China IT Industry Observation

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.