as Baidu Post Bar, blogs, micro-blogging platforms, etc. With less than 3,000 yuan (USD 440), you can get tens of thousands of fans for your social media channels. And guess what? You can find many such sellers easily on [...]

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Sina Blog’s Little Assassin in Feeds

June 7, 2010
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Chanced upon Sina’s smart “assassin” embedded in the feeds. Take a look at a normal blog post (above) first. Atom OR RSS feeds are not popular in China; not at all though blog platforms like Sina Blog does provide RSS feeds (you can get it from firefox address bar for example) though it’s not obvious [...]

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Baidu Launched API Platform for Baidu Zhidao

June 2, 2010
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Baidu Zhidao, similar to Yahoo Answers, launched API platform. There are so far nine partners including abang.com (about.com in China) who have implemented Baidu Zhidao API. Users can ask and answer questions across different websites directly or indirectly via its powerful APIs.

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Nearly 9 out of 10 Internet Users in Hong Kong View Online Video

June 1, 2010
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comScore last week released its March 2010 rankings of the top video properties in Hong Kong based on data from its comScore Video Metrix service. The report found that 88.5% of Hong Kong’s Internet population viewed video online in March, with visitors averaging more than 10 hours of video viewing per person during the month.

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China’s Top 5 Social Networking Sites Compared

April 20, 2010
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Hope this chart gives you a better idea of the top five social networking websites in China.

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Viral video ad for Peugeot 207CC

April 15, 2010

Close to 300K views within the first 12 hours. Over 1.6 millions views so far since it was posted on YouKu two days ago. Peugeot 207CC Viral Video

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China SNS Users Totaled 124 Million

April 13, 2010

AppLeap, a social media application consulting firm, released their 2010 report on social media gaming. According to the report, China social networking websites have a total number of 124 million users. 20% chose SNS for online gaming; 34% SNS users login every day.

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Baidu to Launch Video Portal QiYi.com in March

February 24, 2010

Baidu is to launch its HD video portal site QiYi.com in March. It announced its ambition in HD video in early January this year and hired former 12580 COO Gong Yu to be its CEO. QiYi.com aims to provide FREE and legal high definition video to Internet netizens and try to duplicate Hulu’s business model [...]

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China’s President Hu on People’s Daily Twitter Clone

February 22, 2010

The People’s Daily, the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP), recently launched its own Twitter clone to compete in Chinese microblogging. It’s clearly a different microblogging provider to me (probably because of its link with the government) as most “Tweets” are about matters vital to national well-being and the [...]

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5 Tips on Sourcing Chinese Social Media Monitoring Tools

January 26, 2010

I’ve been testing a few social media monitoring software for Chinese market (mainland China) lately and found very few good ones. Let me share some tips on sourcing social media monitoring software or online applications for mainland Chinese market. Language capabilities. If an application does a good job of monitoring online conversations on English keywords, [...]

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Baidu Raises $60m to Expand into Online Video

January 5, 2010

According to Tencent Tech, someone from Baidu confirmed yesterday that Baidu will set up a new business through the investment holding company to expand into the Internet video space; the ex-CEO of 12580 Mr Gong Yu will be the CEO of the new company. The new company has received 60 million U.S. dollars from U.S. [...]

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A Handy Chinese Social Bookmarking Widget

January 4, 2010

A few readers asked whether there is a similar site widget as “AddThis” or “ShareThis” for social bookmarking and social sharing. So, I’ll share one social bookmarking widget here. The widget I want to share has exactly the same name “AddThis” on org.cn. AddThis.org.cn provides social bookmarking and social sharing website widget for publishers as [...]

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