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Trouble Brewing For Tudou

Scott Sykes — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:04:00 -0600

Trouble is brewing for Tudou. 80 copyright owners will sue them in China, for the latest detials see this ChinaTechNews post. This is not unlike the YouTube/Viacom situation, for an overview see this Computerworld post. While on one hand copyright owners have justifiable claims if their material is being used improperly, it would be a [...]
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Call to China or from China to your home country on your mobile phone for free!

haojies — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:28:00 -0600

As you probably know, to call China, usually you need to dial the International access code of 001 in America followed by the country code of +86 then your fiancée's full phone number. But this is a very expensive call. Usually $2.00 a minute or more from your mobile phone!
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The Brave New World of Deglobalization

pdenlinger — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:12:00 -0600

In previous articles, I have voiced some of my criticisms and predictions re globalization here, here, here, and here. Unfortunately, it is becoming clearer by the day that globalization was largely a fraud where Americans could endlessly consume and Chinese factories could endlessly manufacture without any adherence to economic fundamentals and creating a false [...]

A Travel 2.0 Chinese Love Story

haojies — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:07:00 -0600

I was honored to be interviewed by Winser Zhao of Sino Hotel Reservations' China Travel 2.0. If you would like to read the story about how we met, and about his telling of Fei and I, you can read it at http://www.sinohotelreservation.com/winser/?p=499.
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Cool: Visualizing 24 hours of global commercial air traffic in 72 seconds

Will — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:59:00 -0600

Something totally random but very cool from Wired's Autopia blog:

CCTV extends its investigation of dodgy search engine ads to Google

Will — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:25:00 -0600

On the heels of Baidu's recent woes, a story from the Financial Times (subscription) noting that CCTV has extended its investigation into dodgy companies advertising on search engines in China:

Internet search engines in China face growing risks as a media
campaign against Baidu, the market leader, has broadened to target the
entire industry, including Google.
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Bread and Circuses

pdenlinger — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:55:00 -0600

At the end of my previous post, where I painted a generally pessimistic picture of the near future, I mentioned that I would write about the businesses which would do well in this downturn.
In my opinion, they are bread and circuses.
During the decline of the Roman empire, the Roman emperors realized that in order to [...]

The Elephant In The Room

pdenlinger — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:25:00 -0600

One of the big problems with the present economic crisis is that we really do not know how big the problem is. We know that our problems have been caused by the creation, then over-leveraging of debt. But we don’t know how much debt was created, then sliced into derivatives multiple times which were [...]

How to do music notes, love hearts and other symbols in Facebook status updates and chat

djod — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:21:00 -0600

You now know how to add Facebook emoticons to your chats, but do you want to know how you can add hearts, music notes and other cool symbols to your Facebook status and chats?
There are two ways!
1) Copy from here!

♥ - love heart
♫ - big musical note
♪ - small musical note
☺ - smilie face
☻ - [...]
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Chinese Pinyin in 6 Mins

haojies — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:27:00 -0600