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Blogrush or Entrecard: Which is Your Favorite? 2008-04-24 01:23:00 For many bloggers and website owners, Blogrush and Entrecard are not strange to them.Blogrush was quite a buzz when it’s launched. Blogrush utilizes a viral concept which operates via a multi level structure. This means that you get more traffic when you refer more people (who in turn refer others) to sign up and use Blogrush. Yet bloggers seem to be quite passive in deciding how their contents are syndicated in the network., but the good point is that this can prevent some forms of attempts to cheat the Blogrush system, definitely a good thing.Entrecard is gaining momentum and it has secured some financing from investors. In fact, Entrecard is viral in nature too, and card-dropping of Entrecard means more credits for the owner of the blog. In this regard, blog owners can be more active Read more:Favorite
My E-mail Has Won a Lottery? No, My Liar Friend 2008-04-24 01:10:00 It’s funny to receive a letter like this. It’s a spam, at least, and a cheat attempt at the first place. All my readers are advised to read this phishing entry at wikipedia for reference. And as to this liar, shame for you.Quote:Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CPYour E-mail has won the Power-ball Online Lottery
. You have won a Consolationcash prize of GBP 1,000,000 (One Million Great British Pounds Sterling) only.Claims Requirements:1. Name in full:2. Home Address:3. Age:4. Occupation:5. Phone Number:6. Present Country:7. Sex:Contact Person: Mr. Paul GreenwoodPhone number: +44-704 578 7326Email: paul.make money@live.comRegardsMrs. Allison Murray.(Group Coordinator)By the way, I'll talk more about a series of how to proect your online biz later.
Netvibes Is OK?Google Reader and Blogline FeedDemon More Reliable? 2008-04-24 01:00:00 It’s very surprising to find that my netvibes is not working property today. Netvibes
says many of my feeds are not working properly or invalid. This is simply not true because I have used GoogleReader
and Blogline desktop reader FeedDemon at the same time. Both Google Reader
and Blogline FeedDemon are performing well.I use netvibes, just because as my startpage, I can quickly scan the news and tech news at a glance, without switching from tab to tab within other rss readers. This is a great time-saver for me, due to the large info load of my 500+ RSS feeds. The drawback of setting netvibes as my homepage, of course, is its slow loading; I have to make a compromise in this regard.In fact, before I began to use RSS a few years ago, I set Google as my homepage, which loads really fast. Bu Read more:Reliable
China’s Drinking Amazingly More Beer 2008-04-24 00:57:00 Its’a good news for Chinese brewers. Chinese brewer’s profits sparkleTsingtao, China
’s most famous brewer, has seen its half-year profits soar by 77%. China’s beer market is the largest in the world by consumption, and grew by about 15% last year, according to Anheuser-Busch.The company, 27% owned by US giant Anheuser Busch, made a net profit of 235.1m yuan ($30.5m; £15.2m) in the last six months of 2006. That compares with 132.9m yuan for the same half-year period in 2005.
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E-mail is dying? No, E-mail Will Survive 2008-04-22 21:39:00 Before we come to the conclusion, let's first face this highly related question:how Can RSS/XML Syndication Help you?As the publisher, XML Syndication can help you to reach a significantly wider audience and reduce overhead associated with previous distribution models. This fosters a new and much more enriching environment for organizations already distributing e-mail newsletters and updates.E-mail requires the exchange of personally identifiable information: the user's e-mail address. Because of SPAM, users are now reluctant to release their e-mail addresses to anyone they do not know, or will provide your company with a false or unchecked e-mail address. XML Syndication requires no such transfer of personally identifiable information.Further, e-mail requires that you maintain a list of e
3G Networks Coming Soon? 2008-04-22 21:27:00 China Mobile plans new subsidiary，because the user base is growing at an alarming rate. That is why Nokia Siemens Networks plan to build GSM-Rail network for Wuhan to Guangzhou line.The competition is white hot. The parent of China Mobile (Hong Kong), the country’s top cellphone operator, plans to set up a new subsidiary to run the third-generation wireless network. The new unit would mainly be in charge of the construction and layout of China’s homegrown TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) standard, according to a report published on the official Xinhua news agency’s Web site.The tender for contracts to build the country’s high-speed TD-SCDMA network has risen to 26.7 billion yuan from 18 billion yuan, mainly due to rising prices for equipment, Xin
57 Boeing 737s for Xiamen Airlines 2008-04-22 21:26:00 Xiamen Airlines
of China is negotiating with Boeing
to buy 25 additional 737-800 single-aisle jets, according to China’s Xinhua news agency. The order would be worth $1.8 billion at list prices.Boeing already has delivered five new 737-800s to Xiamen , and the airline has 27 more on order. With the addition of a few leased jets, Xiamen plans to have 60 new 737-800s by 2013, Xinhua said.Its growth is fueled by regional economic development and increasing business ties between Xiamen and Taiwan.
China Bullet Trains - More Tracks Needed 2008-04-22 21:25:00 At 5:38 am sharp yesterday the sparkling white, futuristic No. D460 train departed Shanghai Station, heralding a new era of high-speed rail travel in China
. The trains support WiFi services for those with laptops and other mobile devices wanting to keep in touch.The Ministry of Railways told AFP that 52 trains have been deployed on short distance services. By the end of the year, the ministry said 108 more trains will be added.China, now the world’s fourth-largest economy, is keen to show off the new bullet trains as evidence that it can develop its own technology in key sectors. But they are still mainly built abroad on the basis of technology transfer agreements with industry heavy-hitters such as Japan’s Mitsubishi-Kawasaki, Canada’s Bombardier, German giant Siemens and France’s Read more:Trains
Management of Communication Medium: About Your Productivity Issue 2008-04-27 05:51:00 The medium of communications is many nowadays: IM, Email, RSS, phone, and the lack of medium: a face-to-face meeting.I use Gtalk a lot and I'm a big fan of Twitter. The Twitter service is essentially public instant messaging. For me, instant messaging( IM) is very time-consuming and leads to more disturbing and low productivity. And, IM, even the public kind, still has its limitations as a communication medium. In fact, many people abuse instant messaging, and the info noise is very disturbing.We have compared e-mail and RSS, both of which have some limitations. Email sometimes can let one very easily misunderstand what was going on. For people that are trying to do strategic or complex things through email and it's the wrong pipe to be using. In this kind of situation, phone and even a fa Read more:Management
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Entrecard is Being upgraded 2008-04-27 05:46:00 Entrecard is one of the services that I use. Today , I find Entrecard is being upgrade.When trying to log in Entrecard, I get this message:OutageWe are currently in the process of upgrading the Entrecard system. We anticipate this outage will last for 2 hours, ending at 7am Boston time (click for more timezones). We apologize sincerely for the inconvenience and hope to have you back to your card dropping as soon as possible!Sorry about the yellow color, it makes the right thing appear in the widget. I'll think of something smarter next time.Served from s02Well, the stability of a service is very important; this reminds me of my last account of Google Suggest and Overture.
Renewable Energy Development Project 2008-04-27 05:43:00 Here is some good news for the renewable energy development providers.The World Bank's Chinese RenewableEnergyDevelopmentProject
has backed the use of PV in rural China. The project design is based on a market-driven approach to renewables, which undertakes the following:Focus on promoting commercial or near-commercial applications;Combines international advances in technology with proven Chinese low-cost production capabilities;Taps the large potential demand by lowering costs and improving products, system reliability, and consumer services.The project aims to foster development of a sustainable market for PV technologies capable of supplying electricity in an environmentally sustainable way. This provides modern energy to dispersed rural households and institutions. To achieve this, Read more:Renewable Energy
Avira Upgrade: a Faster Engine 2008-04-30 10:37:00 The Avira
virus protection starts the second quarter of 2008 with a faster engine14 April 2008 – Avira announces the new release of its AntiVir products with an incredibly fast virus scanner, AntiVir Scan Engine
8.A highlight of the new versions AntiVir Professional, AntiVir Premium and Premium Security Suite is a new graphical user interface. A vertical menu system enables easier and faster access to the desired feature. One mouse click is all the user has to do to obtain information on the security status of the system. In addition, the new menu navigation allows the starting of updates, search runs and renewals directly in the interface. Its official site says that the new antivirus engine has increased performance of 20%.Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus is one of the good soft
Some High-profile Companies of China 2008-04-30 10:25:00 Here are some high-profile
companies of China
. All of them have very strong earning power, and have great earning potentials.In the energy sector:China Huadian Corporation Sets Up New Energy CompanyHuaneng Unveils New Energy Company In XinjiangIn the banking sector:China Everbright Bank Deploys Kalignite Multivendor ATM SoftwareIn the telecom sector:Huawei Wins HSPA Contract From France Telecom's OrangeIn the the retail sector:GOME Becomes Microsoft's China Sales PartnerIn the the civil aviation sector:57 Boeing 737s for Xiamen Airlines
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FeedDemon and NetNewsWire : Free Downloads 2008-04-30 10:14:00 For the heavy consumers of RSS, you need some heavy-duty RSS readers. Web-based rss readers such as Google Readers and Netvibes are ok, but for me they seem to be not very stable.Fans of desktop RSS readers, rejoice! Newsgator, the company behind NetNewsWire for Mac and FeedDemon for Windows, has updated and released all its desktop and mobile RSS readers for free.NetNewsWire and FeedDemon are highly regarded and generally considered the best RSS aggregators that money can buy--and now, you don't have to pay anything for them.
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, Free Downloads
InviteShare:You Passport to New Services 2008-05-01 22:36:00 For any company, big or small, to survive, stability is vital, which includes the stability of market demand, financing, and human resources, etc. I don’t want to go into details such as the Bear Stearns and the like( You can read the investment posts ).It’s the same for any Internet business, so I’m not someone who hurries to try this service or that service frequently, when these services are not very stable. In fact, I’m a litter worried about beta, even if I do use the beta services like Google Suggest and Netvibes.Yet some friends around me are happy to try new apps and services, even in beta. Geeks seem to have an insatiable desire for perfection. I’m no geek. But once in a while, the long-awaited service is so exciting that you just can’t wait to try that service. You ne Read more:Passport
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Assessing the Impact of Home Solar Systems 2008-05-01 22:19:00 Some of the readers of China Business Watch write to tell us that they want to know more about the energy development opportunity in China after reading two of our reports :Renewable Energy Development Project andGansu Province Home Solar
System Development.Here we’d like to assess the impact of home solar systems.Perceived benefitsStand-alone home solar systems can meet the growing electricity needs of rural households. Studies of off-grid renewable energy systems in developing countries have shown that these technologies can provide reliable and comparatively low-cost electricity services to rural households and communities. The supply of electricity from such systems brings tangible social and economic benefits to rural populations in developing countries that include the ability to r Read more:Systems
6 Industry Trends of 2008 in China 2008-05-01 21:53:00 After analyzing the major industries, China
Business Watch finds the 6 major industry trends of China in 2008. A good understanding of the major industry trends can help your make the right strategic decision.1. Science and technology develops by heaps and bounds. For example. Patent applications exceed 268,000 in H12.Domestic consumption gives opportunity to investment opportunity, and international aviation and telecom sectors attract the largest investment. we find that New Guangzhou Airport IT Company Forms and57 Boeing 737s for Xiamen Airlines means more investment in the infrastructure.On the other hand, in the Telecom sector Number of China's cellphone users grows by record 9.46 mln in February , which lead people to wonder if 3G Networks Coming Soon?3. Cooperation between local com Read more:Trends
Startups Are Afraid of Other’s Generosity? Maybe 2008-05-01 00:55:00 The business of some webapp startups are heavily depending on the wishes of bigger players in the Internet world. If the bigger ones are more generous, the small webapp starups will have a hard time.Formerly, we have to pay to store our pics on line, then sites such as flickr.com and photobucket.com can give your much space for pic storage. The business model of photobucket.com is simple: free membership+ premium membership (more storage space). But when the cost of storage is decreasing so rapidly, the question of the sustainability of this business strategy is harder to answer. But one can have reasons to worry about it. Some image sharing site, such as shareapic is aggressively paying people to unload their pics with unlimited pictures storage and No file size restrictions. So, you can Read more:Startups
, Generosity
, Maybe
Strange msg After Clicking User Accounts :Why 2008-05-01 00:48:00 A reader asks :When I try clicking the Control Panel's "User Accounts
" button on a newly installed copy of Windows XP Pro SP2, I receive a strange error message dialog box. The dialog box has the title of "Internet Explorer Script Error".It then reads "An error has occurred in the script of this page", followed by:Line: 4Char: 1Error: Access is denied.Code: 0URL: res://C:\WINDOWS\system32\nusrmgr.cpl/nusrmgr.htaDo you want to continue running scripts on this page?[Yes Button] [No Button]I can still configure and customize any User Account profiles I want after clicking the "Yes" button, but I keep getting this error message whenever I try starting up the "User Accounts" button. Also, I tried performing a format of C: drive and re-installing a clean copy of Windows to see if the problem wou Read more:Strange
, Clicking
Gansu Province Home Solar System Development 2008-05-01 00:45:00 Gansu, a western province featuring a land area of 455,000 km², faces an acute shortage of water resources, sparse vegetation, and serious water and soil loss. Given these circumstances, hydropower options are limited to the large-scale plants built on the vast Yangtze River (also known as the Yellow River). For small, remote communities gaining access to the electricity generated by these large-scale plants is problematic because of a lack of infrastructure and low income levels. Therefore, the World Bank's Renewable Energy Development
Project has focused on the area in the development of household solar systems.A home solar system can be defined as a small, self-sustaining photovoltaic system that consists of one or more solar modules, a battery and several 12-volt direct current (dc) a Read more:Solar
, Province
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Google App Engine：Preview Release Now Available 2008-05-02 08:18:00 China Business Watch has been focused on Goolge closely for a long time, and recently China Business Watch began to experiment with another new service by Google
called Google App Engine
.What is Google App Engine?Well, Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.It's easy to scale.Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to millions of users without infrastructure headaches.It's free to get started.Every Google App Engine application can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views.So go to Sign up for an App Engine account.
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Feedburner Feedflares: Great Way to Promote Blog Content 2008-05-05 09:56:00 Many people use Feedburner to manage their websites(including China Business Watch), yet not everyone has noticed the Feedburner Feedflares. These feedflares can promote your blog posts outside the boundaries of feed readers.First,sign up with Feedburner and create a Feedburner feed for your site.Then, click on the ‘Optimize‘ tab near the top of the dashboard and then look for the ‘Feedflare‘ link on the left sidebar. Click on it and you’ll see a list of the official feedflares available. You can then pick the ones you fancy and scroll down to the bottom of the page to arrange and activate them.List of Feedburner FeedflaresI’ve limited this list to the number of feedflares which I think are the most essential.Social Bookmarking/Voting/Sharing FeedflaresThese feedflares encourag Read more:Great
, Promote
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Blogger.com or Wordpress?Why I Like Blogger 2008-05-05 09:46:00 According to Alexa, Blogger
.com is among the top 20 of all the websites in the world. The number of Blog Service Providers(BSP) is numerous, but Blogger.com stands out.Blogger.com has great layout and it has built out a fantastic Help site.The feedback of Blogger.com is ok. With Status, you see the state of things. This site serves to keep Blogger users informed about Blogger's development, upgrades, outages and related issues. Here, they will detail problems that exist and what's being done about them.Blogger.com is funny. Play is an incredibly simple yet slick photo scroller, showing in real-time the photos people are sharing on their blogs. It's a fascinating way to observe humanity's pulse, as events happen at micro- and macro-levels around the world.Of course, Blogger.com is not perfe Read more:Wordpress
China’s Burgeoning Power Industry 2008-05-05 09:36:00 China presents the greatest energy market opportunity that has ever existed. As a result of the country’s incredible growth over the past ten years, its installed power generation capacity and output are now second only to the US.Moreover, experts estimate that with average GDP growth of only 6.5%, China will need 48GW of new capacity each year though 2020 – that is, each year China will build the equivalent of two thirds of the UK’s total installed capacity today (Capgemini, China Electricity Market 2006). Yet even with this growth, China’s per capita consumption of electricity in 2020 will only reach the level of the US in the 1950s. This means growth is going to continue for a long time.
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Best Facebook Apps：Your Productivity Booster 2008-05-06 07:08:00 For many times we have talked about the importance of productivity and the various ways to boost your productivity, either by using the right softwares, adopt the right business strategy, implement the viable business model , or just change your own habits. Right choices mean less waste of your time and resources, and ultimately higher productivity.While many people use Facebook
to connect with friends and colleagues, Facebook can also help you get things done. With Facebook apps - third-party plugins - you can make Facebook into your own personal work center. Among the thousands of Facebook apps out there, here are some apps to boost your productivity.Writing helpsEdit documents with Documents, a collaborative text editor.EditingUse Picasa within Facebook with the Picasa app; you can uplo Read more:Productivity
, Booster
Business and Friendship: a Win-Win Situation 2008-05-06 06:43:00 Two of the natures of Internet are sharing and networking.Sharing what you have with others can help the people in need. For example, you can get the new services invitations at InviteShare and this is also why we support Love-in-Action.Networking is an important factor for success and anyone that has launched a new business or website knows how important it is to have a steady group of supporters willing to give you attention from the onset.Reciprocation is a basic aspect of culture and society. A lot of the cross-promotion you see online is the result of intentional reciprocation; doing something for someone because he or she did something for you. And we may do something for someone with the hope (conscious or not) that someone may repay the favor in the future.This rule requires that o Read more:Business
, Friendship
Web Directory:How To Evaluate the Quality of a Directory 2008-05-08 00:45:00 Depite the recent Microsoft bid for acquiring of Yahoo. Yahoo has been a big sticky site with massive amount of traffic. And Yahoo still maintains a good directory, which is among the top directories in the world.I remember last time I compare the traffic quality of Ebay and Google, which lead to their different strategy in their recent efforts. For the marketers, this is very important.In fact, the quality of traffic from directories are as good as, if not better than, that of search engines.How to evaluate the quality of a directory ?We can evaluate the quality of a directory from the following four aspects:Type: Shows whether a service is primarily a directory (D) or a search engine (SE).Editors: Shows how many people are involved in producing the listings. More is not necessarily bette Read more:Directory
, Quality
, Web Directory
MyBlogLog Let You Down? Why China Business Watch Changes MyBlogLog Widget 2008-05-07 12:46:00 Some of the readers of ChinaBusiness
Watch have found that the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget has been replaced by a green picture link for the readers to join China Business Watch MyBloglog CommunityFrankly speaking, I’ve a rather mixed feeling of MyBlogLog. It’s a kind of love and hate feeling.I love MyBlogLog because basically it’s a good service. When you join MyBlogLog, you get these benefits:Your face on their page. Let people know you've been there.Connect with readers and authors of sites you enjoy. Join communities, add contacts, show your support.Get the Recent Reader widget. View stats on where they come from, what they view, and where they go.But for the critical user of MyBlogLog, I recently observe the following downsides of MyBlogLog:1. The update of the blog updates
Pesky Telemarketing Calls: How to Stop Unwelcome Telemarketing Calls 2008-05-07 12:27:00 Info noise and info abuse are something we face daily, so be careful about the medium of communication you choose.And sometime pesky telemarketing calls become too much for you to bear. For example, you sit down to dinner and the phone rings. You answer it. The caller is trying to sell you something or tell you that you've won a fabulous prize. Or like the SMS abuse we talked before.Are You getting pesky telemarketer calls like this that you don’t want? And you wonder how to stop those telemarketing callsWell, you can use the National Do Not Call Registry service.The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a c Read more:Telemarketing
China’s Civil Aviation Industry 2008-05-07 12:18:00 This is another post of our industry analysis series at China
Business Watch, and you can read our trend analysis post 6 Industry Trends of 2008 in China for a better understating of the big picture.Today China may present the greatest civil aviation market opportunity in history. In 2006, CAAC (Civil
Aviation Administration of China) transported 160 million passengers. In the first half of this year, growth was 19.6% over the same period last year, and cargo traffic grew over 15%. By 2010, the number of airplanes is expected to nearly double over the 2006 level – just 5 years.In 1980, just at the beginning of her great “opening up” to the outside world, China’s civil aviation industry comprised only about 140 airplanes and ranked 35th in the world in tons-per-kilometer. With avera
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