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Microsoft annouced to the world of the availability of Windows Live™ Hotmail®, which replacing the MSN Hotmail. As the most signaficant upgrade for Hotmail since 1996, currently is launching globally in 36 languages.

This revamped Hotmail now features Ajax navigation, drag and drop message filing and tighter integration with Microsoft Outlook. Later of the month, user will be able to access their Windows Live Hotmail email and contacts by using Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007.

Wanna try that out? You can logon to hotmail. If you already have Hotmail account, you can update to Windows Live Hotmail by logging into your account and click on the green “Join Windows Live Hotmail” button.

Found an excellent video that explains the transition of web and people (you).

The changes are so much when we watch back, but people has been take it for granted.

Imagine, what will happen when we live in a world that every thing connected to the Internet, and I believe it is even harder to imagine a world without Internet in the near future.

It was quite a number of rumors in last Novermber that Yahoo will acquired MyBlogLog but was denied by Yahoo!. Finally after I joined MyBlogLog for less than a week time, and it’s already been bought over by Yahoo! for $10 million dollars!

Congratulation to the Founders Scott Rafer, and Eric for the success of MyBlogLog! They have built a really cool site and widget for the community.

Congratulation to Yahoo for making another succefful acquisition. However, what will Yahoo do next? Yahoo has Yahoo! 360 which is very similar to the MySpace, which is Yahoo’s hybrid blog & social network tool. Will MyBlogLog replacing Yahoo!360?

Youngsters around the world are flocking to own homegrown version of MySpace and YouTube. Especially on China, this has more a dozen of Chinese YouTube and MySpace wannabes now on the Internet. With a 130 million Internet users (a 30% increase in year 2006) in the country, the web traffics generation by the wannabe’s sites is somehow quite impressive.

A YouTube wannabe!
Today, there is homegrown site in China, YoQoo(优酷), which is pronounced as “yo ku” and means “good” and “cool” in Chinese, had a little chance to capitalize on the publicity. Their current traffic rank shown on the Alexa is 845, which has an average daily 90 millions to 100 millions page views daily.

But, it got a little warning from the Chinese government’s net cops. The founder of YoQoo, Victor Koo mentioned recently, “Relevant authorities indicated that this has gotten so much public media attention that it would be helpful for us to remove the video”. Koo quickly complied about the content that, “there was nothing pornographic”.

The site owner understand that once you get the right contents (video), then you will get lots of traffics, but probably you could get in trouble for showing it! We saw many lawsuits against YouTube due to showing copyrighted content to the world.

Will China Web 2.0 Work?
Most of Chinese Internet user between age range of 13 – below 30 years old. There is an argument that Internet companies in China is not making money due to most of the Internet users go online in a cyber café, and most of the Chinese surfer are not wealthy or even a middle class demographic.