And Yes: my feet hurt! # Paris Walking Tour: covered the L’Arc de Triomphe, Effiel Tower, Louvre, Notre Dame, D’Orsay, Pompidou in two days… nearly over 50 kms … # http://twitpic.com/ax98y – Paris Walking Tour: It’s past 10:00PM and sky still looks gorgeous as a backdrop to the Effiel Tower # http://twitpic.com/awfvx – Paris Walking [...]

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The world’s largest online community is grappling with challenges it faces in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR), says an expert. The US Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus on held recently listed China as one of the world’s five-worst offenders in violating copyright [...]

The Straits Times (Singapore) has an interesting article the contrast between the popular global Social Networks and the local websites in China [...]

China’s most popular Internet search engine Baidu thinks highly of the prospect of 3G wireless Internet access technology and is now in talk with China’s mobile network operators for cooperation, the company’s CEO Robin Li said recently at the Boao Forum for Asia in the southern island province of Hainan [...]

Autodesk announced recently the AutoCAD Exchange, an online destination for AutoCAD users to connect and learn from experts, provide feedback to the product developers, and access professional tools that can help them do their jobs better. The online community is rich with original multimedia content, including an entertaining video series about “working for the man”, eLearning tools and aggregated CAD information from Web-based resources. Visitors can also create profiles to personalize their experience and share their own tips, scripts and applications, projects and experiences with the global community of AutoCAD users [...]

Search engine users in China reached 203 million by the end of 2008, with a yearly growth rate of 33.6 percent, according to the latest statistics released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently. The “2008 Report on Chinese Search Engine User Behavior” published by CNNIC points out that the search engine market continued to develop at a high speed in 2008, and more netizens began to try search engine services with different characteristics [...]

China-based blogs total 107 million, with more than 42 percent of netizens running a blog, a senior information official said here on recently. Cai Mingzhao, deputy director of the Chinese State Council Information Office, made the comment at the 2nd U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum. The number of blogs was about 40 million just a year ago [...]

South Korea’s Internet searchers conducted an average of 104 searches in April/2008, nearly twice as many as Malaysians, who clocked in at 54 searches per searcher; according to Comscore’s latest findings; Asia ’s largest number of searches, not surprisingly, came from the 82 million Chinese Internet users doing 6.2 billion searches in April/2008. That is an average of 75 searches per Chinese searcher [...]

Google expects its position as the world’s most popular online search site and sales from fast-growing Asian markets, including China, to help the company weather any United States recession. ‘One of the very good sources for Google is the very rapid growth in Asia,’ said Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, which gets almost all its revenue from advertising next to search results. Historically, people tend to shift their money to the most ‘highly measured’ advertiser when there are ‘economic difficulties,’ he said recent at a briefing in Beijing [...]