Archive for October, 2008

Xiaonei Integrates Payment System Into App Platform

Xiaonei, the leading Facebook-copycat in China, announced today that it has started to allow third-party apps to integrate Xiaonei’s online payment system, i.e. Xiaonei Dou, to monetize the traffics.
What is Xiaonei Dou? It is the virtual coin of Xiaonei.com, you can use Alipay, Yeepay, mobile phone or pre-paid card to pay for Xiaonei Dou, [...]

Baidu E-commerce Platform Is Finally Online

Today, Baidu finally rolls out its much-anticipated C2C e-commerce platform, a little more than one year after Baidu announced its ambitious C2C plan. This e-commerce platform is called Youa.com, together with Baifubao.com, Baidu’s online payment platform, they are the only services by Baidu which don’t use a domain name under Baidu.com.
During its private test, [...]

Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 in Guangzhou

This year’s Chinese Blogger Conference will be held in Guangzhou on Nov. 15-16, it is the forth year of this annual event. For those who are not familiar with Chinese Blogger Conference, it is a very grassroot annual gathering for China’s bloggers and tech startups, you can use “cnbloggercon” to search blog posts and photos [...]

Baidu IM Launches Web Version

Starting Yesterday, if you visit Baidu space, you will be able to chat with other Baidu users within your browser. If you logged in your Baidu account, you will see a little Baidu Hi logo right beside your user name. Clicking it, you will be directed to the web version.
The launched product is the Web [...]

Taobao Launches Collaborative Recommendation

Taobao, the biggest C2C/B2C service of China, has just launched personal portal called iTaobao. If you have added any friends in Taobao, you will be able to have a glance of their latest favorite goods.
What it really does is to recommend goods and stores to users according to their browsing and purchasing history. [...]

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