The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Motivated. Dynamic. Innovative. Three much-used - indeed, overused - adjectives on many people’s CVs. There are other resumé regulars, too - such as “interpersonal skills,” “track record” - that have become cliché and tiresome, used unthinkingly, and which are blasts from the past that really ought to be avoided like the plague and used few and far between. D’oh! LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD), the business-oriented social network, has picked through the buzzwords on the profiles of its ...
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China’s Top 50 Brands List Features 14 Tech Giants
The market research firm Millward Brown has just released the 2012 edition of its ‘BrandZ most valuable Chinese brands top 50’ report. It sees more Chinese tech firms that ever on the list, including well-known names in social media. Indeed, some tech brands are growing most quickly in terms of what’s called “brand value” - that’s a measure used by some analysts derived from a company’s ability to generate demand, based partially on forecasted earnings. The report’s authors note that “this explosion of value suggests the enormous influence that Chinese ...
Dec 12 2011
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Who Needs PCs? Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Opt For the Mobile Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos are areas that don’t get too much coverage in the tech press - but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t interesting phenomena in the way its web and tech scene are developing. Vietnam is especially one to watch, with a fledgeling start-up scene empowered by game-development successes that are attracting a lot of investment from Japan. Across these three countries, mobile is proving especially revolutionary - getting people not just talking, but ...
Dec 9 2011
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Entrepreneur Hopes Sharing Videos From Smartphones is Next Big Thing
The former CTO of video-streaming sites Tudou (NASDAQ:TUDO) and Ku6 has reinvented himself as an entrepreneur, and now has his first app available for download. It’s a video-recording and sharing app for Android and iPhone called iSheHui. After the huge success of Instagram and other Chinese-made photo-sharing apps - such as TuDing, which now has four million users - Zhao Liang (pictured below) is banking on video-sharing from mobiles being the next big thing. The iSheHui app is, of course, socially engaged, allowing users to share videos to services such as ...
Dec 9 2011
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5 Ways Twitter’s New Redesign Makes It More Like Sina Weibo
Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it - visually and practically - closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo. It shows, perhaps, that Sina’s rapid rate of change on its most popular service is now actually leading the way for Twitter. How the tables have turned! More seriously, though, the two companies have a very different philosophy, so we won’t engage in the kind of “copycat” name-calling that we usually discourage. Whereas Twitter has been evolving very slowly, and espouses “simplicity,” Sina has been throwing major new features ...
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Social and Mobile, This is How India Enjoys the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. India and China are often mentioned in the same breath, as Asia’s powerhouse economies. But on the web, the two countries are developing very differently, with India’s younger demographics - half the nation is under the age of 25 - making the best of poor broadband infrastructure by going online and engaging in social media on their mobiles instead. And that’s great, because the web needn’t be trapped inside a weighty, underpowered old desktop ...
Dec 8 2011
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Better Late Than Never, Kaixin Gets Its Own Stylish Photo-Sharing App
Oh, great… another photo-sharing app with lots of filters. We haven’t reviewed one of those for, like, 24 hours. Yes, Kaixin001, China’s second-largest Facebook-like social network, now has its own app for snapping and sharing grungy photos of the cappuccino you’re about to drink. Called TuTeng, it’s out now for Android, with an iPhone version already in the works. Kaixin’s TuTeng arrives very late to the funky party that was first started by Instagram (which is now weighing up a move into China). But unlike most of the other photo-sharing apps ...
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With 4 Million Users, Is TuDing the Closest to Being China’s Instagram?
The inevitable rush to build an Instagram-like photo-sharing app that’s localized for China has resulted in a nice, wide variety of apps and services. But there seems to be one winner so far, with a claimed four million users - and that’s TuDing. Perhaps surprisingly, it’s a rare overseas success story, being made by GeoSentric (HEL:GEO1V), a Finnish company with a long track-record in location-based technology. It’s TuDing app - it means ‘thumbtack’ in Chinese - is one of the most well-developed, social, and cross-platform of all the local photo-sharing services, ...
Dec 6 2011
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The Ubiquity of Social Media and E-Commerce in China [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. The Asia-oriented branding and PR agency We Are Social has just released its report on all that’s happening in social, digital, and mobile in China. It’s a monster of a slideshow presentation, befitting the region’s biggest web and mobile users. Did you know that there are currently 10 million new internet users in China each month - adding to the ranks of Chinese netizens that are already more numerous than the populace of Europe - ...
Dec 2 2011
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Hey G+: Your China Infographic Kind of Sucks!
Let me start this post off with something nice: we're very happy that major Western tech blogs are finally paying attention to what's going on in China. That's good. That said, please hire someone who knows what they're doing because otherwise shit like this happens. I should point out that article on Mashable is almost entirely based on the infographic by G+ (not to be confused with Google Plus), which is apparently "a community for professionals, academics & entrepreneurs." So perhaps it's not fair to blame Mashable for this. Anyway, let's ...
Dec 2 2011
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Weyup: for China’s Day-Trippers to Compare Notes, Ask Questions [UPDATED: It's a Clone]
With interest - and financial potential - now booming in the travel and leisure industries in mainland China, it’s inevitable that some startups are rising to the challenge of making a business out of networking day-trippers and holiday-makers. Weyup is one such attempt - a vertical social media site that sort of combines Quora and Tripadvisor whilst keeping it fun and useful. Weyup - which allows third-party sign-up with seven platforms, from MSN (NASDAQ:MSFT) to Renren (NYSE:RENN) - lets people connect with like-minded travelers, ask and answer questions, plan out a ...
Dec 1 2011
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LinkedIn Now in 3 New Languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean
Update: We asked why LinkedIn has decided to go with Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysia, and Korean first. And here's the team's take: Malaysia, Indonesia and Korea represent a huge growth area in Asia and we’re tremendously excited to help millions of local professionals establish their professional identity and network. The addition of three new languages is the latest step in our strategy of making LinkedIn a more relevant experience for our growing professional member base around the world. We believe there is a lot we can learn from our local members that ...
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