Social media in China
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The research set out to unravel and reveal the fundamental changes that social media has had on how Chinese consumers connect with each other, how trust is built and how influence and word of mouth rea The research set out to unravel and reveal the fundamental changes that social media has had on how Chinese consumers connect with each other, how trust is built and how influence and word of mouth really travels.
Sina Weibo Adds Voicemail Weibos and Direct Video Uploads
3 months ago, I predicted that Sina would launch multimedia sharing on Sina Weibo. And today that’s a reality, with the launch of voicemail tweets and direct video uploads.
In what could be foreboding news for Google’s hopes to renew its license to operate in China today, the company’s Chinese Web search is now partially blocked. While Google.cn had been accessible up until yesterday, the company reported that it was between 10 and 66 percent blocked on its dashboard this morning. (It had been blocked for just three other days this month on June, 17, 18, and 20, according to the Associated Press , so this could be a normal service limitation.
Google Web search partially blocked in China after strategy shift | VentureBeat
Google gets its license to operate in China renewed | VentureBeat
Google won a small victory today by having its license to operate in China renewed, stalling a shutdown of the site for now. But it still appears to be losing the war.
Earlier today, a Google status page which publicly tracks access to its services in China, reported that there was full blockage, or that search was unavailable between 67 and 100 percent of the time.
Just kidding: Google says China hasn’t walled off search | VentureBeat
Gmail gets hijacked by hackers in China | VentureBeat
The server behind the attack originated from Ürümqi in Northwest China, but beyond that it’s unknown who’s behind it.
Robin Li, the chief executive of Chinese search engine Baidu, made a rare US appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit today, where he answered questions about his success — and about why competitor Google failed to make any real headway in China .
Baidu CEO: We tried harder than Google in China | VentureBeat
Google threatens to pull out of China after activist accounts hacked | VentureBeat
Google said today it might pull out of China because it found that the email accounts of human rights activists using Google’s Gmail service had been breached.Google officially ends censorship in China | VentureBeat
Google has finally pulled the plug, ceasing censorship on Google.cn by redirecting users to its unfiltered Hong Kong property , Google.com.hk . Relations between Google and China have been strained since the start of the year, exacerbated by attacks from hackers on the search engine . While Google never explicitly said the attacks were directly connected to the Chinese government, it was all but implied in the search giant’s language and supported by later research from independent security consultants.
China’s Micrblogging Trends & Insights | China Internet Watch
Baidu yesterday announced it’s shutting down its “Weibo” service, t.baidu.com, by 22 August. Baidu’s Weibo service “Shuo Ba” (or “Talk Bar” in English) started in September last year with a real-name system requiring all registration to be verified via a mobile phone and photos. Having gained no popularity with its real-name system, Baidu made it [...]
Human rights organisation Amnesty International is campaigning for the release of a Chinese woman who has been been sentenced to one year in a labour camp for retweeting a satirical suggestion that Japanese Pavillion at the Shanghai Expo should be attacked. The lady in question is Cheng Jianping, a Chinese online activist who retweeted the message on October 17.
Shocking. Chinese woman sentenced to one year in labour camp for one retweet
Now, the first takeaway you need to go with that headline is that according to the Chinese government, the 60,000 websites China shut down in 2010 were pornographic and obscene. Maybe only a perv like me wants to know what kind of porn they removed, but in asking that question I ran into a few problems.
China Censors 60K Websites, 350+ Million Pages, Proud Of It | ZDNet
We are also seeing the development of niche, high-end / luxury communities.
BMW launch social network (in China) - another example of niche, high end social communities
Some of you may recall the period when we posted case studies on brand campaigns. Well today we’re revisiting that, but in a more “social media-ish” sort of way; cause while in the past our cases were limited to living on this blog; now we’re putting them on slideshare.net , then embedding into this blog; and then also seeding it to our linkedin groups where you can go to ask questions about any of the cases we publish. The first of this new wave: “BMW Kaixin001 China Social Media Case Study” is embedded below.
BMW; Kaixin001 China Social Media Case Study
Are Chinese More Addicted than Westerners? The Top 10 Social Games in China (a new report released by BloggerInsight ) details the exploding social gaming market in China and analyzes how game companies can compete to succeed. Parking Wars received a lot of attention for its initial success but has since been outpaced.