CSDN
CSDN is the short name of "Chinese Software Developer Network" or "China Software Developer Network", one of the biggest networks of software developers in China.
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Services
http://www.csdn.net is the official website of the Bailian Midami Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
This web site provides the following services:
- Web forums with an experts-exchange[1] like rank system and similar topics. It was renamed from http://expert.csdn.net from to http://community.csdn.net at June 2004, and has 831,853 registered users at the end of 2004;
- Blog hosting [2], with 69,484 bloggers at April 7,2005;
- Document Center[3], a selection of blog articles.
- IT News [4].
- IT job hunting[[5]] and trainning[[6]] services;
- online bookmark service[7]
Bailian Midami also:
- is the publisher of several magazines, including "Programmer", the most famous software developing magazine in China.
- have an online shop DeakBook[8]
Web Forum
Topics are mainly IT related and focused on programming, but political and life topics are also active.
It was closed for two weeks in June 2004, believed for political reasons because many political words, such as the names of political leaders and organizations can no longer be used in posts since then. However, political discussions are still active.
Some people complained about the CPU comsuming XML page format of the web forum. Some other compained for its unfriendly interface in browsers other than Internet Explorer.
Blog
The site hosts several excellent IT blogs, but the large number of bloggers made them hard to find and made the server slow.
CSDN and Microsoft
CSDN started cooperation with Microsoft at 2002, and several Microsoft employees appeared in CSDN forums since then. It is also a major source of Chinese Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals.
CSDN and Sun
CSDN and IBM
External Links
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