Apr19th2010
Well it is not news to most people in the industry and it has been sort of expected for a while:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
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. These servers are located inside China.
Continue reading ‘Google Using Site Speed Ranking & China Based Servers’
Published by richard April 7th, 2010
in Business Development and China.
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?
ICP, yes… but a “Cultural Understanding Course” ??!
My client explained to me that according to their current infrastructure provider, “since we are running a site that targeted the Chinese and had music and culture on it, in order to continue to host he needed to undertake a Cultural Understanding Course or just make a special payment of 10K RMB to avoid it.” I’m paraphrasing but that is the gist of it.
Something didn’t smell right. I have never known of any law or regulation in China that can be avoided simply by paying money to someone! 
Continue reading ‘Cultural Understanding Course (Payment)’
Mar15th2010
NOTE: This started off as a little blog post. But after including all of the elements and history, we end up at 2700+ words. I’ve made it as easy as possible with headings, however if you want to understand clearly and not be asking why and why not questions later – just read it all now in one hit.
Start Here
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 this article is 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 explaining what the situation is, but also how it came about and the anthropology of how we got to the situation that we have today.
Continue reading ‘The History of Chinese ICP and .CN Requirements’
Published by richard January 13th, 2010
in Business Development and China.
Just like the current confusion over .cn, registrations, ICP – ICP by itself let alone in combination with others. Rules in China are one thing – but this isn’t the first time that two regulators don’t agree and have a pissing match. Or the rule creation and rule enforcement depts are thinking different things.
DigiCha Link
Dec16th2009
Published by richard December 16th, 2009
in Uncategorized.
A mate from 1X.com on my insistence decided to do an un boxing of his M9 for me. It is the least he could do since we acted as counsellors and advisors on purchase and then mental distractions during the agonising wait that ensued.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZTxY2mojCs
Published by richard December 11th, 2009
in Business Development and China.
Here is an email that I was sent from a client – received from one of his staff:
“One of our contributors sent me through an urgent news story in the morning which I was completely unaware of until the end of the day – when 600 emails suddenly landed in my inbox.”
What I find funny is that email never has and never will be a synchronous and real time communications tool. Don’t people get that?
Continue reading ‘The foreigner with email in China = Poor Communicator’
Nov11th2009
Published by richard November 11th, 2009
in Business Development, China and Tech Horizon.
Friend and colleague Jorn Knutsen has just launched his new blog about business in China. Written from 10 years of running factories, business councils and IT start ups in China.
As they say, the tip of the iceberg misrepresents the mountain of stuff that is sitting below the surface.
Read on at http://www.chinaiceberg.com while he works out his bugs.
Published by richard November 3rd, 2009
in China and The Cloud.
When you have a server (and lets hope it is a real one and not a ZhongGuanCun job) you should enable thermal protection. Because A/C units do fail as do fans and other servers. Thermal protection will cause your systems to shut down gracefully and prevent damage to them and surrounding devices – like UPS batteries.
The following is a screen shot of a log from one client, who has a fairly large rack and a few servers for their thin client deployment. In this case the A/C failed and the servers shut down gracefully.
Continue reading ‘Thermal Failure Protection’
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