For a bleeding-edge tech company, it's sure hard not to feel Google's been a bit slow to acknowledge and address a phenomenon that anyone in China has been witnessing for years -- search results are censored.
In a new video and blog post, the folks at Google illustrate the problem and explain that they will now be notifying users that their search query may result in access to Google being cut off for a minute or …
I look forward to loading up Google every April 1st, but this one takes the cake. Straight from Google's newly released Google Maps 8-bit for the NES, China:
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I've been enjoying my past few months of being a new Android user; but residing in China entails some frustrations and difficulties in getting the most out of your Google-powered smartphone - especially with regards a lack of paid apps support, and some popular apps missing from the Chinese version of the Android market. Here are a couple of solid - and legitimate - ways to tackle these two annoyances...
Get …
After wandering the halls of the China blogsphere for a few years now, it generally takes a pretty unique China-themed site to raise my eyebrow. ChinaSMACK is just such a site.
Essentially the site digs up, translates and reposts all the shit and sludge, peppered liberally with the plain weird, that are hot (or "viral") topics in the Chinese-language Internet (blogs, bbs, etc.).
The site is well summed up by it…
I've long been a fan of ChinesePod.com, a site that offers free mp3 podcasts for learning Mandarin. Having used various aspects of the site for nearly the entire time I've been in China, it was with a lot of interest that I read the company being mentioned in the New York frigin Times!
In my line of work, I tend to see a LOT of Internet start-ups with grand ambitions quickly fade into nothing, so to me it's cool t…
For all those that missed the hoopla of the 2007 edition of the China Blog Awards, your chance to jump on the bandwagon has passed my friend. The awards are officially over.
Chinalyst hosted the awards, with open voting during the month of July on any blog signed up in the Chinalyst system.
The army of trained rhesus monkeys that were put in charge of tallying up all the votes for the China Blog Awards have fin…
I looked at the calendar today and realized that the end of July was fast approaching, and bringing with it a close to the 2007 China Blog Awards.
So, if you've not gone already and cast your vote for us (or anyone else), be sure to do so!
Also, there's still time to submit what you feel are the best blog posts you've read in the English-language China blogosphere. Just go over to the Zui Hao Report and post th…
As I announced about a week and a half ago, the 2007 China Blog Awards are on. Well, as of July 1st, voting has begun. There is no panel of judges and no use of site stats to decide the winners. It is completely based on popularity in the community.
Blogs are divided into six different categories, and you're allowed to vote as many blogs as you want, but can only cast one vote per blog.
So, if you like this bl…
Well, there's been a secret little project brewing lately. fiLi and I have been conspiring to create the latest incarnation of the China Blog Awards.
fiLi, as some may know, is the brains behind the Chinalyst, a community/aggregator for English-language China blogs. It seems that his site is therefore the perfect venue to get these awards off the ground.
There have been attempts in the past for a blog awards fo…
Anyone active in the China blogsphere back in August surely remembers Chinabounder and his rather conspicuous blog "Sex And Shanghai". The blog received some rather heated attention (making it as far as the nightly news in Shanghai) mostly brought on by Professor Zhang Jiehai and his call to hunt down the author because of the blog's content, which is essentially a Western man detailing his sexcapades with local Chin…
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