Archive for March, 2010

• Google: Balls Under The Red Flag
  Posted by bbishop on March 24th, 2010 at 7:11 pm, Comments: 0

  Cui Jian (崔健) performed at Google’s China launch party in 2006. I was in attendance. He was an interesting choice by Google, and he gave [...]

• Questions For Google If/When Google.cn Shuts Down
  Posted by bbishop on March 21st, 2010 at 1:57 pm, Comments: 0

  If the rumors and speculation are correct, Google.cn may shut as soon as this week. Most pundits will likely praise Google for staring down the [...]

• Whatever Happened With Google.cn’s Filter Monday Night Is Now Fixed
  Posted by bbishop on March 16th, 2010 at 7:00 am, Comments: 0

  Monday evening Beijing time a Chinese person on Twitter discovered that Google.cn appeared to have stop filtering results on an image search for 89学生运动 [89 [...]

• Caijing on The Countdown To Google’s Departure From China
  Posted by bbishop on March 15th, 2010 at 10:22 pm, Comments: 0

  The latest issue of Caijing has a long article on Google China entitled “Google China’s Countdown” (谷歌中国倒计时). The bulk of the article is in Chinese, [...]

• If Google.cn Will Soon Disappear, Should Google “Burn Its Boats” On The Way Out?
  Posted by bbishop on March 13th, 2010 at 7:20 pm, Comments: 0

  The Financial Times reported Saturday that Google is “99.9 percent certain” that it will shut its China search engine at Google.cn. It has been eight [...]

• Best Article So Far On Netease’s Problems Getting World of Warcraft Approved In China
  Posted by bbishop on March 9th, 2010 at 6:27 pm, Comments: 0

  Century Weekly, Hu Shuli’s new magazine, has a great article on the travails in China of Netease and World of Warcraft. It was the cover [...]

• Today’s Twitter Updates
  Posted by bbishop on March 4th, 2010 at 1:30 pm, Comments: 0

  Betting on the Blind Side | Business | Vanity Fair http://bit.ly/bOd50B excerpt from Michael Lewis' forthcoming book # Powered by Twitter Tools Share on StockTwits

• Lawyers, Poachers and Gatekeepers in the China Online Video Market
  Posted by bbishop on March 2nd, 2010 at 5:28 pm, Comments: 0

  Some of that $ 500m+ raised by Chinese video sites is going to the lawyers. Yesterday Ku6 announced it is suing Tudou for copyright infringement; [...]