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- China's Alibaba Adds Social Networking to E-commerce [PC World] "China's Alibaba Group has started mixing social-networking functions into its leading e-commerce platforms, a move it hopes will convince users to spend more time and money on Alibaba Web sites. Alibaba is crafting social-networking platforms specifically to complement two of its core operations. The beta version of a Web site with Facebook-style applications and a Twitter-style feed is being grafted onto Taobao.com."
- China, the world's factory--a photo tour [CNET Asia Blogs: The Tech Dynasty] "These images are from WethicA, a company that audits factories with an eye toward child labor, workers rights, health & safety, and wages. From the WethicA newsletter: "We are posting real untouched photos of factory working conditions from about one year ago. We have decided this summer to show you an important part of the job we do during audits by telling you why these pictures have been taken. Actually, an audit is much more investigative than ticking boxes off a questionaire. One has to walk in with an open mind ready to question everything in these situations and not only ask a list of predefined questions.""
- China's turning children against me: Kadeer [ABC News] "The children of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer have gone on Chinese television criticising their mother. Two of Ms Kadeer's children and her brother were at first reported as having written letters blaming their mother for orchestrating recent violence in far western China. Now the two children, along with another son, have recorded interviews with Chinese television for a special program."
- The battle to scale the Great Firewall of China [Telegraph] "Social networking websites have made the world a smaller place. There is no group that appreciates this more than expats who have left their loved ones behind, perhaps indefinitely, for foreign climes. But, if you live in mainland China, life has suddenly become a place of the unthinkable - a place where Facebook no longer exists."
- Algeria: Xenophobia against Chinese on the rise in Africa [Afrik.com] "Algerian job seekers have blamed their country’s widening unemployment scale on the increasing number of Chinese emigrants living in Algeria and working for meager pay. The accusations have resulted in tensions between hundreds of Algerians and Chinese which have led to clashes involving knives, sticks and rods."
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"internet cafés do not exist" in China?
Ignorant of over 80,000 internet cafe in China, Josephine McDermott of Telegraph might be an expat but surely not an expert on China. Maybe thats why he thinks internet is blocked only in communist country.
Considering Ali Baba's current business model of tolerating and nurturing counterfeiters and smugglers, I will be curious to see how they approach "social networking".