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Youtube remains blocked but nobody seems to care

So in the meanwhile, Youtube remains blocked. Shanghai blogger John Pasden of Sinosplice informs us that Youtube wasn't the only unlucky fella. Revver.com and Dailymotion.com also appear to be hit. And of course Google Video was never accessible in China to begin with, so that's a no-count.

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By Kenneth Tan in on October 23, 2007 1:20 PM

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Tudou now bigger than Youtube?

Via China Net Investor, this interview of the founders of Shanghai-based dot.com Tudou.com, Gary Wang and Marc van der Chijs, serves up one very juicy tidbit of information — that Tudou.com is already streaming more minutes of video content every month than YouTube (15 billion minutes per month versus 3.5 billion)! Then in a self-deprecatory turn, Wang turns around to say that those numbers are never really accurate.

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By Kenneth Tan on October 11, 2007 12:00 PM

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One world, One internet

Boingboing China

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By Kenneth Tan in , on October 4, 2007 9:44 AM

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Evening Links: MySpace, Ronaldo and pigs


  • "Lost in Beijing" seeks OK from China censors

    "After seven days spent re-editing the adult drama 'Lost in Beijing,' producer Fang Li said Friday that he and director Li Yu have agreed on 65% of the cuts requested by China's Film Bureau. The movie is scheduled for a February 16 premiere at the Berlin Film Festival."



  • James Bond arrives in China - not shaken not stirred

    "Craig chatted with fans and signed autographs at the cinema in Beijing's fashionable Wangfujing shopping district which laid out a red carpet welcome for him and Green, who plays Vesper Lynd, a prickly official at the British Treasury."



  • It's U.S. Vs. China again in soccer

    "It's the United States vs. China again, this time in the Four Nations tournament in southern China. Germany faces England in the other game Tuesday in the 80,000-seat Guangdong stadium, a warmup for China's World Cup in September."



  • Shanghai stolen pension money 'recovered'

    "Although Mr Han, who is also the city's acting party secretary, gave no details of how much money had been returned to the city or how it was recovered, his comments were an attempt to draw a line under the scandal."



  • Flickr, YouTube, and Google Video Problems in China

    "The actual photos load fine. Fortunately most of the site navigation is text, but the little buttons above each image are image files, and none of them display."



  • Call to save historic garden from developer

    "The garden was built in 1924 and originally named Columbia Plant. It sits on 15,000 square meters and is one of the oldest gardens in the city."



  • Hip-hop club opens

    "The Shanghai Sunshine Community Youth Affairs Center has teamed up with the Yangpu District government to set up a hip-hop club for youngsters." For ages 15 and under.



  • Pigs, Shit, and Chinese History, Or Happy Year of the Pig

    "If you deal with China, pigs are part of the deal, but they play a different role from elsewhere. Anthropologists duel over why peoples in the ancient Middle East (not just the Jewish pastoralists) avoided the 'abominable pig.' This is a puzzle."



  • New magazine of Shanghai Daily deadly boring

    "Some articles smelled like real advertorials, and that might explain why I did not find any ads in this magazine."



  • 'Typhoon' MySpace.cn approaching China

    "News Corporation's MySpace made its strongest move toward the Chinese mainland during the past few days, and www.myspace.cn has now posted a message saying, 'China's leading Web2.0 website is under construction.'"



  • First real-name blog website launched in China

    "The website, www.blshe.com, targets Chinese intellectuals and aims to become an on-line platform of communication, social contacts and business, said the founder Mao Xiaolin."



  • Taiwan revises textbooks to show independence from China

    "In this textbook, terms like 'our country,' 'this country' and 'the mainland' have been changed to 'China' to indicate that Taiwan is not part of China, the daily said."



  • Ronaldo Doesn't Suck

    "Ronaldo is suing the Chinese company for using an unauthorized photograph of him in its huge advertising campaign. The lozenge maker invited him to a banquet in 2003 (and paid him a handsome sum for him to attend), but apparently never mentioned how all of the pictures taken that night would be used."



  • MySpace China under construction

    "Check it out: www.myspace.cn is active, and now belongs to a company called Mai Sibei (my space, geddit? or 北京麦斯贝信息技术有限公司)."



  • China launches 4G before 3G off the ground - media

    "China, still working on its long-delayed homegrown third-generation wireless standard, has leapfrogged itself by launching the world's first fourth-generation standard, state media said on Monday."


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    By Dan Washburn in on January 30, 2007 11:57 PM

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    Google Video: Too hot for China?

    So, we saw this post titled "423 KPH on the Shanghai Maglev" over on Gridskipper:

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    By Dan Washburn in on March 10, 2006 10:35 AM

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    Danny did it! (four times, too)

    Danny Way proved that he's the baddest man on a skateboard Saturday, jumping over the Great Wall not once, not twice, not thrice -- but four times. (He may have gone over more times after that, but the Chinese television broadcast we were watching ran out of time.) Why not quit after the first successful run, in which he simultaneously broke his own skateboarding world records for distance (79ft/24.07m) and unaided height out of a ramp (23.5ft/7.14m)? Because of a "grudge" against a quarter pipe.

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    By Dan Washburn in on July 9, 2005 7:27 PM

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