Good coverage of LeWeb '08
2008-12-10 09:05:31
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Really amusing blog coverage of LeWeb ‘08 at The Next Web. Check it out if you’re tired of following my very frequent Twitter posts on the conference. Dying battery and lack of a French plug — it’s a re...
Follow my LeWeb ‘08 Twitter feed
2008-12-09 08:38:10
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I’m micro-blogging many of the talks at LeWeb ‘08, a very cool conference going on today and tomorrow, December 9 and 10, in Paris. If you’re interested in reading about what the speakers are saying, please ...
Regular Posting Will Now Continue!
2008-12-04 03:23:50
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Sorry for the long absence, folks, but I saved up all my vacation days and in lieu of a proper holiday I went on the road with my band Chunqiu (春秋) to play shows in nine cities all over China — Wuhan, Changs...
Council on Foreign Relations: How Severe the Slump in China
2008-11-06 07:40:59
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Brad Setser (his bio here) has written a sensible and easy-to-understand analysis on how the current financial crisis might impact China. (H/T to Bill Bishop, who if you use Twitter you should definitely follow...
China’s microblogging platforms
2008-10-30 03:13:26
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I just saw this handy post on Adam Schokora’s 56minus1.com blog. Adam gives quick intros to five Chinese microblogging services, including Taotao, Jiwaide, Fanfou, Zuosa, and (I didn’t know about this one!) D...
Around the Web in China New Media News
2008-10-30 02:54:56
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MySpace China Woes: BusinessWeek’s Bruce Einhorn has a piece about MySpace.cn and its efforts to come up with a new business model in the wake of some big setbacks — most recently, the departure of CEO Luo Ch...
Silicon Hutong: Digital Video and the Coming Showdown with Broad...
2008-10-29 06:08:49
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Naturally it doth please me that David Wolf has declaimed his faith in Internet video sites in China, and that he chose for a section subtitle, “We have seen the future, and it is Youku.” David is blogging fr...
NYT: To Survive, Net Start-Ups Slow Their Metabolism
2008-10-28 00:21:12
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Yesterday’s New York Times ran a good piece on how Internet start-ups are dealing with the onset of winter by “getting small, humble and thrifty,” and how lots of layoffs are happening among fledgling tech c...
What happened to MP5? Never mind: Aigo’s got an MP6
2008-10-27 06:05:43
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I saw this item in China Tech News today announcing that Beijing-based Aigo, the first Chinese consumer electronics firm to stand a chance at building itself a decent brand internationally, has launched an MP6 ...
Juicy News: An Interview with Jin Xiaofeng, CEO of Linkool Labs
2008-10-24 04:30:01
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My friend Jin Xiaofeng and her team at Linkool Labs here in Beijing have been hard at work for the better part of this year on a very, very cool app called Juice that I might have mentioned at some point on thi...