Here’s a short video of a download speed test of China Telecom’s trial 3G wireless network, which is on the CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO standard. (We usually hear about China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network, foisted on them by regulators against their wishes, and the “European” standard WCDMA network that will be operated by China Netcom).
The [...]
In August 2006, the New York Times published a story about Chinese volunteers who were spending night after night creating Chinese subtitles for American TV series - CSI, Lost, and tons of relatively unknown shows you can find on Shooter.cn, the biggest Chinese subtitle portal.
That NYT piece was an adrenaline shot to the heart for [...]
Youku recently commissioned Nielsen to do a user survey, the results of which were handed over to us earlier this month. I thought I’d share some of the top-level findings, to give readers a better idea of who’s using Youku.
Geography
Somewhat surprisingly (to me at least), 14% of Youku users are in Guangdong province, and another [...]
During the economic downturn, everybody seems to be working harder than ever before. Some of my friends, especially the bankers and consultants, often complain via MSN or Kaixin001, “To survive the layoffs, I’m working my ass off recently. No more hitting the gym on the weekend! So how can I lose my spare tire?”
“Why not [...]
Spoiler alert: Magic secrets revealed, some material may not be suitable for those who want to maintain that miracle-and-wonder thing.
A Youku user who looks very shy, very (deliberately?) amateurish, and very shanzhai uploaded a video which revealed the secrets behind some mind-blowing magic tricks performed by Liu Qian, the fabulous Taiwanese magician.
While some magic tricks [...]
A security camera in Xuexiang Village, Shenzhen has captured an insanely terrible scene: in the 15 minutes after a six-year-old boy took a terrible fall from a high residential a building, not one passerby bothered to make an emergency call on his behalf. Some people even turned back to check if the boy was still [...]
In this video, the crazed Hong Kong woman continuously yells out, “I want to eat shark fin!” (我要食鱼翅！) interspersed with complaints like “There are so many fish in the sea, how can you not have any shark fin?!” and “Did you hide the shark fins?,” all in Cantonese. The only response she gets from the [...]
Naturally it wasn’t going to take long before Cai Mingchao, the mystery man who’s become a hero to many patriotic Chinese, would be celebrated in song. With accompanying video. This is titled “I’m Not Paying” (就不付你钱）and it comes to us courtesy of H.O.T Video Studio (H.O.T视频工作室).
Cai Mingchao, as you may already know, was [...]
This viral video ad for Electrolux vacuum cleaners has a local reporter presenting “live coverage” of a jumper, with emergency services rushing around on the ground. The desperate man finally leaps from the edge of a building, but he doesn’t hit the ground.
There have been many controversial ads that have made light of suicide, raising [...]
Sometimes I worry that Internet video sites encourage this kind of behavior — not on the part of the woman in the video, but of the paike who followed her through the streets of Shenzhen yesterday and shot her with what appears to have been a cellphone camera. The point of our posting it here [...]
