Jidong.com relevant source disclosed that, about two weeks ago, more than 10 YouTube United States staff visited jidong.com to discuss matters relating to entering China. In the preliminary negotiation both sides reached the current strategy, YouTube opened special channel at jidong.com to output huge amount of video resources to user.

Last week, Hulu CEO had a “secret meeting” with a number of domestic video sites leaders including jidong.com. Chairman Lv Wensheng from jidong.com said he was optimistic about this interacting sharing model of YouTube.

On May 12 jidong.com announced officially it was issued by the State Council Information Office of the “Internet News Information Service License”, and became the first private video site holding news license. Industry analyst said YouTube selected jidong.com to indirectly enter China was because jidong.com was the first private video site with news license, which can avoid some policy risk. But till now, none of these sites was making profit; even the ku6 was in loss, which was backdoor listed at stock market though hurray, therefore, these foreign video sites prospects are not optimistic.

YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the U.S.-based Web giant not to leave China, after it threatened this month to do so in a dispute over Web censorship and cyberattacks.

The separate projects went up within a day of each other in mid-January, just after Google’s threat to leave.
“This should be an issue with Google’s intellectual property, also with China censorship,” said Xiao Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project at the University of California-Berkeley. “I cannot see how these sites can survive very long without facing these two issues.”

China’s National Copyright Administration has been cracking down on illegally run Web sites and this month issued a code of ethics, but no statement was posted on its Web site Thursday about the Google and YouTube imitations.

Xiao guessed that based on the amount of time and work needed to build such a site on top of Google’s data, Goojje had already been ready before the Google-China showdown started ? and that the founder or founders chose the name “Goojje” to get attention.

The names are a play on words. The second syllable of “Google” sounds like “older brother,” and the second syllable of “Goojje” sounds like “older sister” in Mandarin.

Xiao said if another copycat site like these emerges, it probably would be of Facebook — which is also blocked in China.

Source : Konaxis

Today, sources disclosed news to the world network that in June twitter Sina would also introduce twitter service which has a name of Sina Friends. Before this, Chinese domestic market has more than ten websites similar to twitter, such as, Shuo Shuo, Fan Fou, Ji Wai and so on. Their main advantages are good supports to the Chinese language, as well as the binding to domestic mobile communications service providers and real-time chat tools. The leading sites have not been involved in this business yet.

Reporters contacted relevant Sina staff on the matter, Sina said they did not know this news .

Twitter is a variant of instant messaging, which allows users to send the their latest updates and ideas in the form of text messages sent to cell phones and personalized Web sites groups, rather than the individuals. In 2006, a blog technology leader-founder of blogger.com-Evan Williams created a new company-Obvious-launched a Twitter service. Initially, the service was only used for sending text messages to the friends’ mobile phones. By the end of 2006, Obvious upgraded the service, the user need not to enter their own phone numbers but to receive and send messages by real-time information services and personalized Twitter site.