Why Facebook and Silicon Valley owe it all to Moscow — European technology news. Some Users In China Reporting They Are Able To Access Facebook, Despite Ban. A sign of a crack in the Great Chinese Firewall? Internet users in China today are reporting that they are able to access Facebook in the country: some say they can access the site through mobile Internet connections and iOS apps; others are reporting access using HTTPS connections on their computers.
The social network has been having problems in the country as far back as 2009, when the site was “punished” for allowing a Uighur activist to post details of an upcoming protest. Today’s news comes by way of Georg Godula, a marketing professional based in China with the Web2Asia consultancy, who first noted in a tweet that he was able to access the network using an iOS app, “but not on Safari or any broadband connection.” That PC usage seems to be supported by some additional reporting: the Voice of America blog notes that it too was able to achieve access by prefacing the URL with HTTPS in Beijing. Build Locally, Grow Globally - Développeurs Facebook. Zuckerberg Signals That Facebook is Beginning to Cautiously Eye China. Growth of Facebook.com Across Global Regions. Facebook Rumored to be Partnering with Baidu to Launch New, Separate Social Network in China.
Several China-based publications are reporting that Facebook has signed a deal with Chinese internet search giant Baidu to create a special social network for China. Facebook’s is blocked by the Chinese government, so the rumors indicate that the company will create a new social network especially for Chinese market of 500 million internet users, and that this site won’t be integrated with Facebook. There have been false rumors in the past of Facebook entering China in one way or another, but this could be a way for the company to reach and monetize an enormous audience that isn’t able to sign up for the US-based social network. Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting quoted Hu Yanping, founder of Beijing-based market research firm Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI), as saying Facebook signed a deal with an unspecified Chinese company.
Marbridge Consulting later updated saying multiple industry sources told it Baidu was that company. Orkut Continues to Lead Brazil’s Social Networking Market, Facebook Audience Grows Fivefold. October 7, 2010 Orkut Continues to Lead Brazil’s Social Networking Market, Facebook Audience Grows Fivefold Twitter.com Reaches 23 Percent of Brazilians Online, Highest Reach in the World comScore Releases Study on Social Media Usage in Brazil Finding Traffic to Social Networking and Blog Sites Increased 50 Percent in Past Year São Paulo, Brazil, October 7, 2010 – comScore, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on social media usage in Brazil during the month of August 2010. The study found that Orkut continued to lead Brazil’s social networking market, reaching more than 36 million unique visitors (15+ years of age, home and work environments only), while Facebook grew to nearly 9 million visitors, up from just 1.5 million visitors a year ago.
Orkut Reigns as Social Networking Leader in Brazil * Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs. Additional social media insights in Brazil include: La Cantine. Célèbre pour ses prises de position parfois controversées, le journaliste et blogueur américain Jeff Jarvis est l'invité de La Cantine à l'occasion de la sortie en France de son dernier livre : "Tout nu sur le web - Plaidoyer pour une transparence maîtrisée" (Edition Pearson) Le journaliste, éditorialiste, blogueur et professeur de journalisme américain Jeff Jarvis est l'invité de La Cantine pour une soirée de rencontres et de débats.
Il présentera à cette occasion son dernier ouvrage, Tout nu sur le web (à paraître le 9 décembre, aux éditions Pearson). Jeff Jarvis y interroge les notions de vie privée et de transparence à l’ère digitale. Faut-il avoir peur de partager nos pensées, nos photos, nos centres d'intérêts, nos vidéos, sur Facebook, Youtube ou Twitter ? L'auteur propose une vision positive et optimiste de ces évolutions. Il défend la visibilité grandissante qu’offre le net aux individus comme aux entreprises, aux organisations et aux États.
. - Pierre Haski (fondateur de Rue89)