Taobao Open Platform Is Coming

In this February, we reported that Taobao will launch open platform within this year. Today Taobao Open Platform(TOP)’s webpage has been online already, which provides information on Taobao API for developers. (tip by Sina)
To be a developer for TOP, at first you need to sign up as an ISV in Alisoft, the software business under [...]

Chinese Website Qiushibaike Sells Its Ads in Taobao

Qiushibaike.com, an interesting website that let users to share their embarrassed stories online, is trying to sell its banner ads and feed ads in Chinese C2C website Taobao.com. (via Webleon)
Till now, Qiushibaike has over 12000 stories shared by users. According to description on Taobao, Qiushibaoke has over 20,000 daily visits, not sure it means [...]

Taobao Sales Recorded High and Launches Taobao Mall

Taobao, the dominating C2C platform in China owned by Alibaba Group, released its sales stats for Q1 of 2008, and launched an important new service, Taobao Mall.
According to Taobao, it recorded RMB 18.8 billion Yuan sales volume in 2008 Q1, an increase of 170% over RMB 7.0 billion Yuan for the same period of [...]

Taobao Mobile Version Ready

It’s reported that Taobao launched Wap version for cell phone on Feb. 27, available at wap.taobao.com. It’s an integrated platform that users can finish order and checkout process in one place. The checkout feature is provided by Alipay, another child company of Alibaba.
Now daily payment is limited to RMB 2000. Online auction feature is not [...]

Taobao to Open API in 2008

Lack of open API is one the the reason that you cannot find many interesting small innovative web apps in China. An open API from e-commerce sites may be more important and useful, since it is very possible that the web apps can be part of the ecosystem of the e-commerce sites, and generate revenues [...]

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