A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
Imagine MySpace pages MSN Spaces with the search functionality of Google and all its features, and you’ll see what Baidu is trying to create: BaiduSpace 百度空间, now in beta in China. Blogger Xiong Jiezeng has an analysis (in Chinese) of what works and what doesn’t, which should be of great help to the feature’s developers.
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Continue readingMSN Spaces + Google = BaiduSpace 百度空间
Have you been wondering why two of the most well-known online video clips come from greater China (Asian Backstreet Boys may be THE most well known around the world; and while Bus Uncle isn’t, it’s gotten an amazing amount of play for something that’s subtitled)? Chinese youth are armed with video cellphones, digital video cameras,…
Continue readingChinese vlogging contest: source of the next Asian Backstreet Boys or Bus Uncle?
Another excellent Pacific Epoch interview, this one with Buddy Ye, the co-founder and CEO of Wangyou Media, a company that provides a platform for users to share audio, video, and photo content, with mobile services as well. They call themselves a cross between Myspace and Youtube, and you can see elements of both in the interface. The…
Continue readingChinese Youtube/Myspace wanna-be, plus mainstream media
Chinese blogger Xu Jie says Baidu’s Baike wikipedia (see earlier post on its launch) is a disappointment:
Baidu’s Baike [an alternate Chinese wikipedia] has finally formally launched. but it’s nothing to get excited about…I looked around a bit and most of the articles are naked plagiarism. They’ve hypocritically put links to reference material at the…
Continue readingBaidu’s wikipedia: review
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, has launched the Baidu Encyclopedia (百度百科), according to China Web2.0 Review . As of 7:30 today it had 2768 articles written; at 7:51 it had 2909…you can see the articles piling up before your eyes. The intro says:
Baidu is…
Continue readingBaidu’s alternative Wikipedia
Tag人.cn (Tag People.cn) is a registry of people who have tagged themselves things such as Beijing, designer, NBA or ajax. You register, assign tags to yourself, and other people find you through tags.
http://www.tagren.cn (Thanks Micah!)
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.…
Continue readingThe eBay of Work
