The news Alibaba Turns 10 – Aims To Create 100 Million Jobs, Employ 10 Million People, from TechCrunch, remind me that Alibaba(阿里巴巴) also has his wife online, named Alimama(阿里妈妈).
Alimama was lunched by Alibaba Group in 2007 and it is an advertising market for publisher and advertisers. Not like Google Adsense, publishers show their websites or blogs and then an advertiser chooses one just like shopping in a supermarket.
After the combination of Alimama and Taobao, Alimama created a new tool for Taobao sellers to promote their goods named Taobaoke. At the same time, anyone, no matter have or not a website or a blog, can use Taobaoke to earn money, by IM, email, BBS etc.
There is an official introduction of Alimama:
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