March 2006
Monthly Archive
Thu 30 Mar 2006
51 亿友(YiYou) http://www.yeeyoo.com/
Community for entertainment, friendships, business
52 联络家(LianluoJia) http://www.linkist.com/
Business friends, interests, job finding, business information
53 PPlive http://www2.pplive.com/
Web Television broadcast platform based on P2P technology
54 波普播客(BoPu Podcast) http://www.imboke.com
Another podcast website, new born
55 天际网(TianJi) http://www.tianji.com
online friends seeking community for business professionals
56 拍客地带(PaiKe Zone) http://www.fzone.cn
Friend blog community
57 搜狐博客 http://blog.sohu.com/
Still in BETA, ICP blogging service provider (not stable)
58 Mapbar http://www.mapbar.com/
Provide mapping service with blogging and other functions
59 赶集(Ganji) http://www.ganji.com/
(Landing page failed to load during my testing)
60 又拍网(YouPai) http://www.yupoo.com/
Photo publishing and sharing service provider
61 乐视网(LeShi) http://www.le-tv.com
Web Television broadcast platform based on P2P technology
62 万蝶移动博客(WanDie Mobile Blog) http://www.pdx.cn
WAP Photo Sharing and Blogging Service Provider
63 狗狗(GouGou) http://www.gougou.com/
Online RSS Feeds Subscription
64 乐乐互动(LeLe Interactive) http://www.lele.com/web/
Ringtone download and multimedia content downloads for cellphones
65 3G门户网(3G Portal) http://www.3g.net.cn
Pics and Ringtones, Games, Books, Video Cast on cellphones
66 Cblinkx TV http://www.cblinkx.tv
Chinese video search engine
67 滚石音乐网(GunShi Music) http://irock.cn/
DIY singers’ online karaoke songs sharing and publishing site
68 粉丝网(FenSi) http://www.ifensi.com
Online community for the Fans group of Chinese pop stars
69 我要(51) http://www.51.com
Verified real person friends seeking online community
70 易登网(YiDeng) http://www.edeng.cn
Another classifieds service provider
71 K68 http://www.k68.cn
SOHO working, freelancer online project bidding service provider
72 中国播客网(China Podcast) http://www.vvlogger.com
Podcast website
73 那里网(NaLi) http://www.naalee.com
Beijing local classifieds
74 Teein帖易中文聚合门户(Teein Chinese Aggregation) http://www.teein.com
Aggregated content from other content providers and other sources, provide a search engine
75 众评(ZhongPin) http://report.7234.com/
Online commenting on services and products
76 酷客音乐网 (KuKe Music) http://www.koook.com
DIY singer online karaoke songs publishing and sharing website
77 淘职网(TaoZhi) http://www.go2work.com.cn
Searching on aggregated job portals job positions, similar as JobUI
78 捉鱼网(ZhuoYu) http://www.joyes.com
Cell phone games portal
79 新聚网(XinJu) http://www.tagriver.com
Similar as Digg.com, rating on stories published by users, feeds aggregation (system performance slow)
80 We@link http://www.wealink.com
Social Capital Bank SNS online friendship community
81 网眼(Web Eye) http://www.webeye.net.cn
New online marketing model, Tracking user activities on corporate website and actively communicate with the user to gain more clients
82 中国交友中心(Sino Friends) http://www.96333.com
Sino friends seeking site
83 博易(BoYi) http://www.anyp.cn/
Online community with blogging, personal website, blog group, chat bar, bookmarks etc
84 中国114黄页(China 114 Yellow pages) http://www.114chn.com
Online Yellow pages for business
85 TOM博客(Tom Blog) http://blog.tom.com
Tom ICP blogging service
86 圈网你我他(Circle Network NiWoTa) http://www.niwota.com
Online friends seeking community with interest groups
87 94pop流沙歌秀(94pop LiuShaGeXiu) http://www.94pop.com
DIY singer online karaoke songs publishing and sharing platform
88 本地通(BenDiTong) http://www.bodoto.com
Local classifieds for limited cities
89 爬狗(PaGou) http://www.pagou.com
(Failed to access the landing page during my test)
90 歪酷博客(WaiKu Blog) http://www.yculblog.com
Another blogging hosting service provider
91 天方有声图书(TianFang Audible Books) http://www.tingbook.com
Similar as audible.com, online pay-per-download audio books center
92 中国博乐网(China BoLe) http://www.boloo.com
Blogs ranking, auditing, reporting, BSP ranking site
93 小蜜蜂(Little Bee) http://www.com.tv
VoIP client, Video Chat, Free Movie Theatre, Broadband TV
94 播客宝典(Podcast Podium) http://www.hopesome.com
Podcast wiki and tutorial, podcasts lists
95 爱米网(AiMi) http://www.aimi.cn
Note your important goads and wishes and publish them online to share your success with others
96 嘻哈哈(XiHaha) http://www.seehaha.com
Personal Video Sharing platform
97 人脉招聘网(RenMai Recruiting) http://www.rmzp.com
Integrate HR recruitement services with people network
98 分类哥哥(FenLei GeGe) http://www.fenleiGG.com
One of the popular online classifieds services provider in China
99 Komoo http://www.komoo.com
Friendship community by invitations only, cloned from orkut
100 碰碰网(PengPeng) http://www.pengpeng.com
online friends seeking community by groups
Wed 29 Mar 2006
Mar 28, Internet Society of China and IDG Venture Investment Annouced the “China Internet Web 2.0 Top 100″.
1 猫扑(Maopu) http://www.mop.com
Originated by its unique style of “melting-pot” forum. Now it becomes one of the famous portal site covering entertainment, news, literature, games etc.
2 和讯(Hexun) http://www.hexun.com
Famous Business and Finance Portal, recently added web 2.0 elements such as blogs, groups, bookmarks, online rss feeds etc, Billy Recommended
3 豆瓣网(DouBanWang) http://www.douban.com
Reading, Movies, Musics sharing your favorite books, movies and music with any other person online, you can also exchange your 2nd handed books, cds or dvds
4 奇虎(QiHu) http://www.qihoo.com
Intelligent Search Engine for content aggregation
5 网易博客(Netease Blog) http://blog.163.com
Tridition ICQ now hosting new services of blogging, however nothing really make it special from other blogging service providers
6 噢噢中国(AoAo China) http://www.oo.cn
Doesn’t ring a bell for me by its weird name “oo” or “AoAo” in Chinese. The services are old fashioned and out of date. Merely sub-domain names for abbreviation. I don’t get it why this lame site could be selected as Top 6 for Web 2.0 though there is nothing can make any sense in terms of web 2.0 (Don’t wasting your time on this one)
7 百度贴吧(BaiDu Posts Bar) http://post.baidu.com
It exends the functionalities of tridition forums, anyone can create virtual boards (bars) on any specific topics and users can posts and add comments under that boards. The cons is it could be a choas when hundreds of bars about same topics make you completely depressed.
8 新浪博客(Sina Blog) http://blog.sina.com.cn
The largest blog service provider hosted most contemporary Chinese pop stars’ blogs.
9 网络秀 (Network Show) http://www.m149.com/
A dull site for advocating online Music stores and Music Companies. Doesn’t have much individual artist participating or does the site compatible with your firefox. Looks very dull. Don’t know why it could be Top 9
10 客齐集(Kijiji) http://www.kijiji.com.cn
Biggest online community for classifieds, operated by famous shanghai blogger Wangjianshuo and invested by eBay (Highly recommended)
11 VeryCD http://www.verycd.com/
It is amazing that VeryCD was also nominated. Well as far as I’m concerned it’s merely a Emule P2P resource sharing and publishing site. Due to some of the legal issues on the P2P sharing I personally would reserve my opinion on nominate this type of site.
12 Donews http://www.donews.com
Biggest IT Writing Community in China. Many super stars in China IT business sphere are members of this community.
13 天涯社区 http://www.tianya.cn
One of the biggest Chinese online community, similar as Mop but with a triditional tree view navigation pane on the left. Old fashioned but still useful.
14 土豆网 http://www.toodou.com
China Podcast Network
15 大旗网(原ChinaBBS) http://www.daqi.com/
Aggregated contents and blogs
16 58同城分类(58 Local Classifieds) http://www.58.com/
Local City Classifieds, New born site (similar as Kijiji)
17 周博通(ZhouBoTong) http://www.potu.com
RSS subscription clients and online RSS feeds subscription
18 大众点评网 http://www.dianping.com
Similar as famous restaurants rating website Zagat, it’s the Zagat in China
19 BlogCN http://www.blogcn.com
One of the biggest Chinese blogging hosting services provider, it should be the first hosting provider in China according to its self introduction
20 博客网(BoKee) http://www.bokee.com
One of the biggest Chinese blogging hosting services provider founded by Fang Xing Dong
21 Zcom智通(ZhiTong) http://www.zcom.com
Largest online multimedia interactive magazines content & hosting provider, anybody and make their own digital interactive magazine to share them online by using the tools provided by Zcom
22 fotoal http://www.fotoal.com/
photo blog site, however I cannot open it during my testing
23 fotolog http://www.fotolog.com.cn/
A clone of Flickr, photo hosting website in Chinese
24 优友地带(YouYou DiDai) http://www.uuzone.com
Biggest web 2.0 friends seeking site in China, provided with Groups, Voice IM Tools, Blogs and Voice Blogs etc.
25 赛我网(SaiWo) http://www.cyworld.com.cn
Online Friend Seeking Community, has friends and groups with virtual items stores which teenager loves
26 YOK优客搜索 (YouKe) http://www.yok.com
Seach site which just syndicate search services from other vendors such as google , yahoo and other P2P resources publisher. Results showed using 3rd party URL, advocate their tools ActiveX IE plugin (another junky Chinese Search Engines plugin maker, be careful)
27 My See http://www.mysee.com/
Broadcast triditional TV programs online using P2P plugins for Windows Mediaplayers
28 CSDN http://www.csdn.net
Biggest China Developer Online Community
29 楚现会(ChuXian Hui) http://www.appiir.com
Online people community explore your friends circle by knowledge, people, information, topics and activities
30 feedsky http://www.feedsky.com
Assistance site, clone the idea from feedburner, see it uses the verb “burn” to publish feeds for aggregation and stats analysis
31 365Key http://www.365key.com/
Biggest Online Bookmark website in China, similar as del.icio.us
32 摩网(Mo) http://www.moabc.com
WAP Portal for online phone book, rss reader, mobile email access etc
33 菠萝网 (BoLuo) http://www.podlook.com
Another Chinese Podcasting service provider
34 影立驰(YingLiChi) http://www.tvix.cn/
Fail to lauch the landing page during my test
35 E都市(E Dushi) http://www.edushi.com/
Online mapping site with 3D graphics, however personally I don’t like the images much since they are not real 3d coz you cannot rotate the map
36 银河台(YinHe Tai) http://www.radio.cn
Biggest Chinese Network Radio (NJ) Station with services of blog and podcasts
37 邦邦网(BangBang) http://www.81088.com
Mobile phone ring bells pictures service provider
38 口碑网(KouBei) http://www.koubei.com
Fail to lauch the landing page during my test (Online Classifieds famous for its real estate info services)
39 Blogbus http://www.blogbus.com/
Another blogging service hosting provider
40 网库黄页(WangKu Yellow Pages) http://www.99114.com
Chinese online yellow page service provider, you can also publish your trading business information
41 xplus http://www.xplus.com.cn
Another free online rich multimedia magazine website
42 看天下(Kan TianXia) http://www.kantianxia.com
RSS Reader Client and online Service provider
43 POCO http://www.poco.cn
Multimedia content P2P sharing, Digital Interactive magazine download and making, photo sharing etc
44 CNCN城市平台 (City Platform) http://www.cncn.com/
Platform for all information of cities in China, local media reports and other aggregated information
45 聚网(Ju) http://www.365ju.com/
Business Professionals online community, real friends who’d been met
46 爆米花网(BaoMiHua) http://www.pomoho.com
Video Clips Sharing
47 快乐米 (KuaiLeMi) http://www.colorme.com.cn
DIY recordinig and online Karaoke, sharing and publishing songs site for DIY singers
48 qzone http://qzone.qq.com/
Tencent’s QQ users’ online community
49 磊客中国(LeiKe China) http://www.rox.com.cn/
Another P2P resources publishing site for downloading Movies, Games, Musics
50 职友集(ZhiYou Ji) http://www.jobui.com
Integrate all the job information published on serveral major job search engines to single platform, also had user blogs and SNS community. Amazingly fast and accurate. Highly recommended.BTW I met the founder Zheng Ze Feng in cnblog conference last year
Wed 29 Mar 2006

Get Billy’s invitation to try WP here. It’s unbelievable powerful and versatile, much stronger than MT2.6 which I currently use.
Tue 28 Mar 2006
After several times of rolling back to history data and two days totally server outage. Wangjianshuo a famous blogger in Shanghai had been dealing supporting cases with his hosting service provider lunarpages.com which had a very very poor support service. He said the support ticket he opened had no response for more than 56 hours. (Hard to imagine for me, who are going to do business with this vendor). Well, he finally found the quickest way to contact them was via telephone call. Although he’d been asked to stay on hold for 7 mins, he said that was much better than the previous vendor ipowerweb which had told him to wait for 27 mins.
Well, I also think that most of the call centers in states do have a very poor service. I hardly had the patience to wait for about 20 mins to talk to a real person. This happens so frequently, thus interestingly this was regarded as normal and was widely accepted by most Americans.
Speaking of the poor telephone support services, there are some exceptions however I would like to mention here. One example is the Citi Bank who did a series of TV commercials advertising its new call center services, saying that its customers can directly talk to a real person when making a phone call for support. Since I’m not its card user, I’d never tested it. The other example is Godaddy, (It seems I’ve been mention godaddy frequently recently, I promise I’m not advertising here). They actively make phone calls to their customers asking whether they had any questions about using their services when the customers had done any purchases recently. As for myself, I got at least three phone calls from them, however due to timezone difference, I didn’t pick up any of them during my midnight. However they kept trying for 3 midnights continuously. That was amazing for me. And some Americans even couldn’t help shouting out excitedly about that, “Wow, Godaddy called me, which was cool!” (I heard similar expressions in both TWIT and Diggnation podcasts) hehe
Sun 26 Mar 2006
Again, with the help from Windix I successfully installed the WP with all the MT entries exported and then imported to WP, including the comments. It was just like a breeze. The whole installation and data migration couldn’t be easier.
Plus, by doing some research on the .htaccess file, also with some help from WP website. I then made changes to the .htaccess file, so that the request to the old MT urls will be redirected to the new WP url. As the example below. They both direct users to the WP new url.
Old URL:(MT) http://blog.hithat.com/archives/shanghai_related/2006_03_16_xiangyang_market_will_shut_down_eventually.htm
New URL: (WP)
http://blog.hithat.com/2006/03/16/xiangyang-market-will-shut-down-eventually/
So the transition now looks like transparent. Thanks to WordPress and all the courteous WP users for sharing their knowledge.
I’ll keep exploring other features of the WP, just stay tuned 
Thu 23 Mar 2006
By resesarching for quite a long time, I finally found my ideal host space from Godaddy.com. The ecomony host plan offers 5GB of total web space and 250GB traffic limit per month, with only $3.95/mo for the price.
I also transferring another domain name of mine to Godaddy.com. I registered BillyQiu.com long time ago, however I didn’t go through all the processes of “BeiAn” (Log website owner records to China official registrar) with the current Chinese hosting provider. It had been locked down for almost a year. Currently it is pending original domain registrar confirmation, which takes 5-7 days around.
Much thanks to Windix, who anwered to my early questions about the Godaddy domain and hosting services which helped me greatly to make my final choice to the Godaddy.com.
Thu 16 Mar 2006
Reported by Shanghai Daily …. XIANGYANG Fashion and Gift Market will shut down on June 30 to make way for the city’s traffic construction plans, the market operator said in a post at the entrance of the market today, Xinmin Evening News reported. The Xiangyang market is one of the city’s best known markets, and it is a haven for both domestic and foreign tourists looking for cheap goods and counterfeit products. …. Bravo! It should be shut down years ago I think, coz it was too famous for the counterfeit products at cheap prices and its chaos market in terms of both merchants management and public security of the market. It’s not at all fit into the city image of Shanghai and did damage the reputation of the City.
Wed 15 Mar 2006
Alternative way to access Wikipedia
Follow the URL http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Copies_of_Wikipedia_content
It include a whole list of all those websites which have the copies of wiki pages.
—- Updated 16:35 —
You can also use the translation website http://babelfish.altavista.com
I recommend answers.com which provides extra information from other references
http://www.answers.com
Tue 7 Mar 2006
I started the 12-day Training of the EMC Documentum product since Mar 6 which covers “Technical Fundemental”, “System Administration”, “DFC (Documentum Foundation Classes)”, “BPM (Business Process Management)”, “BPS (Business Process Services)”, “Web Publisher” and “WDK (Web Development Kit)”, etc.