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Soul of the Ultimate Nation (SUN) 奇迹世界, a South Korean “action” massively multiplayer role-playing game developed by Webzen and licensed to leading Chinese game operator The9, was recently voted “Most Anticipated Online Game of 2006” by Chinese gamers. (Link to Chinese article). SUN is currently in closed beta…
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Chinese blogger Xu Jie says Baidu’s Baike wikipedia (see earlier post on its launch) is a disappointment:
Baidu’s Baike [an alternate Chinese wikipedia] has finally formally launched. but it’s nothing to get excited about…I looked around a bit and most of the articles are naked plagiarism. They’ve hypocritically put links to reference material at the…
Continue readingBaidu’s wikipedia: review
A NetEase BBS forum thread called “super-pretty PLA recruiting ads” opens up the discussion with the question:
“If you were a hotblooded young man, how could you not support this?”
Selected comments (most are along the lines of “great photos!”):
I’d like to join but I’m too old.
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Continue readingBBS today: irresistible Chinese army recruiting posters
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…
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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