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Me & Bill Tai making the Maxthon Sign

Bill Tai and me making the Maxthon sign before hiking the Arizona desert outside Phoenix.

Twitter For Maxthon!

Faster than a Twitt, Maxthon super plugin developer Neo101, created this cool Twitter toolbar for Maxthon 2.0 The toolbar enables you to post to Twitter straight from Maxthon. Add me as your friend.


Technorati Tags: Twitter, Maxthon, Maxthon 2.0

New: Spread Maxthon Site

User love as good as it gets! Once user (Nitrogen) loves Maxthon so much that he decided to set up a Spread Maxthon site! He has already posted banners, a home made YouTube video on why Maxthon beast Firefox etc. This is not an official site (but there will be in the near future..;), however, what can be better than fan-sites spreading the word? Great job & keep it up!

Technorati Tags: Maxthon, Community Marketing, Spreadmaxthon, Browser

Get the Maxthon Blog Widget!

Last.fm & Maxthon

More good news for music lovers! We've just released the Last.fm sidebar plugin for Maxthon. Now you can listen to Last.fm radio stations in your sidebar while you surf.
Choose the following stations:

• User radio, listen to neighbor radio or recommended radio from a specific last.fm user
• Tag radio, listen to "tagged" music, like " jazz" or "pop"
• Artist radio, listen to similar artists or artist fan station for a specific artist
• Your own last.fm station
• The plugin can also display artist information (picture, related artists, top songs, top albums), last.fm user information (profile, recent tracks, weekly artist chart, recommendations and top artists).
• Download it here!
• Yet another great plugin from Neo101

Technorati Tags: Last.fm, Maxthon, Radio, Music

Pandora Sidebar For Maxthon

Good news for all you music lovers! Get the Pandora Sidebar for Maxthon. Now you can listen to music you like for free in your sidebar while you surf.

• Change stations
• Vote
• Change Volume
• Play, Pause and Skip current song

Technorati Tags: Maxthon 2.0 Beta, Pandora, Music, Extensions, Plugin

Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition

Finally the perfect browser have landed. MicrosoftFirefox 2007professional edition is now available for download! Thanks to the merger of Mozilla and Microsoft the next generation browser is already here. Or what do you say about:

• RSS - Real Simple Sex
• TakeOver Technology - Protects your computer against products from Symantec & MacAfee etc
• Akobe Phlash

Thanks to Martin for making me loose my concentration

Technorati Tags: Akobe Phlash, Browser, Fun, MicrosoftFirefox

Updated: Facebook & BlogEx Plugins

More goodies to just before the New Year. Booth the Facebook and the BlogEx plugins have been updated making them event better. Do you have any special plugin requests? If so please leave a comment and we'll do our best make it happen.

Technorati Tags: Blogeditor, Blogging, Blogtools, Facebook, Maxthon, Plugin

Google Spreadsheets Plugin

We just released another simple, but yet very useful plugin for you all to enjoy. The Google Spreadsheets plugin lets you:

• Access all your Google Spreadsheets
• View your recently viewed Spreadsheets
• Launch a new spread sheet in one click & Upload your existing Excel Spreadsheet  to Google Spreadsheets

Very handy! Kudos to Neo101!

For more info on Google Spreadsheets go to: docs.google.com

Technorati Tags: Browsers, Excel, Google, Google Spreadsheets, GoogleDocs, Googleoffice, Spread Sheets, Web 2.0, Web-office, Web2.0, Weboffice, xls

Maxthon On the Scoble Show

Robert Scoble interviewed me about Maxthon on the Scoble Show. In the first interview I talk about Maxthon and give a little background on its history, philosophy and we are all about. In the second part I demonstrate Maxthon 2.0 Beta and show some of the new cool features in it. Enjoy!

1. Interview (click to view)
2. Maxthon 2.0 Beta Demo (click to see)

Disclaimer: I am not the CEO as the title on Podtech.net says. I am a founding partner and SVP. Jeff Chen is the creator and CEO of Maxthon.

Technorati Tags: Browser, China, Maxthon 2.0 Beta, Netanel Jaco sson, Podtech, Robert Scoble, ScobleShow, Technology, Web2.0

Facebook & Maxthon

Yo, all you Facebook fans out there! Take a look at the Facebook sidebar and Facebook toolbar plugin for Maxthon. And once you have downloaded it. Join me in the Maxthon Lovers Group. I actually met with the guys at Facebook two weeks ago and showed them the fabulous plugin created by the one and only Neo101. They really loved it.

Technorati Tags: Facebook, Maxthon

A Visit To Maxthon

Click To Play

Here's a short video I shot of the Maxthon team in Beijing last week. Hope you enjoy!

Technorati Tags: Beijing, Browsers, China, Maxthon, Video

Join Maxthon Group on Flickr

Share your pictures with other Maxthon users in the Maxthon Lovers group on Flickr. Show us and all other Maxthon lovers who you are, upload images of your Maxthon settings, skins –  you name it!

Maxthon on Technorati

Maxthon was featured today on Technorati's Daily Vlog. I made a really short screen cast on how Technorati is integrated into Maxthon.

Technorati Tags: Browsers, Maxthon, Technorati, Vlog, Technorati

Updated: Maxthon 2.0 Feature List

Updated Maxthon 2.0 Main feature list and new features list. Get your own copy of Maxthon 2.0 Public Preview and discover a new world! Keep up the good work Neo101!

Technorati Tags: Browsers, Maxthon2.0

Maxthon Search via Google Co-Op

Neo101has set up a customized Maxthon search engine via Google's new Co-op service. Maxthon search searches 8 sites including:

• http://res.maxthon.com/ItemList.aspx*
• http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=*
• net.typepad.com/maxthon_blog
• www.maxthon.com
• www.neo101.nl

Excellent idea Neo101! This will be my default search engine for all stuff Maxthon from now on!

Technorati Tags: Google, Google Co-op, Search

MacStone or MacXthon?

Maxthon 2.0 preview running on my MacBook Pro - works really well!

Technorati Tags: Mac, Maxthon

BlogEx Sidebar Now with Live Journal, Technorati and categories

More good news to all you bloggers. The BlogEx plugin now has Live Journal support, Technorati tags and Typepad catgegories! Keep up the good work Neo101!


Technorati Tags: Maxthon, Typepad, LiveJournal, Technorati, Blog editior

Welcome Typepad Readers!

Typepad,Blogs,SixApart,Maxthon

Today on October the 10th this blog has been selected to be the featured blog on Typepad. As a special welcome to all the Typepad users, I have lined up couple of special plugins that I think Typepad users and bloggers in general will appreciate.

• Get you Typepad, Technorati and Cocomment plugins for Maxthon here.
• Get the awesome Blog editor for Maxthon
• Check this hot tip for listening and subscribing to Podcasts direct from your browser

You can download Maxthon here. Faster tabbed browsing,full of cool features and shortcuts for users who demand top performance.

Kudos to all the great people at TypePad for the linklove, and while you are here please come by my private blog Net.

Blog Editor for Maxthon

We just released the first version of BlogEx, a blog extension for Maxthon.  Now you can:

• Add posts to your blog quickly with this Maxthon Sidebar plugin!

• Post to your blog without having to go to your blog

• Just open the sidebar, press "New article" or "blog this" (if you like to blog about the page your currently viewing),enter a message in the WYSIWYG editor and publish it to the web!
  

• Add multiple blog accounts to the plugin, view your latest posts, edit/update your latest posts,open and save "drafts", add categories to posts and add new posts of course.

This plugin uses the MetaWeblog API in combination with the Blogger API.

• Wordpress
• Windows Live Spaces
• Typepad
  

Kudos to SiC who started the development & Neo101 who took upon himself to finnish it off. I have personally waited long for this extension as a well as many other bloggers I know. Keep in mind that this is the first take and any comments and useful input is more than welcome.


Technorati Tags: Maxthon, Blog, Tools, Blog Tools, Extensions, Typepad, Wordpress, Spaces, Blogging

David Winer & Maxthon & Gnomedex06!

This is awesome! Chris Pirillo a.k.a known as "Lockergnome" probably our biggest, pro-active and most passionate evangelists out there, and organiser of the the famous Gnomedex, was using Maxthon as the default browser for all the presentations at Gnomedex06!

Now some of them are available at Podtech.net. Watch them here at PodTech.net . Or what do you say about seeing David Winer talking about " How to make money on the Internet" with a huge projection of Maxthon in the background.

I especially like the one with Farecast, where they guys got a bit confused at the set up and Chris comes in and says " BTW, I use Maxthon as my browser so it opens up as a background Tab.."

This is marketing at it’s best:

1. A real usage in the right context
2. A natural part of the presentations
3. In front of a highly demanding tech, nerd and geek audience (where the majority is probably Firefox users)

We love you forever Chris! There is nothing more passionate than this...

Guide to Create Maxthon Plugins

We just released a long waited for Guide to create Maxthon Plugins (PDF). This Guide gives you a clear overview on how to create:

• Sidebar Plugins
• Toolbar Plugins
• COM – Plugins

Please feel free to pass it on to any services out there that you would like to develop plugins for in Maxthon. Since this is the first version, we would love to hear from you on how we can make it better and if anything is missing etc.

Typepad, Technorati, coComment in Maxthon

Maxthon has finally got a number of Blog-related Plugins:

• Technorati
• Typepad
• Co.comments

The Technorati Sidebar plugin functions similarly to the Technorati Mini . In addition you can:

• Search Blogs using the Technorati search engine
• Get information about the blog you are currently visiting
• Add sites to the Technorati favorites

With the Typepad Plugin, you can easily post about something you’ve read Online to your Typepad blog. Just select the text on a website, press the plugin button and post it to your blog. It works just like the “Quick Post” bookmarklet, but can also copy the full html-code from any selection.

The co.Comments Plugin allows you to:

• Track all the comments you make on blogs and other sites like Digg or forums etc. You can then view the follow-up comments on co.Comment.com .
• Besides working just like the coComment bookmarklet in Internet Explorer, it also includes links to the coComment homepage and "Your conversations".

Hope that you enjoy them!

 

Digg Sidebar Plugin

Yet another handy plugin from Neo101. For those of you who are interested in how some start-ups are using Digg as a marketing platform go here.

• Shows all  the latest Digg headlines in the Maxthon sidebar
• View upcoming stories and search Digg
• Submitt a story to Digg by clicking "Digg this"

There is also a more Digg tool bar plugin from the same plugin master.

• When you are on a local page or on about:blank and press the plugin button it  prompts you for keywords
• Selected text on a website will be search for on Digg. If you haven't selected anything it will search the website URL on Digg.
• Pressing "Digg this" will bring you to the Digg submit page, and on it you press "Digg - Homepage".

Now go Digg Maxthon!

New Plugin= KeepVid

Circulo Maldito has created a simple yet very useful plugin for downloading video. The plugin let’s you access KeepVid so you can download any video from Google, YouTube,Grivin etc.

You can get it here.

Google Calendar & Technorati Plugins

Neo101 has created two new useful plugins:

• Google Calendar
• Technorati 

Please let me know of any plugins you feel are missing for Maxthon and we’ll do our best to deliver!

Is that an IE7 or Maxthon?

Hey is that an IE7 on my desktop or is it Maxthon 2.0 ? Difficult to say from the apperance but not in performance…

Maxthon Lovers On MySpace

Jeremy has created a Maxthon Lovers group on MySpace Let’s join him and Jason, Carpediem, Danniboi and the others!

My Maxthon 2.0 Skin

I just love the skinnability of Maxthon 2.0 (preview).

Maxthon In BusinessWeek

And the story just goes on...Now it reached BusinessWeek

Tags: Maxthon Tags: BusinessWeek Tags: China Tags: Browsers Tags: PR Tags: Media Tags: Marketing

Maxthon Is Hotter Than A Finnish Sauna

Two weeks ago I gave an interview to Cnet's Stefanie Olsen at the Global Internet Summit about Maxthon. A few days ago her article was published, with a very different pitch that I expected. The article took off like crazy and was soon published, re-published, cited, Digged and blogged all over.

A few corrections:

• What got Maxthon so popular in China (and start gaining popularity world wide) is it's speed, rich feature set  high level of customization and user interface optimized for Chinese users - nothing else.
• Web proxy's can be used by most browsers and a number of well known software's - but you need to know how to do it and where to get the addresses from (sorry to disappoint you on that).

Sometimes journalists tend to spice up the material in order to create an interesting storyline. Maxthon has a very interesting story, but it has nothing to do with web proxy's.

Tags: Maxthon Tags: Browsers Tags: China Tags: Search Tags: web proxy Tags: IE Tags: Web browser Tags: Web 2.0

Panelist On the Global Internet Summit

I have been invited by Piper Jaffray to sit on the International Markets panel on behalf of Maxthon, together with Sina’s Charles Chao CEO (leading Chinese Online Media Company) and Focus Media ‘s Jason Jiang, CEO & Daniel Woo, CFO (Chinas largest out-of-home multi-platform media company) at the annual Global Internet Summit at Laguna Beach, June 12–14th.

The summit has an very impressive list of participating companies: MySpace, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Sina, Netflix, Akamai, InfoSpace, Virgin Mobile, Amazon, Ebags, 24/7, Classmates, EMI Group, Demand Media, Mayfield Fund, Monster, Tribal DDB Worldwide, iCrossing, City Group and many more.

The summit is called “The new order in the Internet” and have some very interesting panels:

• Online Publishing in the Era of Web2.0
• Blogs & Social Networking
• Advertising
• Advertising services
• Search
• Online Entertainment
• E-commerce
• International Markets
• Emerging Business Models
• Mobile Media
• The Outlook for the Future 

Needless to say, it provides for great learning and networking. Time permitting, I will try to cover some of the most interesting parts. Stay tuned.  

Maxthon Investment Creates Buzz

The recent press release from Maxthon managed to create quite some buzz:

• Red Herring
• Techcrunch
• Om Malik
• Zdnet
• Paid Content
• Techrepublic
• Silicon Beat
• Internet News
• Digg
• BizJournals
• China Venture News
• Ouriel Ohayon
• Paul Kedrowsky
• Mark Evans
• China Tech News

and many more: Google Blog Search and Gada.be , it also lead to lots of new downloads and many new users, and we haven’t really got started yet…

U3's Nathan Gold, Scoble & Maxthon On USB

Our good friend Nathan Gold, U3 Evangelist & Developer showed Robert Scoble a USB Thumb Drive and told him "try this out". And here is what Robert reported:

"I'm playing with it now. It's a 1GB flash memory drive that plugs into my USB port. But it isn't a normal memory key. When you plug it in it automatically adds a new menu in the system tray. That pulls up a ton of software that Nathan put on my key for me.

Turns out it fools my PC into thinking it's a CD-ROM drive that auto starts.

This is a radical way to distribute test software. Why? Cause I unplug my key and any software I run disappears along with it (and any traces, including any temp files I've downloaded - I got the Maxthon browser on the key, for instance. As soon as I unplug it everything goes away, even registry entries). Whoa."

Maxthon on U3's Flash memory key is really great. Just like Scoble says' when you unplug it everything goes away, even registry entries. I carry my U3 Key with me everywhere, fill up with my favorite software's: Maxthon, Skype, Trillian and much more. You can buy  one here from U3's website or even better, submit a new killer plugin for Maxthon, and we'll send one to you!

Technorati Tags: Browser, Flash Key, Flash Memory Drive, Gadgets, Maxthon, Scoble, Plugin, Tools, U3, USB

Great Plugin - More Options

Just discovered this great plugin “ More Options” by the very talented abc@home . More Options – adds a lot of new options to Maxthon such as:

Paste & Go

Status Bar Html Addon’s (e.g. Gmail Notifier, Google Page Rank, Script Switch, Find Text etc)

Custom Progress Bar

Highlight Address Bar (when you visit a https-site)

Combine Refresh & Stop Button

Show Zone Icon

 

Show Other Information (IP -address, location, proxy etc)

Add Toolbar plugins to IE context

Auto Hide Status Bar

Auto Hid Tab Bar

Mouse Hover Tab Options

Hide Browser Title

Global Key Modifier

Diagnostic Information

It is a great and useful plugin further extending what is possible with Maxthon. Download it here. Thanks to Chris, for directing me to it.

Many Digging Maxthon

Wow, the announcement yesterday certainly hit the Net. Check out how many people have been digging the Techcrunch post since yesterday. As usual a lot of negative comments, but that was expected, same old arguments based on miss perception, wrong information, and mostly by people who have never downloaded and really used Maxthon. Come on people, it’s not a religion! It’s just a browser, live and let live!

Charles River Ventures Invests in Maxthon

I know we have been keeping you waiting for an announcement for too long. So here we go, we are very excited to announce that one of the leading and most respected US venture capital firms, Charles River Ventures, has invested in Maxthon.  CRV joins early investors Morten Lund (Skype seed investor) and WI Harper who invested in Maxthon, June last year. Of all the VC's pitching us (yes I agree that is a quite unusual side to be on..) ever since we received the Red Herring Asia 100 award, CRV really impressed us the most. Except for their genuine passion and deep network, they also share our vision of where the future of the Web is going.

The deal was lead by Bill Tai, general partner at CRV. Bill is an amazing guy with a fantastic track record, named by Forbes to their list of "Top 100 Dealmakers in Technology". We have already enjoyed working together on several deals prior to the investment, and I can say with complete confidence that they have already delivered.

The investment will be used to further fuel development , new services, marketing and geographical expansion. We know how anxious you all have been waiting for more frequent releases, additional features and more marketing efforts. Now we will finally be able to live up to those demands and show the world what a great browser Maxthon really is, and what a fantastic community it has.

Full Press release here. Red Herring article here. Techcrunch post. Om Malik here.

Digg it!

 

Technorati Tags: Browser, Charles River Ventures, China, Maxthon, Morten Lund, WI Harper, Venture Capital

BlogJet Plugin For Maxthon

Paul Witschey kindly created BlogJet plug-in for Maxthon. BlogJet is one of my favorite Blog Editors and I have actually been waiting for this a long time. According to Paul, it allows you to blog  high-lighted text by simply pressing the button on the toolbar. Get it here.

According to Paul, the plug-in allows the user to copy the highlighted text into Blogjet as either 'Plain Text', or as 'HTML'. It is possible to select a default transfer type (Plain Text or HTML), and it is also possible to select whether you want to date/time stamp the text being blogged. You can also select whether you want to transfer the highlighted text, or not. If you choose not to transfer the highlighted text, the only thing that will be posted on your blog, will be the title of the webpage and a link to the webpage.

Maxthon Forum users That1ComputerGuy,“Klinx” and “abc@home” have also contributed code to the plug-in. Love the joint effort! This post is posted with Paul’s BlogJet plug-in. Thank you Paul, really appreciated!

 

The Daily Browser

 

Technorati Tags: Browser, Fake Newspaper, Maxthon

New Exciting Announcement Soon To Come

Posting has been thin lately, but believe me we have been so busy. Just as a teaser I wanted you to know that we will be making a new exciting announcement any day now…Stay tuned!

Chris Pirillo - OurTireless Evangelist

Here’s another shot of our unexhaustable evangelist Chris Pirillo. This shot was just taken from the ongoing MindCamp in Seattle by Fellaheen . Like a true & brave Maxthon fan – he proudly wears his Maxthon T-shirt  even in circles where a dedicated Maxthon user is looked upon with frown…But don’t worry Chris, new enthusiastic Maxthon users are mushrooming all over and sooner than you think people will ask themselves why the heck they had anything against Maxthon in the first place….

Which browser is the best, and why has nobody heard of it?

Although TechNudge Live is might not be a top tier review site for software, I always like to read stories about how users came to discover and user Maxthon. Here’s a recent review titled: “Which browser is the best, and why has nobody heard of it?” . Well Jonas, we are very happy that you have heard Maxthon and that you now have joined us all with spreading the good word. Stay tuned for Maxthon 2.0 though (coming to your desktop in the near future).

Maxthon In Red Herring

Maxthon is supposed to be featured in the latest edition of Red Herring. The feature article is discussing "Browser Wars" and both Jeff & myself was interviewed by Priya Ganapati who wrote the story. Browser War and more in the April 3 issue of the Red Herring reaches newsstands on Monday. I have not yet read the article myself so I save my comments for now.

Tags: Maxthon Tags: Red Herring Tags: Browsers Tags: Browser war

Off To California

I’m off to Palo Alto, California for a week full of interesting meetings with potential partners and entrepreneurs. I know that blogging has been a bit thin lately, we’ve just been so busy gearing up for with new projects etc. However, I will do my best to report on anything noteworthy of reporting. We will also be launching a new service on Monday next week so stay tuned for that…