51.com To Launch Open Platform in June

I’ve heard about it from some friends before, but in this morning, Yonghe Yao, Senior VP of 51.com confirmed in CHINICT that 51.com will launch a open platform, probably in June.
We’ve reported before that some emerging sns in China are working on open platform, but 51.com seems the first large sns to implement it [...]

Who is Leading China’s Blog Market?

Among all China’s blog service providers, who is the leading player? Is it Sina blog which hosts many blogs of celebrities, is it Sohu blog who just open a widget platform, or Tencent’s Q-zone? A report released by Baidu today may answer this question. (Jan. 30th, Update: Interestingly, SearchLab, an research institute established by Baidu [...]

51.com Launches Q&A Service

Q&A service is certainly making sense for SNS. Relying on relationship infrastructure, your questions have more chance to be answered by trustworthy people. But the service launched by 51.com, called Wenwen, is not really such a service, but a public Q&A service like Baidu Zhidao.
While there’s a filter on the top lets you select questions [...]

51.com Secured Second Round Funding

51.com, a popular social networking sites in China, has just closed its $10 million second round funding from Intel Capital, Redpoint and its existing investor Sequoia China and SIG. Some reports also said the amount of funding is $12 million.
51.com was founded in August 2005 by Pang Shengdong, Sequoia China and SIG invested in $4 [...]

Chinese Web2.osphere (May 24th)

Blogcn partner with Founder to provide on-demand printing service for bloggers: Founder, the key solution provider for Chinese printing industry, will provide on-demand printing and delivery service(博文e印) for bloggers of Blogcn. But I think Founder should develop a tools and offer on-demand printing services to all Chinese bloggers rather than just to users of Blogcn.
Lingtu [...]

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