Douban Adds Miniblog Service

Maybe someday miniblog would be a standard service of a website, Douban, the most famous web 2.0 service in China, adds miniblog service called Douban Yulu(豆瓣语录) today. (There is no public page for the service, therefore no link to the service is available)

The service allows Douban users to write miniblog post within 128 Chinese characters, you can find a new miniblog section in your profile page, and follow your contacts’ updates in a page similar to Twitter. Only updates via web is available so far, I don’t know whether Douban will add IM/SMS supports, anyway, it seems Yang Bo does not plan to develop miniblog into a Douban Twitter. I think it is more likely that Douban Yulu would be something like Facebook newsfeed which helps your to know the latest activities of your contacts, such as adding books into collection, writing book or movie review.

Besides this miniblog service, Douban recently also improved its group feature to allow users to create private groups. I believes both private group and Douban Yulu are signs that Douban would put efforts into enhancing its social networking features to motivate user’ activities in Douban.

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