A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
The headline from Linghuchang’s* Linghucong’s blog reads “PC2N: China’s WebOS.” This is followed by a screencap of it in action:
Look familiar? According to the PC2N website, it “has a Windows-like environment, click here to try.” The service also boasts 2GB of storage, and the GUI itself looks…
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Presenting the latest social networking site: 出气筒, the Venting Bin!
Share your misery, frustration and pain, and make friends doing so! Also great is the set of Flash games they have down of side, two of which involve naming a puppet and beating the hell out of it:
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If you’re familiar with the WuXia 神雕侠侣, then rejoice! Here are excerpts from two BBS posts that mock the recent TV recreation of the famous novel, where the post-authors have written some hilarious commentary with screencaps from the show:
“First, we thank CCTV for bringing us the latest historical/medieval (古装版) remake of Tarzan.”
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Check out photos from the self-described Chinese geek get-together in Nanjing over the weekend, where a select group of China’s technorati spent the weekend to talk about art, web 2.0 innovation, and technology. Based on the first Silicon Valley Mashup Camp in Feb. 2006, and organized by Robert Mao, founder/CEO of UUZone, a Chinese social…
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Write a blog post. Have the computer speak for you. Blog becomes blog + podcast.
It is essentially a good idea, but the technology is not up to it.
Source: PostShow
Hong Kong has won the bid to host the annual Chinese Wikipedia conference (see Wikipedia article).
Source: PostShow
51xxU! (numeric for 我要谢谢你！= I want to thank you!) is a Google-interfaced site for what is essentially public text-based greeting cards. You have a choice of sending your (registered-with-51xxU) friend a 感谢 Thank You, 祝福 Blessing, 道歉 Apology, 期望 Wish, and 建议 Suggestion.
FYI: 51xxU’s precedent is the popular use of SMS for holiday-greetings, especially during Chinese New Year when…
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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…
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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…
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