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Okay, so basically the best time to be online is when China is asleep and the Pacific Ocean is awake...

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Fascinating how Baidu is following Google into this space long before anybody has figured out whether or not this proposition is going to make any money. I suspect the hidden hand of the Party and the NDRC.

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There are good articles about the internet in China, and there are great articles about the internet in China. This, sadly, is neither. Rather than provide a nuanced view of why local internet companies do well in China and why the foreigners fail, the authors go instead for the Single-Factor Soft Kill: those darn protectionist Chinese.

Unfortunately, because this is BW, it will likely become a meme.

If only Tiff Roberts or Bruce Einhorn had written it.

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"New learning technologies prompt a rethinking of traditional course structure"

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"China’s Twitter disappointed investors when its owner Sina Corp. said it won’t yet charge fees for the microblogging site. But Weibo still has potential — and makes Sina’s valuation look cheap, especially after the shares fell 5.5 percent in after-market trading. Weibo already has half as many users as Twitter does, but just a quarter of the implied valuation."

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"By coupling the Xinhua News Agency with China Mobile Ltd., Panguso brings state-safe news to hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens."

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"Fellow Aliren:

As we have announced today, the B2B board of directors has accepted the resignations of B2B CEO David Wei and COO Elvis Lee. Additionally, former senior VP of B2B HR Kangming Deng has resigned his post as Chief People Officer of Alibaba Group in acceptance of responsibility and will be demoted to a different post."

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Baidu Inc may face anti-monopoly scrutiny after a Chinese website launched a complaint against the country's biggest search engine.

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Gady Epstein on why the Jasmine Revolution won't happen in China

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Not sure I agree entirely with Nussbaum's point, but it deserves consideration.

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nd so Hermione Granger, that charming grind, still goes to the Hogwarts library and spends hours and hours working her way through the stacks, finding out what a basilisk is or how to make a love potion. The idea that a wizard in training might have, instead, a magic pad where she could inscribe a name and in half a second have an avalanche of news stories, scholarly articles, books, and images (including images she shouldn’t be looking at) was a Quidditch broom too far. Now, having been stuck with the library shtick, she has to go on working the stacks in the Harry Potter movies, while the kids who have since come of age nudge their parents. “Why is she doing that?” they whisper. “Why doesn’t she just Google it?”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/02/14/110214crat_atlarge_gopnik#ixzz1DwGpQqaZ

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PRETEND for a moment that you are Google’s search engine.

Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result?

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Groupon will stop running the ads that it ran during the Super Bowl -- which inadvertently offended a bunch of people -- and will run something "less polarizing" instead, CEO Andrew Mason wrote today on the company's blog.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-pulls-those-super-bowl-ads-ceo-feels-terrible-that-we-made-you-feel-bad-2011-2#ixzz1DdkBsLhJ

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Although attacks by governments against their own people using the Internet get more press, warfare between countries has been spreading online for some time. Most of the instances that have come to light have been viruses designed to stop, or slow down, activities in another country that the attacking country feels threatened by, or spying operations.

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BEIJING—Searching for wealthy customers beyond China's urban areas, luxury-goods makers are opening shop in a new location: the Chinese Internet.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703865004575648312069857150.html#ixzz1D5G5BlrJ

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Never mind enormous yachts: Peter Thiel is spending his billions on space travel, life extension, artificial intelligence, and paying top students not to go to college

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