ziboy promo : part 2

April 28, 2006 by Jason Li

We blogged about ziboy’s photo exhibition, “Here-Photoblogger Ziboy’s Self Expression” here; we did not, however, lay down his ulterior motive:

“The purpose is to demonstrate photography as a medium that overcomes
language. Using the form of photoblogs on the internet to promote
exchange and understanding among people from different countries and
locations.”

We found (on…

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global “e-readiness” report

April 28, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

The Economic Intelligence Unit and IBM have released their 2005 E-readiness Rankings, a report which assesses various nations’ and regions’ abilities to “promote and support digital business and information and communications technology (ICT) services.” The ranking system in and of itself, as well as the notion that e-practices will evolve along some known continuum (at one point…

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Chinese digital artists forum

April 27, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Check out the works on Chinese 华语 CGFeel, a BBS forum for digital art that’s apparently modeled on CGTalk, the forum of the Computer Graphics Society. CGFeel has 4058 members and you just have to poke around and see what you can find. Aside from the section titled “Original Works,”…

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Social Travel

April 27, 2006 by Jason Li

Major portals often feature a section on travel (旅游), so it is only a matter of time before some Chinese guy combined travel with the Flickr/Douban social software interface.

PostShow directs us to the latest one, tuniu (途牛) – share your photos, stories and advice about your latest journeys!

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get ready: Soul of the Ultimate Nation 奇迹世界

April 26, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Soul of the Ultimate Nation (SUN) 奇迹世界, a South Korean “action” massively multiplayer role-playing game developed by Webzen and licensed to leading Chinese game operator The9, was recently voted “Most Anticipated Online Game of 2006” by Chinese gamers. (Link to Chinese article). SUN is currently in closed beta…

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Baidu’s wikipedia: review

April 26, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Chinese blogger Xu Jie says Baidu’s Baike wikipedia (see earlier post on its launch) is a disappointment:

Baidu’s Baike [an alternate Chinese wikipedia] has finally formally launched. but it’s nothing to get excited about…I looked around a bit and most of the articles are naked plagiarism. They’ve hypocritically put links to reference material at the…

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China’s mobile phone users: the next great wave of netizens?

April 26, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Maoxianjia at China Tech Stories reviews some of the forecasts coming out of the 2006 Boao Forum for Asia, held in Hainan, China, April 21-23. Baidu’s CEO, Robin Li, noted that 3G will be available before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, potentially revolutionizing mobile Internet in China.

He estimated that in the next 2-3 years, wireless internet…

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Super Girls @ QingMing?

April 26, 2006 by Jason Li

From EastSouthWestNorth:

“It was duly noted that the Civil Administrative Department in China will investigate and penalize anyone who offers to burn paper figures that represent items such as villas, sedans, mistresses, Viagra, condoms, 3P girls and Super Girls for their ancestors during the traditional Qingming festival.”

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Online Bribery Database

April 25, 2006 by Jason Li

From Pacific Epoch:

“Beijing’s Tongzhou District recently established an internal database of local bribery records, Beijing Star Daily reports. The system catalogues all criminal records of bribery in the construction, finance, pharmacy, education and governmental procurement sectors since 1997. Individuals and enterprises can apply for access to the database, said the report.”

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