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Tencent, the company that runs China’s most popular online chat service, QQ, has made a move into the already crowded C2C market in China. Paipai.com is Tencent’s now formally opened site, and includes online stores, a games area, and virtual products. Tencent plans to eventually leverage QQ with the new trading platform. According to…
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Lyn pointed an article out to me on China Web 2.0 Review this morning that mentioned an English version of 豆瓣 Douban (think Flickr interface + books/movies social bookmarking; touted as a leader in China’s Web 2.0).
Douban English (beta) = http://www.douban.net
Douban Chinese (original) = http://www.douban.com
Content as well as…
Continue readingSeparate Social Spheres
Chinastic reports on an emerging map of places where pickpockets hang out in the southern Chinese city of Hangzhou. It was originally posted on a site called “My E-City”, (我的E都市) which claims to be the world’s first “online 3D urban simulation.” The site allows users to view, navigate, and add information to online maps of several Chinese cities.…
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For those of us who read Chinese:
Postshow has an interesting post about 东北人 (the Northeasterners) use of the “嗷嗷” exclaimations as an all-purpose intensifier. For example, “比如postshow很酷，我就会说”postshow嗷嗷酷！” and “嗷嗷漂亮”就是漂亮得没法形容.”
henrysum73 赵夏 is a student at the 北京联合大学 (Beijing Union University) studying advertising.
Source: ChinaVisual (exact post here)
A screen capture from Igooi, a Chinese social bookmarking site (in the vein of del.icio.us):
Notice that along with linking to the site, there are also Google Cache and Internet Archive links to the page. I refuse to ascribe everything under the broad umbrella of “censorship” (see recent Massage Milk prank), and so I will…
Continue readingEphemeral Nature of Chinese Webpage
