We've heard Xiaonei.com is working on open platform for a long time. Possibly because of 51.com's announcement of open developer platform plan in last week, Xiaonei.com , the so-called China's Facebook , can not wait to announced its open developer

A8.com , an online and wireless digital music service established in 2000 in China, plans to go public in Hongkong Exchange(0800.HK) to raise as much as HK$ 217 million. In 2004 and 2005, IDGVC, TDF, Intel Capital and JAFCO invested

Opera released a State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter, 2008 report recently. The report listed the top 10 Chinese mobile sites based on the statistics of Opera Mini. Web portal content and search engine access is extremely popular in

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

Regarding tsunami of late 2004, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web has summarized three ways that people used the Web in response to the disaster: 1) as a constantly updated source of news about the disaster; 2) as a way for

Yesterday afternoon, a strong earthquake measured at 7.8 on the Richter scale happened in Sichuan province, China. It is so strong that many people in other provinces, including me in Beijing, over 1500 km away from epicenter, felt the earthquake.

On April 25th, 2008, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the Research Report of China Youth Internet Behaviors . The report studies the online behaviors of 107 million China's netizens under the age of 25. (Download the report in

In my post about Softbank's huge investment on Oak Pacific Interactive , or say Xiaonei.com, I believed that the investment will inspire more people in China to try to build another similar Facebook-wannabe. Actually, Comsenz, the leading developer social software

BusinessWeek published a special report on virtual world on Monday, with one article on virtual World in China which featured Hipihi , Novoking and UOneNet (a.k.a. uWorld ). On April 21st, Hipihi announced the beginning of its public beta testing

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

Beijing based StumbleUpon like service Quzhai has sent out an email to all its users that the service will be shut down very soon. Quzhai learns users' interest by asking them to click like or dislike button on its toolbar.