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e-Commerce in China: online sales boomed in 2009

Online sales in China almost doubled in the first nine months of last year, official data showed recently, as China becomes more switched on and the younger generation of shoppers bare more confident in Internet shopping […]

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Watch Chuck Mallott’s “Rethinking the Fold” presentation

Recently Chuck Mallot assembled some thoughts regarding The Fold and what we (anyone involved in publishing websites) should do about it […]

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Internet in China: BitTorrent sites inaccessible, internet users distressed

Beijing Internet users are scrabbling for downloads from BitTorrent (BT) websites following speculation that authorities will shut them down soon […]

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Listen to Luke Wroblewski’s “Impact of Social Models” talk at IDEA 2009

As Richard Farson’s truism “no one smokes in church no matter how addicted” points out, context informs almost everything that happens in an environment. Online social experiences are no exception. How a product’s social model is set up can impact not only who contributes, but how much, and why. From permission-based subscriptions to one-click follows, Luke will discuss the attributes and implications of several popular social models by looking at data and behavior in the Web’s most popular social applications […]

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Internet in China: Chinese Social Network Expands Beyond Students

Renren.com, often dubbed China’s Facebook, is re-branding itself as a social-networking site for everyone, not just Chinese college students […]

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China Information Technology

Internet in China: Watch the complete video of Obama’s town hall meeting in Shanghai

For those who couldn’t access the short clip of Barack Obama’s Q&A in Shanghai with Chinese college students, a video of the town hall meeting (November 16th, 2009 12:45 pm local Shanghai time) provided by the White House it can be seen below […]

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Internet in China: Obama says “Internet assists free flow of information”

During his visit to China, U.S. President Barrack Obama said in Shanghai that Internet has an enormous power in assisting information dissemination, and he personally has benefited from Internet […]

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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: Over 180 million internet users access Internet via mobile phone

As of the end of August 2009, 181 million Chinese netizens were using mobile phones as wireless Internet access terminals and this number is steadily increasing, according to a report jointly issued by China Internet Network Information Center and CR-Nielsen […]

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Internet in China: Comparing internet activities of Chinese and Americans

The Business Insider recently published a bar graph comparing the internet activities of United States of users with those of Chinese users. While some activities, like pursuing an online education or watching online video (one in the same, really), were statistically similar between the two counties, other activities were far more common in one country than the other, revealing some fundamental differences in Chinese and American tendencies […]

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Internet in China: broadband users top 99.33 million

China added 16.45 million broadband users in the first nine months of 2009, bringing the total to 99.33 million, data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently showed […]