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Jan 25 2012

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That Ain’t Very Rock ‘n’ Roll! Rolling Stone Website Blocks Itself in China

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Business, Web

Access Denied! That’s the message greeting China-based readers of Rollingstone.com, the online version of the iconic music and cultural magazine Rolling Stone. But this isn’t the work of the rampaging Net Nanny but rather a deliberate block on Chinese IP addresses that seems to stem from the publishers. That ain’t very rock ‘n’ roll. As it’s a geolocation-based restriction, let’s say it has been geotarded, which is my favourite etymologically-edgy epithet. This is usually done by music or video content providers who want to stop certain regions from accessing licensed content, ...

Dec 30 2011

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Every 60 Seconds On the Chinese Internet… [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Creative, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. There has been a bit of a fad on the internet in recent days for posts about amazing things that happen online in just one minute, and so the Chinese site 17Startup made one about the web scene in China. The numbers were so awesome that we felt it was worth whacking the infographic into an image editor in order to translate it into English. It shows that insane amounts of money - and a ...

Dec 20 2011

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Web, Smartphones, and Social Media are Thriving in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Across Asia, countries seem to be split into those who’re well hooked-up to the high-speed web, and those who access instead from mobiles and PC cafés - with only mainland China somewhat torn between those two states of being. But in the Greater China area, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau are certainly in the first group - enjoying high rates of internet penetration on an uncensored web whilst also having over 100 percent phone ownership, ...

Dec 12 2011

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Who Needs PCs? Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Opt For the Mobile Web [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 8 2011

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Social and Mobile, This is How India Enjoys the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 1 2011

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A Portrait of Indonesia’s Very Young, Social, Mobile Web Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 ...

Dec 1 2011

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How Asia is Going Social, Mobile, on the Web [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Mobile, Social Media, Web

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 18 2011

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Blogopolis Visualizes The Tech Blogging Buzz in Japan [PICS]

byWillis WeeinStartups, Web

Last week in Fukuoka, I stumbled upon Kaisei Hamamoto, the creator of Blogopolis.jp. He had some great visualization on the screen and out of curiosity, I asked him “what’s that?!” He then zoomed in and out to showoff his creation, Blogopolis.jp, which I must say looks pretty. When first logged in, Blogopolis shows you the various topics that are being discussed/shared within the Japanese tech community. And when you click on a topic, some charts appear to shows you the number of subscribers and bookmarks made. While Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Digg are ...

Nov 15 2011

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China’s Explosion in Weibo and E-Commerce Usage, Across the Social Divides [INFOGRAPHIC]

bySteven MillwardinAsia, E-commerce, Mobile, Social Media, Web

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Market research firm Synovate has some new insights into Chinese netizens usage of the web - how it differs between poorer and richer cities, that more people than ever in China go online on their mobiles, how e-commerce has exploded even in less prosperous cities, and that the internet has (for the first time) surpassed television in terms of engagement levels. It’s a part of Synovate’s Media Atlas China study, which surveyed 66,000 consumers across ...

Dec 27 2011

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China Now Has Over 500 Million Net Users [CHART]

byC. CusterinWeb

We knew it was coming, but we didn't think it would come so fast! At his keynote at the China-UK Internet Roundtable in Beijing yesterday, Wang Chen (the minister of the State Information Office) announced that China now has over 500,000,000 net users. And -- of course -- that number is still growing. China's massive population means that even with more net users than any other country in the world, internet penetration is still below 40 percent, which means there's still tons of room to grow. Many developed countries have rates ...

Sep 19 2011

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Tencent to Launch QQService Mobile Platform, Yet Another Android Fork

bySteven MillwardinAsia, Business, Gadgets, Mobile, Web

Another day, another Chinese mobile platform. Well, that’s how it’s beginning to feel. After Alibaba’s AliYun phone, Xiaomi’s M1 superphone, and last week’s Baidu Yi OS, we now have a new contender - Tencent’s QQService. As with the efforts from Baidu and Xiaomi, it’s based on Android. This first QQService phone comes with locally-made hardware, though it's likely there'll be other partners down the road. Today’s revealed device (not yet revealed in a photo) is the Tian Yu QQService phone. That’s because it’s made by the Beijing Tianyu tech company - ...

Sep 5 2011

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Why You’ll Want to Stack Your Tweets With StackRoll [INTERVIEW]

byJoshua KevininAsia, Creative, Social Media, Web

Twitter can sometimes be a difficult medium to master. Very often we want to get people’s attention, but at the same time we don’t know when is the right time to tweet a joke or a great article or a funny video. There are a number of third-party tools that can help you schedule tweets, and here in Indonesia we have one too. It's called StackRoll, and was created by Didik Wicaksono from Kualiku Apps. We interviewed him in an effort to learn more about his service. 1. StackRoll is the ...