Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Olympic Commercial Roundup: Bronze Medallist Number 2

Great message, plus Morgan Freeman is narrating. Visa is everywhere I want to be.

Olympic Commercial Roundup: Gold Medallist Number 2

Too bad it's for such an awful airline, because this commercial is sweet. Maybe they could re-direct some of their resources towards customer service?

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Viral Video of the Day

You have probably heard a few stories about what was faked during the Olympics in Beijing, including: some of the fireworks, spectators at the games, a building, and the song for China.

With all of the forgery at the Olympics, China is starting to receive more negative PR than you can shake a stick at. At least one positive thing has come from this: a hilarious rip-off of Lin Miaoke singing "I sing for my county." This time she is singing a big of a different tune...


Thursday, August 7, 2008

Free music...in China?!?

Google is launching a new music service called Music Onebox in China. People can actually download, not stream, tracks for free. The service is supported through ad revenue.

At this point, record labels really have no choice but to try a service like this in China, since 99% of people don't pay for music over there.

Mashable has a good summary of the service here.

Monday, August 4, 2008

The Olympics on YouTube

YouTube will be streaming clips of the Olympics to 77 countries.

This is be a nice feature, considering the major time difference between China and other parts of the world.