Archive for June, 2008

Baidu Starts To Promote C2C Service

Baidu C2C is one of the most important new product in 2008, which have potential to change the competitive landscape of China’s C2C market, which is dominated by Taobao.com. Yesterday, Baidu started a roadshow to promote its new C2C service to sellers.
There is only very limited information about Baidu C2C so far, we don’t [...]

CNET China Acquired 55BBS

CNET China announced yesterday that it has acquired an online lifestyle forum site 55BBS.com. According to report by Sina, Lu Wang, president of CNET China said the acquisition amount is over RMB 10 million yuan, and paid by cash.
55BBS.com, established in May 2004 by Hua Han, is an online forum for users to discuss [...]

CNNIC: 160 million Online Video Users in China

CNNIC, i.e. China Internet Network Information Center, yesterday released a report on online video market in China. According to the report, there are already 160 million online video users in China by the end of 2007.
The report also studied the online video users behaviors.

65.9% user view online videos by their routine way for [...]

The PR Problems of China’s Social Media

Last week, I was honored to be invited to join a panel discussion, together with Sam Flemming, Isaac Mao, Steven Lin, Raymond Zhou and Adam Schokora, on China’s social media at Edelman’s annual leadership meeting in Shanghai. On the panel, moderated by Edelman Asia Pacific President Alan Vandermolen, we first try to define social media [...]

Google China Partners With China’s SNS on OpenSocial

Just in last post, we wrote about Tianya.cn’s OpenSocial platform, and said it is the third website in China which goes into OpenSocial. In Google Developer Day 2008 in Beijing in yesterday, Kaifu Lee announced Google’s OpenSocial strategy in China.
In addition to MySpace.cn, CityIn and Tianya.cn, seven other Chinese social networking sites will jointly [...]

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