November 2007
12 posts
Eight →
Chinese viral video about the origins of cool, in this case the creator of hiphop, made for Nokia Nseries
Nov 20th
占座 | 中国大学生实名网络社区 →
There’s an interesting rumour that Facebook may be interested in buying this Chinese student SNS. “ZhanZuo” means to take your seat quickly in class. ZhanZuo only has 7million members so far, compared with 15million uni students already signed up to XiaoNei, which is a more obvious clone of Facebook.
Nov 20th
Discover or Start Trends - Polyvore →
User generated mix+match fashion website
Nov 20th
Intel's Operation:Inside →
Chose right and fight the forces of Superficial!
Nov 18th
HiPiHi-中国网络虚拟生活的平台 →
3D world builder based in Beijing
Nov 12th
China traps online dissent →
Nov 12th
Is Social Media Killing the Campaign Microsite? →
Nov 12th
SVA MFA Designer As Author: Guest Lectures →
Nov 11th
OSOYOU | Stare. Shop. Share. →
Before DFS Galleria closed operations in China, we were working with them to develop a social shopping community site similar to this…
Nov 8th
City8 - China's equivalent of Google maps →
Street level mapping of 8 Chinese cities.
Nov 6th
Secret Love Calculator - Secret in Love? In love?... →
I’m currently working on a campaign involving online personality tests. I thought this example was hilarious.
Nov 6th
FreeRice →
Guess the meaning of difficult & obscure words. For each word you get right, the sponsors of this site will donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. A worthy cause…
Nov 4th
October 2007
10 posts
Splice: Make Music. Remix Music. > Meet. Mix.... →
Oct 16th
MySpace, Facebook Get Serious About Asia →
Very interesting to read how popular Orkut is in India, and how most of Friendster’s users are in Asia-Pacific. No mentions of local players beyond Cyworld though.
Oct 16th
Oct 16th
Chinese Seek Quality From Multinationals →
Many analysts argue that Chinese consumers are extremely price-sensitive and only want to buy the cheapest products available. This has led to price cutting in the China market by the likes of Dell and other multinationals. Many are trying to match the prices of domestic Chinese companies like Lenovo that are providing “good enough” products at discount prices. However, multinationals...
Oct 15th
The Arcade Fire presents Neon Bible →
Interactive music video… intriguing
Oct 15th
The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life →
Last year, Nike spent just 33 percent of its $678 million United States advertising budget on ads with television networks and other traditional media companies. That’s down from 55 percent 10 years ago, according to the trade publication Advertising Age. “We’re not in the business of keeping the media companies alive,” Mr. Edwards says he tells many media executives. “We’re in the business of...
Oct 15th
Forrester: Interactive Marketing Spend to Surpass... →
Interactive’s share of total ad spend is forecast to increase from 8 percent in 2007 to 18 percent in 2012. The increases will be “driven by marketers who will leverage a distribution of channels rather than pour new spends into a single place,” projects the report. “This maturing perspective on interactive channels coupled with technology advances will lead to a...
Oct 15th
Oct 14th
EatBetterAmerica.com - The Good Food Fight →
Ruthless Ruth gave me a good beatdown…
Oct 13th
New Facebook Apps Explore Dark Side of... →
An MIT grad student has developed a Facebook app focused on “keeping it real.” Described as “an antisocial utility that disconnects you to the so-called friends around you,” Kevin Matulef’s Enemybook is a new app that lets people list enemies below friends on their profiles, according to the Boston Globe. The satiristic app is intended to suggest the people who add...
Oct 13th
September 2007
16 posts
Chinese Couple tries to name child '@' →
Sep 27th
Sep 27th
Online lynching: What's a firm to do? →
Sep 20th
Space-tourism →
Exciting idea, but burning all that fuel just to fly a bunch of rich people into space can’t be good for the environment.
Sep 19th
User Generated Content by Tweens
As you know, consumer generated content has become the basis for all things dot com and it’s not stopping there. Authors are writing multiple endings for readers, games come with rules that players can dictate how to enforce and now TV shows for the tween set are granting creative control to the very consumer they are hoping to attract. New Nickelodeon comedy series iCarly is doing just that....
Sep 18th
Pepsi finalizes its latest digital contest in... →
SHANGHAI—PepsiCo has launched an ad campaign in China alongside new packaging and marketing alliances with companies like China Merchant Bank and the Italian clothing brand, Kappa, to celebrate the winners of the second Pepsi Creative Challenge. Like last year’s competition, in which consumers helped Pepsi develop a TV commercial starring Asian superstar Jay Chou, this year’s...
Sep 17th
OurStage →
After spending a few months in beta, growing online talent community OurStage has officially launched. An online American Idol without the biting criticism, the site serves as a portal for musicians and filmmakers looking to attract industry exposure. Songs and films are put in a series of four one-on-one competitions, with winners selected through a democratic voting process, open to anyone, that...
Sep 17th
How to party →
A website by TBWA Sweden preaching “drink in moderation” because look how alcohol completely f&*ks up your body! Pretty well executed, except the ending just loops back to the beginning.
Sep 9th
35 Percent of Senior Execs are Gaming at Work →
Sep 6th
“The largest share of luxury consumers (44 percent) and the largest share of...”
– Luxury Consumers: What Counts Are Experiences, Not Things - MarketingVOX
Sep 6th
Sep 6th
Sep 6th
RockYou.com →
The evil geniuses behind the Zombie facebook app.
Sep 5th
Inquiringmind™ Magazine →
Awesome hiphop tracks on the inbuilt music player.
Sep 5th
Rack - Steal this magazine →
The online version of the new Shanghai streetmag  RACK
Sep 5th
China Blocks FeedBurner RSS Feeds →
And now all my newsletter subscriptions don’t work!
Sep 4th
August 2007
21 posts
China Surpasses U.S. In Internet Use - Forbes.com →
And about bloody time too!
Aug 30th
Luxury Myths Revealed on PSFK →
Independent research company, Luxury Institute, which focuses it’s research on only the top 10% of America’s wealthy, has created a list of the top ten myths about wealth and luxury from a marketing and branding perspective and de-mystified them. In it, they dismiss many long held assumptions that America’s super wealthy are all drinking Cristal on their Yachts and throwing money at anything that...
Aug 28th
Beijing police launch virtual Web patrol →
BEIJING - Police in China’s capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that pop up on a user’s browser and walk, bike or drive across the screen warning them to stay away from illegal Internet content.
Aug 28th
Chinese anti-graft game proves popular →
BEIJING - A Chinese government-sponsored online game that allows players to battle corrupt officials and their bikini-clad mistresses has been overwhelmed by user demand, state media reported Tuesday.
Aug 28th
blinkville →
Aug 27th
CLOT →
Aug 27th
Welcome to RubberPixy's Website!! →
Aug 27th
WFMU's Beware of the Blog →
A treasure trove of bizarre music & pop cultural references
Aug 22nd
Tweaking The Music Business Model So People Get... →
Wouldn’t it be interesting if users sharing music over P2P networks got paid a small fee as distributors of their favourite music & artists?
Aug 20th
McDonald's Videogame →
Brilliant & addictive.
Aug 20th
Aug 20th
CareerOne →
Very cute salary bar slider & lifestyle improvement animation.
Aug 16th