A week before most of China took some time off for some extended public holidays, it felt as if the Chinese tech scene was trying to cram everything into the past seven days instead. So grab some well-deserved Sunday coffee and then get to grips with all this:
1. Sina Weibo rolls out social QR codes for all users
China’s hottest social network, Sina Weibo, rolls out new features at the kind of speed that’d make Twitter’s founders have nose-bleeds. And so Weibo started out the week by launching personalized QR codes to make it easier for users to share their profiles.
2. WeChat vs Sina Weibo for business in China [Infographic]
We know you folks love infographics – and this one is especially neat as it’s a great primer on how the messaging app WeChat is (surprisingly) emerging as a new must-do channel for social marketing in China.
3. On Facebook and Twitter in China, and getting the numbers right
Sticking with social, we noticed some very dodgy-sounding numbers about Facebook and Twitter users in China, and decided to stay away from them. In the end, it proved to be an object lesson in the dangers of extrapolation – and the importance of fact-checking the fact-collators.
4. China has over a billion mobile users, 192 million on 3G
From time to time, it’s good to take a step back and look at the big picture. And this is a pretty huge one.
5. How China’s internet is going mobile, and why that could be a problem
…And if we look into the near-future of the mobile web in China, we can see that drastically different demographics will make it a monetization nightmare.
6. Report: As Burma improves, China is now Asia’s worst net freedom offender
The Chinese internet, close to being an intranet, can’t get any worse, can it? Well, it turns out it can, and it has.
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