Articles Archive for June 2009
The massively discussed Green Dam – Youth Escort Censorship Software is the hottest topic on Chinese Internet during this week.
Spoofing is a very classical Chinese Internet culture. Netizen absolutely won’t let the disgusting Green Dam off. Thus, the “Green Dam Girl” has been created by netizens……
Following the block of Twitter / Flickr / Live / Bing / Hotmail and “the Chinese Website Maintenance Day”, Chinese government has ordered that every PC sold in Mainland China should be shipped with built-in censoring technology. Called Green Dam Youth Escort Software, it is designed to block access to certain Web sites including pornography, illicit, and any “harmful” content. The official notice about the requirement by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology says it is aimed at “constructing a green, healthy, and harmonious Internet environment, and preventing harmful information on the Internet from influencing and poisoning young people……
On June 24, the movie “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen” will make it debut in China. It is one of the most expected summer movies. As the main sponsor, Chevrolet has launched a series of digital engagement programs recently by leveraging the strong popularity of the movie, especially the CAMARO Bumblebee……
June 6 2009 is a special day for Chinese online game players. The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NCTY), Shanghai-based online game operator which had the exclusive license to operate and distribute World of Warcraft in mainland China, stops the operation of WOW due to it lost the license to Netease.com (NASDAQ: NTES) following the expiration of contract.
As the largest MMORPG in the world and China, the WOW’s 5 million Chinese players are hard to forget the four whole years’ life with WOW, which operated by The9. Many of the players logged in the game at the night of June 6 to witness the last moment. They got their fictional characters together within the game to do a digital mourning……
MG Motor, the British sports car brand which bought by SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation), made some viral videos for the MG 3SW SUV recently.
I saw the first one through the latest Youku Buzz Newsletter 10 days before. It is titled “An Exciting Scene in Front of an ATM (提款机前上演激情一幕)”. In the video, a girl drives her MG 3SW onto a sidewalk and draw cash from an ATM without getting out of the car. Today, I found the second one. It is titled “After-80s’ Outdoor Intercourse (80后野战)”……
As China Web2.0 Review, Danwei, and CNreviews posted, today is defined by netizens as “The Chinese Website Maintenance Day (中国网站维护日)”. Due to the 2oth anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Massacr, the administrators of total 358 Chinese domestic websites have put the inaccessibility on their sites for a perid of 2-3 days via using the excuse “technical maintenance” since June 3rd, according to a collaborated-made “Chinese Site Maintenance Google Spreadsheet”……
Chinese social networking sites are enjoying in a rapid development now. There are so many players in this market: 51.com, 360quan.com, Kaixin001.com, Kaixin.com, Xiaonei.com, hi.mop.com, AiMi.com, etc. At the end of May, Chinese Internet gaint Sohu and Taobao kicked off the open beta test for their social networking sites – Sohu Bai (白社会) and Taobao Jianghu (淘江湖)……
June 2nd, one day after CIC launched the first Chinese social media analytics dashboard – IWOM Master and SinoTech launched a comprehensive Chinese online reputation monitoring platform – SinoReputation, OgilvyOne China launches its own Chinese IWOM monitoring system & solution – “OBuzz”. What is OBuzz? — OBuzz is a comprehensive influence communications solution including an Internet Word-of-Mouth (IWOM) monitoring tool that can help you understand online consumer discussions relating to your company across thousands of BBS and blogs……

