The Virtual Goods Summit 2007, that took place last month at Stanford, “is a one day conference focused on the emerging market opportunity for virtual goods and economies.”

Amongst the speakers were representatives/top guys from mostly American companies like Six Apart, Habbo, and Linden Labs. And then there was a representative from China-based Tencent (creator…

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Technorati Tags: 3D, animation, art, China, Chinese painting, calligraphy

The video above was produced by the Shenzhen branch of the Institute of Digital Media Technology (IDMT), which is associated with the Global Digital Creations (GDC)…

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Translated excerpts from a PostShow blog post entitled “the 12 Taboo Ways of Using Chopsticks”:

1. 三长两短 Three long two short [an idiomatic expression that translates to “an unexpected misfortune”].
This refers to before or during meals, when a pair of chopsticks is not neatly put together with its ends matching. This is not…

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37signals, the creators of Basecamp and other slick Web2.0 wares, has a post on their blog about how their software links up trendy, vinyl toy designers from Kidrobot in New York with Chinese manufacturers for cheap.

For 100 US dollars per month, “his team uses
Basecamp to share Illustrator files with engineers in China who…

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Nod Young is the art director/co-owner at Beijing-based Khaki Creative and Design and a graduate of the  Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua. Today, we shall feature three of his works that represent his forays into crossing the chasm between analog and digital design.

First up, using computer vector art to mimic and refine the aesthetic of …

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Was poking around Chinese video-sharing website 6rooms today and discovered a link (shown above) to the Chinese Animated Shorts Oscars!

I hunkered down and watched quite a few of them, which I’ll highlight before moving onto my conclusion:

生活原来是这样的 (Life is Actually Like This), by…

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Introducing: 漫漫看 (loosely translates as Read A Comic). The site allows you to view, online, page by page, the latest manga (= Japanese comic) releases. The text within these manga has already been translated into Chinese. There are similar sites in English, though they are much more underground than their Chinese counterparts.

The translated text is often traditional…

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Chinese man. Builds robots. In his backyard. Some walk. Some pour tea. The latest pulls a rickshaw.

His wife of course, prefers that her husband spend her time more productively and make money rather than fidgeting with robots in the middle of the night, and sometimes burning down the house (happened once — didn’t stop him).

Spotted by the BBC, surprisingly…

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Bo Shao, founder/CEO of EachNet, which was later sold off and incorporated into eBay has opened a new blog.

I found it interesting how much more informal, yet actually informative Bo Shao’s bio was in Chinese than in English.

I don’t know if this discrepancy is standard in Chinese versus English bio’s,…

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The Hong Kong government proves yet again that it is decidedly backward with regards to internet governance.

Original article from ESWN:

• “‘fireman 1324’ at the chat room ‘Adult Images Posting Area’…”
• posted links to overseas pornographic material
• “Police raided a Sham Shui Po flat and arrested Woo”
• “fireman 1324” is fined…

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