A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
堕落 duolo.com (contextually translated into “debauchery”) is like 豆瓣 (Douban) for food, entertainment and travel; that is, it is a social/sharing site for those things. One gripe I have is that the headings for items or posts are not well restricted; one item is titled “the few things I ordered at YanYangTian.”
Some of you will already have seen this story, but it’s really worth taking a closer look at it to understand some of the ways that online “community” gets stuck at the border, and at how online “mobs” turn to the oldest and ugliest stereotypes in the book once they’re mobilized.
It all started on September 2 when …
Continue readingweb 2.0 cross-cultural mobs: Digg battles
This might be fun, but I can’t get it to work in Chinese on my Mac. : ( I can use the English, however. It’s called woocall (available in both English and Chinese), and has been in beta at Sina for the past few months. Woocall, as Jason reminds me below, is similar to Gabbly: it allows…
Continue readingwoocall: sina’s new embedded website chat tool
The face of Douban 豆瓣, one of the most popular music/book social sharing sites.
Via PostShow via superlover (= source of photo).
我要发财网 (I Want to Get Rich Web) offers free gifts. These free gifts come from new startups who are trying to get their product out into the market, as part of their advertising campaign. Thus, users sign up for gifts, and your profile will determine your chance of getting a gift.
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城市吧 CityBar looks like a cool Web2.0 map hack that uses photographs to show what the street would look like if you stood there, facing that direction. Unfortunately, I haven’t got the site to load properly and so I couldn’t test it out myself.
Via PostShow.
网络封神榜 People PK hosts online realtime rankings for famous Chinese people.
Famous people include popstars such as Jay Chow and Andy Lau, cultural icons such as Mao, and internet stars like FuRong JieJie. They also offer newsfeeds on these people (which is where I found the latest Sina-endorsed FuRong pics).
Via…
Headline reads:
“SHUANG-A!
The most shuang* video recomendations every day.
Ensuring that after a hard day’s work, you will still have a beautiful smile.”
* shuang = happy, cheerful; refreshing
And today’s recommendation, a MTV trailer from the newly acclaimed (Mainland) Chinese film, 疯狂的石头!
Link to ShuangA.…
I’ve been trying to understand more about both new features and competition in the Chinese search engines market–with an eye toward having something to say about where innovation is happening and how ideas are flowing from one online space to another. (Tip: if you’re interested in search, you have to visit Webmaster World.com’s excitingly useful Asia Pacific Search Engine…
Continue readingUser-generated Q&A in Virtual China