http://buzz.youku.com TV? We don't need no freakin' TV... We got Youku! Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:43:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week is news-intensive. Three of our top five videos are hard news, and very political. This is another piece of evidence that suggests the younger generation goes online for more than just entertainment, but is genuinely interested in information. Uploaded on: February 4, 2010 Total Views: 1,125,672 Thumbs Up: 11.3% Comments: 2,927 This video ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/02/05/friday-fan-fave-fives-for-the-week-of-february-5-2010/ Uploaded on: January 24, 2010 Total Views: 2,553,280 Thumbs Up: 84.0% Comments: 1,331 Xu Jie (徐杰) is an 11-year-old boy who can imitate a few established female singers with such fidelity that listeners often can’t tell Xu from the original. He's particularly skillful when it comes to sad love songs. Xu Jie, born and ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/29/friday-fan-fave-fives-for-the-week-of-january-29-2010/ Tao Xiangli, a migrant worker from Anhui now living in Beijing, has only five years of primary education. Yet he single-handedly designed and built a functioning submarine out of oil drums, taking his submersible craft into the depths of a reservoir. Millions of Chinese learned of this legend originally from Youku. ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/26/constructive-negativism-a-day-of-glory-on-youku-for-silent-talent/ Uploaded on: January 18, 2010 Total Views: 1,294,399 Thumbs Up: 22.5% Comments: 2,900 Chinese started joining in on No Pants Day. This news from Guangzhou was about 20 youngsters who took off their trousers on subway to raise people’s awareness of the importance of environmental protection. The very low thumbs-up rate tells you that ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/22/friday-fan-fave-fives-for-the-week-of-january-22-2010/ Youku Launches Copyright Identification Management Platform Pioneering Move in China to Promote Respect for Intellectual Property BEIJING, Jan. 20 -- Youku, China's leading Internet video site, today announced the launch of its copyright identification management platform, the first of its kind in China. As Youku increases the scale of content ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/20/our-latest-press-release/ CNNIC (the China Internet Network Information Center - don't bother trying to figure out how that acronym's supposed to fit) just released its 25th semi-annual survey report. You've probably already seen that the new number for total Internet users is 384 million, up from 338 million at mid-year 2009, and ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/19/new-cnnic-china-internet-survey/ Uploaded on: January 9, 2010 Total Views: 1,860,934 Thumbs Up: 79.7% Comments: 205 Though it garnered a relatively high ratio of thumbs-up, this banal viral ad on a car is a real disappointment for many, but ranked as the No. 1 on our most-viewed Youku video this week. As some viewers revealed, it was ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/16/friday-fan-fave-fives-for-the-week-of-january-15-2010/ Chuan Zi (川子), a Beijing grassroots singer who enjoys a good reputation within the Youku community and even once dedicated a concert to Youku fans, is promoting a new song destined, I'm betting, to be another hit on the site: Happy Lane (Xingfu li,幸福里). Obviously heavily influenced by Cui Jian, ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/12/song-of-the-house-slaves-how-much-per-sq-m-for-your-happiness/ One of our favorite websites, ChinaHush.com, carried these translations from Chinnews.net and from the very popular forum Tianya condemning the forthcoming dismissal of nearly half a million substitute teachers. The dismissal of substitutes became a much-talked-about issue in 2008 (see this story), and has apparently been in the works since ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/12/anger-over-substitute-teacher-dismissals/ Uploaded on: January 3, 2010 Total Views: 1,600,693 Thumbs Up: 79.6% Comments: 1,933 The mother of the late Anita Mui, a famous Hong Kong singer, came out during the New Year holiday accusing Andy Lau, alledgedly Anita’s dream lover and lifetime friend in reality, for taking advantage of Anita’s love. The real issue seems ... http://buzz.youku.com/2010/01/08/friday-fan-fave-fives-for-january-8-2010/