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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 ...

Nov 1 2011

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A Peek at Asia’s Email through Yahoo’s Mail Visualization Project

byRick MartininAsia, Web

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that we like fun visualizations. So when we came across Yahoo’s shiny new Mail Visualization Project just now, we couldn’t help but stop and play around for a while. It’s actually kind of cool, in that it shows the flow of email sent and received, showing the most common words (that Yahoo says are anonymized). The flow of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ email here is interesting to watch. If our run-through is any indication, the spam protection is not air-tight, given the ...

Oct 24 2011

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EdServ, Tata Docomo To Offer Mobile Video Learning For IIT and AIEEE Exam Preparation

byVikas SNinMobile

With increasing the adoption of mobile phones in India, consuming content has never been easier -- from reading an article on your favourite website/blog or watching video news on the go. To leverage this massive mobile adoption, Chennai-based e-learning company, Edserv has announced that it has tied up with an Indian telecom operator Tata Docomo to offer its educational content on mobile phones. Available to all Tata Docomo subscribers across India, this service will be called 'Tutor on Mobile' (TOM). It will offer test preparation content for IIT JEE and AIEEE exam preparation. Content will come ...

Oct 18 2011

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Tudou and LeTV Partner Up, Launch Joint Venture

byC. CusterinWeb

Video streaming websites Tudou and LeTV announced today that the companies have partnered to found a new joint-venture company. The new company, which is called Shanghai Tudou LeTV Movies and Television Limited (catchy, huh?) will be jointly owned, with LeTV owning a 51 percent stake by way of their 510,000 RMB investment (about $79,000) and Tudou a 49 percent stake via their 490,000 RMB investment (about $76,000). According to LeTV's announcement, the company will primarily be working on the acquisition and sale of domestic film and television rights and, presumably, feeding ...

Oct 11 2011

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Youku’s iOS App Hits 7.9 Million Downloads, Allows Users to Upload Videos In-App

byWillis WeeinMobile

Youku (NYSE:YOKU) has released a major update for its iPhone and iPad app. One of the main features within this update is a sexy radial button which is built to make the screen less cluttered and at the same time offer full control of - and accessibility to - video content. Users can swipe horizontally and vertically to browse content across different genres. One more neat update is that the app now supports Youku Paike, a feature that allows user to record a video and upload it quickly to Youku from ...

Oct 11 2011

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“Oprah of China” Shares How Young People and Microblogs Have Impacted China [VIDEO]

byWillis WeeinSocial Media, Video

Dubbed the “Oprah of China,” Yang Lan is a journalist, talk-show hostess, and an entrepreneur who has experience living and working in the U.S and China. One of my friends sent me her TED video and I find it pretty engaging. Especially for folks who are trying to understand China. In a nutshell, Yang Lan talks about how the younger generation is remaking China. Her speech emphasizes microblogs, both Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo, in China which are used as a medium/voice for the younger generation in the country. And as ...

Oct 10 2011

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Kandian: Sina Breaks Into Social TV and Personal Broadcasting

byHu ShenginAsia, Social Media, Web

Kandian is a new social TV service from Sina, launched over the weekend. Essentially, it’s a multimedia viewing and sharing service linked closely to Sina’s own Weibo platform. Users can upload or live-stream - in a manner similar to the Americam site, Justin.tv - and then share and discuss the content with friends. In addition to user-generated content, there are some proper TV channels on the site that can be streamed for free. The site is still in private beta. The UI design of Kandian.com is simple and clean. The navigation ...

Oct 7 2011

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Jack Ma’s Speech at Stanford, Comments on Yahoo [Full Video]

byRick MartininVideo

Stanford Business has put the footage of Jack Ma’s recent speech online. The Alibaba CEO raised eyebrows on both sides of the ocean when he says - very deliberately - that he was “very interested in Yahoo” during the talk. But the entire talk is worth a watch if you have an hour to spare. He talks with a lot of passion about the success of Alibaba, but also alludes their many mistakes and difficulties, including Taobao’s intellectual property challenges. If you don’t have time to check the whole talk, you ...

Sep 27 2011

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LeKan Aims to be a Cartoon Netflix for Chinese Kids

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Startups, Web

LeKan is a brand-new Chinese start-up - it launched only last Friday - that aims to be a sort of Netflix for Chinese kids. It streams a whole bunch of fully-licensed cartoons and animated movies, and is designed to be safely and easily used by the children alone. It’s a subscription service, so first of all either dad or mum needs to pay the 25 RMB (US$4) per month fee. And then, using the five simple buttons - home, cartoons, movies, badges, favourite characters - kids are free to stream all ...

Sep 21 2011

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Tata Docomo and Network18 Offer Breaking News in Video

byWillis WeeinMobile

With all the recent new mobile and tablet technology, consuming news can be really fun - think Flipboard, Twitter, YouTube, and many more. And in India, receiving breaking news is getting fun too, especially when video news can be sent straight to your mobile. That’s very possible, and it’s here in India today. Tata Docomo has just announced its brand new Video News Alert feature for all its 2G and 3G subscribers. The feature will provide breaking news alerts in a video clip format, where users can either stream to view ...

Sep 20 2011

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Tokyo Game Show: Interview with Taisei Yoshida of GREE

byRick MartininGaming, Mobile

If you attended the Tokyo Game Show this past weekend, chances are you saw GREE’s mammoth exhibition area, the largest one at the show. And if you didn’t see that, you likely saw one of the many GREE girls on site, or one of the schwag bags the company was passing out. The company’s massive presence at the game show is symbolic of a shift in the gaming space, one that sees new mobile players like GREE and DeNA suddenly eating the lunch of portable console gaming companies, most notably ...