Archive for the 'China' Category

Aug12th2010

China ICP FAQ

There seems to be a lot of confusion and old information floating around about what is or isn’t an ICP may be and what is needed to get one and then as announced today – additional steps needed during the actual application process.

Aug12th2010

China Government Notice August 2010: ICP Application Process

With new regulations enforced by MIIT, Internet Service Providers are obliged to conform to the current ICP application procedure. Specifications are as follows:

Aug9th2010

Would you ever NOT offshore development?

Is there any point in NOT offshoring work? Most of the best tech these days is made out of India and Asia. So why do people still bother to do Computer Science degrees in the west of learn programming?

Jul26th2010

Double ICP Needed

Previosuly you would have to decide between a “normal” ICP as needed for all business online properties. Or a “commerical” ICP for doing trades/shopping cart/ecommerce.

Apr19th2010

Kevin Rose Beijing, Cleaning up

Going through some old scans from last year (bit of a back log). Here is one I took of Kevin Rose (digg.com founder) when I took him out for Chaunr after a regrettably too lately planned and informed tweetup that prevented the execution of some serious piss cutting out on the town. :-s

Apr19th2010

Google Using Site Speed Ranking & China Based Servers

It is also no secret that the percentage of users in China that would love to use foreign web sites for most of their daily stuff – is quite low. Yes stuff is blocked. But the lion’s share of Chinese speaking people want Chinese sites with Chinese stuff of them. They are located inside China.

Apr7th2010

Cultural Understanding Course (Payment)

A former client of mine who was involved in a new venture recently quizzed me as to whether or not “We require clients to undertake the Cultural Understanding Course” if they do hosting and services with us?

Mar15th2010

The History of Chinese ICP and .CN Requirements

There has been a bit of a maelstrom recently regarding the use of .CN and ICP certificates all on top of the existing confusion.

So to try and set the record straight I am going to give a nice little walk through the pages of history and clearly state the facts of the matter from the inception until the present. And hopefully not only explain what the situation is, yet also how it came about and the anthropology of how we got to the situation that we have today.