motorized roller blades? Check Alibaba.com

April 8, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Motorized roller blades with a 25.6cc, 2-stroke
combustion engine, running on plain unleaded gasoline. Acceleration, via handheld throttle: 0-20 mph (top speed): 17 seconds. From the Taizhou Rongda Agricultural Machine Co.

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Alibaba.com’s English language Chinese manufacturer directory gives access to all things wild and wonderful made in China, from flashing…

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The eBay of Work

April 8, 2006 by Jason Li

K68.cn assigns “missions.” Each mission comes with its objectives, a time limit, and also its (monetary) reward. The missions are all digital work (数字化工作), and so far there are missions for logo design, copy writing in other languages, and programming.

Yet, every mission is open to the public. Anyone can compete, and the best one wins.…

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The History of Orz

April 6, 2006 by Jason Li

What does “orz” mean?

Hint:

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Selective translation from 十八摸狗日报 (above image also from there):

“orz” (also written as Oro, Or2, On_, Otz, OTL, sto, Jto, ○|￣|_) is net lingo (or an emoticon) that was created in Japan in 2004 and has since become adapted by the Chinese and Taiwanese. It represents for a person…

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Chinese online urban mapping squads

April 6, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

In an earlier post on a digital map of pickpockets in Hangzhou I mentioned the website from which it came: “My E-City”, (我的E都市). I spent a bit more time today poking around on My E-City–it’s similar in idea to Google Earth (except there’s no client to download) or Windows Live Local, insofar as it provides a virtual…

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Chinese cellphone film festival online

April 5, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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Youmeiti blog reports the opening of the First Cellphone Film Festival, put on by the daily Shanghai webzine Metroer. The short films (20 sec. to 2 min.) had to be submitted by cellphone to the Metroer website. They were produced using digital cameras, video cameras, and phone cameras –anything really, so long as it could be submitted…

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serving the Chinese Internet cafe market

April 5, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Xinhua [official Chinese news service] reports: Tsinghua Tongfang Co Ltd, in partnership with microprocessor supplier
AMD, will sell PCs to Internet cafes in China. There are roughly
113,800 such hotspots around the country…Tongfang said the Internet cafe’s PC market size in China is between 6
million and 10 million units, and these PCs are upgraded every 18
months.

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Baidu definitely number one Chinese search engine

April 4, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

According to latest research by iResearch

Baidu up: 56.6% market share
Google down: 32.8% market share
Yahoo: <5%

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collective buying websites: a window onto domesticity

April 4, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

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You may have seen the article in the Wall Street Journal on 2/28/06, describing the Chinese collective buying website 51tuangou.com. 51tuangou.com is one of a new kind of Chinese online experience–finding people in your local area who want to buy the same (usually big ticket) item that you do, and approaching the merchants as a group in order to…

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China’s WebOS?

April 4, 2006 by Jason Li

The headline from ~~Linghuchang’s~~* Linghucong’s blog reads “PC2N: China’s WebOS.” This is followed by a screencap of it in action:

Look familiar? According to the PC2N website, it “has a Windows-like environment, click here to try.” The service also boasts 2GB of storage, and the GUI itself looks…

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