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Jan 30 2012

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Starbucks and Jiepang Hook-Up Single Users for Valentine’s Promo

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Web

Smartphone-toting singletons in China will get some help in finding a potential date for Valentine’s Day with a new social marketing campaign from Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and the local social network Jiepang. Using both the Jiepang app and some in-store postcards - a good combo of hi- and low-tech - single folks in China could make a new connection as well as perhaps win some prizes. Jiepang is a social check-in service that has previously teamed-up with the likes of Starbucks and also Nokia (HEL:NOK1V; NYSE:NOK) on fun campaigns, and both those ...

Jan 27 2012

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Apple’s Siri Can’t Understand Chinese [VIDEO]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Gadgets, Video, Web

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) voice recognition feature Siri, which appears on the iPhone 4S, can’t understand or speak Chinese. Perhaps it’s learning. But for now, despite most users probably knowing of this limitation before purchasing, it’s a frustrating omission. That’s probably why two young Chinese nerds made the amusing video, below, about the language barrier that stands between them and their digital assistant. Even without subtitles, you can sense the comedically exaggerated frustration at not being understood by your pricey smartphone. My favourite part is when the guy in the car resorts to a ...

Jan 19 2012

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Japan’s FC2 Video Site Launches in Indonesia, Minus the Sexy Bits

byWillis WeeinBusiness

Heard of FC2 Video? I hadn’t, but I know them now. FC2 Video is an online video streaming site similar to YouTube, and is apparently pretty popular in Japan. Alexa ranks FC2.com (including its full range of portals) the third most-trafficked website in Japan. Included in that is FC2’s very popular blog platform, which comScore says is the country’s leader in that space. And now the company’s online video service has launched in Indonesia. It’s good news for folks who enjoy watching and sharing mobile-supported videos. After taking a quick look, ...

Jan 19 2012

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A Traveler’s Around-the-World Journey into E-commerce

byRick MartininAsia, Creative, E-commerce

About a week ago I received an unusual message from a friend of a friend, some guy named Thibaud Clément who was apparently coming to Japan in order to find out more about e-commerce here. It certainly seemed like a long way to travel for a research project, so I was curious to meet up and hear more about what I thought sounded like a pretty strange plan. When I met Thibaud in here in Tokyo yesterday, I found that his travel plan was acually far greater in scope that ...

Jan 18 2012

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China’s Ku6 to Become YouTube Content Partner, Targets New Audience

byRick MartininBusiness, Web

Chinese streaming video website Ku6 (NASDAQ:KUTV) announced this morning that it will become a YouTube content partner, and distribute its videos on a new Ku6 YouTube channel. After the announcement, Ku6 shares, which had fallen below a dollar a month ago, enjoyed a bit of a resurgence today (see chart below). By becoming a channel operator, Ku6 can distribute its video content to a wider audience. We got in touch with a Ku6 representative this afternoon who tells us that user-generated content will be the main priority, but self-produced content ...

Jan 9 2012

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10 Predicted Trends In Indian Social Media for 2012

byPrasant NaiduinMobile, Social Media, Web

Indian social media grew by leaps and bounds in 2011. Indians witnessed the true power of social over the course of the year – whether it was bolstering the IAC movement in India or MTV India being awarded the best social media TV program by Mashable. It has been a year of amazing social media campaigns but also a year of great fiascos. I feel social media momentum will only grow more in a country where 70 percent of the population accesses the Internet through mobile . There will be ...

Nov 25 2011

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SARFT Banning TV Ads During Shows; Good News or Bad News for Online Video?

byC. CusterinBusiness, Video

For the past few days, rumors have been swirling that along with its limitation of "entertainment" programs, China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) will also be implementing a new regulation that bans all advertisement during TV dramas. Yesterday SARFT management bureau chief Li Jingsheng announced that SARFT will indeed be banning ads during TV programs. The detailed regulations will be announced sometime later this month, but it seems that advertisements will be allowed, but only during the time when one show has finished and the next show ...

Nov 16 2011

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Nokia N9 Goes Viral, With a Handsome Cross-Dressing Chinese Actress [VIDEO]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Gadgets, Video, Web

Nokia (NYSE:NOK; HEL:NOK1V) has created a viral video marketing campaign for the launch of the Nokia N9 in China, featuring the hot starlet Fan Bing-bing cross-dressing as a man (pictured above). The social media-oriented “micro film” that Nokia commissioned for this - a suitably succinct 2 minutes and 22 seconds long - is called Unfollow, and features moody shots of the beautiful handsome Bing-bing talking about being true to oneself. The first tweet containing the poster (click to see it in full) and link went viral immediately, generating nearly 13,000 comments and ...

Nov 11 2011

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Youku Boosts Chinese Film-Makers With New Indie Projects [UPDATED]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Creative, Video, Web

Youku (NYSE: YOKU), China’s biggest video-sharing site, has just launched a new portal called Youku Presents, which showcases some of the country’s young, indie filmmakers. Youku Presents gives practical support, promotion, and potential sponsorship to some young, Chinese digital movie-makers, and has grown out of the website’s earlier Youku Originals platform. But this new initiative is a sort of hybrid of indie-made and Youku-produced content. The first Presents project kicks off today with a series from five young, local filmmakers called “Operation Thanksgiving” - a bit baffling, though, since that’s a North ...

Nov 4 2011

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HTC Sensation XE Beats Coming to China This Month

bySteven MillwardinBusiness, Mobile, Web

HTC’s recent purchase of Dr Dre’s Beats Audio company proves that the Taiwanese hardware maker is young and cool and down with that hippety-hop music all the kids are listening to. And now, finally, China has the chance to check out a new Beats-badged phone, as HTC has just announced on its official Sina Weibo account that it’s bringing the white Sensation XE smartphone to mainland China “in mid-November.” The giant Android-powered device has a dual-core 1.5GHz processor - matching the cheaper Xiaomi phone which launched last month - and comes ...

Nov 2 2011

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Toyota is Hoping You’ll Be Their Social Network Racer [VIDEO]

byRick MartininGaming, Social Media

Thanks to Chiyo over on Asiajin for pointing out Toyota’s new Social Network Racer Facebook game/promotion. While I’m not personally a big fan of playing Facebook games, there’s clearly some strong potential for companies to use the platform as a way to spread brand awareness. Perhaps even more than Comnico’s Puma Facebook game we mentioned the earlier in the week, Social Network Racer is game that encourages you to post high scores and share them with friends. But you can also earn in-game credits by sharing as well, which will ...