Innovation in China: Web 2.0a

05 Apr

Posted by Rick as Web 2.0, Chinese Web 2.0, Chinese Internet

I was just reading Rebecca MacKinnon’s article about Web innovation, and why Hong Kong lags behind China. I like Rebecca’s site, but - as one of her readers did - I gotta disagree with her on this one. Here’s why:
Slightly Outnumbered…
To compare the web development happening in China (population 1.3 billion) with Hong […]

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NBC, Fox — Forget youtube. How about the China problem?

25 Mar

Posted by Rick as Web 2.0, Chinese Internet

Well it looks like the youtube wars are heating up, with the team of bullies NBC, U-NewsCorp, FOX, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo, and AOL teaming up to fight the youtube/google threat.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that I can’t get to see a single episode of the Daily Show on youtube anymore (only tiny bullshit clips) — Chinese […]

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Have you seen these China Video Blogs?

22 Mar

Posted by Rick as Web 2.0, Random Thoughts

Well, with the rise of video sites like youtube and all the rest of ‘em, it’s becoming easier and easier for the everyday Joe/Zhou to create his own makeshift TV program. It’s not surprising that we’ve seen a few very well made Video productions spring up in the China Blogosphere. So just in […]

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How to Burn your Feed’s Headlines in your Email Sig

16 Mar

Posted by Rick as Web 2.0, tools

This is a neat little trick using a feature of feedburner that some people may not be aware of yet.
Step 1:
If you haven’t yet burned your RSS feed using feedburner, I strongly recommend you do so. Feedburner has a ton of tools, and this feature is just the tip of the […]

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