China IT Industry Observation

Reported by the estern morning press.

After 14-hour marathon aution session, CCTV's auction for 2006 advertisement was finished on 18 Nov.This year, the public bidding as whole reached 5.869 billion RMB, which is more than last years' fighure - 5.248, but lower than they expected 6b RMB.

The biggest winner this year is P&G , their bidding was 349 million RMB, as last year did, they won the winner title again. The search engine portal - Yahoo(Alibaba) bided 40 million RMB this year.

*CCTV:China Central Television Station

November 9, 2005
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Reported by ccidnet,China telecom now is contacting Verso technologies for their voip blocking equipments.News from IDC says,China telecom will purchase Verso's Sepective M fliter later this year.

That means Skype could be completely blocked in the end of this year.If the report is true, it will be a disaster for China skype users.

Skype has tied up the partnership with Tom.com.So far ,there are no updated news indicates what Tom.com responses.

As we known, Yahoo China had been merged with China's biggest b2b,b2c company Alibaba.com in this year.Historically , Yahoo has done quit well in Japan,but in China market, it has been in struggling for many years,almost for every area of service, Yahoo failed to get the eyeball from the public.

Intestingly, this time, Yahoo released its its new version toolbar for browers in China market.By adding this in your browser, people will be able to block unexpected ads, spywares,recovering IE default settings,and so on.

Yahoo China ,inherited this application from their former president HongYi Zhou's startup, 3721.com.The original thinging to provider this software was to redeem the respect and reputation ruined by notrious 3721 spyware-like plugin.Actually, it was very successful approach to make people think 3721 could also give out some good things , helping people tracle malicious software attacks.

desipte all the beloved functions,this time,new version providers a addtional online photo album service, which allows user upload pictures via client software to their online album without space restriction.

After I saw this news on Xinhua news website, I find it has vital drawbacks .that is people could not view the pictures if they are not Yahoo user.Also ,I am doubting ,as Yahoo has already accquired Flickr.com, why this people still developing their own picture sharing service.

The easist way I believe to entry China's online picture sharing service should be introduce flickr.com to China, with user friendly China version interface.There are no photo service could exceed flickr.com's superb offering.

I just don't know what they are thinking ,it's fucking stupid not promote flickr but developing their own urly photo website.

I am wondering if I can finally make it.Yesterday , I wrote email to Kaifu lee, the head of Google China.Today , I wrote email to Jimmy ,the founder of WiKimieda Org.

I hope all the Chinese netizen will soon have a free accessing ,trouble free Wiki mirror site in China (It will be two way updated but with some restrictions)

The lettle I wrote to Jimmy..
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Hello Jimmy and other board members:

I am a Chinese blogger and a big fan of Wiki's global Wikipedia project. Wikipedia has been growing so fast during last several years.I noticed that in last three years Wiki's page views had been soared about 3 times .More and more people start relaying on Wikipedia website to get latest , updated knowledge and information.

However, the Chinese version Wikipedia ,especially simplified Chinese version (mainly China Mainland visitors) is underdeveloped for some reason. By far , it only has 44,002 items available for checking. Obviously , China has special political situation and in this sense, some necessary censorship mechanisms are unavoidable at the moment.Main while , China also has huge potential for developing wiki Chinese content. Globally , there are more than 1.5 billion people speak Chinese as the first langague ,plus , there are more than 30 million Chinese learners all over the world.Apart from this , China also has longer then 5000 years civilization and history.This all advantages can be the driving force for wiki Chinese site.

Under this circumstance, in order to develop the content on Wiki Chinese site, I want to propose a project with the sponsorship of Google China , to speed the content construction on wiki Chinese site. Based on this thoughts , I've exchanged some ideas with Dr. Kaifu Lee, the president of Google China. He said in our conversation that he will be considering the possibility of cooperation with Wikimedia Foundation and he's asking for my advice on what google can do to promote wiki site in Chinese world.

Briefly,my idea was:

1.With the help of Google China, to establish a branch of Wiki organization.

2.Mirror all the Wiki Chinese as well as other language content in China (Omit some of the political sensitive items)
The reason for building the mirror site is because most of the Chinese college student could not access oversea websites, suffering oversea sites will be resulting unaffordable expenses.

3.Sacrifice small fragment of political sensitive to exchange the FREEDOM OF KNOWLEDGE (to some extend, Which is considered more important then rights of free speach)

Other details are all negotiable , I hope to see the day Chinese culture and history can be universally accessible by outside the world. I hope Google and your org can ultimately reach the agreement.

Looking forward your reply..and comments on this topic.I'd like to serve as a intermedia of this process.

sincerely ..

Leo