Wired posted a story yesterday about how a small riot following the World Series win for the San Francisco Giants sparked what, in China, would be known as a 'human flesh search' for one of the rioters.
Compared to Western countries, there is a huge amount of untapped potential. According to Internet World Stats Indonesia has 55 million Internet users, which represents only 22.4 percent of their population.
Google is the single most widely used search engine worldwide and is usually the most important for Western businesses. Social networking sites are growing in popularity around the world, providing a great way to connect with existing and potential...
Part of the greater BBDO “Ask For More" campaign in Asia, we see a young Western Boy inaugurated into the way of the Shaolin in atypical and humorous fashion. Yes, yes, I know that Unruly is one of the world’s leading exponents of social video...
Yahoo Japan is the most used search engine within Japan and, while that brand may be well known to Western Internet users, other names may not be so familiar. As with Yahoo sites elsewhere in the world, Yahoo Japan sets great store by keyword...
And here in our Western democracy, freedom of the press is a principle we have upheld despite numerous attempts at censorship, for centuries. While it's certainly true that the Internet is a different space that the brick-and-mortar retail world...
The reason unicode was allowed for display names was reasonable – it allowed people whose names were not written in western English characters to set a display name in their native language. This makes sense given the resistance virtual world users...
While I support the use of Unicode, since I think people should be able to write their names out in languages that don't use western English characters, believe me when I say that there's an awful lot of people just messing with unicode in order...
The Chinese argument, especially on government-run mediums, is that the news we get in Western media is tainted by anti-communist bias – and that our propaganda is what's painting the portrait of Chinese issues.
If it makes you Twitterites feel any better, the world's favorite micro-blogging site is also the second most popular social network, with Twitter showing as the second in command in North America, most of Western Europe, and Australia.
But once you move outside of Western markets, the assumptions many campaigns are based on become invalid – regional search engines become important, Yahoo and Bing may disappear from the mix, and browsers like Opera move up the rankings.
District Court, Western District of Washington, case number 01CR00310RSL- and this information is public- call them yourself if you want) was submitted alleging that zFire (Mike Prime) had violated his conditions of supervision by:
For high profile Western companies which were already in China and then partially pulled out -- partially because it's only Google's search box which is no longer in China, Android continues to operate there as well as Gmail -- this could be a...
George's day is celebrated in may countries throughout Western and Eastern Europe, Macedonia and Canada. Google Doodle logos are popping up in various Google sites around the world. George's Day in the UK and many other countries around the world.
You can also see curation at work at Sheplers, a site that carries a dizzying array of Western boots. The Smithsonian and other major museums around the world face a similar problem: they have way more art and artifacts to show off than space to...
It's interesting to note that the software download restrictions were not originally imposed by Iran, but actually via western political sanctions. Twitter and Youtube prevailed as news sources for the world, particularly for anxious families...
The only thing people have little issue with is the ability for Display Names to provide Unicode support, so people whose names are not written in standard western English letters can have whatever name they want in the alphabet they choose.
If 2010 was the year that virtual goods made a splash in western markets, 2011 will be the year that these markets begin to mature as the collective opportunity across social games, online games, virtual worlds, consoles, and mobile games reaches...
So the key to this missed opportunity is not carrying over the same look and feel of your Western landing pages. By Western standards, and according to Google, paid links are a big no-no. Yet the failure rate among multinational search marketers...
Living in a Western European nation, it's likely you'll expect to own a car, rent or buy a house, and eat well. Product distribution systems: In the e-commerce world, how you deliver your product is an enormous consideration.
