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I just posted a list of some of my favorite China blogs. Check it out. If there's something you think should be added, let me know. I'll be adding to this list over time.

Competition Spurs Development of Many Feature-Rich Chinese Microblogs

While the English microblog market is characterized as being ‘Twitter and challengers we compare to Twitter,’ the Chinese microblogosphere is bursting with competition, creativity and copying. Multiple contenders jostle with each other for 400 million Chinese Internet users that haven’t yet decided which microblog they would prefer to use, if any. To add to the confusion, Chinese government censors have already shut down a couple microblogs. Read more...

I've been playing with Yeeyan for a bit recently and I've come to realize that it could be a great free marketing tool for English businesses that have newsworthy articles. Yeeyan is a Chinese-language community website with members that translate articles from English to Chinese. All members do this for free. If you're a business or website owner that doesn't know Chinese, you may still be able to take advantage of this to: Read more...

I just tried out Zuosa today. In many ways it is a Twitter-clone. The idea, design and even the colors are much alike, but like any good clone, it has grown apart from the original in many ways. Here are some things that are different: Read more...

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I recently took a look at Google's "translator toolkit." This is their translation memory tool made for translators. The idea is that many translators will contribute and share many many many translations thus making it easier for the translators to do their jobs while improving Google's translation tools at the same time. Read more...