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Here is the typical web 2.0 launch strategy. . . write a blog, trackback to bunch of A-list bloggers. Get readership, build some credit. Quietly work on your startup on the side. And finally when almost ready, create a landing page to collect emails. Announce on your blog prominently your new project. Build some buzz with a series of posts that reveals more and more. Finally launch. . . get 50K users. . . then. . . nothing! . . . (. . . rinse repeat. . . )

China is the world's second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million users. A survey by Chinese search engine Baidu.com put the current number of blog, or Web log, sites at 36.82 million which are kept by 16 million people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The number of Chinese bloggers is expected to hit 60 million by the end of this year, Xinhua said, quoting a report on China's media industry by the prestigious Tsinghua University.

Men are the biggest Net users, averaging 172 minutes a day compared to 156 minutes a day for women. Shopping is one of the most popular online activities. And Londoners spend the most time and the most money on the Web, the story said.

It may sound weird to associate travel with doing good deeds, but Andrew Yu, founder of the Website "Carry One More Kg on Back" (www.1kg.cn) says the two can become one as long as you could carry one more kilogram of books and stationery amongst your belongings and give it away to schools at your destination. Talking to local children and sharing information also helps, he says. The Website "Carry One More Kg on Back" functions like a private NGO. Young people who are interested in Yu's ideas exchange information about schools and children, and what's more, it's a place for them to put their belief in social welfare into practice.