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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 in [...]

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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 people’s [...]

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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, it’s [...]

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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. private [...]

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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 well [...]

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Baidu Post Bar Updated with Twitter Features

December 30, 2009

Baidu has updated its Post Bar service, integrated with microblogging features.
About Baidu Post Bar
Baidu Post Bar (Chinese: tieba) provides users with a query-based searchable community to exchange views and share knowledge and experiences. Any user can set up a post bar or post bar club. In Post Bars, anyone can post; but in Post Bar [...]

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China Central Television Launched Online TV Station CNTV.cn

December 27, 2009

China Central Television (CCTV)’s new online TV website CNTV.cn was supposed to launch on December 28, 2009. But, CCTV launched CNTV.cn quietly this morning. Currently CNTV website includes five categories:

News
Sports
Entertainment
Ai Bugu
Ai Xiyou

According to CCTV, more categories will be added in 2010. Ai Bugu (Love Cuckoo) and Ai Xiyou (Love Grapefruit) are more like two columns [...]

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Bad WOM in China Internet and the Post Burners Army

December 21, 2009

By the end of June 2009, China BBS online community sites have reached on average 43.806 million unique visitors and apparently lots of conversations take place on online BBS forums.
With the growing popularity search engine usage among China netizens, it’s becoming very important to manage your online reputation online. I’m going to discuss briefly the [...]

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Baidu Lauching Revamped Baidu Post Bar

December 16, 2009

A screenshot of new Baidu Post Bar is recently leaked, which looks like Google Wave. Baidu got the idea from Google Wave? Maybe. More will come when the new Post Bar is launched.

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MSN China Launched Microblogging Service Juku

December 3, 2009

MSN China unveiled “MSN Juku” – a microblogging service which MSN China claimed it not a microblogging service but a product of local innovation. Whatever.
Juku can be accessed here: http://club.msn.cn

The shout box is on the top allowing users to send a message of up to 139 characters (either 139 English characters or 139 Chinese characters). [...]

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