#foursquare Day Beijing Featured In National News Mag

Will we soon see #foursquare harmonized? Travel sites have a much better track record with the Net Nanny… that is, unless you get un-harmonious with them. (How — that we don’t know.)

Anyway, #foursquare Day Beijing made it big. One of the nation’s most libre papers, the Southern Metropolitan Weekly (《南都周刊》), did its bit in letting the world — at least the Chinese-language world — know all about foursquare Day. In addition to letting your blogger claim a full page of the paper’s territory, the paper, more importantly, gave more airtime to @frankyu, mayor of the Sanlitun Apple Store, as well as other folks, including Joel Danielson of Illuminant.

(Yep — the paper also revealed that @frankyu is mayor because he checks in every single day. In fact, Frank just checked in about an hour before this post was pushed out. Ah, Frank, why don’t you just write the Great Leader Steve Jobs and — own the Store for good?)

The paper also interviewed the folks behind Fubar, where the party moved after 50+ folks checked in at the city’s Mac temple. Fubar gets its biz done through word of mouth, and — true to the #foursquare spirit — offers the mayor (currently no-one but @BeijingBoyce) happy hour prices all day.

PS: The paper got David Feng’s nationality wrong — he’s a Swiss, not a Singaporean. Beijing’s Subway Goddess, @sioksiok, by the way, is Singaporean…

PS 2: The guy you see with an index finger sticking out is pointing at the swarm by the Apple Store. We should have pointed that out earlier…

(Thank you @chinewinelover for the OK to use the pic.)

於 4 月 16 日舉行的 foursquare Day 線下聚會引起了媒體的關注，其中一個做大篇幅報導的就是《南都週刊》，並採訪了本博客博主、舉辦場所之「foursquare Mayor」及其它 foursquare 人物。

What Were You Doing Today? There’s NTALKS Every Month

Too bad your blogger had other things to tend to, but he attended the initial NTALKS late last month and he recommends it. (And no, it’s not because he had a 3-minute mic moment to “propagate” the bits and bobs on status.net, the WordPress of microblogging.) If you have nothing to do on the last Sunday of every month — or if you just want to stay informed more and more about the more 2.0 aspects of the Chinese Web, there’s always NTALKS, co-hosted by Gang Lu and Cindy Jiang from the Mobinode.

The first-ever NTALKS kicked off with microblogging, and we had some heavyweights come onstage — including folks from Hesine, Netease Microblogs, and many more. The most recent event focused more on the mobile market, and folks from UCWeb, Tencent Wireless and Renren, one of the major Chinese SNS networks.

Both these events were held at the France Telecom OrangLabs centre (10th floor, Raycom Info Centre C; 2, Kexueyuan South Road, Haidian) in Beijing (海淀区科学院南路 2 号融科资讯中心 C 座南楼 10 层). Events take place around 14:00 through 17:00 and prior registration online is needed.

由盧剛及 Cindy 之「動點博客」從上個月 (2010 年 3 月) 就開始創辦 NTALKS，每月一次。上個月講的是微博 (微型博客)，這一次則是移動 (Mobile)。每個月一次的 NTALKS 群音薈，值得大家關注。

[CHINICT 2009] The Event’s Underway…

I’m now coming to you live from #CHINICT (remember to use that hashtag!), and the event’s underway — as in we’re just getting started. Not convinced we’re here?

• Follow @DavidFeng for tweets — live
• Also follow @DavidFengTwo in case Twitter blocks the main account. (This has happened in the past!)
• Look at these pics:

Follow me on Twitter — as that’s much faster than reading a “plain-vanilla” blog! It looks like @kaiserkuo (Kaiser Kuo) will, as was the case last year, hosting this event.