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Join us at the upcoming April 6th Maker Faire in Shenzhen!
For starters, Lyn will be speaking there alongside an international cast of researchers, hackers and entrepreneurs. And there are also a series of great workshops, including a course by a “mommy hacker” (pictured above) for kids interested in electronics.
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My First Trip to China houses a collection of accounts from early, foreign visitors to China about their first impressions of the country as it was slowly opening up in the 70s and 80s. Each account is separate from one another, though the writers are predominantly North American and academic in some shape or fashion.
Because each account…
Much has been stated about Xiaomi as the rising star in China that’s making premium-but-affordable phones with its own UI for Android. But it seems like they’re also a formidable force on social media.
The tweets below come from their official account:
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Continue readingPhone maker Xiaomi’s incredibly charismatic (and trilingual) Twitter account
Full disclosure: I worked on the design for this project.
Online petition platforms have taken off in the English speaking world, but what about a Chinese petition platform? In the US and UK, the government both run official petition platforms (remember the Death Star petition to the White House?) and there are a whole…
Continue readingHong Kong’s First Online Petitions Platform