A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
During a ten week trip through China, I added over 150 contacts on WeChat, China’s overwhelmingly dominant messaging app. If we weren’t being introduced by mutual friends online, we usually used the most common way for people to add each other in…
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On the morning of his wedding day, my cousin’s fiancé waited impatiently for Likes so that he could retrieve his bride.
Inside the apartment building, he and his groomsmen would have other trials to face: drinking vile concoctions of vinegar and wasabi, doing pushups, and liberally bribing everyone for hints to impossible trivia questions. But…
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China telecommunications expert, Marc Laperrouza, tips us off to an unconfirmed bit a of juicy news about the Chinese telecommunication market: China Telecom is being investigated for anti-monopoly infringement! You don’t hear of state-owned enterprises the stature of China Telecom being investigated for monopoly infringement very often so this is pretty big news. Mark explains the charges:
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Just came across the mobilemonday beijing blog, which I got from the excellent Read/WriteWeb post on best Chinese Web apps. MobileMonday has a set of archived presentations, some pdf, some ppt, which might be of use to some of us. Things like:
YeePay – Payment in China (on…
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Our Taiwanese contributor Nydia Chen points out that the famous “Asian Backstreet Boys,” aka the “Backdorm Boys” 后舍男生, have a lot going on these days. They’ve become celebrities in China with many videos beyond the original “As Long As I Love You.”
They have their own blog, with all of their…
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Samsung Motorola has recently put forth a patent for the Feng Shui Phone, which, according to Unwired View, does the following (and I quote):
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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
Youmeiti blog reports the opening of the First Cellphone Film Festival, put on by the daily Shanghai webzine Metroer. The short films (20 sec. to 2 min.) had to be submitted by cellphone to the Metroer website. They were produced using digital cameras, video cameras, and phone cameras –anything really, so long as it could be submitted…
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