There comes a time when you look at your world and you say, its time to move on. The memories are great and it was a good experience but something has changed. The Bug triage is not as interesting as it used to be, the conference calls have lost that...

I just recently ran into this article from Dan Brody's Google News Reader on FaceBook (ironic). To be fair, MS has not really won as much as it has improved its position from years past. For the most part, the changes described below are tangible and...

China'sFuture MySpace crowd When Facebook opened up their platform to developers and application hobbyists a few weeks ago, they opened up the platform to more than just the geekcore for tools and widgets, they also opened it up to the Friendster, MySpace...

Simple, Easy, Fast and Fun. Like a breathmint for your mind. That's why casual games continue to grow. The ATC Casual Games team is proud to announce the launch of of Rock Paper Scissors for Messenger in China (and the whole world). -The first game developed...

In the ongoing debate of asking if China can make software the answer is an obvious and unequivocal yes. China can produce more software engineers and millions of lines of code in a few months than some Western countries can in years. Strip out the foreigners...

I like Pandas but I found this video hilarious. For someone who has traveled to Chengdu, the home of the Chengdu Panda Breeding center in a city plastered with Panda images everywhere, I found Pandas to be well....underwhelming. "cement box..no sky..no...

(If you're in China, you may not see the image above since its hosted on flickr) Every few months I get a chance to travel to the US between Seattle and Beijing and essentially go through culture shock and jet lag both ways each time. However, the biggest...

Get them ready for the facehugger at WonderCon If you were wondering why this blog hasn't been updated for a while its because I have been travelling in the US for work for almost a month. Its great to come back to China after being away for such a long...

I'd rather be a night elf Online games continues to be big business here in China but the ripples on the water are starting to bubble up now. So the answer to the question is yes and no. Yes, there are too many similar online games. No, there is still...

My friend Sharon who just returned to Australia worked as a production coordinator here in Beijing for a documentary filmed here in China. She just found out that the film had won the Oscar for Short documentaries a few nights ago. The documentary had...

When you think of all the bandwidth that is consumed in China by video streams and downloads, we can almost place it in the same class as other forms of traditional broadcast or cable media. At work or at internet cafes, you see many young people watching...

A few years back when the confluence project was young (2000-2003), I had the lucky fortune to be the first person to document the only confluence in Shanghai , another in Hubei and the first one in the country of Cambodia as well. Today, most of the...

How now brown Mao ? Currently, I am reading a great book called The Cult of the Luxury Brand by Radha Chadha & Paul Husband. Although they discuss at length the relationship of Asia with luxury brands, the book really touches upon the roots and semiotics...

It looks like other than IE and Maxthon being hunkered down here in Beijing, Mozilla is coming here too. Bejijing is a likely choice since Mozilla's college friend from the states Google has rented an apartment in Wudouoko already and is taking some Chinese...

June 21, 2004 Cover. No one I know in the US has seen this cover from Newsweek Asia At the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft has unveiled more of its digital plans to connect everyone and everything via the digital hub of your living room...

I feel a little out of shape from the holidays but I've been around. In the ever eternal linking and relinking reality of Web 2.0, where content begins and ends tends to get fuzzy. The world of Tags, RSS, Diggs and stuff tends to be a bit confusing to...

Apple's new iPhone looks cool but will it fly in China? Since I have a love - hate relationship with Apple products, I felt a little bit torn about the new Apple announcement. Yes, it looks beautiful but from my experience of having a touchscreen phone...

At #28 Tsinghua University, rules were made to be broken Although rankings are all based on subjective measures, and some would say, culturally biased methodology, I feel compelled to look at them anyway. Snapshot rankings mean very little since each...

Ni Hao ! Whats your QQ address? Although we hear a lot about the success and hype of MySpace, World of Warcraft and Second Life, by membership size they are dwarfed by some older communities on the web. What is the largest community on the web? QQ with...

Although the bar where you drink beer and then climb has closed its doors, the bar where you drink and perform archery continues to serve the masses in Beijing.In the never ending stream of new theme restaurant/bars, a restaurant that serves food in pitch...

This is the closest I have ever been to Bill Gates - He's the little dot on the right. In a recent study by Zogby International, many Americans feel that the next big techno genius will come from Asia. Based on the numbers, China leads the pack of likely...

The Chinese see this picture different than Americans The caption from this authentic unretouched Chinese promotional postcard for McDonalds says something about how "Beef makes you strong." For an American (or at least me) looking at this, I see Yao...

Here is the fantasy: : The City Weekend January 2007 Issue where Neema is the poster boy for a wild New Year's Eve lineup in Beijing. Here is the reality: Neema as the blurry figure on the left eating a quiet dinner with friends. 8:20 pm: Dinner with...

1st action shot of the trip My camera has a strange feature where it takes 2 pictures of everything I take. I am not sure how to turn it off or that its even supposed to do that but sometimes it captures some great sequences like this of a kid tripping...

Happy Messy New Year Ken Carroll from Chinesepod , one of Time Magazine's Top 10 podcast sites in the world, turned me on to a site called BubbleGeneration that discusses issues in the Internet Economy. While reading the analysis of why MySpace works...