Chinese Blog: On China's Internet, Sensitive Words
What do "cat abuse," "mascot" and "cashfiesta" have in common? ... all these words may be deemed harmful in China ... along with "Paris riots," "impeach," and the cryptic "buy corpses."BEIJING -- Journalist Wang Xiaofeng wrote a satirical essay on his blog last October about what he called "a very Chinese characteristic: sensitive words."...
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BlogChina Has Hard Sledding to Profitability
BEIJING, July 11, SinoCast -- What BlogChina.com needs most now is profit but subscribers, said HuZhiguang, founder of the blog website in the early this month. Mr. Hu disclosed that the website saw total web blogs of 10 million, with 8 million of comments and 3 million photos, and the numbers were still skyrocketing. However, the biggest problem for the website now is how to touch profitability with so many subscribers. The number of community portals in China is increasing fast, but majority...
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Six Apart Cracks China's Blog Sector
GUANGZHOU, March 23, SinoCast -- Blogging software developer Six Apart has reached partnership with Chinese weblog high flier Bokee to localize and distribute Movable Type, Six Apart's web publishing platform, to Chinese corporate users and educational institutions, beginning in the second quarter this year."There are an estimated 15 million blogs in China, most of them written by individuals," said Anil Dash, Six Apart's vice president of...
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Hexun Seeks Target Company for Acquisition
BEIJING, November 29, SinoCast -- On November 24, Liu Jun, the vice president of hexun.com, one of the leading Internet portals providing online and mobile financial services in China, expressed that Hexun is for sure looking for appropriate target company for acquisition now and the targets should be leading web2.0 websites with considerable customer base or core competitive edges.At an earlier forum, Liu had revealed that the three Chinese web 2.0 websites with the biggest potential for...