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Jun 30, 2007 08:39

Meizu Minione M8: The Second Coming of iPhone

Posted by RickM
Out of all the iPhone news floating around on the Net out there, this is the best quote I've seen:

Jesus has come back and he's a phone now!

And, of course, every Jesus must have an anti-Christ, and the Chinese-produced Meizu Minione M8 seems to have ascended that fiery throne. Read more »
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Jun 28, 2007 03:28

Another one bites the dust: Has Yahoo been blocked in China?

Posted by RickM
Attention Yahoo! Please send the powers-that-be in Zhongnanhai a few cartons of Zhongnanhai.

On the heels of the Flickr ban, reports are starting to trickle in that Yahoo has been blocked in China. That would be a pretty bold move, even for the Chinese Net nanny. Read more »
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Jun 26, 2007 08:57

Power to the people, & pee in the pool: Internet activism in China

Posted by RickM
"The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people."--Frank James


And nowhere is there a larger number of people than in China where Internet activism is giving even the commonest of men a voice to call out not only to their countrymen, but indeed to the whole world.

Here's the latest example.
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Jun 22, 2007 07:28

Ebay.cn launches: Surely now they can ship my fighter jet?

Posted by RickM
Ebay just launched its Chinese site, Ebay.cn. Chinese people who might have previously been dismayed over certain products only shipping within North America can now breathe a collective sigh of relief.

One such person is Chinese businessman Zhang Cheng:Read more »
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Jun 21, 2007 18:27

How to translate a Chinese RSS feed into really tedious English

Posted by RickM
There was a great post yesterday on Webware about how to translate an RSS feed into any language. What they suggest is to use Yahoo Pipes to run the RSS feed through Altavista's Babelfish translator, and then subscribe to the translated output.

If that concept gives you a Sino-headache, please see the funky diagram below.Read more »
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