Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
Posted in Notes to Myself, Usage Patterns on Feb 21st, 2008
Through some winded path of reference I found a recent study comparing the online behaviour of Chinese and American youth. Henry Jenkins gives a useful summary of some its findings:
Almost five times as many Chinese as American respondents said they have a parallel life online (61 percent vs. 13 percent).
More than twice as many Chinese […]
Posted in Notes to Myself on Nov 17th, 2007
The very excellent Tangos Chan of China Web2.0 Review has put his Orange Lab presentation about Web Innovations in China online. Some very interesting hints to follow up, like Baidu’s tag-based discussion forums Postbar, social networking mashups on IM services, or Peer-to-Peer video streaming. The presentation is related to a previous interview that - how […]
Posted in Notes to Myself on Nov 17th, 2007
Rebecca McKinnon points to the nice and important project YeeYan 译言 (and its founder Zhang Lei), a community translation portal trying to bring together current relevant content, interested audiences, and potential translators, between Chinese and English. I’ve linked to this service before, for a highly enlightening piece of advice on Chinese Internet business strategy.
As Ms […]