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Networked Authoritarianism in Perspective

By on Sunday, June 20th, 2010 | 4 Comments

A short time ago, Rebecca MacKinnon wrote an excellent commentary on the Chinese government’s white paper on the Internet. In the government-published white paper, there was effusive praise for the Internet as a tool for social change under terms set by the party. The important thing to understand is that the party will set the [...]

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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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Baidu’s Problems: The Other Side of the Equation

By on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 | 8 Comments

Lately, there has been much discussion about Baidu’s problems re the disclosure that they were accepting payments from makers of less than consumer-friendly products for higher rankings. David Wolf has an excellent posting about how Baidu has hurt itself in the public relations battle, with some significant assistance from CCTV and Google. According to David, [...]

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Have A Cracked iPhone in China And Want To Upgrade to 3G?

By on Monday, July 21st, 2008 | 3 Comments

If you are one of the estimated 800,000+ iPhone users in China, then there is a more than 99% chance that your iPhone is cracked since Apple does not yet have a carrier partner in China. For many of those users, there is the fear that once Apple ties up with a Chinese carrier and [...]

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Google, Baidu and Search Engine Optimization in China

By on Friday, May 30th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Search engine marketing is the main engine behind Google’s rise as a major online media player, and the product it is offered in is Google Adwords, which allows advertisers to directly target their online ads by selecting keywords, and then targeting them to relevant search results pages and to published pages (using Google’s publisher’s network, [...]

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Tianya BBS Provides Platform Connecting Sichuan Earthquake Victims, Volunteer Suppliers

By on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment

The Tianya BBS, as I have mentioned earlier, is one of the leading BBSes in China. It has now launched a special BBS connecting victims in the earthquake affected areas, with those individuals and companies wanting to voluntarily provide goods and services to help them. (h/t to to the Google China blog for mentioning this). [...]

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Google China’s Search Log Displays Moment of Mourning

By on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | 15 Comments

Google China’s blog (in Chinese) mentions a Google search query log which dramatically shows the moment of silence and mourning on 2:28PM on May 19 for the victims of the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan. Apparently, even Google search queries fell off dramatically during that three-minute moment of silence where Chinese stopped everything they were [...]

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Google China Launches Earthquake Disaster People Search

By on Saturday, May 17th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Google China announced their launch of Google China People Search in the Google China blog to help victims and their relatives get in touch with each other. I have chosen to translate the announcement in full, and have included the original hyperlinks in the story. Aside from the human tragedy, this is an excellent study [...]

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Why China Mobile Should Buy Baidu

By on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments

A few days ago I read an interview with Steve Jobs published in Fortune in March. One of the ideas which Steve Jobs put forth is that you really need to understand the technology issues, then follow how they will roll out in order to be successful. Apple has a certain advantage because it owns [...]

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Creating Value In the Digital World, and Bringing It to the Real World

By on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments

One of the great challenges in the digital world is: “How to create value?” People are spending more and more time online, and are moving to a mobile Internet, which has been attested to by the success of Apple’s iPhone platform. But spending online has lagged behind, especially in China, where advertising has been slow [...]

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