Archive for June, 2006

Search Engines…Upgrading

Sogou from Sohu, is upgrading…iAsk from Sina, is upgrading…Sou from China.com, is upgrading too.
Yesterday three search engines of Chinese internet portal sites simultaneously suspend their service and said “service is upgrading” in the homepage. Till now, more than 24 hours later, the services are still unavailable.
It is rumored that the suspension of service for several [...]

Portal 2.0: PCHome’s Web2.0 Initiative

PCHome, an infamous internet portal in Taiwan, launched a new site called Portal 2.0 in early June with the aim to explore the opportunites in web 2.0 development.
Portal 2.0 currently includes six different services:

Page 2.0: personalized homepage, users can aggregrate his blog posts, photos, favorite musics, bookmarks and so on.
Photo 2.0: a Flickr-like [...]

China Mobile Has Its Own Mobile IM

China Mobile recently released its own mobile IM software called Femoo(飞信) (the name changed to , and will stop supporting all existing mobile IM service.
After registering a Femoo user, you can send SMS, instant messages and make voice chatting with other users on mobile handsets or on PC, but it is NOT free, chatting charges [...]

Red Herring 100 Asia

The Red Herring 100 Asia is an annual event by Red Herring Magazine to select the top 100 technology startups and privately-hold companies in Asia.
A group of Red Herring editorial judges will review each nomination. The editors will assess nominees on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as technology innovation, market, management, investor, customer, business [...]

Two Chinese Blog Search Engines

In last weekend, two Chinese blog search engines launched. One is from the leading BBS search engine Qihoo, another is the new version of Booso from Bokee (previous profile on November 2005).
Since I profiled Booso in later 2005, Booso has been barely usable. They started to change the open source Lucene search engine into their [...]

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