星期三, 11月 15, 2006

Douban Launched Blog Recommendation

Today social review service Douban launched blog recommendation. Formerly Douban has provided book, music, movie and travel reviews. This new feature has been mentioned by Yang Bo, founder of Douban, in his speech on Chinese Blogger Conference. According to a rumor, Douban is going to remove travel review feature so as to be more focused.

Currently the new feature doesn’t support OPML import yet. To add blogs into personal collections, users should search exsiting blogs or add new blogs one by one. New added blogs need to be verified before showing up in search result.

On landing page of blogs, users can change or vote for description words and logo image. This is China Web2.0 Review on Douban.

The idea of this feature is to find interesting blog from persons with similar interests. Personaly I think blog entry recommendation is more useful than recommending a whole blog to me. But certainly this is a cheap way to discover new blogs.

Douban was founded on March 6, 2005. Currenly it has more than 300,000 registered users, 1.2 million pageviews per day. See our previous coverage of Douban here. And this is an interview of Yang Bo by Xinhuanet several days ago.

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