The Netflix matchup between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul has redefined what a modern boxing event can be, fusing old-school boxing prestige with digital-age…
China’s Sohu: losing the microblog battle, but planning a comeback
If you know anything about the Chinese social media space it’s probably that Tencent and Sina rule the microblogging space. If things had turned…
Awesome TED video explains life behind the Great Firewall
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Baidu, Sina team up to share mobile and search content
Two of China’s most influential online powers, Baidu and Sina, are teaming up in a partnership that will see them swapping cloud-based and mobile…
Sina Weibo went crazy for Olympic opening ceremony: 119m messages sent
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Nitin Desai, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, had a few original words to say on the new wave of “We Media” sweeping the globe. He says that the key challenge – and this is the original part of what he said – is that we face a challenge in finding a business model that can combine the professionalism of the traditional, established media (fact checking; sources; trained journalists; ethics codes and training etc etc) with what we have on the web – the power of collaborative communities, citizen journalism, blogs, collective intelligence, number power etc etc…