I see from Danwei that CNNIC has released its 19th China Internet report with data to the end of 2006.  Chinese copies available here.   It seems that the rate of Internet growth is increasing rather than leveling off this year.  They have some good new stats on mobile Internet–now I wish they’d gather IPTV statistics as well.

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Title: Uncle Sam Beats the Drums of War
Published: January 21, 2007. Guangzhou Daily
Artist: Zhang Bin

orange type (sound of the drumbeat): fight or not, fight or not
thought bubble: Iran!

ChinaTechNews reports that Tencent has partnered with Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL to develop an Internet-enabled,
interactive TV with QQ-branded applications such as IM and games. It’s
called iTQQ. IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is moving ahead relatively quickly in Japan, South Korea, and especially in Hong Kong. It is already available to some Chinese…

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If you know what Threadless is, think of this as a China version without the designer flair.

If you don’t, MyTshirt.cn is a website to submit, share, purchase T-shirt designs.

(The above design is by ibuzzo, and is a combination of two Chinese characters. You can purchase it here. Or you…

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A small shack, primitively built, on the corner of a road in Shanghai, surrounded by high-rise development. Owned by a strong old woman, patronized by night-time drivers.

update: ding zi hu (lit. “nail house”): person or household who refuses to move and bargains for unreasonably high compensation when the land is requisitioned for a construction project.

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语录中国, Quotable China (or to be precise,Recording the Quotes of China), is a website that collects interesting quotes by various peoples, including 鲁迅 LuXun, keso, and 老白 (random old guy). Here’s what 老白 (random old guy) had to say about GFW:

“‘The future is unknown.’ Technorati’s death, Google’s ‘continuous resets’, all reveal to me the confidence of…

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Spring Festival is a month away, but apparently the whole issue of getting home for the festival is a big one for QQ readers–and lots of students are traveling home soon.  QQ BBS editors put out a request about a week ago asking people to send in their Spring Festival travel (Chunyun) 春运 stories from now until 1/25–and…

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A Molive/Moobol story (which, incidentally, was in the top 3 photo-sharing sites in 2006 in China–I prefer it to Tudou and Yoqoo, actually).  Even as poor people (mostly from the countryside) are discriminated against in the cities, as the gap between rich and poor widens to an extent not seen since before the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949, there is a…

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Tuangou teambuying website China NetCrowd 中国网众 has a special “NetCrowd Oscars” page, which allows users to vote (of course…everything does today, doesn’t it?) on the best tuangou experiences of 2006, that were organized by NetCrowd. If you are interested in getting a sense of what a tuangou …

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Looks like the big news is that Sohu is no longer in the top 3 portals in China, but has been knocked out by Tencent.  55% of Chinese Internet users used Sina last year; 51% hit Netease; 48% used Tencent, according to the Internet Guide 2007 China Internet Survey Report (in Chinese), put out by the Data Center of the Chinese Internet…

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