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Rebecca MacKinnon and Hong Huang (洪晃) are gently sniping at each other on their blogs.
Both are writing about their attendence at the Chinese Internet part of the Fortune Brainstorm Conference, and the really juicy bits come out in their reflective blog posts. First, Hong Huang writes (and I’m taking the translation from Rebecca’s blog):…
Continue readingA blog dialogue on 老外 idealism
For our coverage of netbars today, we visit iResearch for some statistics.
Our appetizer: there are a decreasing number of netbars.
(green = 10,000s of netbars)
For our main course: the 2nd-tier cities have the most netbars.
(left = # netbars, green = first-tier city, yellow…
Continue readingSome stats, some dubious
Danwei discusses the latest issue of Scandals Exposed (丑闻揭秘), an unregistered newspaper which takes its scandalous, tabloid-esque articles from many sources, both on and offline.
Joel Martinsen @ Danwei: “The paper’s layout suggests that the editors merely downloaded the articles from one of the many sites republishing them, added in some clipart and ads, and called…
Continue readingblog to print, but not what you’d expect
We’ve blogged about this set of designs before, but who knew they were going to make them into shirts?
For purchase details (168RMB), see Choc_Orange’s webpage.
Imagine MySpace pages MSN Spaces with the search functionality of Google and all its features, and you’ll see what Baidu is trying to create: BaiduSpace 百度空间, now in beta in China. Blogger Xiong Jiezeng has an analysis (in Chinese) of what works and what doesn’t, which should be of great help to the feature’s developers.
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Continue readingMSN Spaces + Google = BaiduSpace 百度空间