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Tweet and Surf: Social Media Job in Sydney
Like to Surf after you Tweet? This may be the job for you! Our Social Media team in Sydney is looking to expand soonest. We are also looking for people in HONG KONG and SINGAPORE, for those markets pl...
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A Snapshot: Japan’s Top 50 Websites
Where exactly is Japan's Internet activity taking place? What are the Japanese looking at, searching in and blogging on?My colleagues in the Tokyo Ogilvy Digital Influence team compiled a list of some...
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Social Media for B2B
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Japan’s Top Social Media Experts
I am trying to compile a list of Japan's most interesting people in Social Media. Please add your name or others in the comments. The list has begun based on those who turned up at a Twitter ...
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Gulay Ozkan: Why Social Media is so big in Turkey
Internet and mobile entrepreneur Gulay Ozkan shared her thoughts on Social Media in Turkey and then was generous enough to invite me to speak at the university class she teaches. Social Media ...
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Job: Head of Social Media for Ogilvy in UK
Anyone want a great Social Media job based in London? REPORTS TO: Chairman of Ogilvy Group PROFILE Ideal candidate is an experienced, visionary, results-focused strategist / leader with a strong backg...
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Job: Researcher with China-based publisher
I don't know anything about this job other than the details below, but it could be interesting!ASSISTANT WANTED (Part-time)A China-based publisher with a strong and steadily growing list of original t...
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Hugh Pope: Dining with Al-Qaeda (Video interview)
HUGH POPE ON DINING WITH AL-QAEDA_Uploaded by thomascrampton. - News videos hot off the press._ While in Istanbul, I met recovering journalist Hugh Pope to hear about his new book “Dining wit...
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Turkey: Social Media Snapshot
Took this photo today at a free Wifi park near Istanbul's Hagia Sophia Mosque. (hat tip to David Churbuck for the suggestion)As part of my Turkey trip this week I have started compiling statistics and...
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Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop: 3 trends in Asian Art
Met up with Asian art journalist and fellow blogger Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop this week in Singapore to hear about the biggest trends on the Asian art scene. Sonia highlighted three: 1- CHINA A...
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How To: Use Social Media For Internal Communications
Watson Wyatt, a human resources consultancy, does a large-scale annual survey looking at return on investment for communication strategies.One section of this year's report focused on Social Media as ...
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Reg Chua: 3 Interesting News Sites to Watch
Speaking at the WAN/IFRA Editor's Forum in Singapore today, along with Reg Chua, editor of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.In his speech Reg highlighted three interesting sites worth checking out...
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Shanghai Nightlife, Circa 1935
The lighted towers are department stores on Nanking Road, including the famous Sincere Department Store and its rival, the Wing On Department Store. These were the Macy's and Gimbels of old Shanghai. ...
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Demographics of China’s Twitter Users
In China, Twitter has taken an exceptional turn relative to other sites blocked by the government.Properties like Facebook, YouTube and Flickr have languished when blocked by Beijing, but Twitter has ...
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James Areddy: China’s Unique Hacker Culture
A great article by James Areddy in The Wall Street Journal describes how the China hacker community is very different from the Hollywood stereotypes of loner American geeks or steely Russian mobsters....
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Smoking Sanctions: Cuban Cigars and the US Navy Pacific Fleet
_The USS Nimitz visit to Hong Kong this week reminds me of an item I wrote in 2002 for my regional column in the International Herald Tribune. At the time, I found it highly ironic that Tony Wong and ...
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Wikireader: Unpaid Endorsement (sort of)
This is a long overdue posting for my latest favorite gadget, the Wikireader. William Lai of OpenMoko sent me an early version of the WikiReader to try out and present at the Gadget-thon in the Stream...
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John and Doris Naisbitt: China Megatrends
While in High School, my school's principal required all teachers to read "Megatrends", the runaway bestseller by John Naisbitt about ten big trends hitting the world. A few weeks ago at the D...
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New York-based Asia-Related Social Media Internship
I am not familiar with the Asian Programs Foundation, but this looks like an interesting Social Media internship in New York. Over here at Ogilvy, we are looking to hire more Social Media specialists ...
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Nancy Lublin: 3 Current Trends in Social Media for Activism
One of my favorite people in the zone of Social Media-meets-idealism, Nancy Lublin of Do Something introduces 3 trends to watch in 2010 for the use of Social Media for activism: 1- CROWDSOURC...
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Hong Kong and India Like Luxury Goods New and With Logo
This may not be shocking news to those of us living in Asia, but it is interesting to see research validation of what you can see on the sidewalks.A recent survey by Synovate on global Luxury Brands c...
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Youth: Indians Obsess; Chinese Chat, Share Personal Info
Compared with their peers globally, the Millenials in India obsess more about the technology of their employers than youth of any other nation surveyed in a recent poll, while Chinese use real-time ch...
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Enric Sala: Don’t Eat Tigers of the Ocean
On land, do we eat tigers and lions? No, of course not. In the oceans, however, many of us often do. Sharks, tuna and similar ocean hunters play an important role by maintaining the health of ...
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China’s Social Media Buzz on Shanghai Expo
Shanghai Expo Chinese-language Social Media Buzz View more documents from 360digitalinfluence. In the run-up to the Shanghai Expo, our Social Media team at Ogilvy has partnered with CIC Data to p...
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Job: China Correspondent for NPR
LOOKS LIKE A GREAT JOB! LOVE THE FINAL LINE: "OCCASIONAL EXPOSURE TO PREVALENT WEATHER CONDITIONS." UPDATE: For some reason I received a lot of email - 8 messages in total - about this posting (rare o...
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Facebook Repeatedly Deleting Hong Kong Opposition Groups
Today's South China Morning Post reports how Hong Kong's political opposition has faced repeated deletion of their Facebook groups.Read the article here (behind paywall), but some key points raised: A...
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Europe’s Sharpened Stance on China
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Job: Hong Kong-based Editor at International Herald Tribune
The newspaper where I worked and for whom I can vouch as a great employer, is looking for copy editors in Hong Kong: The International Herald Tribune is looking for experienced copy editors to work in...
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How To: Choose speaking engagements
_My colleague John Bell compiled this handy checklist to help decide whether to speak at an event or not. The core criteria apply to any profession.Selecting speaking engagements has become more and m...
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Shai Agassi: Why Electric Vehicles Work
Five years ago, while at a YGL gathering in Zermatt, Switzerland Shai Agassi was bothered by climate change, pollution and the impact cars have on the environment. Suddenly, he had an epiphany...
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World’s Fastest Internet: Korea, Japan and Hong Kong
Asia's Internet speed is not surprising news, but the details of this recent report on the Internet by Akamai show how much Asia and South Korea dominate the world of high speed Internet. Korea is als...
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ComScore: Social Media pressuring Traditional media
When you look at raw data, the trends become clear. Social Media Sites are squeezing out traditional media in terms of time, advertising and audience, said Magid Abraham co-founder and CEO of ...
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The Economist: The 3 hot topics of Davos
Matthew Bishop of The Economist gives his take on the 3 hottest issues being discussed in the hallways of the Congress Center in Davos this week: 1- THE BANKING SECTOR: Will we be able to regu...
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Orville Schell: In China vs Google, Google resembles a country
With a deep understanding of both China and the California technology scene, China expert Orville Schell is in a unique position to understand the mentality and thinking on both sides of the G...
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Desperately Seeking China VPN
In the wake of Google's clash with Beijing, it is interesting to note that more and more people are searching for VPNs in China. (Actually, people started searching even before Google's clash, so ther...
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Victor Koo: Monetizing Online Video in China
Victor Koo, co-founder of China-based Youku video platform, talks about his thinking in in terms of monetizing web video. Online video is just like any other medium, Koo said, so revenue shoul...
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For Danwei: The Future of Mobile Media
Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei asked a few people involved in China's digital scene to answer three questions on the future of mobile media. This is for The Fourth Danwei Plenary Session taking place at Op...
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Campaign Trail: Airplane Wheel Roulette
Just came across this photo from the 2004 US presidential campaign. I followed Kerry, Cheney and Edwards. In order to inject some fun into the extreme level of travel (sometimes 3 cities in a day) we ...
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Google vs China: Washington Corridor Chatter
_Below assessment of Google vs China confrontation as seen from Washington is from a report by Chris Nelson prepared for clients of Samuels International Associates, a trade and political consultancy....
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Baidu.tw hacked to show Google?
Not sure what this means, but when I go to baidu.tw, Google's homepage appears. Has someone hacked the page to support Google in their stance against the Beijing government?UPDATE: Robin Wauters of Te...
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In Chinese, Twitter Actually Means “Blog”
Thanks to the Chinese language, Twitter in China has quite a different meaning.Not literally, of course. In fact, Twitter has pretty much no meaning to the vast majority of Chinese Internet users. Alo...
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How Taobao beats eBay in China
Alibaba Group's Taobao platform was a latecomer to consumer-focused e-commerce in China, yet has managed to dominate the sector. When questioned how he could possibly beat eBay, Alibaba's Jack Ma memo...
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Marissa Mayer on Google and the Future of Newspapers
While at Le Web last month, I met up with Marissa Mayer backstage, where we chatted about the future of newspapers in the era of Google Newspapers need to become more "webby" to keep up in an increasi...
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Indonesia: Where Blackberry beats iPhone
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has been a contrarian market for smartphones. It is one of the few markets worldwide where the Blackberry beats the iPhone as a consumer smartphone....
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How To: Hack like China’s Government
UPDATE ON JAN 13, 2010: _Citing this paper and the one I added at the bottom, Google today announced that hacking concerns in China have prompted a broad review of the company's business operations in...
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Job: News Assistant in Hong Kong
An interesting entry-level job. Looking for: Assistant for research, reporting, translation, office organization in Hong Kong. -part-time or full-time possible -job includes: searching for stories in ...
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Mobile Social Networking in Japan
A nice presentation on Japan's use of mobile social networks put together by Alexei Poliakov. Japan Mobile SNS Study 2010 View more presentations from Alexei Poliakov....
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2009: A Year of Social Media in Cartoons
Amusing chronology of Social Media events in 2009, expressed in cartoons. By Rob Cuttingham. ...
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Quoted: China Daily on Social Media
Tiffany Wong recently published the first of a multi-part series in China Daily on Social Media, speaking with myself and Jonathon Zhu, who runs the Hong Kong Internet Project. Zhu has come out with s...
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Taiwan-bound: Care to meet at the Social Media Forum?
Heading to Taipei tomorrow for a few days. I will not have time for my regular Tweet-ups, but I do have a few spare tickets to the Business Next Social Media Forum. It looks like it will be very inter...
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My Happy New Year From Google: Lower PageRank
In checking the PageRank of my blog in the last hours of the last day of the year, I discovered that Google recently downgraded my blog from a PageRank of 6 to a PageRank of 5.Note to non-techies: Thi...
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Friendster’s Plans for Asia
I could find no link to the original, but thanks to the TechXAV blog I found an interview done by Tham Yuen-C of The Straits Times of Friendster’s Asia head Ian Stewart. Below are a few highlights....
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On TV: RTHK and Al Jazeera
Last weeks of the year busy with TV appearances, first with Steve Vines on The Pulse in Hong Kong to discuss the impact of Social Media on traditional media. Interesting discussion with Chris Kyme fro...
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Swarovski Crystal-Encrusted Hello Kitty Notebook
Forget Netbooks, iSlate and Android phones. The REAL gadget to get these days is a crystal-encrusted Hello Kitty Notebook from NEC. It comes in a range of colors, including pink, of course. Order one ...
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Rap-style Protest to Vietnam Banning Facebook
In the runup to the Communist Party Congress, Vietnam last week charged Le Cong Dinh, a prominent human rights lawyer, with capital crimes. This comes a month after Hanoi started what may be its bigge...
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Jobs: Ogilvy Social Media Strategists Needed in Asia
UPDATE: I HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMED BY THE ENTHUSIASTIC RESPONSE FROM JUST ABOUT EVERY CONTINENT ON EARTH (ANYONE IN ANTARCTICA INTERESTED?). APOLOGIES FOR DELAY IN RESPONDING. I WAS SWAMPED GOING INTO TH...
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Twitter (and other microblogs) in China
Nice piece by Lara Farrar up on CNN\'s website about microblogging in China. I spoke with Lara as she was reporting (thanks for the quote, Lara!) and she also spoke with a wide range of great people. ...
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McKinsey: Rising power of Social Media in China
An annual survey of Chinese consumers by McKinsey took time to highlight the power of Social Media in China.China really is a global-standard country in terms of involvement in Social Media by consume...
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Job: East-West Center Jefferson Fellowship
Media Contact: Derek Ferrar Media Relations Specialist 808-944-7204 ferrard at eastwestcenter.org TRAVEL AND REPORTING OPPORTUNITY IN ASIA PACIFIC The East-West Center is accepting applications for th...
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China’s Fickle Luxury Consumers
Excellent study by The Boston Consulting Group makes many excellent points about China's consumption of luxury, but I found this graph particularly striking. Those who come out worst are Chanel, Arman...
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How Young Asia Listens to Music
Great lunch today with Steve Garton of the research company Synovate who shared, among other studies, some research into the music habits of young Asians. Some interesting differences across the regio...
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Job: WSJ Asia Fellowship
The Wall Street Journal http://wsj.com in association with New York University http://www.nyu.edu/, is looking for one or two promising journalists from Asia to enroll in the three-semester masters pr...
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Mindy Zhang: Social Media in China
A nice introductory presentation on Social Media in China by Mindy Zhang, a junior at Wharton. Her blog is here. Social Media in China View more documents from Mindy Zhang....
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Social Media in Asia (Slides)
Some slides from a presentation I did recently on Social Media in Asia. I may pull them out one at a time to encourage people to give their take and input. (But feel free to comment below!) UPDATE: Ye...
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Job: China Correspondent
China Correspondent The Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly U.S. newspaper with a daily web site, is seeking a correspondent to cover higher education in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Expe...
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Tiger Woods’s Social Media Standing
Nielsen did a series of maps about Tiger Woods' standing in Social Media. Calling it a "Brand Association Map", Nielsen scanned 60,000 sources of consumer generated media in these two periods to see w...
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Scobleized: Social Media in Asia
I met up with uber blogger Robert Scoble (aka: Scobleizer) ahead of Le Web. I intended on interviewing him, but he turned his camera on me before I could get mine out. ...
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The Future of Communication (My view)
The below video was not just intended to risk my life getting run over by a tram. It is intended to launch an internal discussion with a client about how best to use the latest social media tools for ...
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Social Media Usage by Asia’s Small Companies
The Straits Times this weekend reported that 72 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises surveyed across five Asian countries have a presence on social media platforms such as YouTube or Twitter....
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Lindbergh Flies Alone
_Although I now spend my time living and writing about Social Media, when cut my veins still bleed ink. Newspaper ink. Newspapers are often called the first draft of history, but they also occasionall...
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Great Visualizations of the Internet
John Yunker of Bytelevel Research recently posted some great visualizations showing the popularity of domain names across the Internet. You can buy them as posters....
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US Govt Polls Asian Journalists about Obama
_Are you a journalist in Asia? Obama wants to hear from you!The US State Department has started looking for feedback from journalists in Asia about Obama's speech tomorrow. (No pressure, Mr. Speechwri...
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India’s Coming Urban Crisis
Sitting today in Delhi traffic, you might say the crisis is already here, but based on population trends and urban immigration projections put together in a report by Booz & Co, more trouble is on the...
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Will India Become an Empire?
Between attending great discussions on India, I had the opportunity to discuss whether India will become an empire with Aaron Pereira. brachycephaly...
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Google Employees Earn US$302,314 (for the company)
Interesting chart from Silicon Alley Insider on how Google's revenue per employee has hit a three year high, with a revenue per employee hitting US$302,314....
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ASEAN online advertising market
Online advertising numbers are notoriously difficult to estimate in Asia, with some claims of market size at multiples of estimates by others. This estimate for online adspend in ASEAN, released in De...
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Asians Search Prior to Purchasing
Not surprisingly, Asians tend to search a great deal before making an online purchase. What I find interesting about this study by Mastercard and IPSOS, in fact, is that a great many people DO NOT sea...
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President Oba Mao Heads to China
China is gearing up for Barack Obama's upcoming visit. As pictures from Wen Xue City show, the T-shirt vendors are already warmed up, Mr President! (While in Ireland this summer, people referred to th...
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Asia’s Most Newspaper Loving Nations
This chart is taken from the fascinating WAN IFRA research report on the state of newspapers in China, India and Southeast Asia.Not surprising to see Hong Kong off the charts, with a combined paid-for...
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Facebook’s Rise in Australia
Attended a great presentation today by Matt Hehman of Facebook who spoke about the social network's growth in Australia to more than 6 million active users monthly. Of those 51% login in daily, spendi...
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Hessler: Gold Farmers and Copy Artists of Lishui
_Great city profile in this week's New Yorker by Peter Hessler.The city profiled is Lishui, a third-tier Chinese factory town in Zhejiang Province, with a population of around two hundred and fifty t...
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Why Friendster Lost the Philippines to Facebook
Why have so many in the Philippines switched from Friendster to Facebook? Dominique Anne offers a great list that came out of her talk with Paolo Pangan of Yehey!Her list (slightly edited):QUALITY, NO...
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Friendster’s anti-Facebook strategy for Southeast Asia
Battling against the fast rise of Facebook usage in Southeast Asia, Friendster created a partnership to launch a mobile wallet system in Malaysia that will soon roll out in other Southeast Asian marke...
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19th Century China as seen by Sir William Tyrone Power, KCB
I have finally started tackling the life and adventures of my great-great-grandfather, Sir William Tyrone Power, KCB. William is of particular interest to me due to his wide travels in the 19th centur...
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Asia’s Heaviest Gamers: China, Singapore, Oz
A recent study done by Millward Brown and Neo@Ogilvy showed the extent to which China's gamers are Asia's most dedicated. (Not surprising or breaking news, but very interesting to see nonetheless)...
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Memoriam Page For Dead Magazines
Gawker has a striking and ever growing memoriam page for magazines that died in the US in 2008/2009.(No, Time magazine is not dead. That is Time Style and Design)...
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China Youth: More Friends Online Than Offline
How many BFFs do you have?Dunbar\'s number is the famed 150 friends with whom humans are supposed to be able to keep close relations. For Asian youths, however, the average number of friends is 107.Ia...
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Steve Nagata: Crazy Tour of Akihabara
Steve Nagata, a former New York city guide and confirmed geek, gave a great tour of his new neighborhood: Tokyo's tech-crazy Akihabara. Steve took Kohei Nishiyama and me on a whirlwind tour of...
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Facebook for Business (Training Deck)
Ogilvy On: Facebook for Business View more documents from 360digitalinfluence. The deck was put together by my colleague Brian Giesen for our training session done in partnership with The Wall St...
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Can Asia Flip Facebook’s Business Model?
As this chart shows, the sale of digital items rapidly overtook advertising as the major source of revenue for the Japanese social network GREE (same is true of other social networks in Japan and Chin...
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Hong Kong Seminar: Social Media and Travel
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Cool Map: Asia’s Dominant Social Networks
Following an excellent article in the San Francisco Chronicle by Benny Evangelista about Friendster focusing efforts on Southeast Asia, here is a quick map of Asia's dominant Social Networks. Data for...
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Online Seminar: Facebook for Business in Asia
A photo of my colleague, Ogilvy Digital Influence specialist Bessie Ng, catching up with the news from The Wall Street Journal. You may notice an ad for the Facebook for Business session on the paper....
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Chris Reitermann: China Internet Advertising
Chris Reitermann, President of OgilvyOne in China - Ogilvy's direct response and digital advertising agency, discusses China's online adspend and what media companies can do to grab a slice o...
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Social Media Trust Outstrips Traditional Media in Asia
Someone - you know who you are! - asked me to share this slide from a recent presentation. Instead, I decided to share it on my blog. Taken from a study released earlier this year by TNS, this slide s...
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Sharon Waxman: NYT Reporter Turned New Media Entrepreneur
Can experienced journalists go solo and use blogging and new media platforms instead of working with a traditional publisher? If so, what are the topics which will work?One answer that seems to work c...
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10 Career Options for Foreign Correspondents
Eric Weiner, a friend, bestselling author of Geography of Bliss and fellow former foreign correspondent lists the options for our breed. This list was originally composed thinking in terms of a 40-som...
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