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

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 [...]

5 Tips on Sourcing Chinese Social Media Monitoring Tools

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, [...]

Baidu Raises $60m to Expand into Online Video

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. [...]

A Handy Chinese Social Bookmarking Widget

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 [...]

Baidu Post Bar Updated with Twitter Features

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 [...]

China Central Television Launched Online TV Station CNTV.cn

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 [...]

Bad WOM in China Internet and the Post Burners Army

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 [...]

Baidu Lauching Revamped Baidu Post Bar

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.

MSN China Launched Microblogging Service Juku

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 [...]

How Chinese bloggers make their fortune online

As many consumers from all parts of the world, Chinese consumers turn to blogs and forums for product reviews before they buy. Reviews from popular bloggers or active members of a forum often matter a lot in consumers’ decision making; however, many consumers are not aware their favorite bloggers could be as well a stranger [...]

Top Online Video Providers in China

Analysys International, a Chinese research company, released a report about China Q3 2009 online video; this is the market share of different online video providers: YouKu.com: 12.6% PPStream: 11.5% Ku6.com / UUSee: 10.7% PPLive: 10.4% Tudou: 9.7% QQlive (from Tencent): 9.1% 56.com 6.cn pomoho.com Others: 16.5% PPStream, PPLive, and QQlive are p2p online video streaming [...]

adtech Beijing 2009 videos

I didn’t visit this year’s ad:tech Beijing but I found some interesting videos from this year’s ad:tech Beijing. Burson Marsteller China on Digital PR BPA Worldwide

MySpace China Microblogging Site 9911 Allows MMS Update

MySpace China’s microblogging platform 9911.com has recently enabled its users to update by sending multimedia messages (MMS) to 15811219911 (mobile number). 9911 users currently can update their status by seven ways: update from website 9911.com mobile internet m.9911.com SMS to 158 1121 9911 MMS to 158 1121 9911 MSN messenger Desktop client Syndicate from other [...]

China social networking sites statistics 2009 (updated)

Everything valuable in China seems so competitive, and there’s no exception to social media.  CNNIC recently released a report on China social networking sites (SNS) and I’m here to share some key findings: By the end of 2009, the number of Chinese online social media users is about to reach 124 million. Every social media [...]

Be A Baidu Wikipedia “Authority Editor” for Branding and SEO Benefit

Baidu has launched an “authority partners” program for Baidu Wikipedia. 12 companies and organizations have joined this program to edit and certify Baidu Wikipedia entries including travel search engine Qunar and China Mobile. Should You Join Baidu Wikipedia Authority Program? I recommend companies join this program as it will be very helpful to branding. Baidu [...]

Google China Music Integrated Windows Live, Yahoo, and RenRen IDs

From today on, Chinese netizens can manage their music playlists on Google Music Player with Windows Live ID, Yahoo ID, or Renren ID. Google China Music has added share feature which enables users to share their instantly updated playlists with their friends. Currently, Chinese netizens can download high quality legal songs and there are over [...]

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