Douban Raised $10M in Series B

Douban, a symbol of web 2.0 services in China, announced its $10 million series B financing today. The new round is led by Trustbridge Partners, and co-invested by its existing investor Ceyuan Ventures, who invested in $2 million in 2006.
Douban started from a social networking sites for book lovers, movie lovers and music lovers [...]

Douban To Add Book Series

Douban, the book reviews and recommendation service, has just announced a new expansion of book attributes, series. Via Wikipedia, a book series is a sequence of books with certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.
Book series look like a public and collaborative version of another more private feature — [...]

New 9taps Reader Rocks

This version of Douban’s 9taps reader is a revolution. It’s not about the content in four channels. It’s about how it can help you go through you subscription more smoothly. Douban’s own PR post is misleading by leaning too much towards media angle.
The reason douban dropped a consistent UI is that blog post is different [...]

Microsoft Spring Festival Search, Douban New 9taps

Microsoft Live Search is promoting itself in Chinese market. It just launched a special theme for spring festival search. Here’s the address: 2009.cj.live.com. Interestingly, it’s not linked from the homepage of live search.
It’s mainly like an aggregated portal for spring festival related information, like train tickets. It also included traffic information on live map, similar [...]

Douban Testing New API, But We Want More

Douban has rolled out a new set of API several days ago. Originally it has limited types of feeds called Douban Service. Now you can play with it further with either server or client side scripts.
My take? Too simple. They are all about GET. We want PUT, DELETE and POST.
If you are rolling out a [...]

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