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Independent and intellectual thoughts ranging from China and politics to internet technology and gaming topics.

TED, as usual, has the most amazing videos on any kind of topic possible that should become a daily watch for anyone interesting in… well, everything.
The title of the video below is “Who is General Tso and why are we eating his chicken?” by Jennifer Lee. I highly recommend watching the video, but here are [...]

An entrepreneur capitalizing on millions of World of Warcraft fans within and outside of China, is opening the first unofficial WoW themed restaurant in Beijing, China.
The restaurant plans to have all kinds of WoW paraphenilia and other goodies that should make any fan proud, least of all the themed dishes with a large variety of [...]

In what is a yearly tradition now, the major search engines have released their top ten lists of searches, with some interesting ones coming from Google China. Now, keep in mind that the list below are from more educated and English-speaking China searchers (not counting the fact that most Chinese people use Baidu), but nonetheless [...]

If you had to narrow the difference down to some key points, what would be a simple difference between a viral campaign and a social media campaign? Actually engaging users.
In China, Lenovo was promoting its new kind of netbook, the Ideapad S10, through a social media campaign using BBS, QQ emotional icons, video, widgets, etc:
A [...]

Shanghai is starting on its next major skyscraper in the Pudong district dubbed the Shanghai Tower. Set for completion in 2014, it will be obviously larger than the previous two skyscrapers (Jin Mao and Shanghai World Financial Center) that will certainly dominate the Shanghai skyline.
I had thought that all construction was put on hold or [...]

Baidu has recently come to terms with media criticisms over whether Baidu allows its paid results to influence what happens in the organic results. The Wall Street Journal’s China Journal covers this in a little bit of detail noting about Baidu’s paid results response:
Last night, in a conference call with analysts, Baidu unveiled its response: [...]

Slashdot humor:
“From the Download.com article: “It slows down your browsing. It makes some Web sites inaccessible for no discernible reason. It doesn’t even offer you any xiao long bao or pu’er tea for your troubles. But if you want to know what life behind the Great Firewall of China is like, then the Firefox plug-in [...]