A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, has launched the Baidu Encyclopedia (百度百科), according to China Web2.0 Review . As of 7:30 today it had 2768 articles written; at 7:51 it had 2909…you can see the articles piling up before your eyes. The intro says:
Baidu is…
Continue readingBaidu’s alternative Wikipedia
In earlier posts I mentioned the wonderful customizable maps of “My E-City”, (我的E都市). It looks like the same graphic interface has been launched in real world places throughout the city of Hangzhou as well. My E-City has maps for Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Xi’an among others; don’t know if they’re visible on those city streets too.…
Continue readingHangzhou virtual maps in public places
Tag人.cn (Tag People.cn) is a registry of people who have tagged themselves things such as Beijing, designer, NBA or ajax. You register, assign tags to yourself, and other people find you through tags.
http://www.tagren.cn (Thanks Micah!)
Postshow points us to a grassroots anti-GuGe campaign being waged by some hardcore Chinese Google fans. As of 10:40 pm Monday evening April 17, 944 had signed an online petition against using the new Chinese language name, GuGe “谷歌”. 468 prefer the original English name (indeed, the Chinese version is the first time Google has changed its name…
Continue readingsome people against GuGe
