New stats reveal the astonishing and meteoric rise of Sina's (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo service from a simple, Twitter-like microblogging platform, to being a Facebook-rivaling online gaming powerhouse. Since Sina Weibo launched its gaming portal in July of this year - along with a virtual currency called the weibi - it now claims to have nearly 10 percent of its total amount of users (now up to 250 million) as active social gamers. So, in the four months since the inception of Weibo games, here are some eye-watering figures from Sina: Weibo Games active ...
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A Portrait of Indonesia’s Very Young, Social, Mobile Web Users [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Indonesia’s web users are remarkable in that they tend to be very young, social, and mobile. To celebrate this, the first We Are Social country-by-country report of 24 nations across Asia focuses on Indonesia. And here it is. Coming after last week’s Asia-wide analysis, this time we get a clear portrait of how more than half of Indonesia’s internet users are younger than 20 years of age, and that 66 percent of all desktop web ...
Nov 29 2011
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Add Circles to Your Sina Weibo Experience With This ‘Interesting’ New App
A sweet-looking new app from a Chinese startup lets you ‘circle’ and categorize the people you follow on Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo, for easy grouping of your favourite ‘tweeters.’ And while it sounds great in theory, in practice I found it of limited use. The app is called Qu Wen Qian Zi - or, literally, Interesting Circles - and is made by a startup who seems to be called either ‘Interesting,’ or perhaps 17qz; I’ll go with the latter. Its minimal UI is enticing and sexily subtle, and easy third-party sign-in via ...
Dec 1 2011
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How Asia is Going Social, Mobile, on the Web [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Branding and PR agency We Are Social has created a vital and up-to-date overview of all that’s happening in social, digital, and mobile in Asia. It was made to answer some frequently reoccurring questions from its clients, and to give everyone a good-looking primer on what’s happening on the web in 24 nations across the region. The full 56-page presentation is available on the We Are Social site, and is recommended viewing. The team will ...
Nov 22 2011
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Ogilvy’s Sina Weibo Policy in a Video – Way Cool
Social media policy, with all policies, can be a very dull thing to communicate to staff. But Ogilvy China has made it fun and even localized it. The video basically tells staff how not to use Sina Weibo. Say for example, if someone said “Ogilvy SUCKS!” - and so the video advises staff they should remain professional and not to engage in a fight on Weibo. It also talks about the risk of losing privacy when using social media. All these sound like very basic ideas. But they are important fundamentals; perhaps ...
Nov 22 2011
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Yahoo Koprol, in Major App Update, Now Integrates With BBM6
Yahoo Koprol, the first location-based social network in Indonesia, has announced that a major update to the Koprol app for BlackBerry has integrated it into Blackberry Messenger 6 (BBM6), the newest version of the hit group-messaging service. With this integration there are interesting features that will be made available. There’s a real-time chatting feature with Koprol users through the BBM6 API, which is really exciting because with Koprol on your Blackberry, you just have to follow that user on Koprol and you don’t need to ask for their Blackberry PIN. It’s ...
Nov 21 2011
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Social Media Innovation Flourishes During Thailand Floods
Byron Perry is the founder of hyperlocal and user-generated city website Coconuts Bangkok. A wise man once said that necessity is the mother of invention, and indeed The Great Thailand Floods of 2011 have given rise to all sorts of new contraptions to deal with the life in the water – from raised tuk-tuks to water bottle doggy lifejackets. Online innovation has also flourished during the floods, as people in Thailand have turned to social media for everything from sharing information to comic relief to serious calls for help. With conflicting and confusing ...
Nov 18 2011
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US Congressional Panel Tackles China’s Great Firewall, Seeking a WTO Intervention
The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) held a new hearing in Washington yesterday to discuss the “human toll and trade impact” of China’s censorship of the web - aka it’s Great Firewall (GFW) system. It comes at a time when the US is asking the World Trade Organization (WTO) to press China for greater transparency in its GFW, which blocks a lot of foreign social media as well as general sites that contain views and material that Beijing authorities consider ‘sensitive’ or ‘inharmonious.’ The CECC hearing, chaired by Senator Sherrod ...
Nov 15 2011
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AngelCrunch Will Match-Make Chinese Start-Ups and Angel Investors
China now has its own iteration of AngelList, and it's called AngelCrunch. Using the tagline “where the best start-ups meet the smart money,” it's designed to be an online community that can connect entrepreneurs with angel investors - and potential funding. AngelCrunch already has an impressive roster of investors who have their own profiles. These come equipped with introductions, lists of cuurent start-up projects, and categories for easy and relevant searching. For example, clicking on the profile of Chen Hao-zhi reveals that he’s currently involved with the Cocoa China app dev ...
Nov 14 2011
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CheWen, Renren’s Social Network for Car Fanatics, Revs Up to 4 Million Users
CheWen.com is the Renren Inc. (NYSE:RENN) owned, car-oriented social network that’s a mix of Quora, microblogging, and automotive news. And it’s doing pretty well - the GM of CheWen, Xiu Yu, has told the media that the site has now revved up to four million users, a mere six months after its launch. The social network for car fanatics is separate from Renren.com, but makes use of the latter’s third-party login. It doesn’t integrate with its rivals, Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) or Tencent (HKG:0700) Weibo, but it does allow sharing of pages with ...
Nov 11 2011
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A Chinese Start-up Adds Social Fun To Travel
Specialist social media can be super-useful in their specificity - and Tong Xing (‘Journey Together’ in Chinese) is a prime example of this. It’s a light-weight social network for people who want to make a plane, train, or taxi ride with another interesting individual in order to brighten-up their travels. If that isn’t niche, then I don’t know what is. Tong Xin has an iPhone app already (though, disappointingly, no Android version) which allows users to search by flight or train numbers - or specific locations - in order to see ...
Nov 9 2011
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Baidu’s Discussion Forum, Tieba, Gets an Android App
Baidu’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) lively discussion forum portal, Tieba (meaning ‘Post Bar’ in Chinese) - which is the closest thing the search engine has to a social success - gets its own Android app today (pictured above). The Tieba app features bookmarking, multi-account sign-in, and an improved reading layout. Previously, Android users had to make do with a web app in the browser. There’s no word, yet, of an iOS version - but that has been the pattern recently at Baidu, which has been pushing hard on Android, which so many young users ...
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