QQ Bookmarks & QQtalk

Today, I received an invitation to the closed public testing of QQ Bookmarks: "Dear user, Tencent's free online bookmark service - QQ Bookmarks - has officially started its public testing phase! QQ Bookmarks is a free URL collection tool introduced by Tencent. It allows you to save your favorite websites and manage and use them anytime and anywhere, helping you collect web resources conveniently and quickly!" After taking a quick look, the features are very basic, merely providing a common bookmarking function along with a browser helper plug-in. There’s nothing particularly impressive about the functionality, but the style is quite refreshing, continuing the simple design of QQ Video.

Even though there isn't a single standout feature in QQ Bookmarks, its popularity cannot be ignored. It's surprising that it already has such high participation during the closed beta test, which indeed poses a significant threat to domestic similar services. It seems that after occupying most Chinese users' desktops, Tencent is now starting to advance towards the WEB world.

I'm speechless about the name of this little thing - QQTalk. Fortunately, it's not a Gtalk-like software (what a weird thought, does QQ really need so many IM clients?).

Unintentionally, I found something on the Tencent Experience Center: QQTalk is a team voice communication tool that supports multi-person voice exchanges. It is mainly aimed at gaming users who require team collaboration, but it also suits office and family users who need multi-person voice communication. The software is small, flexible, easy to handle, and performs excellently. It can provide clear and high-quality voice services while crossing firewalls with minimal bandwidth usage. QQTalk uses P2P data transmission; you can set up a QQTalk server on your own computer using the client provided, then create a room and wait for everyone to join for voice chat. You can also set other users as server administrators or room managers. The functions are relatively complete. This reminds me of Sina UC, and I can't help but worry about it! (QQTalk experience end time: February 24, 2007)