Sunday, September 7, 2008

Taobao release Taobao Open Platform, open API Interface

Yesterday, Taobao released TOP: Taobao Open Platform project, open API, so that third-party developers and development companies to participate in the construction of Taobao in the past.
"TOP Inside": the core of future business

"In the future Taobao will omnipresent, in addition to Taobao station, the buyers will see more of Taobao, because many sites are our trading platform provided." Taobao an engineer, told reporters.

In July this year, Taobao fifth anniversary celebration, Ma said: Wal-Mart has become a synonym for the industrial age retail, the world's largest companies, because it's behind Microsoft's operating system, IBM and Intel chip manufacturers such High-quality computer companies.

"Wintel Iside" is the last century the core business, by virtue of these IT systems, Wal-Mart achieving large-scale procurement and sales, reflects the scale effect, to the greater. It is precisely because they stand on the shoulders of giants, Wal-Mart to get such results.

And the future of the industry will be the main form of on-demand customized, personalized products. For example, it is Shenzhen's factories manufacturing 100,000 mobile phones, and then transported to Hangzhou, Hangzhou consumers and to store Ququ. The future will be, Shenzhen's 100,000 mobile phones will be directly sent to 100,000 consumers inside homes, which will be 100,000 mobile phones under its own consumer demand for customization, such as after you have covered with photographs, this situation In less than 10 must be realized.

This requires the IT support behind the model to be subversive, and Taobao is possible, and with intent to become Dianfu Zhe, not because of Taobao on the existing market size, but because it accumulated over the past five years the understanding of online shopping, these are Unite "TOP Inside" are.

"Microsoft will succeed, because it is at a crucial role, it is a core, we all turn it around. Wal-Mart is the same, they are enough to affect the location of the economy as a whole chain, this model is that we have to Learning. "Taobao, senior director of product research and development and chief architect WANG Wen-bin said.

Microsoft was constructed by the tens of thousands of hardware manufacturers, software developers, consultants and experts, IT departments and users of the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft's ecosystem of enterprises, or for Microsoft products to provide services, or to create products based on Microsoft's operating platform, or with Microsoft products work together.

From the IDC research shows that: in 2007 Microsoft and its ecosystem brought about by the activities of the revenue (including value-added or sales tax, personal income tax, social tax, tax and corporate income tax, etc.) is expected to reach 514 billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft and activities related to the IT industry has created a total of 35.2 million jobs in the 14.7 million (2007 global IT total employment of 42 per cent).

The study also showed that: Microsoft launched its operations in various countries to promote the local economic development. Microsoft's cooperation with the companies the revenue far exceeds the revenue Microsoft itself. Microsoft's revenue in the world per dollar, to help its global partners an average of more than seven U.S. dollars of income. In China, India and Russia and other countries, this ratio is more than 1:16.

"We tend to do the entire e-commerce enterprises in the water, electricity, coal infrastructure." Alibaba Chairman of the Board, Ma said: "We believe that 10 years after most of the companies will become e-commerce companies, We should provide a wide range of services to help more businesses, more entrepreneurs to become e-commerce enterprises. "

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