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Chinese clone Twitter

Twitter is cloned by a chinese company, the company's name is Tencent, and it cloned ICQ some years ago, now it's the lagest IM software in China, and it called QQ or OICQ in China, the QQ's website is http://www.qq.com.
Tencent cloned Twitter now, the website is http://www.taotao.com, because of many QQ fans, so taotao is […]

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Whois Utility for Windows

Whois is a useful utility in Linux or FreeBSD, but none in Windows. I search it with Google but no result.
Yesterday, I downloaded a zip package, and found a execute that is Whois for Windows. It's compile under Crywin, so running it need a DLL file.
I zipped them in a zip package, if you need, […]

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Guge Second Apology

Last week, some internal videos was uploaded to internet, the video's content is about guge(google in China)'s employees imitating CCTV news。
And yesterday, Kai-fu Lee formally to the central television station apologized, he said that the video is produced by the Google's employee, and this could seriously hurt watched a video of the Chinese people's feelings.
This […]

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Guge PinYin Chinese Input Method

Google launches Chinese text input called Guge PinYin, there is a news about it:
Google launches Chinese text input
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-04/05/content_844340.htm
But fans found some data source in Guge PinYin that doesn’t belong to Google in the trial period of the new product, the data belong another company, Sohu.com.
So, Google apologizes to Sohu.com
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2007-04/10/content_846604.htm
This led to a sense of frustration, […]

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Chinese Internet Fans

I’m Chinese, living at Beijing, China. I like China, but I don’t like Chinese government.
I have discovered that the Chinese government has a sophisticated firewall set up and it will not be possible to view certain websites in China.
Due to there firewall setup, my website and many other websites could be blocked in China, but […]

Saturday, March 24th, 2007