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March 6, 2007 by Joe Constanty and Gregory Prudhommeaux

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NextStep With the cancellation of our Innovation event, we are putting together a poll to get your opinion on NextStep Events.

It will just take you a minute !
Thank you.

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Yesterday at 8:00pm
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Down goes Facebook…
It was only a matter of time before the authorities decided to crack down on Facebook. Finally they have also become tired of the never ending event notifications, status updates discussing your “friend’s” decision to go to M1NT or Bar Rouge this weekend, and the random friend requests...
Tue at 8:27pm
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NextStep at 7:52pm July 8
After using several proxy / vpn, we decided to go for http://hotspotshield.com/ you should try it out, it works perfectly so far.
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NextStep We have not been telling you much about NSD lately, but we have been quite busy working on a few things.

Soon enough we will be launching new applications, offering new content, and also a new homepage layout to offer a much better visibility to advertisers.

If you have any ... (read more...)

We have been busy ... | Blog | NextStep Directory
Source: www.nextstepdirectory.com
We have been busy ... in advertisers in Shanghai:
Tue at 3:02am
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NextStep Finally, Sun is shinning !

We will be taking over "La Terrace" of LAN Club tonight for NextStep Tuesday. Join us for conversation with like-minded entrepreneurs on probably the nicest roof top in Shanghai right now.

LAN Club 4/F - Guangdong Rd / Sichuan Zhong Rd - From 8pm til 10 pm

NextStep @ Lan - July 7th - Opening of "La Terrace"
Wanted Entrepreneur
Location:Lan Club
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, July 7th
Tue at 1:50am
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NextStep Later this week NextStep will be hosting a panel on innovation designed to make you think about your company's services, products, and other offerings. Have a look at who Fast Company think the 100 most creative people in 2009 are --

Jonathan Ive | Most Creative People 2009 | Fast Company
Source: www.fastcompany.com
Ten years ago, before the iPod and the iPhone became objects of the world's electro-lust, Jonathan Ive sat down with Fast Company to talk about his first Apple blockbuster, the iMac. The machine could ...
July 5 at 6:17pm
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NextStep @ Lan - July 7th - Opening of "La Terrace"
Wanted Entrepreneur
Hello everyone, We are heading to LAN on Tuesday, July 7th to open their new rooftop terrace, "La Terrace". NextStep is happy to be the first private party on the roof. As a...
Host:NextStep
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, July 7th
Location:Lan Club
July 2 at 11:20pm
NextStep

NextStep Have you ever thought about the impact of "Innovation" ?

NextStep Directory slogan became "Changing the way you interact with a directory". It is very difficult to show people new ways when they are used to something.

Do you remember what was before the Ipod ? Do you remember what was a walkman ?

Here is a post from BBC about a kid giving up his Ipod for a old school walkman, you will realize how far we come.

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
June 29 at 6:29pm
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NextStep at 6:18pm July 5
Talking about innovation, we are putting together a very nice panel of speakers on Thursday night http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114030714488&ref=mf
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NextStep Are you maximizing your brand value ? http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=98202693111&ref=mf

June 28 at 10:28pm
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NextStep - Branding in China
Forum - Guest : Vladimir Djurovic, Joseph Tandjung, Rand Han
Hello everyone, Taking from the successful mini meetings over the past six weeks, we will be holding a forum on Branding in China on Thursday, July 2nd. We have invited thr...
Host:NextStep
Time:7:00PM Thursday, July 2nd
Location:Factory - 1933 Creative Complex
June 26 at 12:52am
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NextStep Pretty good event organized by the BenCham and the JLJ Group this morning.
Interesting insights about Tier 2 cities like Wuhan and Dalian.

Wuhan is one of the city that attract most of the Real Estate Investment in China, besides Beijing lately.

EVENTS -- Benelux Chamber
Source: www.bencham.org
Due to increased demand for information on 2nd tier & 3rd tier cities, we have decided to run a workshop series on lower tier cities in China, as more and more companies are now considering entering or moving west to benefit from lower costs and the market potential.
June 25 at 7:53pm
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NextStep The Twitterification of Facebook with his real social search engine “up-to-the-minute results” from friends and Facebook Pages.

Facebook Starts Testing New Version Of Search, It’s A Huge Upgrade
Source: www.allfacebook.com
This evening Facebook has announced that they've begun testing out a new version of Facebook search. The latest version of search is a huge upgrade from the previous version. Now, rather than just seeing ...
June 22 at 3:35am
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NextStep @ Racks - June 23 - All the "Mafan" of your start-up venture.
Wanted Entrepreneur
Hello everyone, Join us for our mini meeting beforehand to discuss all the "mafan" of your start-up ventures. Even if you don't have a company this can be a great introductio...
Host:NextStep
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, June 23rd
Location:Racks
June 21 at 6:50pm
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NextStep Good news, for those of you who run a FanPage and were pissed to not get a vanity url because of the number of your fans, no worries !
Mark the date then, June 28, FB will be opening it to smaller brands like NEXTSTEP.

Good News: Small Brands Can Get Custom Facebook URLs Too
Source: mashable.com
Yesterday we covered the fact that Facebook Pages with fewer than 1,000 fans would be out of luck come Saturday should they try to claim their custom username.
June 16 at 10:21pm
HeiM
HeiM at 2:58am June 17
It seems it's the Long Tail of... the fan pages ?!? Interesting!
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NextStep Very nice article from Rand on his Littleredbook.cn. Make sure to follow him on http://www.twitter.com/littleredbook

NextStep; Drawing the Line between Online and Offline. « China Advertising and Marketing Insight | l
Source: www.littleredbook.cn
I had the opportunity to visits Nextstep’s latest event; “Online Advertising vs. Traditional Ads, last week on June 9th”. My impression of Nextstep was at first a bit mixed; I was wondering ...
June 16 at 3:05am
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NextStep A few days ago we were talking about Bing.com Search Engine. Like Joe said earlier today during his presentation of the NSD at BarCamp Shanghai "You might not like Bing.com, but it doesn't matter because Bing like us" while talking about our site optimization.

Here is a quick research about what Bing.com is looking at while referencing your page. It's to early to make big changes on your site but still...

Optimization of Search Engine Results in Bing | Big Oak SEO Blog
Source: www.bigoakinc.com
I've played around with Bing over the last few days to see what it offers. Most of my evaluation has been of the results page from the user's point of
June 14 at 3:12am
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NextStep Have you heard about Robo.to ? Not yet? Well, here you go :

"It is a way to publish your current status along with a video avatar using a webcam. It aggregates your latest vitality from around the web and puts it all in a tiny calling card that stays fresh. You can choose to also relay your status message to Twitter and Facebook."

Justin Timberlake is one of http://www.particlebrand.com/'s investor.

robo.to
Source: robo.to
Robo.to: all the latest from the Statusphere
June 11 at 8:07am
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NextStep Thanks to our partners City Moments and Grant-Oh, check out several pictures of our last NextStep mini-meeting here on www.CityMoments.cn

www.citymoments.cn
Source: www.citymoments.cn
June 11 at 2:41am
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NextStep Alex Misseri (CEO, http://www.88brands.com), one of our fellow NextStep member pointed this article to me. Since we talked about "Consummer Adoption", today is more about user retention.

As David Martin wrote on the Nielsen blog, “Currently, more than 60% of US Twitter users fail to return the following month.”

Keeping people interested has always been our priority with our NextStep events and on NextStep Directory

Beware the Twitter Flitterers - eMarketer
Source: www.emarketer.com
eMarketer helps companies understand the Internet by publishing Internet market research, statistics and objective analysis on Internet marketing, Internet advertising, online trends and online demographics.
June 10 at 10:09pm
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NextStep Our mini meeting yesterday led us to interesting conversation about online and mobile advertising platforms. Topics that we touched on inclueded the adoption and penetration of Iphone Apps as an advertising tool. I found this article that I thought you would find interesting: "What Drives Consumer Adoption of New Technologies?"

What Drives Consumer Adoption Of New Technologies?
Source: www.avc.com
I'm participating in a panel discussion this morning during the offsite of a major media company. They sent me a list of questions in preparation of the event. One of the questions was the title of this post; "What drives...
June 10 at 3:49am
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NextStep You remember we told you about the Facebook vanity url ? Well... the countdown is already on http://www.facebook.com/username/

More information about how you will be able to get your facebook.com/john.doe domain name here : http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130

Get ready !

www.facebook.com
Source: www.facebook.com
June 10 at 3:32am
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NextStep So now that bing.com is back up and running after a week of being blocked by the Great Firewall of China, we decided to run a simple test. We did a search for-- business directory China

bing - result number 1 page 1
google - result 12 page 2

It is interesting to see what sites Google ranks ahead of NextStepDirectory.com. try it yourself!

http://cn.bing.com/search?q=business+directory+china&go=&form=QBRE&filt=all

business directory china - Bing
Source: cn.bing.com
NextStepDirectory.com, China's most comprehensive business directory, allows users to easily find companies that offer the services and support they need from a single website.
June 8 at 3:05am
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NextStep at 7:48am June 8
bing is blocked again. That didn't take long to happen. 5 hours back up and the GFWC has got it back down again.
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NextStep We are very proud to announce that NextStepDirectory.com is one of the co-sponsors of the "Geeks On A Plan East Asia Tour 09", inviting international investors and tech entrepreneurs on a 10 day orientation tour of Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai's Internet, Mobile & Gaming sector.

Organized by Web2Asia, The Founders Fund and Dave McClure.

Home - Geeks on a Plane East Asia Tour 2009
Source: www.geeksonaplane.com
Organized by Web2Asia, The Founders Fund and Dave McClure. We are inviting international investors and tech entrepreneurs on a 10 day orientation tour of Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai's Internet, Mobile & Gaming sector.
June 7 at 9:18pm
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NextStep Moving from the English version of NextStepDirectory.com to a Chinese version has always been a discussion among the NS Team. Many people ask us, "Why don't you just translate it?". The simple answer is "It's a whole other animal".

Look at http://www.about.com and its Chinese version http://www.abang.com. That's a clear example about how your site should be if your are targeting the Chinese market.

Welcome to About.com
Source: www.about.com
About.com: expert guidance from real people searching the Internet for the information, goods, and services that you need to know related to your passion.
June 7 at 7:50pm
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Kostyantyn at 4:37am June 8
why you guys just don't start with search in chinese through existing database, a simple version with result pages, features of rating can be adding for 'interactivity'. its quite simple and useful for certain people and will bring u more traffic. why dont u just study with these searches what chinese people are looking for to 'build' a chinese version later.. i also do agree with idea of 'local brand' image is important.
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NextStep at 10:18am June 8
I like your comment Kost. This is indeed a good way to see what Chinese people are looking for. But here is the thing. As a start-up with limited resources we have to build something that will be helping the masses for now. If we build something for the Chinese viewers, in order to be efficient we will have to find ways to drag them to our website... Read More.

As some of you already know, we are looking at new verticals of directories, a Chinese version will be much more relevant on the next one and might be built from the get-go.

Thanks for you insights. We really appreciate your feedbacks, it is helping us a lot.
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NextStep @ Bar Rouge - Pure / June 9 - “Online Ads vs Traditional Ads"
NS Mini-meeting : “Online Advertising Versus Traditional Ads”
Hello everyone, You may remember that we held a mini-meeting about “Branding in China” one hour before our last NextStep Tuesday. It was a great success, and we are going to ...
Host:NextStep
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, June 9th
Location:Bar Rouge
June 3 at 2:43am
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NextStep at 3:54am June 4
If you are interested in joining the NS mini-meeting to discuss Online Ads vs. Traditional Ads before the networking event begins, send an email to me--
joseph.constanty@nextstepdirectory.com
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NextStep China Daily released an interesting article about how much time people are spending on Social Media site.

This is also because more and more people are using Facebook and Twitter everyday that we redid the layout of Company Profiles on NextStepDirectory.com so that you can easily push valuable information to the people that are following you.

Try it out: http://www.nextstepdirectory.com/it-solutions/them

Timespenton social networks almost doubles
Source: www.chinadaily.com.cn
World news channel covers Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe, America and Africa. Chinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. ...
June 3 at 1:11am
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NextStep Heard of Google Wave ? Google’s new real-time communication platform that will launch to the public later this year.

Google Wave: A Complete Guide
Source: mashable.com
Today has been dominated by news and excitement surrounding Google WaveGoogle Wave reviews, GoogleGoogle reviews's new real-time communication platform that
June 1 at 10:58pm
Seb
Seb at 11:31pm June 1
Interesting things and nice post. Merci du liens !
Anna
Anna at 11:36pm June 1
this is gonna be huge!!! looking forward to it..