We had a visit in Palo Alto from Dr. Pan Haidong, CEO and founder of hoodong, China’s most popular wikipedia and wiki software.  The hoodong wiki has over 1.5 million articles written by over 250,000 contributors, and the HDwiki software has been downloaded 200,000 times and currently supports over 1000 other websites in China. Pan Haidong was in town for a meeting…

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Researchers at Peking University’s Institute of Computer Science and Technology, with the University of Mannheim’s Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems, just released a fascinating paper laying out the technical aspects of virtual asset theft and modeling the relationships among various actors in the Chinese virtual asset economy.  The paper is quite technical, but contains a lot of meat for the nontechnical reader as…

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[Second Update: I guess I take comments more personally than I should!  This was an act committed by a single person and does not represent all of China, nor all Chinese people’s views on how to treat animals, any more than any act of violence committed anywhere represents an entire nation. It has gained attention and public outcry in China–that’s why it was posted on…

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Apparently this was floating around the internet a while ago: a YouTube/youku video featuring Hong Kong mega popstar Andy Lau entitled 德华成都演唱会怒打保安救歌迷 (Andy Lau attacks security at a Chengdu concert to save his fan). The video shows:

• The fan clambering towards the stage with a bouquet of flowers.
• The fan shakes Andy Lau’s hand, in the middle of a song.…

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I can’t quite get a good read on this conference, it has a mix of design/branding/art/architecture people from all over, and the scope stretches across innovation, design and brand. It has potential, and isn’t egregiously expensive, and would be good to check out if you’re in Hong Kong then.

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I was clicking through news portal Daqi and noticed this obviously fake yet incredibly evocative photograph:

The author is 麦田精灵 (wheat field fairy), and the picture seems to have been hand-picked from a non-Daqi forum: the 云南信息港 (Yunnan Information Port)’s photo sharing forum. The user profile doesn’t yield much information about…

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I was browsing Joi Ito’s (he’s Japanese + American entrepreneur/VC) blog and came across this: Sanrio, the makers of Hello Kitty, have their online shop (Sanrio Digital) in Hong Kong. They are collaborating with Typhoon Games (HK makes of some okay games) there.

More importantly I wanted an excuse to share the following, which I found on…

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OK.  This is just…where things are going.  Ten minutes of nasty American pop music, teenage hormones, voyeurism, and sheer curiosity, raging in broken English.  From an Internet cafe in China to a bedroom in some (I’m guessing) Eastern European country.  "You make me vidio/I kill you" and "I have this photo in my home. You give me."  They make plans to talk on 56.com.  Where…

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A 7-minute video of a year-long ad campaign 可口可乐365快乐天（Coca Cola 365 Days of Happiness), created by McCann Worldgroup‘s Hong Kong Branch (香港麦肯广告). It’s an interesting case study of what advertising/marketing looks like in different mediums (or as some may call it, “multi-channel marketing”).

Warning: The “trendy” beat in the video drove me nuts.

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The Third Chinese Bloggers Conference was held in Beijing yesterday, Nov, 3. Around 200 people took part in the first day event. In the two-day conference, they are going to discuss and share different  opinions about various topics, such as: SNS and the First Life; Wiki in Mainland China; The Chinese Bloggesphere in western scholars’ eyes and why they are…

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