Chinese portal Sina.com, which has one of the “good,” officially sanctioned video clip websites, is now holding a massive video blog 播客 contest which will end on July 15th.  According to the press release, actor Jacky Chan, directors Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yuan, painter Fang Lijun, and the Asian Backstreet Boys aka the …

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Just got to know Xiao i, a funny and smart robot created by Incesoft, when I attended the weekly 5G workshop in Shanghai this weekend. 5G is considered as a multiple meeting focus on Internet, new media, and innovation in Web2.0 style. It is initiated by Donews, the popular IT community & Media platform, and the…

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Last spring we and others reported on the First Annual Cellphone Film Festival held by the Shanghai magazine Metroer.  Now you can check out the latest entries at the homepage of Metroer’s Third Annual Cellflix Festival (yes, I know, what happened to the second”? perhaps we were wrong last time!). They define cellflix as short…

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“Send your location in by SMS at any time to 106920052131”

Wozone 我族网 is a free online social networking service that can also be used on your cell phone. You SMS your location and it tells you who is nearby that you might want to meet.  It adds location to the usual online China features: chat rooms, BBS,…

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As car culture grows in China, I can’t wait to see how Chinese enthusiasts customize their cars.  Here’s a set of photos from Moobol/Molive (a photojournalism website) showing a DIY car interior complete with laptop and GPS.

As the caption says, “a this little QQ unexpectedly did has a completely modern remodel!” (I’m not familiar with…

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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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Sony Online Entertainment Taipei and Shanghai Northstar are teaming up to create an online game for Stephen Chow’s hit movie, Kung Fu Hustle.

The game will only be released in China, and it will be free to play… unless you wish to purchase extra lives and special items.

According to the press release, it’s a sort…

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See Nan Yang’s extraordinary English translation of memedia’s Strawberry Weekly, issue 5, now at GVO, for a roundup of content in Chinese-language blogosphere. So much interesting content, there’s really no way to excerpt it.  It’s quite a bold publication. 

From Chinese spambots, ads for a device that allows you to turn anyone’s mobile phone into a listening device.  We followed them to a little company called usa peian, whose homepage says, helpfully:

Every product on this site is illegal.  The products on this site are professionally used by the American FBI. Chinese technicians can discuss high level technology…

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Mr. Fan Jianxiang, who owns “Oriental Tea House” restaurants across Russia, is also a passionate collector of about 400 pieces of Soviet Union realism art works, mostly from the Soviet Union period since 1931, and mostly in Socialist Realist style.  Mr. Fan has opened a gallery at Chingning Library in Shanghai. This gallery will open formally in June and charge 20MRB/ person.…

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