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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 ...
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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 22 2011
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3 Alternative Weibo Mobile Apps For iPhone and Android That Have More Eye-Candy
Like with Twitter, the best mobile apps for firing off Weibo missives are not the official ones that the respective companies - such as Tencent (HKG:0700), Sina (NASDAQ:SINA), and NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) - make. That's because there are some indie, design-oriented startups making much funkier alternative apps with more eye-candy. Microblogging has taken off in China to the extent that we now see nearly half of all Chinese urbanites in larger cities on Weibo. That’s thanks to the major microblog platforms from Tencent, Sina, and NetEase (in descending order of user ...
Nov 9 2011
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Hubblr: A New Dashboard for Global Social Marketing – China Included
There are a lot of social media dashboards out there that try to bring together your social missives, but only one includes integration with China’s hippest social network - that’s Hubblr. It’s a brand-new, enterprise-oriented web app from an Australian start-up that’s aimed at making PR and online marketing across the globe - including China - a safer and slicker experience. Hubblr’s CEO and co-founder, Michael Lam (pictured right), gave me a guided tour over Skype, and then we coincidentally ran into each other again at TC Disrupt Beijing last week, giving ...
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Which Asian Languages are Spoken Most on Twitter? [MAP]
Thanks to Tomomi Sasaki (coincidentally of AQ, whose AQ Lift we recently featured) for the tip on this very cool Twitter language visualization from Eric Fischer. It shows all the languages being used on Twitter an a single, multi-colored world map. While Europe is probably the most colorful, we thought we’d zoom in on the Asia portion and see how it looks. As you can see, there are very dense patches for Japanese, Korean, and Indonesia. In China, where Twitter remains blocked, there are small patches of activity. Thai is ...
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NBA Player J.R. Smith Not a Fan of Chinese Net Censorship
As the NBA lockout continues on, shooting guard J.R. Smith is spending his time in China, having recently signed with Zhejiang of the China Basketball Association. But according to Sheridan Hoops, he’s finding the rules of the internet game in China are not quite what they were at home. After trying to update Twitter, he discovered that it wasn’t working. But eventually he found he could send tweets using his Blackberry. .bbpBox{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/348403928/x2_8d3cba2.jpeg) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}Dear china the fact that u won't let me work my Skype on my desktop or twitter ...
Oct 25 2011
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Corporate Use of Social Media Across Asia [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Burson Marsteller (BM) has just released its Asia-Pacific Corporate Social Media Study for 2011, giving insights - and infographics - that cover how companies are using social media in the region. This year's study paints a picture of brands being ever more keen to engage with consumers via social media, yet still not doing some things very effectively - such as failing to use video on social video-sharing sites, and not maintaining corporate blogs where ...
Oct 14 2011
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Can Twitter Be Used to Predict Seoul’s Next Mayor?
Earlier in the year, we saw how Facebook played a big role in the Singapore elections. We also saw that online discussion of an election could be aggregated and visualized in an engaging and informative matter. Right now in Korea, market research firm Daumsoft has put together a web dashboard that might give an indication of which candidate could win the October 26 vote for Seoul mayor. Daumsoft’s dashboard, viewable at campaign.socialmetrics.co.kr, lets you see the discussion that surrounds each of the candidates (Won-soon Park and Gyeong-won Na), as well ...
Oct 4 2011
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Frustrated With Twitter Search? Try CloudMagic. It Will Blow Your Mind
Although Twitter is brilliant as a service, its a well known fact that its search sucks big time. You can’t search for tweets which are a week old and it's pretty slow as well. In fact there was a time, when I used to fire up the now-defunct FriendFeed to search for my tweets, since it provided me with better results than Twitter’s own search. The San Francisco-based company is trying to make amends by rolling out a new version of search recently, but it is still nowhere near most people's expectations. Taking ...
Oct 3 2011
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Kim Jong Il’s Grandson Retreats From Social Media After Accounts Discovered
After word got out that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s grandson was enrolling at a private high school in Bosnia, the 16-year-old Kim Han Sol found that his Facebook and Twitter profiles were suddenly under scrutiny. Over on his North Korea Tech website, Martyn Williams explains photos posted to Kim Han Sol’s social accounts were published by South Korean media, and subsequently public access to those accounts were restricted. There are a number of other social services that the young Kim had used, including a Wordpress called Pimp your Grades (Google cache), ...
Sep 15 2011
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Twitter is Working in China, While the Trick Lasts
Good news, everyone! Twitter is now working in China, without the need for a proxy or a VPN, via a genuine, alternative Twitter server. This morning, @安卓论坛 shared a link on Weibo stating that the link can access Twitter’s service without having to ‘climb the Great Firewall (GFW).’ (The message was somehow deleted at the point of writing this post.) It leads to an alternative Twitter server - give it a try - on which mainland Chinese users can tweet freely. Although micro-blogging services like Sina and Tencent Weibo are hot properties ...
Sep 12 2011
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Twitter To Support Filipino, Malay, Hindi, and Chinese In Coming Weeks
After surpassing the milestone of 100 million active users worldwide, the San Francisco based social networking giant Twitter has announced that it will be adding support for five Asian languages including as Hindi, Filipino, Malay, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese in the coming weeks. That will bring the total number of supported languages to 17. While Twitter didn’t explain exactly what it meant by “adding support,” we assume that it will offer the entire Twitter experience in the languages mentioned above, including the ability to tweet and hopefully view your tweets in these ...
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