Is Baidu would like to promote "Baidu Space" as their main social media service in the future?

Baidu have a social media service that it's named "Baidu Space".

Recently, Baidu updated its UI.

Its UI looks like "light blog" such as tumblr, and it can be said middle of Weibo and blog.


By the way, Baidu started to deliver a real-named weibo service that named "Baidu Speak" from Sep. 2009, but they already stopped its service less than one year on Aug. 2010.

After that, they didn't do any action for social media field at all, but they are would like to promote this "Baidu Space" as their main service of social media field?

We have to keep attentions to their actions as ever.

Sina Weibo started internal test of like BBS site "Weiba".

Sina Weibo started internal test of like BBS site "Weiba".

But it's only internal test, so user who can use this service is limited like as follows.

According to the news, this service is similar to "Baidu Tieba". Baidu Tieba is a that is a completely user-driven portal site that user can post the text, image, video and so forth.

Sina Weibo started a membership service last Tuesday, but they have to do not only monetize but also diversification of their service to increase their active users.

Weiba will become a key factor of their activity or not, we have to keep attention to them.


Original article => PConline

How many people are online on QQ now?

QQ is a instant messaging service that are provided by Tencent. According to a news, QQ have over 600 million registered users now.

Recently, Tencent provide a interesting tools that can tell us how many people are online on QQ now.

According to this web site, there are over 161 million users on QQ now (CST 20:53:51, 26th Jun), and the largest number ever is 167 million users.

And we can find that this online user is concentrated at east coastal district and a part of south district. It is same as economically advanced district and areas that have many internet users.

I'm looking forward to when this number will exceed 200 millon :)


Source => QQ official website

Sina Weibo formally started "Weibo Club" as a professional service.

Sina Weibo formally started "Weibo Club" as a professional service yesterday.

This is as professional service, delivered 10RMB(= 1.58 USD) per a month. Of course, they prepared an annual discount, it costs 108 RMB(= 17.12 USD, 10 percent off).

They also prepared various payment method, it also support charged by via mobile fee, by their virtual money "Weibi", union pay and so forth.

And this "Weibo Club" prepared 6 degree grade for member, and each grade member have different privilege.

For example, this member can follow over 2,000 accounts, they can get limited special icon and wallpaper, and they can try some new functions earlier than general users.


Well, Sina Weibo accelerated their monetize, so we have to pay attention that this service go well or not, and about their other actions.


Source => Weibo Club page

Smartphone users in China already exceeded 250 million people.

According to the report by iimedia, smartphone users in China already exceeded 250 million people.

This number was increasing 13.0% compared to the previous period, and they also said mobile internet users in China was 372 million people.

And the market share of each operating system was as follows:

Android had 55.4% market share, so it also can be said about 140 million Android smartphone devices are floating around in China. And this report also said that there are more 2,000 type of Android devices in Chinese market now.

Well, Symbian had 25.6% market share , iOS had 12.4%, Windows had 2.4%, and they can catch-up Android in the future, or Android continue to run the top share as ever, or new mobile OS will come to fore...

It cannot take our eyes off in the future too.

Original article => iimedia

Mobile payment registered user in China already exceeded 10 billion people.

According to the report by Eguan, mobile payment registered user in China already exceeded 10 billion people.

And its market share in the first quarter was as follows:

#1 Alipay   61.8%
#2 Tenpay  18.9%
#3 99bill    10.0%
#4 Yeepay    3.3%
#5 IPS         1.6%
#6 Chinabank 0.8%
#7 PayEase   0.9%






As you know, Alipay is a one of Alibaba group company as same as Taobao, their group still have strength in EC or related industry.

And Tenpay is a one of Tencent group company, I'm interested in the fusion of their social business and payment one in the future.


And the whole market share of payment was as follows in the first quarter:

The third position of China Unionpay is also big company of payment industry.
And they announced they will accelerate their mobile solution recently, so we have to pay attention their action as ever too.


Original article => Eguan

Top follower ranking in Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo (as of 06/10/2012).

According to the news, Sina Weibo have over 300 million users, and Tencent Weibo has almost 400 million users. Then how about the follower ranking in each Weibo?

The follower ranking in Sina Weibo is as follows:

        Account        Followers              
 #1  YaoChen        21,097,842
 #2  Xiao S           20,627,861
 #3  YangMi         18,129,002
 #4  Leehom Wang 18,082,818
 #5  Xiena            17,986,528
 #6  ZhaoWei        17,701582
 #7  HeJiong         17,386,701
 #8  Kevin Tsai     17,162,245
 #9  NBA             16,971,379
#10 Li Bingbing    15,803,247



And the follower ranking in Tencent Weibo is as followes:

 
       Account       Followers
 #1 HeJiong         29,864,666
 #2 Xiena            26,894,077
 #3 Karen Mok     26,208,320
 #4 Liu Xiang       25,798,477
 #5 Xu Jinglei      25,449,118
 #6 Stefanie Sun  24,954,655
 #7 Shu Qi          24,893,552
 #8 Kevin Tsai     23,728,442
 #9 Kaifu Lee      23,254,020
 #10 Ma Yili        22,604,308



From the above lists, you can understand that HeJiong is the user who have the largest number of followers in Chinese Weibo.


And it might be also interesting to compare to "Twitter top 100 most followed" :)

Source => Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo