Live from Beijing!

After I posted about how the BBS is central to the Chinese internet, the CEO of a company called CICdata commented that they have been analyzing the Chinese BBS-sphere and blog-sphere for 3 years already. 
After checking out his site and the related blogs, I think it belongs on this growing list of “unique to China” [...]

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PPG.cn is another one of my favorite “unique to China” websites.  It falls in the general category of e-commerce sites, and is somewhat similar to American sites such as LandsEnd.com.  It sells shirts, ties, and slacks for men.  The user interface is clean and uncluttered, making excellent use of Ajax to quickly change images based [...]

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When people ask me to name a “unique to China” website, I usually start with Flashempire.  Maybe something like this exists in Japan or Korea, but I’m pretty sure there’s nothing like it in the US.
The site is the central hang-out for China’s Adobe Flash developers.  It has the latest news about Flash, lots of tutorials, [...]

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Most Chinese websites are copies of successful American ones.  This isn’t unique to China, of course.  All over the world, entrepreneurs and financiers look at the success of American websites, and decide to copy them into their local language.  This may be “lame” to purists, or alarming to those who believe that ideas and business [...]

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