Been a busy week for visiting tech celebs here in Beijing. First Kevin Rose and his tea tour group and now Andy Ihnatko.
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Jul16th2009
Tweetup Beijing with Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss and Glenn Mcelhose
Published by July 16th, 2009 in China. 0 CommentsAwesome 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 Glen. Like most tech meet ups in China, Australians tend to me over represented – though I hope we were well behaved.
Jul7th2009
There goes the flickr image servers as well. The fall out from Xinjiang continues.
Flickr works still for chat and forums – but no images.
Jul7th2009
facebook.com blocked in China.
This time it is not even the “Connection Reset” usual suspect. Nothing is happening so I am guessing DNS poisoning.
Jul7th2009
Another Take Down for “Illegal Content”
Published by July 7th, 2009 in Business Development and China. 0 CommentsWe 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 title “The Dirty Nature of the Chinese Government” was summarised by some Chinese speaking person somewhere in the world.
Jul6th2009
OK – GPRS works for Twitter… IDC doesn’t on CNC – does on China Telecom – office doesn’t
Published by July 6th, 2009 in China. 0 CommentsThis makes me laugh when overseas China tech “experts” say the “Great Firewall”. There is NO FIREWALL. There is a VERY DECOUPLED and de cntralised filtering system that often gives different results on different networks and at different times.
Jul6th2009
Twitter blocked in China? I can tweet via blog-but my twitter.com page just got the infamous “connection reset” msg..lets see if it passes?
Jul3rd2009
The South China Sea Oil Rig IT set to fly
Published by July 3rd, 2009 in China and Tech Horizon. 1 CommentWell two of our engineers passed their safety training today after a long course. They are now licenced to go on oil rigs and make the 2 hour helicopter flight out to the oil rigs.
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