The Press & Why Silicon Valley Is The 21st Century Hollywood

There has been a lot of “discussion” over the last few days about tech journalism / blogging – you can go over to Techmeme and read all about it yourself if you wish, but I’m not going to go over

Google Decides to Throw a Haymaker at China

Google today announced that they will take off the filters from Google.cn in a “what the hell? we might as well go out swinging with head held high” blog post. Whether you think it’s brilliant, courageous and/or desperate (I think

China Mobile – Half a Billion Users and Counting

China Mobile announced their third quarter results yesterday, as well as one little, small tidbit of a milestone – they just passed half a billion subscribers. However, even with 508 million users and plans to have 3G networks set up

Review of Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect WordPress Plugins

Since Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect were announced I have been curious to see how easy it would be to integrate either or both services into WordPress. I haven’t had that much time to build a community around my

QQ and the iPhone 3G & 3GS – the penguins are aligned

Today, a day after MMS was finally released for the iPhone in the US (I like the quote “now you can do what you did with your Razr in 2003!”), I was just using the Yahoo Instant Messenger iPhone app

Is Twitpic the first Twitter app to be GFW’ed? And should anyone care?

This is somewhat in response to Ben Parr’s Mashable article and the subsequent comment stream, and following up on a thought I had last night after hearing about Twitpic being GFW’ed. In case you haven’t heard, after yesterday’s explosion, Maggie