Chinese Olympic Team: Win A Gold Medal, Get A .cn Domain Reserved
For many a Chinese athlete at the Games, winning a gold medal has never gotten better. The newest reason why: CNNIC. Yes, you heard it right: Sohu IT forums has it that the Chinese...
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Farewell, China Netcom?
Are the days of China Netcom (中国网通) numbered? After the recent telco remix-cum-swallow-ups, authorized by the supreme Chinese telco gods, it looks like that the days of CNC, or China Netcom, could very well...
High Hopes for OpenWeb.Asia
Being part of the new OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup, I’d like to do my bit to help not just readers of techblog86, but the entire Asian Web 2.0 world. Right now, Asia is still — unreachable...
Please Mind The Gap: Chinese and American Site Design Concepts
The Melcher Ruwart clan has an interesting view on a topic that could be paraphrased with “nicer language” — the question Why do most Chinese sites look like crap?”. And we quote: Whenever I...
techblog86 Mind the Gap Saturday: The Internet and the Legal Environment (Part 1)
Is the Chinese Constitution the only law there is in the land? If you just skim over China’s legal system, the Constitution dating back to (only!) 1982 may be the only “bit” visible. Delve...
techblog86 Mind the Gap Saturday: Facebook and Xiaonei (Part 1)
Facebook and Xiaonei — the two “bigs” for the Internet world in China. Some are going “global” and getting in the act on Facebook (I’ve quite a few Apple friends on Facebook), but even...
New “All Your Net Video Are Belong To Us” Bill In Effect; A Case of Half and Half
The much-feared and easily-misunderstood “all your net video are belong to us” bill has taken effect in the PRC today. Under this bill, all audio and video sites inside China (geographically) must be owned...
The Chinese Web in 2007: Special, Not Web 2.0, Misunderstood
Gang Lu’s Mobinode has an interesting story about the Chinese Web in 2007. Three things figure out prominently: the Chinese web remains special, it’s still not all that Web 2.0, and there’s still a...
Who’s Leading China’s Blog Market?
There’s an interesting post over at China Web 2.0 Review — out to seek a leader in a blog market of 200 million and counting. A recent Baidu report quotes Q-zone from QQ as...
Decrypting China’s “Cailing” Craze
Cailing (pronounced tsai-ling) is big in China. If you’ve called someone in China, only to hear pop music, meowing cats, or the latest duanzi (spoken jokes) when you were expecting the boring doot-doot tones,...
