A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
In earlier posts I mentioned the wonderful customizable maps of “My E-City”, (我的E都市). It looks like the same graphic interface has been launched in real world places throughout the city of Hangzhou as well. My E-City has maps for Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Xi’an among others; don’t know if they’re visible on those city streets too.…
Continue readingHangzhou virtual maps in public places
Tag人.cn (Tag People.cn) is a registry of people who have tagged themselves things such as Beijing, designer, NBA or ajax. You register, assign tags to yourself, and other people find you through tags.
http://www.tagren.cn (Thanks Micah!)
Postshow points us to a grassroots anti-GuGe campaign being waged by some hardcore Chinese Google fans. As of 10:40 pm Monday evening April 17, 944 had signed an online petition against using the new Chinese language name, GuGe “谷歌”. 468 prefer the original English name (indeed, the Chinese version is the first time Google has changed its name…
Continue readingsome people against GuGe
China’s bloggers are having a field day with Google’s new Chinese
name. Postshow showcases a few visions of what the new logo might look
like (link):
And pundits are coming up with all sorts of riffs on what other Google
apps might be called in Chinese. It’s hard to translate Chinese puns…
Continue readingMashing-up Google’s “Song of the Grain”