Chinese Blog: Will Mobile Blog be A Lifesaver?
One side, China Mobile, the biggest mobile telecom carrier in China, reins in the overheating rough-and-tumble traditional Internet service market, in the other side, it is finding opportunities in WAP sector. Mobile blog is one of the gold mines of China Mobile. Bokee.com now is in the middle of series of negotiations with China Mobile. And it launched early this year the mobile blog services aiming at mobile phone users with helps of China Mobile. The new service of Bokee.com...
Chinese Blog: International briefs
Third child from family dies of bird flu in Turkey DOGUBAYAZIT, Turkey (AP) - An 11-year-old girl died today of suspected bird flu in eastern Turkey - days after her brother and sister succumbed to the disease - and their doctor said they probably contracted the illness by playing with dead chickens.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said people urgently needed to be educated about keeping birds, and that during prayers today, imams would give instructions on protecting...
Chinese Blog: New Internet Concepts Count in China
Although Web 2.0 is a hot topic in China, most Chinese Internet users are not prepared to pay for it, according to a survey conducted by Internet Society of China Communication and Development Center. More than 70 percent of Chinese Internet users don't understand what is Web 2.0 although they have used parts of the new net-based applications, such as Blog, an online diary service, Podcasting, a net broadcasting service and RSS (really simple syndication), which brings...
Chinese Blog: Personalized internet web logs gain popularity in China
Beijing, 23 January: Chinese "netizens" are following overseas internet trends with thousands of personalized Web logs, better known as blogs, and the government has done little to supervise their swipes at China and other questionable content.China residents maintain blogs that detail one-night stands and criticize China's handling of SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome].Expatriates trade China news stories on livinginchina.com, and about...
Chinese Blog: Internet Use in China
JONATHAN MANN, CNN HOST: China.com/control. How does the world's biggest authoritarian government address the boundless freedom of the Internet? Beijing erects barriers.Hello and welcome.Only a small fraction of the people in China have access to the Internet, but that still amounts to millions and millions, more Chinese surfing the Web than Japanese or Germans or nearly any nation on earth.China's government has learned to control its people, its media and...