Usability of Chinese websites

Posted on October 9, 2007
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Mediaman China conducted a usability test for Chinese websites with a focus on financial and bank websites. The test took place in a usability test lab in Shanghai. The websites of three Chinese banks were tested (Industrial and Commercial bank of China, Bank of China, Hua Xia Bank) and two websites from German financial institutions […]

Long tail SEO / SEM

Posted on September 15, 2007
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In his book „The long tail” Chris Anderson talks about the growing importance of niches and its influence to the mass market. Take Rhapsody, an online music store, as an example. It has 1.5 million albums available for download, whereas a classic offline music store offers approximately 5.000 albums. What both online and offline sales […]

2007 Venture Capital Investments in the Chinese Online Market

Posted on August 27, 2007
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According to the Ernst & Young Quarterly China Venture Capital Report said that there were 22 separate venture capital deals in the second quarter of 2007 in China involving Internet firms that dealt with some form of information resources. The value of those deals was a record $209 million. This is a plus towards the […]

VC for Social Networking Sites in China: Online Dating prevails

Posted on August 24, 2007
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ChinaVenture gives a summary of the venture capital investments from 2003 to 2006. The following table is translated and I added some information:

There is a clear focus on online dating communities. Why? Social life changes rapidly in China. Especially young people move to the cities in order to study or find a adequate job. They […]

X - 9

Posted on August 22, 2007
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Only nine days left until departure. On the one hand we are more than excited and are looking forward to some days off. Which means relaxing at the beach, snorkeling, a lot of good food, etc. On the other hand we are a little sad to leave our friends and the life we got used […]

Taiwan food on Travelchannel

Posted on August 9, 2007
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Andrew Zimmern covers Taiwan food in his well-known TV show “bizarre foods”.  6 spots are available here on Youtube, take a look, it’s really interesting.

200 most successful websites

Posted on August 6, 2007
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The 2007 Web Trend Map is available. First time including a Chinese line with the most important websites in China (Baidu, Sina, Yahoo, QQ, PCHome, Taobao, Tom, 163, etc.). Fascinating, a great work and a must for every Internet marketing expert. That’s what iA says:
The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. […]

The move goes on.

Posted on August 3, 2007
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Only four more weeks to go. But still a lot of things to do. We did a lot of paperworks in the last couple of weeks, so we are pretty much done with this part. But concerning the household we haven’t achieved too much. Everything is still there, all the furniture, clothes, appliances, etc.  The […]

Dear all!

Posted on July 13, 2007
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Some of you might have heard, some not. Rita and I decided to move to Asia. Our flight goes on August, 31st to Taiwan. There we have to arrange some documents and want to take a few days off.  The last weeks have been really busy, so recovering a little will be wise before we start […]

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