UUZone To Close Its Website

When we are talking all those hype of China’s SNS sites in 2008, such as Xiaonei.com and Kaixin001.com, you will not remember a site called UUZone, which is one of the first SNS sites in China. I guess many of you may not even hear of it. Actually, I also think it has [...]

Anyp.cn Shut Down Its Service

Anyp.cn, a blog hosting service based in Guangzhou, announced that it will not continue its business to provide blogging service for consumers, and it will seek someone to take over this business.
Since July 26th, users can not access Anyp.cn’s service. Anyp said there was something wrong with their data, and the service will be [...]

Fanswo Loses Founding Team

Guangzhou-based Fanswo is a community for fans of music stars. It was launched in Dec. 2006. It provides integrated services including personal profile, forum, video, photos and events, similar to Myspace. Previously it’s called Jaycn, a community about music star Jay Chou. After it’s launched into Fanswo, Jay Chou is still the hottest star in [...]

RSS Reader Gougou Turns Into Xunlei Download Search Engine

Gougou, a formerly leading RSS reader has quietly entered dead pool. The domain name was sold to Xunlei. Now it’s branded as a download resource search engine of Xunlei. Techweb is reporting.
Gougou was founded by Li Xueling, former employee of Netease and Sohu.
Our former coverage of Gougou is here. Since the rising of Zhuaxia, Gougou [...]

Buykee Enters Dead Pool

Buykee, a Hangzhou based social shopping service for consumer electronics, has quietly closed the door. We profiled Buykee at the end of last year when it formally launched. The service only lasted for four months or so.
The reason of the shutting down is not widely known yet. Based on my observation, running out of cash [...]