China is having its annual national congress meeting recently. Besides blocking the traffic in Beijing, the officials are also trying to decide (or seems to trying to decide) the future of the country. China Mobile’s Chairman, Wang Jiangzhou, who is also a high ranking government official, said something quite amusing to the local press. He […]
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ZorroGPS, the Innovative GPS Navigation Service Bundled with Real-Time Data
There are loads of LBS services developed in the past year. They are mostly mobile applications such as location-based check-in service, location-based games etc. They are indeed interesting! However, when I think about it, the most important location-based service I am actually using daily is the most ‘straight-forward’ one, the GPS navigation.
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Sina Launched Check-in Service, Follow Celebrities' Whereabout
Sina just released its own check-in service, named WeiLingDi (means micro-land). You can now access it on vld.sina.cn on your mobile browser, or download its clients available on iPhone (itune download), Android (apk download). It says that the Symbian version is coming soon. So, Sina officially enters the hot location-based check-in market. We gave it […]
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A Quick Look at India Web, Talk with Gaurav Mishra
India, is not that far from China and it’s part of Asia as well, but we heard almost zero information about what’s happening there in its web space. How’s the Internet industry there in general, how’s the mobile industry? How’s the startups environment there, do they copy western models as well? Is the social network […]
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Papaya Mobile – mobile social game
I talked with Papaya Mobile’s CEO, Shen Si, last week. She graduated from Tsinghua University studying computer science. Then, she went to the U.S., studied computer science and management. And later, she joined Google. Before she left, she was with Google China, responsible for its development in mobile. In 2008, iPhone became very popular. The […]
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Creativ Culture – China’s Online T-Shirt Design Contest
Launched last August, Creativ Culture is a soon to be e-commerce site that runs ‘China’s online t-shirt design contest’. Of course the first thing I thought was, ‘Threadless of China’, but instead of labelling them a clone right away, I sat down this week to chat with the people behind the idea. Daniel Meller (Founder) […]
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What If Google Map is Out of China, No Worry, deCarta Map is Here
Whether or not Google Map is able to be operating in China is still a question. If it’s out, we would be desperately looking for a new map solution, I mean, a good replacement. However, it seems that we don’t need worry about it anymore, because deCarta is here and it has seriously started promoting […]
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The Chinese Clones of FlipBoard
I am not a big fan of iPad. I like it mainly because I am super fan of Apple (fortunately or unfortnately); I miss it when I am traveling and my macbook pro runs out of battery because it’s truly handy; and sometime I do love it, when I need read rss feeds, thanks to […]
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Interview with Taiwan Start-Up Incubator, AppWorks Ventures
I wrote a post not too long ago posing the question if ‘Taiwan was too small for start-ups?’. It was in response to observations of friends that said Taiwan is very strong in OEM and device manufacturing but lacks an energetic internet start-up atmosphere. But after doing a bit of searching, it turns out there […]
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The MMORPG Market Is Shrinking in China
I have not played any Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) for ages, and the fact is that although I am still trying to track the gaming industry, less and less people are talking to me about MMORPG. Instead, we more focus on web-based game, social games and mobile (online) games. Sam Woelm, Executive Director […]