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Archive for April, 2010


How US Investment Banking Excesses Helped China’s State Sector

By on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 | Comments Off

When the banking crisis broke in September 2008, the global economy went into shock and nearly collapsed. The Chinese government was widely seen as being the most proactive in reacting to the crisis, injecting more than US$570 billion into the Chinese economy. Because China’s four leading banks are all state-owned, all of this money quickly [...]

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Book Review: Country Driving by Peter Hessler

By on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 | Comments Off

Have recently written a review of Country Driving by Peter Hessler for Tamela Rich’s website. It’s a very enjoyable book about China; I recommend it. You can read it here.

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2010 Tudou Film Festival Award Delivers Tough Message

By on Sunday, April 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment

The winner of the Tudou Film Festival Award was announced today, it went to the Machinima Film η½‘ιšζˆ˜δΊ‰ or War of Internet Addiction. It is a remarkable production, made entirely in the world of World of Warcraft, and took three months and 100 Chinese volunteer gamers to make. It features excellent production values and is [...]

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Apple, Adobe, Web Analytics and Megalomania

By on Thursday, April 15th, 2010 | Comments Off

What is it about social media and web analytics which turns CEOs into control freak megalomaniacs anyway? Last week, it was Apple’s revision of the SDK agreement with developers barring all cross-compilers from use for developing apps heading for the Apple AppStore and which was first pointed out by John Gruber in this post. Most [...]

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Does China Fit Into the Long Tail Scenario?

By on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 | Comments Off

Bill Bishop, who is based in Beijing, recently published a very good article and checklist focused on western Internet companies which want to enter the China market on his blog Digicha.com, which is titled Do You Have What It Takes to Do Business in China? In the article, he lists three factors as being most [...]

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