keeping up with the blogs

February 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Without a really good Chinese blog search engine (see previous post), it is going to be difficult to keep up with the Chinese blogosphere. China Daily, reporting from the annual meeting of the
Internet Information Service Commission of the Internet Society of China in
Hainan, says:

Fang Xingdong, chairman and CEO of bokee.com, China’s largest…

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excellent online games report

February 27, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Pacific Epoch has great data on Chinese online gaming markets and companies. You can get a free pre-release of their 2005 Q4 report here. Just a few of the many useful findings:

percentage of game-playing internet population doubled from 2004 to
2005, with about 37 million gamers reported at end of 2005.
EA has committed…

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South Korean glamour gamers

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Check out Jim Rossignol’s wonderfully rich description of gamers and culture in South Korea. Can’t wait to spend more time in China this year to dive into China’s gaming culture. Written for PC Gamer (UK), via Terra Nova.
Seoul, South Korea. To a fanfare of Asian nu-metal and the sound of a thousand screaming fans, a young Korean man enters a…

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Fast-moving dating site

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Pacific Epoch has an interview with Jason Tian, founder and CEO of Heiyou.com, a Chinese social networking site that has recently launched a site for romance — Match100.cn, now called Baihe.com. Good basic info on growth of these kinds of services.
…users upload photos and basic personal information and then contact each other.…

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Mainland-ization of the BBC

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Financial Times reports that the BBC, whose Chinese language news services have long been blocked by Chinese web filters, has launched a new site with articles in English and Chinese. Aimed at the younger Chinese Internet reader who wants to learn English, it’s also a good site for those who want to learn Chinese. It’s also another example of creating special…

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Baidu knows what google doesn’t

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Check out this hilarious ad from Chinese search engine, pointed out on Sam Flemming’s excellent blog. It features a depiction of a tall, white foreigner in a tophat [representing Google?] speaking a somewhat stupidly accented Chinese, holding the arm of a Chinese girl in a wig and a white wedding dress. Reminds me of some of the anti-foreign Chinese cartoons…

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Information “dilution”?

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Dynamic Internet Technology released a report on results of Google.com vs. Google.cn searches, but done via a proxy inside China. Not surprisingly, things look different from there:
Besides removing results, Google also adds more results from websites in China to www.google.cn and www.google.com when accessed from China. Those websites in China usually follow government propaganda closely. Because of the…

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Information warfare

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Tom Foremski‘s intriguing scenario: boycott users who find themselves within heavily censored systems.

The Chinese government’s attempts to censor internet access makes it vulnerable to a reverse censorship–web sites could cut themselves off from Chinese internet users as a form of protest.

It could happen as a form of economic sanction at the…

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Latest “official” Chinese Internet stats

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) recently released (in pdf and ppt) its 17th Survey on the current development of the Chinese Internet. These twice-yearly surveys are Chinese governmental basic data on the Chinese ‘net. It’s not translated into English yet. In the meantime, some of the topline results:

111 million internet users

…

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Technorati and GBS best bet for finding Chinese-language blogs

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

At least according to Tangos at China Web2.0 Review. He did a search for what should be a pretty easy thing to find–Google China’s new official blog (Google 黑板报). Results?

The winner goes to GBS and Technorati with 85 and 70 results, icerocket
followed with 50 results. But all the China’s blog search…

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Author: Lyn Jeffery

keeping up with the blogs

excellent online games report

South Korean glamour gamers

Fast-moving dating site

Mainland-ization of the BBC

Baidu knows what google doesn’t

Information “dilution”?

Information warfare

Latest “official” Chinese Internet stats

Technorati and GBS best bet for finding Chinese-language blogs