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2 Social Ecosystems Will Emerge?! China and Rest of World
I was awaiting Tom Smith’s new Global Web Index and I found the results fascinating. I’ll blog for the next 3 days on surprising results from the survey! The first surprise to me, is the progression of China in Social. [read more]
The Social Power of China's Internet Giants [Infographic]
Though this graph is a little bit old, it's useful for your understanding. It's an overview of what services are provided by each of China's internet giants. This graph have 18... [read more]
A Quick Look at Social Media in China
Adam Zhang, Social Media Group intern, provides a quick overview of the Chinese social media landscape, as well as the two biggest social platforms in China – Renren.com (the Facebook of China) and Sina Weibo (a microblog). [read more]
How Social Media Can Make the Products You Buy Safer
Half the stuff in stores today comes from China. By default then, if we could improve the quality of products imported from China, we’d make the products you buy safer. Nice thought. But what does this have to do with social media? Actually, it has everything to do with social media. Let's take your kids' bike for example. The... [read more]
Twittering Grows in China (but not on Twitter)
Twitter remains blocked in China, but that has not stopped Twitter-like activity. Similar to other foreign Web 2.0 services that the government keeps out, China's vibrant web sector has created domestic alternatives. This graph from CIC Data shows that almost 40% of the online buzz they found around the Toyota recall on... [read more]
Oops, Kaifu Lee — CEO of Google China Resigns
Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google Inc.'s China, is resigning from the company. The news is just broken by Sina, and WSJ also reported.According to Sina's report. Google China has officially announced Kaifu's leaving this morning. Who is going to replace him is still unknown.Google is doing OK in China, although it's still facing very... [read more]
Microblogs & Nuclear Explosions; Censorship is harder than you'd think.
If you've been following our blog, you might read my previous post on one of the China top micro blogging sites, fanfou.com, suddenly became inaccessible at the beginning of July.Fanfou is still inaccessible out of no reason, and the situation seems to become worse and worse. Two more popular Chinese micro blogging sites — Digu.... [read more]
Twitter's 140-Character Limit? Not Such a Big Deal — In Chinese
Here's a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing system uses ideograms rather than an alphabet. The difference? Ideograms represent words or... [read more]
Littleredbook + Social Media Today
Littleredbook has teamed up with Social Media Today; we're working together to bring established best practices of creating niche social media communities to China for select clients looking to build loyalty through strong value-added relationships with their customers. The press release is below - check it out and take a look at the... [read more]
Su Fei's Diary and China's Branded Entertainment
Normandy Madden, of AdAge China discusses the rising phenomenon of sponsored content in China. The first such example was Ugly Betty, has been followed by Su Fei's diary. Adapted from “Sofia's Diary”, which ran in portugal, the plot is co-created with Internet viewers through a series of polls. The episodes, roughly 3... [read more]
The Best Strategy For Facebook in China: Forget About China
In China, we are still talking about Facebook and trying to learn from every change it makes; but in the meanwhile, we don't really care about Facebook that much. It probably doesn't help that Facebook is éžæ»ä¸å¯ which in Pinyin is FeiSiBuKe, pronounced similar to Facebook and means Dooms to Die. With the fast growth of... [read more]
Hu Shuli: How far can an editor go in China?
Hu Shuli, a longtime friend and source of China insight, is the subject of a great profile by Evan Osnos in this week's New Yorker. (Subscription only)More than just a straight profile, Osnos explores China's media scene and how Shuli (and her Caijing magazine) manage to avoid getting jailed while writing some of China's raciest... [read more]
360quan; Social network for teenagers proves China's youth are insane.
Chinese youth are insane. Well ok, maybe not insane, but certainly not sane either. Lets call them “unsane”. Why, pray tell, do I make such nasty accusations? Well the short answer is I'm judgmental and have a selective ignorance (that I choose to ignore). The long answer?The long answer is that it there may be sanity after... [read more]
Introducing SMTodayChina
Over the past few weeks, we've been working on a "top secret" project with Rand Han, a Chinese-American entrepreneur whose Shanghai-based marketing, advertising and communications support firm, BA360, has attracted a blue-chip roster of international and local customers over the past couple of years. In the best social media... [read more]
Banned in China?
I've been corresponding with Ding Yan, publisher of a wine magazine in China via Sino-Overseas Grapevine & Wine who I met on the Austrian wine tour. Unfortunately, we just found out he can't access this blog post...or it seems, anything hosted at blogspot. I suspect it's part of China's attempt at controlling access to the internet... [read more]
Asia Sports and Entertainment Business - Week of 3/5-12/08
Entertainment from India In a significant move which is a first for a Bollywood label, Eros International has reached an agreement to have its movie titles distributed in Wal-Mart's 27 Canadian stores. Over time, Eros will make available a large number of titles from its catalogue of over 1300 titles as well as its 30-40 new releases... [read more]
some potential issues of China social media / web2.0
-lack of online trust / credential-professional vs. low-quality entertainment-lack of patience of buidling value [read more]
Chinese Blogs in English
The best Web 2.0 watchdog in Beijing is Tangos at China Web2.0 Review. Last week, he updated us on a new version of YeeYan that actually translates Chinese-language blog posts froma variety of sources into English. There is not a lot up there yet - literally 5-6 stories although they are good ones:Yahoo's Fiasco in China - Introduction... [read more]
An Open Letter to Google Founders— to save Google in China and save Internet in China
This guy in China who posted an open letter to Googles founders has a cool idea. Mao suggests Google can restore frequently talked about corporate values by putting some of their bundles of cash to developing anti-censorship tools and services for everyone in the world who suffers under government censorship.Meta: An Open Letter to... [read more]
How Web 2.0 is Happening in China
Yes, it's true that General Atlantic invested almost $50m in Oak Pacific Interactive, the Beijing group that runs mop.com. And that mop.com has at least 15m registered users.Also true that MySpace co-founder, Brad Greenspan, has invested in more than 20 Chinese sites via BroadWebAsia.Just because western investors are discovering... [read more]
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Brian Solis s author of Engage and is recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders & authors in new media. More »
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“Up until this point we have always understood content through the lens of the distribution channel it sat within. The channel, in fact, gave its name to the content (TV is a form of distribution but we think of it as a form of content) - or, as per your reference to McLuhan, "the medium was the message". The social media revolution is all about the liberation of content from its means ...”
“Alternatively, and this is what I believe, GM is simply not very good at Social. The easiest way out of that situation might well be to blame the tools, rather than the craftman. From what I've been observing, GM has been using Facebook, and especially their brand pages, as little more than a glorified megaphone. ”