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A rundown on where to find weird China news - Aug 30, 2009

Blogs Aside from terrible traffic, row upon endless row of souless apartment blocks, and a rather brutal family planning system, China's massive population also assures that it's never short on bizarre news ... Read story »

Shiny, spinning Fast Flip - Sep 20, 2009

Blogs Google recently unveiled its newest pet project entitled Fast Flip. Although it looks promising, I'm left feeling that the company just re-invented the wheel and slapped on a shiny new hubcap. ... Read story »

40-percent of posts on Twitter are "pointless babble" - Aug 17, 2009

Crave Surprise! A full 40.5 percent of posts on Twitter--or tweets, as they're called--can be classified as "pointless babble," according to a new study from Pear Analytics. Coming in second was "conversational," ... Read story »

News sites prepared for traffic surge during Jackson memorial - Jul 8, 2009

Crave Weeks ago, the news of Michael Jackson's passing brought major news sites to their knees, so Tuesday's memorial service for the singer was expected to bring similar results. This time it ... Read story »

The ultimate "newspaper": News, on anything, throughout history, every news source - May 14, 2009

Blogs Check out: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/. My goodness. All the news, on anything you choose, throughout recent history, from every news source*, on one screen. Now why didn't I think of that? It's so ... Read story »

Sinobytes--the CNET China tech blog--has landed - Sep 6, 2009

Blogs With some trepidation, I am proud to have been handed the reigns of CNET's China tech blog; and with a new blogger comes a new moniker: Sinobytes. The previous writer, Ryan ... Read story »

Keynote Systems apologizes for inaccurate data after Jackson's death - Jun 29, 2009

Crave Keynote Systems, a company that measures Web site performance, created some confusion on Friday by acknowledging that it released inaccurate data on how Read story »

VivaNews, Indonesia's new online media - Oct 15, 2008

Blogs Indonesia's online media has a new news portal called VivaNews that already launched its beta version yesterday. Owned by Bakrie Group (which was reported as another factor behind the Jakarta market's ... Read story »

Mobispine wants you to share news with your Facebook friends - Oct 3, 2007

Crave Ah yes, Facebook, the social community Web site that some cannot survive a day without, while others can't wait to see it go down in history as yet another failed Web ... Read story »

Top China blogs on China.alltop.com - Apr 8, 2008

Blogs I mentioned Guy Kawasaki's new site AllTop.com in my last post. It seems he's just put together a China AllTop page, with a little help from of Christine Lu. The idea ... Read story »

It's official--Malaysians to pay only RM0.68 per liter for fuel - Jun 4, 2008

Blogs A few days ago, I was on an express bus on the way to visit my parents in our hometown. When the bus neared the Melaka Mall, my eye caught sight ... Read story »

Friendster growing faster than any other top social network! - Mar 31, 2008

Blogs In this Facebook-crazed "era", it's interesting to note that Friendster is still alive and well and growing faster than all the rest! The latest comScore worldwide numbers were just released, and ... Read story »

Saga of Colorado balloon boy Falcon Heene takes over Twitter - Oct 16, 2009

Blogs UPDATE:The boy has been found alive in the attic of his home, CNN reports. I'm hoping now that the balloon has landed and six-year-old Falcon Heene wasn't found inside, it will ... Read story »

Microsoft gets ready to send the first suicide bomber to Google - Nov 24, 2009

Blogs Here's a thread which will get everybody up to speed: http://www.webmasterworld.com/msn_microsoft_search/4030311.htm So it seems Microsoft would pay News Corp to de-list its news sites from the Google search index. Bing is ... Read story »

Mozilla Firefox--most vulnerable Web browser - Nov 10, 2009

Blogs What is the most vulnerable browser today? If your answer is the Internet Explorer, then you're wrong. According to applications security vendor Cenzic, the most vulnerable browser today is Mozilla's Firefox accounting ... Read story »

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