Sina Starts Twitter-Like Service

About ten days ago, Sina started testing its Twitter-like service, Sina Microblogging, when many other Twitter-copycats in China have been shut down by the authorities.
Like Twitter, Sina Microblogging allows users to post short messages less than 140 Chinese characters, you can follow other users to get their updates, but Sina called followers as fans. [...]

China SNS Roundup: Sina, Netease, 51.com, Yiqi.com

Sina and Netease adds SNS games: What are the hottest features of China’s SNS? The answer is “Friends for Sale”. Last week, both Sina and Netease add “friends for sale” function into their blog/space service. Friends For Sale was first introduced to China by Kaixin001.com, together with Parking War. Leveraging on these two apps, Kaixin001.com [...]

Sina Goes Widgets

Sina, the most popular Chinese web portal, today quietly launched a new product called Sina Mofun with an iPhone-like interface.
Sina Mofun, similar to Yahoo Widgets, is a desktop widgets client, which closely integrated with Sina’s web 2.0 services, including blog, photo sharing, video sharing, groups, forums and others. On Sina Mofun, you can read [...]

Product Pulse: Baidu Startpages, Sina Space And Community Search

Baidu has launched personal startpages. Unlike iGoogle, Baidu doesn’t let you add your own news feeds, not to say programmable gadgets.
Currently all you can customize are a couple of handy assistants, news aggregation and search keyword trends. Since Baidu’s news aggregation is the best out there, the product still makes perfect sense even with [...]

Sina Clones Baidu Postbar

Baidu Postbar is one of the innovative services I used as examples in my presentation on web innovations in China. According to Alexa, the traffic of Baidu Postbar accounts for 11% of total traffic of Baidu, just follows Baidu web search and image search service.
What’s Baidu Postbar? It is a keyword-based online forum which [...]

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