Roundup for CHINICT 2009 Day One

Thu, 21 May 2009 08:14:00 -0700

In last three months, I haven’t updated any post in this blog due to my busy day job. But after attending today’s CHINICT event, I decided to write down something. Most of the following information can be found on Twitter, mainly by @davidatsg, @sioksiok and @DavidFeng. You can also search #CHINICT in Twitter.

Kaixin001.com now has 27m registered users, and 8m daily active users, their average stay time on the site is 1 hour. Actually, I know many users keep on checking Kaixin001.com from time to time during their working hour. Kaixin001.com has no timetable for an open platform. And it seems they don’t need it now, since I heard the rumor that they can charge several million RMB for a big marketing campaign related to apps. Dangdang, so called China’s Amazon, when its 10th anniversary is coming, start to make profit in this year, and they believe it is sustainable. 360quan.com, a SNS mainly targeting users born in late 80’s and 90’s, will start an open platform very soon, and offer a better revenue sharing deal with developers. And it has about 500k daily active users now. Now over ten thousand websites has installed UCenter Home to build their own SNS sites. Even Linkist.com, one of the earliest business SNS site in China, relaunched its service recently which is based on UCenter Home now. Comsenz also plans to help those small SNS sites to monetize the sites by longtail advertising and micro-payment premium service on its Manyou open platform. Among 300 million Internet users in China, 210 millions use online videos, and 140 million go to Youku.com, according to Victor Koo, founder and CEO of Youku.com. Now Youku’s monthly revenues, mainly by advertising, is already 10 million, so it is easy to reach their goal for this year: RMB 100 million. Youku has launched a 3G version on May 17th, but they don’t expect it become significant till 2010. But mobile platform offers an opportunity for subscription-based business model. 6.cn said they are the only profitable video sharing site in China, because they focus on game community, and 70% of their revenue comes from game advertisers. Game operators also feed them video content. They cleaned up all movie content in late 2008. Cost reduction makes them profitable. UUSee make 80% of their revenue from ads, and the rest from value-added service. They offers fee-based HD content. Their p2p technology helps to reduce costs. YeePay says cash on payment still rules in China, however, online gaming, airline tickets and travel are major drivers of epayment. Epayment helps establish trust and credit system in China, and transform economy from manufacture-based society.

Post tags: 360quan, 6.cn, 6rooms, Comsenz, Dangdang, events, Kaixin001, UUSee, Yeepay, Youku

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Dangdang Launches Book Preview

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:10:00 -0800

Dangdang, one of the biggest online book sellers, just launched an ebook preview channel. Launch your favorite IE, and go to read.dangdang.com. There’re many books to read. But don’t expect it’s so friendly as Google book search. It’s using jpg format. That means you cannot copy the content. It prepares three font size for you, but you can hardly read the content even with the largest size. That’s why I call it a preview channel. But anyway this is great stuff. Being able to preview the content is very important for online purchasing research. One less reason to go to the real book store. I think this is the right thing for an online book store or any web site that’s book related, though there’s still room for improvement, like better supporting of Firefox. I don’t have much expectation in the new 9taps. I want Douban to improve its book researching features. If I will have to read review in one place, and see preview and buy in another place, I will probably just go directly to the latter, especially there’s review there too. Source: 163

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