Today in China is the Lantern Festival, the traditional end of the 15-day long Chinese New Year celebrations, although most people actually went back to work at the start of last week. And so many search engines have festive doodles depicting lanterns, or perhaps even the ‘tang yuan’ sticky rice dessert that many will eat tonight. Here are eight cute Lantern Festival doodles from both Chinese and overseas search engines. They’re in no particular order, though I’ve saved my personal favourite for last: The whole Google.com (NASDAQ:GOOG) domain is now showing this ...
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Baidu’s New Photo-Sharing Service Needs Less #Boobs# and More Instagram Hipsters
I’ve never said this before, but here goes: I’ve just seen too many boobs, and it’s got to stop. You see, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) bought the Chinese start-up PhotoWonder earlier this week, which makes an Instagram-like photo-sharing service called PhotoSola. Trouble is, this loyal-user of the service wants to see more hipster-esque shots of cups of coffee or black-and-white snaps of subway stations (never thought I’d say that, either) instead of the un-creative mish-mash of crowd-sourced #boobs# - yes, that’s currently the third-listed hashtag within PhotoSola’s mobile app - and random ...
Sep 9 2011
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A Solar Powered Mobile and Facebook App? Sort Of…
Watch maker Titan recently launched a new series of solar powered products, called HTSE (Hi-Tech Self Energized) watches. Like most new products, Titan needed to do some marketing to tell the world about its watch series. The campany did it in style by launching a solar powered mobile and Facebook app. Well, sort of... As the app launches, it tells users to point the camera at any light source to power the app. The app “charges” up and only loads when the power bar is full. So how does the app ...
Sep 8 2011
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Beer Brand Offers Coolest Job in India: Went Viral On Facebook
Update: Mayank Agarwal, co-founder of Geek Creative Agency told me that they are the one who planned and ran the campaign. Sutra Lite was hired by them just to provide HR consultancy. The coolest job in India? You got it — “SABMiller is launching the Miller High Life beer in India and is looking for qualified individuals, who embody and endorse the spirit of the brand - Work Hard, Party Hard.” The job offer is being primarily spread across Facebook, where it was posted in July. I was told that ...
Aug 19 2011
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BlankOn 7.0: Open Source OS Supports Indonesian Traditional Scripts
We have had several posts related to Indonesia Independence Day this week. There was the virtual flag raising movement using SMS and the #17an Twitter hashtag, the launching of a blog aggregator for Indonesians abroad, and the skinny on how the iPad played a role in the ceremony at Istana Merdeka. One thing we almost missed was the release of BlankOn Linux 7.0 Pattimura. This is the latest version of the open-source operating system, which first began development back in 2004. According to Rahman Yusri Aftian, release manager of BlankOn 7.0 Pattimura, the new version ...
Aug 16 2011
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Peneroka: An Online Magazine from Budi Putra
The former country editor of Yahoo Indonesia has revealed his latest project: an online magazine named Peneroka. This, as Budi Putra wrote earlier on his personal blog, will be a blog with several writers or contributors. He partnered with Jimmi Kembaren, who is also a former Yahoo employee to work on the project. Budi is responsible for the content while Jimmi handles the product. Peneroka is an Indonesian word meaning "pioneer." It was designed as an online magazine with feature articles on technology and science, business and finance, media, lifestyle and entertainment, culture and ...
Aug 10 2011
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NeochaEDGE: Where Chinese Modern Art, Brands, and Social Media Meet [INTERVIEW]
NeochaEDGE is a unique, Shanghai-based web firm that intersects modern art and design in China, global brands, and social media. It’s primarily a creative agency and a production house that hooks up global brands with Chinese artistic and musical talent. Though it was originally a social media start-up for art-oriented people, it has metamorphosed over the past year into a company that serves as greater China’s funkiest digital agency. NeochaEDGE’s site is a “web-magazine” that’s updated daily with peeks into their projects. About half of their commissions come from overseas brands ...
Aug 8 2011
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WhooWhoo iPhone App Lets You Take Pictures With a Blow
“One, two, three, and blow!” (The camera shutter clicks) Your picture is taken. An app from Japan allows you to take picture with your iPhone by blowing the mic. Why take pictures this way? Well, if you have shaky hands, you now can have two hands holding on tight to your phone while you “snap” with a blow. It’s that simple. Is it useful? Maybe not, but it’s certainly fun and cool — an app to impress your friends. Perhaps, its self-timer snapshot feature could also prove helpful in a group photo-taking. ...
Jul 29 2011
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Pay4Bugs is the Chinese Start-Up That Pays You to Squash App Bugs [INTERVIEW]
Pay4Bugs is an interesting example of a start-up being inspired by a real-world problem that the founder encountered. It pays people to test apps and report bugs that they find, for the benefit of the client. With a crew of 10 people, scattered across Hong Kong and neighboring Guangzhou and Shenzhen, they recently expanded into bug-testing iOS apps. Needless to say, in the app-centric world of instant reviews in app stores, a bug-free app can be the difference between failure and getting rafts of four- or five-star reviews. In contrast to other ...
Jul 29 2011
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5 Creative BlackBerry Commercials in India
Every brand needs to communicate their product message consistently to remain foremost in their consumers' mind. As one of the most popular mobile handset brands in India, RIM’s BlackBerry has paid their dues and communicated their product features in a creative manner. Here are five fun-loving ads to help ease your Monday blues: 1. We are the BlackBerry Boys Here is one of the hottest and most popular BlackBerry commercials by Vodafone Eassar in India. It's a really catchy song, and almost everyone in the country knows this rhythm. 2. BlackBerry Messenger Ad - ...
Jul 1 2011
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13 Chinese Red Communist Web Designs
Today is July 1 and it is the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). There isn’t any Google doodle to commemorate today, but China doesn’t seem to be falling short of such doodle as hundreds or even thousands of websites in the country have turned their designs into communist red. We have taken the plunge to gather some of communist-ic web designs for your pleasure reading on a Friday evening. Not all the websites are very excited about turning their design red. Some even provide an option for ...
Jun 17 2011
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Intel Launches a Very Creative YouTube Campaign in Asia
Here's some great stuff we just caught here on an early Friday morning. It's a pretty awesome YouTube campaign launched by Intel Asia Pacific. Entitled “The Escape,” the campaign brings the audience through an adventure on YouTube with “custom-made” interactivity plus social network viral features. Surely the creators of this campaign over at Tribal DDB and DDB Hong Kong, have made some special arrangement with YouTube to enjoy this kind of customization. Once logged in, you are greeted with a mission brief and trailer which will subsequently lead you to a ...
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