A provocative question was posed at DigiCha in the title of a blog post a few days back: Will Google, Facebook and Twitter Please Join as Sponsors of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 What better message could the USA send to the world than to have the three standard bearers of 21st [...]
U.S. Social Networking Pavilion at the Shanghai’s World Expo?
January 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The Reason Google Pulled the Stops?
January 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment
A post at ESWN (EastSouthWestNorth) entitled The Truth About The Google Affair claims to have information of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plants within Google’s Shanghai office. While this in itself would not be a surprise, that it took so little time for it to actually become public is. The post is “a translation of an [...]
The “Evil Minimization Algorithm”
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments
When Google made the decision to accept censorship constraints in order to enter the Chinese market, Google Inc.’s CEO Eric Schmidt stated, “We concluded that although we weren’t wild about the restrictions, it was even worse to not try to serve those users at all. We actually did an ‘evil’ scale and decided ‘not to [...]
Place Your Bets
January 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment
There is not much that I can add to Google’s A new approach to China. What does all this mean? In the words of Zhou Enlai, “It’s too soon to tell.” A quick scan of the Xinhua home page turns up China seeks clarity on Google’s intentions buried in the Sci/Tech section. It has been [...]
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