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OMG Chinese Facebook Copycat

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Facebook China - Xiaonei

Yes, that was my reaction when I saw this webpage. The image above is just a Facebook clone, Xiaonei.com. It looks like the portal was started around 2005 (less than two years after Facebook was born), and since then, it has grown exponentially to cover around 2,000 university campuses in Greater China. They have just recently started to pan out their services to cover high schools and companies.

Facebook is about to enter the Chinese market will they be too late as Chinese fancy local stuff?

The future will tell.Thanks to a friend (since my Chinese is not sufficient) I am enrolled at Xiaonei.com! Now I am a proud student of Nanjing University. Add me! :)

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Google OpenSocial

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Google OpenSocial

Google unveiled its OpenSocial platform earlier this week, saying it would give outside developers tools to write programs for any of its social network partners.

“OpenSocial is going to become the de facto standard (for developers) instantly out of the gates. It is going to have a reach of 200 million users, which is way bigger than anything else out there,” Chris DeWolfe, chief executive and co-founder of MySpace, told reporters. Source

“OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.”

Head on over to http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ to find out what the buzz is all about.

>>UPDATE @ November 3rd<< Nicholas Carr gives his opinion on Google’s OpenSocial.

Google’s introduction of OpenSocial, which, as Marc Andreessen explains, provides a kind of universal two-way connector between web applications and social networks, marks an important moment in the transformation of the World Wide Web into what I term, in The Big Switch, the World Wide Computer. The internet, as Google frequently points out, is the new computing platform, and OpenSocial - whether it succeeds or not - gives us a view as to how that platform may operate. Continue reading

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Human 2.0

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Human 2.0“We are making exponential progress in every type of information technology. Moreover, virtually all technologies are becoming information technologies. We can reliably predict that in the not too distant future we will reach what is known as “The Singularity”.

This is a time when the pace of technological change will be so rapid and its impact so deep that human life will be irreversibly transformed. We will be able to reprogram our biology, and ultimately transcend it. The result will be an intimate merger between ourselves and the technology we create.” Continue reading

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The 50 best business blogs

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Blogging is common practice in today’s society and is increasingly gaining polarity in corporate circles.

Many companies already have been forced to change policies or initiate special PR and marketing campaigns to encounter negative publicity, published by authoritative bloggers. The Times has ranked the fifty most influential business blogs, across industries, to date. This list can also be used (by newbies) as starting point in selecting your favourite business blogs to start reading frequently.

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World laboratory of the digital age

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Google Korea

The almighty Google seems to beat competitors in search everywhere around the world. However the world’s largest and most prominent search engine is not getting its feet’s into the most wired country in the world, South-Korea.

Naver.com is the undisputed leader in search in the country with a market share of 77%. Daum.net another local player handles 11%, Yahoo 5% and Google handles only a merit 1.7% of all search queries.

Google produces search results from existing information in comparison, naver.com works slightly different. Basically it’s a combination of Wikipedia, Yahoo’s portal, Answers.com, and Google. Koreans not only demand information, they prefer a sense of community feeling and the kind of human interaction provided by Naver’s “Knowledge iN” real-time question-and-answer platform.

Upon introducing a new type of Google search engine in South-Korea, Eric E. Schmidt, the chairman of Google states “It’s obvious to me that Korea is a great laboratory of the digital age”.

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Globalisation meets Web 2.0

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Globalisation meets Web 2.0We’re now at the busy crossroads where globalisation meets Web 2.0.

This presents both a challenge to the old ways of doing business and an opportunity to gain tremendous leverage via the right goods and services.

To thrive in this era, companies will have to figure out how to engage young people from all over the world when they conceive of products and services. Businesses need their help in turning concepts into finished products and, especially, in marketing them.

Another angle: Companies can follow the trail of blogs and social networking sites to find and recruit young employees all over the world. (Source: BusinessWeek cover story “Children of the web”)

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Language Learning 2.0

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Chinese Podcast
Are you eager to learn a new language from a native speaker but don’t want to pay for it? The new wave of so called web 2.0 technologies can provide you this opportunity by giving you access to numerous native speakers. With only a broadband connection, podcast, and Skype.

For example, the company Praxis offers free Chinese lessons delivered straight to your computer every day. The latest dialogue is delivered as a podcast on your iPod along with the Chinese characters of that day. To move even beyond this, your Skype phone is ringing and someone at the other side of the line says Ni hao to begin the lesson.

Another musing on technology: last week Google and Salesforces (delivers software through a browser) announced a partnership to bundle their powers and blend their software products. Salesforces is one of the leading companies in offering software as a service, one of the most promising technology concepts for the future. Software as a service envisions the ultimate form of delivering on demand services in order to gain business agility.

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World 2.0

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World 2.0

Blogspotting

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Businessweek started a blog two weeks ago: Blogspotting. Blogspotting is “where the worlds of business, media and blogs collide”, and during the two first weeks they have been blogging about blogging. From their latest entry:

It was almost embarrassing. At the BDI conference on blogging that’s going on a couple blocks from here, someone asked if blogs were a big deal outside the U.S. The panelists barely seemed to know. PubSub founder Bob Wyman had to grab the mike and set the record straight.

He said that there were more bloggers in Korea, China and Japan combined than in the rest of the world

That is truly interesting, considering both the different political environments and current/historical relationship towards each other that those countries have. Perhaps the best and most powerful way to increase long-term stability and security in the area would be to make a serious upgrade to Altavista’s Babelfish, so that people from those countries could read each others blogs and discuss. Or am i being naïve? ;)

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HOT Web 2.0 start-ups

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on March 14, 2007
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Web 2.0

Everyday new web 2.0 start-ups are shooting out of the ground in the already overcrowded web 2.0 sphere. However, there are still some companies that stand out from the average! Business 2.0 has listed the twenty-five startups that you have to watch! Too bad that the list is too Americanised in my opinion. Hardly no startup from Europe or Asia is mentioned.

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