Jul21st2009
Published by richard July 21st, 2009
in China.
According to the local media in China, things flared up 2 days ago again. So while internet restrictions were about to be lifted the current official line is October 1st – China National Day – is when the blocks will be lifted.
Right now there is no internet service in all of Xinjiang. This is confirmed by my relatives there. Of course we don’t know if GPRS or CDMA data access is blocked. People can always use a modem to and dial up to a POP in another city – but the point isn’t about stopping people like myself, that in 1999 unwired their hotel room phone jack in order to hook up a modem and dial out.
Continue reading ‘Xinjiang, China Internet Block to last until October 1st 2009, Face Book and Twitter?’
Published by richard July 18th, 2009
in China.
Been a busy week for visiting tech celebs here in Beijing!
First Kevin Rose and his tea tour group and now Andy Ihnatko. Well it was a long day (especially with a not yet quite right broken ankle on the mend) but well worth it to be able to both meet Andy, give him the insiders tour and satisfy any man’s most basic, bestial and testosterone fuelled primal desires of the flesh………..look at rows of knock off iPhones (and ipones and ifawns) and help bargain them down to the lowest price!
Continue reading ‘Taking Andy Ihnatko around MY Beijing’
Jul16th2009
Published by richard July 16th, 2009
in China.
Awesome night. Feeling a bit seedy now as I get ready for my 11am – however met a bunch of cool people that share this city with me and of course Kevin, Tim and Glenn. Like most tech meet ups in China, Australians tend to be over represented – though I hope we were well behaved.
I kept telling Kevin that I was trying hard not to blow smoke up his rear, but he really is a down to earth, friendly and an interesting guy. He has a real passion for tech (and tea) and the experiences that we could show him of our beloved Beijing. Of course with more time and more notice you can really roll out the red carpet.
Continue reading ‘Tweetup Beijing with Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss and Glenn Mcelhose’
Published by richard July 7th, 2009
in China.
There goes the flickr image servers as well. The fall out from Xinjiang continues.
Flickr works still for chat and forums – but no images.
Published by richard July 7th, 2009
in Business Development and China.
ICP threats are a normal part of doing business in China. Licence here, registration there – it is more of a paper work thing than anything else.
We do have one client though, who has a social media site based around book reviews, summaries and content quality. Well it is a recipe for problems. Today we had a govt take down notice because a book was summarised by some Chinese speaking person somewhere in the world.
Now the content in question was not even on the site or servers – it was just a summary – smells a lot like a certain search engine that is having troubles recently in China (I am referring to google) even though the same search queries on BAIDU return the same results almost and the same … problems….but I digress.
Continue reading ‘Another Take Down for “Illegal Content”’
Jul6th2009
Published by richard July 6th, 2009
in China.
This makes me laugh when overseas China tech “experts” say the “Great Firewall”. There is NO FIREWALL. There is a VERY DE COUPLED and de centralised filtering system that often gives different results on different networks and at different times.
So the office on CNC does not – so this is a CNC problem…
This is why I always tell clients, don’t cheap out on the cheapest hosting – always host in an IDC that is dual homed to both CNC and CT and will pass traffic between the two networks (and others) because Chinese network providers charge each other to peer traffic – as such it is often slow or limited.
Another China day. Back to work.
UPDATE: Fully blocked now…seems at the gateway, tests show dropped packets and not the usual local area filtering “TCP Reset” style of error.
Published by richard July 6th, 2009
in China.
It has been 30 mins now and it has not come back which usually happens after 1-2 mins if it is a temp thing with the automatic sniffing…. 30 mins sounds kind of “official” to me… 
Something has been up today though – the transfer speeds between our Hong Kong and Beijing IDC’s as well as Hong Kong to our Nanjing IDC has been VERY slow and spotty. In that the speed fluctuates a lot. Something that backbone fibre should not do.
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