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Mainland-ization of the BBC

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Financial Times reports that the BBC, whose Chinese language news services have long been blocked by Chinese web filters, has launched a new site with articles in English and Chinese. Aimed at the younger Chinese Internet reader who wants to learn English, it’s also a good site for those who want to learn Chinese. It’s also another example of creating special…

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Baidu knows what google doesn’t

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Check out this hilarious ad from Chinese search engine, pointed out on Sam Flemming’s excellent blog. It features a depiction of a tall, white foreigner in a tophat [representing Google?] speaking a somewhat stupidly accented Chinese, holding the arm of a Chinese girl in a wig and a white wedding dress. Reminds me of some of the anti-foreign Chinese cartoons…

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Information “dilution”?

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Dynamic Internet Technology released a report on results of Google.com vs. Google.cn searches, but done via a proxy inside China. Not surprisingly, things look different from there:
Besides removing results, Google also adds more results from websites in China to www.google.cn and www.google.com when accessed from China. Those websites in China usually follow government propaganda closely. Because of the…

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Information warfare

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

Tom Foremski‘s intriguing scenario: boycott users who find themselves within heavily censored systems.

The Chinese government’s attempts to censor internet access makes it vulnerable to a reverse censorship–web sites could cut themselves off from Chinese internet users as a form of protest.

It could happen as a form of economic sanction at the…

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Latest “official” Chinese Internet stats

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) recently released (in pdf and ppt) its 17th Survey on the current development of the Chinese Internet. These twice-yearly surveys are Chinese governmental basic data on the Chinese ‘net. It’s not translated into English yet. In the meantime, some of the topline results:

111 million internet users

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Technorati and GBS best bet for finding Chinese-language blogs

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

At least according to Tangos at China Web2.0 Review. He did a search for what should be a pretty easy thing to find–Google China’s new official blog (Google 黑板报). Results?

The winner goes to GBS and Technorati with 85 and 70 results, icerocket
followed with 50 results. But all the China’s blog search…

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taking on baidu AND google

February 23, 2006 by Lyn Jeffery

China Tech News has an informative interview with Kiam Choo, CEO and founder of Bbmao, a start-up Chinese metasearch engine. Bbmao gathers search results from China’s top 5 search engines: Baidu, Google, Yahoo, Sogou (Sohu), and iAsk (Sina). Choo touts the new service’s features as social bookmarking, clustered search results, and a job search site–a big deal…

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I try before I buy

February 23, 2006 by Jason Li

Itry

The Chinese web’s take on the very American idea: try before you buy. By signing up, you get to try out free deals from other websites – there are limits though, on the number of free deals per period and a mandate for leaving your opinion afterwards.

http://www.itry.cn

Source: http://www.postshow.net

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Web 2.0c: Social Money

February 23, 2006 by Jason Li

Niyouqian

niyouqian (transliteration: “you have money”) is social software that involves your monetary transactions. E.g. Your boss gave you 100$ for Chinese New Year, and then people comment on it.

Note from PostShow: here’s the logo they copied:

Douban3

Source: http://www.postshow.net

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Blog-movie

February 23, 2006 by Jason Li

I came into this late, so I’m having trouble backtracking through press: the latest video-meme, a movie that a couple of famous bloggers made for 840 RMB.

Harddaysnight

News clipping:
http://www.news365.com.cn/xwzx/whyyyl/t20060117_796082.htm

Source:
http://www.postshow.net/2006/01/post_166.html