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I’ve been trying to follow the development of China’s IPv6 network, dubbed China Next Generation Internet (CNGI).  Background can be found in this earlier post.  Basically, the CNGI is a bold 5 year plan by Chinese leaders (specifically, the National Development and
Reform Commission (NDRC)) to leapfrog Chinese researchers, businesses, and technologies ahead of current Internet standards and infrastructure by 2009. …

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I found this via an attribution on Fons’ China Herald, and it looks like it will be worth visiting every now and then, especially if more people start contributing (that’s always the issue with these web 2.0 things, isn’t it?): Chinamemes describes itself as “a web 2.0 social news site with a focus on Chinese Internet and Technology companies.” It…

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Tencent, QQ.com’s parent company, is being sued by an angry user for impersonating a friend and getting him to link through to a contest site.  Damages sought: 40,000 Q coins, and 445 5-digit QQ numbers (see previous post on the value of QQ numbers).  Is this the first time that a court of law has been asked to award…

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Named “Sonny”, from ZheJiang University. Winner of the red dot design award in Life Sciences.

Squishing toy injection mechanism + give the kid the toy after the shot.

Will the kids be more amenable to injections with the cute packaging? (Is this another example of glossy design without meaning?)

Via Core77 via coolest…

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Tuesday’s 7.1 earthquake in Taiwan has caused a minor communication breakdown in Asia. BBC reports that Taiwan, South Korea, China and Japan are affected (and I would like to add Hong Kong).
Local websites are wholly accessible, as are certain big websites (BBC, Google) but not the majority of the web.

Reporting from the field, Jason Li, “This sucks. But the Facebook…

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We’ll be taking the next few days off to celebrate the holiday season.

In the meantime, here a few tidbits from Christmas in Virtual China:

• “The Christmas Flavor” Increasingly Intense; Should We Refuse Christmas?“. Chinaren.com article with comments, discussing the foreignness of Christmas and what it means that it’s all over the streets of…

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See website.
Via Drawn!

Check out the very cool VisionUnion.com site, which on its English page describes itself this way:

With rapid updated information, the content of VisionUnion covers the
complete designing industry. We have 12 columns — News and
Information, Plane Designing, Industrial Designing, Multimedia
Designing, CG animation, Architecture and Environment, School Union,
Members’ Works, Union Arena,…

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Chinese Engadget has a tutorial on how to make a PC-in-a-mooncake-box.

Link to post on Engadget. Via PostShow.

If you think watching advertisements on purpose is fun, you’ll want to check out the selections at iAdChoice where they rate and recommend Chinese video clip ads, interactive websites, animated ads, rich media ads, and more.  You can also search by industry rather than format, as in transportation or…

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