the LinkedIn Presbyter (mascot?)

was trying to check out the linkedin invitation a friend sent to me.
but it shows the page below (they are upgrading the system right now.


at the first sight, it was just a notification. Then the linkedin man caught my attention.
it looks like someone. what do you think? any idea on your side?

I call it the Linkedin Presbyter, so much like Reid Hoffman, the founding CEO of linkedin.

Disagree with me? well, take a closer look. ^^

The Presbyter looks so approachable and caring.

BASE May 22nd Event Registration

Nation-wide Mourning for May 12 China Earthquake Including the monochromic Internet

May 19-21 are the three days of the national mourning for the victims who died on May 12 Wenchuan, Sichuan Earthquake. By now, the death toll has reached 34,073, reported by CCTV.

Besides, the people in China are mourning for the victims by not involving in any entertainment activities of any sort, wearing dark color dresses etc.. The Chinese internet seems synchronously followed the same monochromic look on their sites.

I've checked most of the frequently visited Chinese websites of mine. They all presented the similar monochrome color- the black & white theme to show their condolences and sympathy to the victims in the catastrophic earthquake took place on May 12 2:28pm (GMT +8) with its epicenter at Wenchuan, Eastern Sichuan, China.

Here are some examples.

Fake McDonald's Career page?

I was browsing my friends blog just now and saw there was an ad for McDonald's part time jobs.

It looks like this

[ad image]


I clicked on it... to see what it is about? I never worked in McD. don't think i am gonna work there. just out of curiosity, i clicked on it.

the following page showed up. It looks like it's from McD but... I just feel that it's might be a mock to collect info of thousands... who knows...

[page image]


I typed www.mcdonalds.com.sg ... that one works... i visited before, so there is no problem there.
checked the www.mcdonalds.com.sg/recruitment it showed something sensible...

then i clicked on "apply now"...
what is it about?

the same URL that the ad linked to http://mcdsg.workstarglobal.com/

Thus, the ad should be REAL then. Thank Goodness!

Gosh! Why cannot McD Sg just set up something on their site instead of rerouting to other URL that appears so not trusting.

well... maybe I am to suspicious about the real identity of a site an Google ad links to.

Can all Google Ads be trusted?

Churchill Club: Top 10 Tech trends debate

I think you might be wondering once in a while...

"What's new?"
"How the market is like in 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or even 10, 20, 30 years?"
"What's gonna make it big in the near future?"
"What are the hot spots in tech?"
...
etc.

Here is a list that you can think about and see whether they click with your thoughts.

my thoughts are:
1. mobile devices gonna be hot in the techie community
a. iPhone - applications, distribution channels, 3G and its related peripheral markets
b. phone OS - designed for techies and tech-savvy users to play around and customize their own phones... so which phone manufacturer will produce mobile phones that allows the geeks to crash their phone. Nokia?
c. mobile services... data plans (teleco), mobile widgets, mobile shopping... text messages in US

2. Clean Tech... alternative energy... this hype will never die off. I guess you will see some applicable alternative energy technology in the market in 2009 and 2010. lots of initiatives started in around 2006 and hope to see some results soon. at least pioneering initiatives.
Who's gonna lead? Technology will be the US but the practitioners will be China and European countries because of their strong government support and subsidies.

3. I feel strongly that there is gonna be some breakthrough in bio-tech in curing and treatment in 2009. maybe something for Aids will be in the market that cheap enough (relatively) for people to purchase.

4. enterprise 2.0 starting end of 2008 - 2010... it's gonna be huge... many enterprises are waking up from their hibernation after their first four season in the 1.0 world. Yes.. the spring is coming and it's time to wake up and get some fresh food.

Baidu cutomized its logo for China Earthquake

My coworker loaded Baidu.com page as his home page on his Firefox browser (Chinese Simplified). I saw the logo appeared weird and it was black and white and i thought it was for something.

Yes... then I tried on my browser...

typed: baidu.com

(loading page)

(paged loaded)

then, this logo came out!



it is to announce or call for help or memorize for the Sichuan earthquake took place on May 12 at 2:28pm.

Why does not Google do something about its logo?

Facebook "network" concept vanishes?

I think it was one month ago. Facebook removed its "network" tab on it's home page for users.
I do like the network page and it shows interesting stuff within the network.
I could still access it if I go to my Profile and click on the networks to view the page.
Yesterday (May 14, 2008) I discovered that there are no long hyperlinks for the networks on my profile.
I tried typing "http://www.facebook.com/networks.php" it rerouted to "http://www.facebook.com/networks/networks.php" where you are still able to find a way to access to the network page (of your networks). However, you need to search your networks.
Once you are on the page (like the Silicon Valley, CA one), you would see such notification box, announcing "Network Page will be discontinued soon"


Remember I met Ben, from Mobile Monday. We were talking about some "Dark Ages" of Internet due to privacy issues. Does this mean that Facebook has notified the advent of "dark ages" and trying to prevent it from happening? well... if it is really coming, it can only be delayed but not avoided.

Have not found anything announced over the online media about discontinuing the network page from Facebook. Hope they can announce their intention and reasons why they are doing this.

Thanks to Piet, we had an awesome leisure gathering at Centro at Kerry Center, Beijing, China.
Have a safe trip back to Netherlands and catch up with you soon!

China earthquake on twitter May 13

Here are some more tweets tracking on China earthquake.

download the pdf file here.

over 10,000 injuries and deaths have been reported.

after over 40 hours, finally the rescue team managed to reach the epicenter of this earthquake...
feel so sorry and sad for the people.

I saw a beggar walking by after my lunch and he looked like a real homeless person. After the Tsinghua South gate (the road leads to the gate actually) there is a gabbage can next to the steps of the cross-over bridge. He stopped and started digging (some food, I guess). I have a bag of packed (left-over) food. Well, they are still fresh as we just finished eating at Quanjude.
He seemed disappointed as he could not find anything eatable. Then, I passed one package of the food to him. Then he went to the roadside and started eating, bending his body and standing. Looks so pathetic.

Helping the people suffering from the earthquake damages is far and mos of the time we feel so powerless in such situation. As a person, there is so little we can do. At this moment, it is the team work, leaving no-one behind spirit will motivate more and more people to stay strong and get ready to rebuild their life. I know it's tough. The world is trying to help. It will take a couple of years to get recovered from such large-scaled disaster. Hope for the best!

China earthquak on twitter

I followed last night from 8pm till now
tracked 'earthquake' and 'chengdu'

gosh... over 1600 lines.

here is the archive of the tracking...

CCTV Special Broadcasting on Sichuan Wenchuan Earthquake

I turned on the TV while taking a break from work. I found that CCTV 1 was having this special broadcasting program for the earthquake. it's showing the latest info and news from Sichuan province. due to the serious high magnitude of 7.8 earthquake, there are disastrous damages to the epicenter. By now they still don't have picture nor videos from there due to ruined road access to wenchuan county.

cctv has reported that the number of deaths has reached 8533 with time stamped at 11:40pm.
The department of transportation and police is trying to keep the major road access smooth to allow first aids and goods to be transported to Sichuan province. The entire country is trying to help the people in the disaster area.

my condolences to all the people who died in this unexpected disaster and their family members.

so the info of the earthquake is May 12 14:28pm (GMT+8) of magnitude 7.8.
USGS' first hand info was very accurate back then!

updated: the tremor depth was only about 29 km below surface. compared to the 1976 tangshan disastrous earthquake of a similar magnitude, that depth was 11 km and over 242,000 of people died in the tangshan earthquake.

Premier Wen has already arrived at Sichuan to work on relief work with officials. He reached Sichuan about 7:18pm in the evening May 12.

(12:07am May 13)

earthquake in CHina on twitter

I had notification turned on via Gtalk and I started tracking "earthquake" and "chengdu"
this is what I received updates in the one hour interval of tracking.
16:28- 17:28 ( I stopped because my Mac hang in the end... too many updates?)

Updated: some collapse scene at Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China (picture via Sina.com)
21:21 May 12 2008



4:21:14 PM David: (L) CHina: track earthquake
4:21:15 PM twitter@twitter.com: You'll now receive updates matching 'earthquake'. To stop, send 'untrack earthquake'.

4:21:22 PM David: (L) CHina: on
4:21:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: Updates are on. Turn them off by sending 'off'.

4:21:26 PM twitter@twitter.com: (newsnet): From The BBC Powerful earthquake shakes China: An earthquake measuring 7.5 has hit south-west.. http://tinyurl.com/6gygxy

4:21:34 PM twitter@twitter.com: (newsnet): From Fox News Powerful Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake Rocks Western China: A 7.5-magnitude quake s.. http://tinyurl.com/5hpa4b

4:21:46 PM twitter@twitter.com: (interweber): inwalkebud went from 2 to 49 followers in 30 min b/c he is in Chengdu Province twittering about earthquake

4:21:50 PM twitter@twitter.com: marcothesis: @davidatsg Yeah we need the real thing here soon! The iPod touch is kind of lame to me when I see people using it.
4:22:00 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greggscott): @mmsullivan Good catch Mike. http://is.gd/fen A BBC Blogger gives Twitter and @Scobleizer some kudos for China Earthquake coverage.

4:22:44 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jondillon): (AFP) - China has sent military troops to help with disaster relief work following 7.5 magnitude earthquake that rocked SW China, Xinhua

4:22:52 PM twitter@twitter.com: (dsin): Earthquake in BKK Huh ?? I don't feel anything.

4:22:55 PM twitter@twitter.com: (blognl): Hoop dat Carolien van http://tinyurl.com/5oj62g ok is na die earthquake in China

4:23:11 PM twitter@twitter.com: (scoblecalacanis): Lots of people saying Summize is best Twitter search for Quake info: http://summize.com/search?q=earthquake

4:23:13 PM twitter@twitter.com: (tweetmeme): @tweetipFH http://tinyurl.com/6gpp4s BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Twitter and the China earthquake

4:23:55 PM twitter@twitter.com: (newsalert): No Major Damage: RTE News article says China earthquake does not appear to have caused any major damage in Chengdu http://twurl.nl/4mplq5

4:24:04 PM twitter@twitter.com: (xmpp): earthquake, SMS contacted with a friend in Chengdu, he replied "震感强烈，正在空旷的地方"

4:24:05 PM twitter@twitter.com: (houyr): the earthquake hit china 88 days before the opening of the Olympics, which will be held on 8/8/2008 at 8:00 wow is that a coincidence??

4:24:22 PM twitter@twitter.com: (michellem): Finally see the value of @Scobleizer following the whole Twitter crowd - big earthquake new hit Twitter before anywhere else, Scoble saw it

4:25:17 PM twitter@twitter.com: (revtriste): No Major Damage: RTE News article says China earthquake does not appear to have caused any major damage in Chengdu http://twurl.nl/4mplq5

4:25:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jennwong): Just landed in Hongqiao, apparently there was an earthquake while we were in the air?

4:25:25 PM twitter@twitter.com: (wufflebunny): 5 fox news channels and not one me them covering earthquake

4:26:09 PM David: (L) CHina: track chengdu
4:26:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: You'll now receive updates matching 'chengdu'. To stop, send 'untrack chengdu'.

4:26:20 PM twitter@twitter.com: (expatacular): Michael added the blog post 'Earthquake in Sichuan' http://snipr.com/28fxr

4:26:21 PM David: (L) CHina: untrack ski
4:26:22 PM twitter@twitter.com: You'll no longer receive updates that match 'ski'.

4:26:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ATorris): Just got home to a report of an earthquake in China! 7.5 near Chengdu.

4:26:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rakeman): Epizentrum 50km nördlich von Chengdu http://snurl.com/28fxp in 10km Tiefe - Noch keine Berichte von dort

4:27:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: (gabyu): I havent seen one person in chengdu online

4:28:07 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ctq1123): 【cnBeta.COM】 插播:四川东部发生7.8级以上地震 汶川县震级已达8.0级 接大量网友报告,称自己所在城市发生地震,根据USGS Earthquake Hazards Program(美国国家地质局地震灾害研究项目)报告显示,本次地震发生于四川东部,接近成都与绵 ...

4:28:29 PM twitter@twitter.com: (xizor2000): 7.5 scale earthquake in Chengdu, China.

4:28:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rakeman): Chengdu scheint OK http://snurl.com/28fxy#earthquake

4:28:49 PM twitter@twitter.com: (dsin): Noticed that earthquake always happened at high building in Silom, and after that an employer go home.

4:28:50 PM twitter@twitter.com: (califmom): @wufflebunny fox not covering earthquake is surprising how? bbc just picked it up a little bit ago. and cnn international. does fox do int'l

4:28:55 PM twitter@twitter.com: (paulbradshaw): Twitter and the Chinese Earthquake: http://twurl.nl/orsllk

4:29:16 PM twitter@twitter.com: (pcguo): 来自pcguo.com消息： 插播:四川东部发生7.8级以上地震 汶川县震级已达8.0级 接大量网友报告,称自己所在城市发生地震,根据USGS Earthquake Hazards Program(美国国家地质局地震灾害研究项目)报告显示,本次地震发生于四川东部,接近成都 ...

4:29:28 PM twitter@twitter.com: (spinncafe): I have to say it again, Lhasa wasn't affected by the Sichuan earthquake.

4:29:29 PM twitter@twitter.com: (gersham): "No major damage" and "nobody appears to have been hurt in Chengdu": http://tinyurl.com/4dsmne

4:29:44 PM twitter@twitter.com: (nickhalstead): @scobleizer tweetmeme shows 3 different bits of coverage of the earthquake

4:29:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: (CultureS): waking up to an earthquake in China

4:29:53 PM twitter@twitter.com: (dailytelegraph): Huge earthquake hits China http://tinyurl.com/6oq682

4:30:08 PM twitter@twitter.com: (virtualreview): Earthquake in China http://tinyurl.com/5y852j

4:30:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (speer360): @Scobleizer Estimated Population Exposed to Earthquake Shaking http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/pager/events/us/2008ryan/index.html

4:30:38 PM twitter@twitter.com: (febake): Twitter and the Chinese Earthquake http://is.gd/feF

4:30:41 PM twitter@twitter.com: (califmom): finding it hard to believe there's not major damage reported in chengdu post quake. anything over 7, i'd expect damage.

4:30:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rje7): Can't get over feeling Earthquake while sitting in Beijing from 3 hrs away in Chengdu.

4:31:06 PM twitter@twitter.com: (virtualreview): Strong earthquake hits southwest China http://tinyurl.com/43ogoy

4:31:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (alexmu): 在Flickr 搜索“地震”“earthquake”可看到最新地震图片。U will find some pictures on flickr by search "earthquake".

4:31:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (clarocada): Has anyone seen anything on Google Earth yet about today's Chinese earthquake?

4:31:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (damndirtypandas): @melissagira outside of the epicenter seems to be ok but closer in.... As long as she is not in chengdu should be safe

4:31:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: Chengdu twitterers @casperodj @inwalkbud now giving updates
4:31:48 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): Twitter and the China earthquake: http://tinyurl.com/5sduj9

4:31:53 PM twitter@twitter.com: (virtualreview): Earthquake hits western China http://tinyurl.com/3v74o3

4:32:05 PM twitter@twitter.com: (RTEnews): No major damage after China earthquake: A powerful earthquake that shook southwestern China today does no.. http://tinyurl.com/6j8r84

4:32:08 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): Twitter and the China earthquake (2): http://summize.com/search?q=earthquake

4:32:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (JackBury): RTÉ News reports no casualties or structural damage in Chengdu. earthquake was massive but gentle.

4:32:15 PM twitter@twitter.com: dtan: @Scobleizer yup... in Beijing alright, my head still feels kinda dizzy. Never felt such strong moves even after 10years in Bayarea.
4:32:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (RTEnewsWorld): No major damage after China earthquake: A powerful earthquake that shook southwestern China today do.. http://tinyurl.com/6j8r84

4:32:32 PM twitter@twitter.com: (trusip): Chinese news say the epicentre was in 汶川 (Wenchuan). They still don't know how the situation is in Chengdu

4:32:37 PM twitter@twitter.com: (webleon): Just landed in Hongqiao, apparently there was an earthquake while we were in the air? (via @jennwong)

4:32:59 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: @niubi there was a quake in Haidian las week? I'm in Haidian..oh wait, i was in Europe then
4:34:04 PM twitter@twitter.com: (asteris): @internetakias @drandakis http://urlb.org/lhsi "Twitter & the China earthquake", from a BBC blog. The word spreads, about the word spreading

4:34:17 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): Retweeting @frankyu: Chengdu twitterers @casperodj @inwalkbud now giving updates

4:34:40 PM twitter@twitter.com: (alanataylor): Drinking a cappuccino, studying for my final in 4 hours, and scanning through @scobleizer's tweets for news on the earthquake in China.

4:35:09 PM twitter@twitter.com: (thelondonpaper): NEWS: China rocked by earthquake: Quake measuring 7.8 on richter scale hits south west China http://tinyurl.com/6a4fgl

4:35:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (JohnGuise): Most of the news has switched to how Twitter was key to earthquake information.

4:35:39 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mitchelltsai): @dtan Thanks for your quick info about the earthquake.

4:35:42 PM twitter@twitter.com: (califmom): in addition to @scobelizer's 'earthquake' search on summize also search for 'quake' http://tinyurl.com/45kgrw

4:36:37 PM twitter@twitter.com: (samflemming): Mom, if you read this, dong worry. The earthquake did not hit shanghai. I am safe. :)

4:36:52 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): retweet (samflemming): Mom, if you read this, dong worry. The earthquake did not hit shanghai. I am safe. :)

4:37:26 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): retweet (speer360): @Scobleizer Estimated Population Exposed to Earthquake Shaking http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/pager/events/us/2 ...

4:37:51 PM twitter@twitter.com: (gervis): Transferring twitter earthquake reports to smartmobs http://tinyurl.com/5hefqr

4:38:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greggscott): Via @ChinaRed Google Map of Earthquake epicenter. http://twurl.nl/fbrh2b

4:38:17 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jondillon): (AFP) - China has warned that an earthquake measuring between 2 & 6 on Richter scale could hit Beijing late Monday, state media reported.

4:39:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (lyrrael): I'm an American volunteer living in Chengdu, China. I teach at Southwest University for Nationalities, in downtown Chengdu.

4:39:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Scobleizer): Population map of earthquake zone: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/pager/events/us/2008ryan/index.html

4:40:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (wennberg): The information provided about the Chineese earthquake in Twitter is amazing...

4:40:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (latimesworld): Earthquake rocks central China - http://tinyurl.com/6pekbs

4:40:31 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ggladman): BBC on Twitter and the Chinese earthquake: http://snurl.com/28fze

4:40:39 PM twitter@twitter.com: (montemagno): Young Dutch Twitterer CasperOdJ reporting live from Chengdu China on todays earthquake. http://tinyurl.com/5hefqr

4:40:41 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Scobleizer): @leonwestbrook unfollow me. I don't need the abuse. There was a major earthquake, deal with it.

4:41:03 PM twitter@twitter.com: (casperodj): i've seen some chalk chucked of buildings by the earthquake. for the rest i haven't seen any more damage

4:41:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): New blog post: BREAKING - China Earthquake - 7.8 Magnitude http://tinyurl.com/6fgbvp

4:41:17 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Guerel): @lyrrael Where has it been the more hit by earthquake in Chengdu?

4:41:27 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): retweet @casperodj: i've seen some chalk chucked of buildings by the earthquake. for the rest i haven't seen any more damage

4:41:30 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): For China earthquake accounts, follow Twitterers @casperodj @lyrrael @inwalkedbud

4:41:56 PM twitter@twitter.com: (galovesongs): Earthquake in Chengdu. If this happened last year, I would get affected.

4:42:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fred2baro): scanning the news, @scobleizer and tv to see if there's any casuaties after 7.5+ earthquake in china

4:42:17 PM twitter@twitter.com: (twilightfairy): Now some of the ones who experienced the earthquake are notifying their wellbeing thru twitter. cool thing this..

4:42:18 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mrpower): Oooh! Ain't Twitter wonderful. Scoble Twittered the China earthquake first!! Erm, and predicted "this will have a major death toll." WRONG!

4:42:22 PM twitter@twitter.com: (lyrrael): the teachers I was with this afternoon when it first happened told me that it was the first earthquake in thirty years.

4:42:34 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: @zjjtrans my apologies for typo this is the name @inwalkedbud for the other chengdu tweeter
4:42:49 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): No one appears to have been hurt in Chengdu

4:43:07 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): Retweeting @lyrrael: I'm an American volunteer living in Chengdu, China. teach at Southwest University for Nationalities, downtown Chengdu.

4:43:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): No major damage after China earthquake

4:43:21 PM twitter@twitter.com: (bahadir): Breaking News: China earthquake was a making of @scobleizer for his twitter experiment :)

4:43:42 PM twitter@twitter.com: (pdkurt): anyone'd like to have a 'thank god we survived (may be) the strongest earthquake in china since we entered the 21st century' dinner?

4:43:44 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): lijkt mee te vallen met schade en gewonden in Chengdu: http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0512/china.html

4:43:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Scobleizer): @marketingfacts says no one appears to be hurt in Chengdu. Are you on the ground?

4:44:13 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mrpower): It really helps me to find out that a sparsely populated region of China has had an earthquake a few minutes before it gets onto Reuters!!

4:44:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (twilightfairy): summize.com showing live tweets abt earthquakes. The trend history in the sidebar, slowly turning from Mom & youtube to china & chengdu

4:44:16 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: @zjjtrans yes @casperodj was just visiting chengdu when quake hit. normally in Shanghai
4:44:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fred2baro): a good inside sum-up about the china earthquake http://twurl.nl/mr37dr

4:44:50 PM twitter@twitter.com: (CurranC): China hit by 7.8 earthquake 90km WNW of Chengdu. Chinese news say the epicentre was in 汶川 (Wenchuan). US Geol Survey: http://is.gd/feP

4:45:05 PM twitter@twitter.com: (shizhao): from @fuzheado: Retweeting @lyrrael: I'm an American volunteer living in Chengdu, China. teach at Southwest University for Nationalities ...

4:45:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (tweetipFH): No serious quake damage in Chengdu - China state TV —AFP... http://tweetip.us/lkrni

4:45:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (tweetip): No serious quake damage in Chengdu - China state TV —AFP... http://tweetip.us/lkrni

4:45:16 PM twitter@twitter.com: (tingtigre): Daniel said big earthquake in china.slight in taiwan.

4:45:18 PM twitter@twitter.com: (pdenlinger): Has anybody checked Tianya and the other BBSes for earthquake coverage?

4:45:22 PM twitter@twitter.com: (guardiannews): Earthquake hits western China: Tremors from quake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale felt as far awa.. http://tinyurl.com/5cnm64

4:45:25 PM twitter@twitter.com: (chinaherald): China A-shares close higher; off highs after earthquake - Forbes http://tinyurl.com/5pqp2l

4:45:47 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Guerel): @lyrrael CNN claims the epicenter was 10 kms below Chengdu area but also said there are casualties No figures provided so far!

4:45:50 PM twitter@twitter.com: (FonsTuinstra): Fascinating all those twitter reports on the earthquake; can almost not wait for the next thing to happen :-)

4:45:50 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rakeman): Gutes factual http://tinyurl.com/5st2rd #earthquake

4:46:07 PM twitter@twitter.com: (flypig): Re @pdkurt: anyone'd like to have a 'thank god we survived the strongest earthquake in china since we entered the 21st century' dinner?

4:46:15 PM twitter@twitter.com: (macgillavry): Back at the hotel. Checking my emails and searching for some news about the earthquake.

4:46:24 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greenbang): reading @lyrrael's tweets from Chengdu about the earthquake

4:46:56 PM twitter@twitter.com: (niubi): phoenix 凤凰卫视 is on earthquake only coverage

4:47:03 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greggscott): It appears the Earthquake was centered in a mountainous perhaps minimally populated area. - photo at http://twitxr.com/greggscott/update ...

4:47:25 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): Chengdu Twitterer @lyrrael went from 24 to 36 followers in a matter of minutes

4:47:26 PM twitter@twitter.com: (NiuB): 7.8 10km deep quake near chengdu, 6.0, 5.4, 5.2 aftershocks

4:47:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: retweeting @fuzheado For China earthquake accounts, follow Twitterers @casperodj @lyrrael @inwalkedbud
4:48:35 PM twitter@twitter.com: (paulbradshaw): Twitter and the Chinese earthquake - post updated: http://twurl.nl/co5r8n

4:48:38 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): Same period, Chengdu Twitterer @casperodj went from 94 to 113 followers

4:48:46 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jjprojects): @Scobleizer You can bet communications would be down/jammed for a while if there was a big earthquake in SF.

4:48:49 PM twitter@twitter.com: (nezzle): Gee, the things I miss at while at work. Earthquake news, non-baby making declarations, bad car slogan sightings. Yeesh

4:49:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (wtanaka): Earthquake http://tinyurl.com/6bo7vp could be felt in Vietnam, and Thailand, but I didn't feel it here, even though I'm in between.

4:49:28 PM twitter@twitter.com: (johntai): Earthquake was not felt in Shanghai Pudong, but friends felt it in Puxi.

4:50:09 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Guerel): @niubi Beijing is not too far from Tangshan where in 1976 took place the biggest earthquake in human history when 200,000 died.

4:50:17 PM twitter@twitter.com: (niubi): per usgs 70 km NNW of Chengdu
95 km WSW of Mianyang
325 km NW of Chongqing,
1485 km SW of BEIJING

4:50:40 PM twitter@twitter.com: (TwitLinksRSS): BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Twitter and the China earthquake: I wa.. http://tinyurl.com/5sduj9

4:50:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: twitter almost seems like the Ham Radio Network of the 21st century.
4:51:00 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): @Scobleizer also following @casperodj, dutch guy in Chengdu

4:51:08 PM twitter@twitter.com: (MelissaHourigan): Fascinating Twitter dialogue on Earthquake in China. Twitter discussions happening several minutes before the news reports started.

4:51:25 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Philou): Oh my god, big earthquake in Sichuan, near Chengdu.... 7.8!

4:51:31 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greggscott): http://www.twitxr.com/image/43608/ Earthquake epicenter appears to be centered in a mountain range. My guess is it's not heavily populated.

4:52:55 PM twitter@twitter.com: (unopan): Earthquake, scale is 7.8, depth 10 km, occur in Sichuan, China. Hope everybody is fine.

4:52:58 PM twitter@twitter.com: (SimoneBiz): summize is awesome. did a search for earthquake, seconds later, got "2 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them."

4:53:01 PM twitter@twitter.com: (lyrrael): @chinkerfly I'm the one that gave you the real deal on the problems in Chengdu a couple of months ago.

4:53:02 PM twitter@twitter.com: (NiuB): 7.8 10km deep quake near chengdu, 6.0, 5.4, 5.2, 4.9 aftershocks

4:53:29 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): anyone in Yunnan reporting re: china earthquake?

4:53:31 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jberends): Earthquake in Chengdu (CN) http://twurl.nl/z1keie apperantly not too many people injured.

4:53:32 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Philou): the earthquake was not far from wolong (panda reserve) and dujiangyan (UNESCO world heritage historic dam): http://tinyurl.com/6co26m

4:53:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: (NadineTouzet): I wonder. Do we have any earthquake reports from Chinese Twitterers? Like... first-hand info.

4:53:39 PM twitter@twitter.com: (pdenlinger): "And now to bring you a special report on the China earthquake, we switch you to Twitter" Ha!

4:53:59 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greggscott): Good night. Thanks to @Scobleizer, @Karoli, @mmsullivan, and @inwalkedbud, @ChinaRed for their reporting on the major earthquake in China.

4:54:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (cowboycaleb): HOLY SHIT. EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA IN SICHUAN CAPITAL OF CHENGDU. 7.8 MAGNITUDE. CAN BE FELT ALL TEH WAY IN BANGKOK. I IS SCARED.

4:54:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: (califmom): @scobleizer looks like the aftershocks keep coming after the initial earthquake: http://snurl.com/28g0t

4:55:03 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): still waiting on the first video registration of earthquake in China; anyone?

4:55:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (FonsTuinstra): retweeting @frankyu retweeting @fuzheado For China earthquake accounts, follow Twitterers @casperodj @lyrrael @inwalkedbud

4:55:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (dpcafe): Stop following Summarize.com for earthquake. Still following Twits in Chengdu.

4:55:21 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: @iheartbeijing why am i not surprised you know Ham speak? u know morse too?
4:55:22 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rachky): @lishevita I was in downtown Santa Cruz during the 89 CA earthquake,major damage all around. Chinese quake much stronger- 6.0 aftershock!

4:55:57 PM twitter@twitter.com: (paulbradshaw): retweet @Karoli http://worldwidehelp.blogspot.com/ Live blogging on the China Earthquake.

4:55:58 PM twitter@twitter.com: (TechmemeFH): Twitter and the China earthquake (Rory Cellan-Jones/BBC NEWS) http://tinyurl.com/6d3nn4

4:56:00 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: @JohnGuise same nerds...new technology !
4:56:07 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Ankur): @casperodj @lyrrael @inwalkedbud follow them for china earthquake info

4:56:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ebizindia): Following Chinese earthquaker reports on Summize: http://summize.com/search?q=earthquake

4:56:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mysharepoint): earthquake in china and twitterworld is very busy reporting http://twurl.nl/jzxc33

4:56:59 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fluffyboots): What earthquake? I read the news 5 times a day and I some how missed this...

4:57:16 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jemimah_knight): Looking to talk to people in Chengdu, anyone out there give me a nudge or tweet.

4:57:18 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Chinkerfly): Is running out of a building really the best anti-earthquake strategy? How come in the US they taught us to get under desks and in doorways

4:57:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (sconsult): Sky News is reporting fatalities in China school collapse after earthquake http://tinyurl.com/5sagol

4:57:39 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): retweet (sconsult): Sky News is reporting fatalities in China school collapse after earthquake http://tinyurl.com/5sagol

4:57:55 PM twitter@twitter.com: (sajal): Massive earthquake in China sends people rushing out - http://tinyurl.com/5qas8r

4:58:13 PM twitter@twitter.com: (trusip): Now they show live reports from all over Chengdu on Chengdu TV 2

4:58:16 PM twitter@twitter.com: (egrommet): twitter shows the absurdity of what is happening, China earthquake next to Iron Man box office smash

4:58:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (gersham): I was at the epicenter of this earthquake on Saturday, climbing up Mt QingCheng. Glad to have not been there today!

4:58:38 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fred2baro): live bloggig on earthquake in China http://twurl.nl/rwkuxf

4:58:44 PM twitter@twitter.com: (gwbstr): friend concerned that earthquake scheduled for tonight... Sina had misreported, takes it back friend concerned that earthquake scheduled ...

4:58:56 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ColinWalker): retweet: from @sconsult: Sky News is reporting fatalities in China school collapse after earthquake http://tinyurl.com/5sagol - not good :(

4:59:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (paulbradshaw): No major damage after China earthquake http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0512/china.html

4:59:58 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Guerel): Is the Dalai Lama responsible of the Chengdu earthquake? You never know, maybe with the help of the US gov...

5:00:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greggscott): @sconsult "Sky News is reporting fatalities in China school collapse after earthquake http://tinyurl.com/5sagol "

5:00:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (gwbstr): friend concerned earthquake scheduled for tonight... sina misreported, takes it back http://tinyurl.com/6xzort

5:00:37 PM twitter@twitter.com: (trusip): The don't seam to be casualties in Chengdu, as far as I know the news don't reported any yet

5:01:00 PM twitter@twitter.com: (pcguo): 来自pcguo.com消息： 插播:四川发生7.8级以上地震 接大量网友报告,称自己所在城市发生地震,根据USGS Earthquake Hazards Program(美国国家地质局地震灾害研究项目)报告显示,本次地震发生于四川东部,接近成都与绵阳,震级高达7.8(后修 ...

5:01:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): sky news headline Four children have been killed and more than 100 injured by an earthquake which toppled schools in China. http://tinyu ...

5:01:27 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jbmorley): Wondering what the predicted 2-6 magnitude earthquake will be like.

5:01:31 PM twitter@twitter.com: (pdenlinger): @Scobleizer Hey man, how come it took a 7.8 earthquake to get u to follow China news! There's some other interesting stuff going on too...

5:02:08 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): @pdenlinger I track the term earthquake, which has sent me all over the place, but a 7.8 earthquake anywhere=MAJOR

5:02:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (califmom): Earthquake magnitudes so far: 7.8, 6.0, 5.4, 5.2, 5.2, 4.9 according to usgs:http://snurl.com/28g1s

5:02:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (RTEnews): Powerful earthquake hits China: A powerful earthquake that shook southwestern China today does not appear.. http://tinyurl.com/3jclmr

5:02:40 PM twitter@twitter.com: (MMartin): Just chatted with someone from Chengdu, China, 100 km / 60 miles from the earthquake. A Big fear. No major damages apparently.

5:03:03 PM twitter@twitter.com: (trusip): Epicentre was in Wenchuan 汶川, according to Chengdu TV this city has 110'000 people

5:03:41 PM twitter@twitter.com: (blognl): Earthquake china video prank http://tinyurl.com/62eovr

5:03:42 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: @iheartbeijing you mean you were good at scouting boys (in a non offensive gender neutral way of course)
5:03:47 PM twitter@twitter.com: (niubi): wonder if the quake took out any IDCs in Chengdu area? Lotso f online games have servers there

5:03:57 PM twitter@twitter.com: (peanutbrittle25): seems like landlines can dial out from chengdu

5:04:07 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jedwhite): @Scobleizer Strange disconnect between sitting in Sydney at #ISII and the twitter stream about the earthquake.

5:04:09 PM twitter@twitter.com: (eot): Big earth quake in China, near Chengdu, some 3h ago, http://tinyurl.com/4frlkh

5:04:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (CoachDeb): retweeting @GreggScott Via @ChinaRed Google Map of Earthquake epicenter. http://twurl.nl/fbrh2b

5:04:11 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Scabr): Twitter and the China earthquake http://tinyurl.com/5sduj9

5:04:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): Earthquake in China, nearby Chengdu: http://twurl.nl/z1keie (via @jberends)

5:04:37 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ebizindia): A big earthquake in China triggers flood - of Twitter messages.

5:04:53 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: @fuzheado or people bored at looking at scantily clad high poly count 3D female avatars at work
5:04:58 PM twitter@twitter.com: (lyrrael): I just learned the words for 'earthquake' and 'aftershock.' And got to teach them, too!

5:05:39 PM twitter@twitter.com: (tweetipFH): Earthquake ~ Buildings collapse in the southwest province of Yunnan, official Xinhua news agency —News.com.au ... http://tweetip.us/lkern

5:05:50 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ElizabethBennet): It is a rumor that Beijing will have earthquake tonight.

5:06:11 PM twitter@twitter.com: (2ndmoon): @Scobleizer so we really had that earthquake here? but I didn't noticed:-??

5:06:28 PM twitter@twitter.com: (henrygu): I just set my twitter as 'beautiful weather in SHANGHAI', earthquake happened...

5:06:32 PM twitter@twitter.com: (MMartin): Forget my last tweet about "no major damage" in Chengdu -- http://twurl.nl/vg21zw (retweeting @Scobleizer link)

5:06:48 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): Shanghaiist: Flickr photos tagged "earthquake". Unfortunately the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer has a game last night.

5:06:56 PM twitter@twitter.com: (domanda): huge earthquake in china...timely...

5:07:04 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mhalligan): reading about the 7.8 earthquake in China that was felt in Bangkok and Hanoi... Remember the last 7.8 earthquake?

5:07:28 PM twitter@twitter.com: (peanutbrittle25): news conference w/ Chengdu official revealed nothing new on CCTV

5:07:42 PM twitter@twitter.com: (audaciousgloop): @benkepes big earthquake in Chengdu @scobleizer is providing blow-by-blow updates.

5:07:50 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rakeman): größere Schäden näher am epizentrum http://snurl.com/28g2c #earthquake

5:07:53 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mrpower): No major damage after China earthquake http://is.gd/ff1 (via @paulbradshaw) Looks like I might win that @scobleizer bet:)

5:08:00 PM twitter@twitter.com: (trusip): I'm not an expert earthquake safety, but the building in Chengdu are all concrete, even the new ones...doesn't seam earthquake prove to me

5:08:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Areck): Earthquake, while on 27th floor

5:08:23 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): @marcvanderchijs die had ik inderdaad ook al gevonden; wachten is op eerste straatbeelden uit Chengdu en omgeving

5:08:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: i just got sent a blast on MSN Messenger on the Beijing Earthquake that will occur at 2200 tonite.weird its like viral rumors are flying now
5:09:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (johnyang123): Strong earthquake shakes china

5:09:52 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jondillon): (AFP) - Five people have been confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, state press reported.

5:10:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (pdenlinger): @Guerel Looking at the construction of some buildings, they don't need an earthquake. They'll fall down all by themselves...

5:10:33 PM twitter@twitter.com: (buzztter_en): http://buzztter.com/en EARTHQUAKE, Try, Chengdu, sichuan, the earthquake, china earthquake, to get, an earthquake, beijing, the quake, O ...

5:10:55 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mitchelltsai): @Scobleizer Thanks Robert & everyone for all the China earthquake updates.

5:11:01 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Chinkerfly): @shanghaiist quick change your flickr photo tags to china-earthquake or something

5:11:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (reddit): Huge Earthquake hits China:
[link]
[comments] http://tinyurl.com/5dn54m

5:11:25 PM twitter@twitter.com: (globeandmail): Strong earthquake jolts southwest China: Tremor felt across much of China and as far southwest as Ba.. http://tinyurl.com/5egjoq

5:12:11 PM twitter@twitter.com: (parislemon): i just couldn't resist [POST]: twitter is first on the scene for a major earthquake... http://tinyurl.com/4r87qx

5:12:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (twittes): twitter and the china earthquake - bbc article: Sin Descripción http://tinyurl.com/4sjx3z

5:12:32 PM twitter@twitter.com: (twitgeistr): Top 10 words right now: china, earthquake, chengdu, morning, vandaag, google, work, open, juni, noch. See http://tinyurl.com/2jzqq2

5:12:42 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rkellett): huge earthquake hits sichuan province (west china) and is felt throughout the country. i'm fine but we'll see the damage soon. stay tuned.

5:13:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (isaac): (AFP) - Five people have been confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, state press reported

5:13:16 PM twitter@twitter.com: (earthquakewordl): EarthQuake M 2.8, Central Alaska: May 12, 2008 07:54:54 GMT http://tinyurl.com/6967ue

5:13:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (earthquakewordl): EarthQuake M 5.2, eastern Sichuan, China: May 12, 2008 08:10:59 GMT http://tinyurl.com/47wn24

5:13:21 PM twitter@twitter.com: (earthquakewordl): EarthQuake M 5.2, eastern Sichuan, China: May 12, 2008 08:21:40 GMT http://tinyurl.com/3fbhz8

5:13:22 PM twitter@twitter.com: (earthquakewordl): EarthQuake M 4.9, eastern Sichuan, China: May 12, 2008 08:26:12 GMT http://tinyurl.com/5bodor

5:13:26 PM twitter@twitter.com: (lyrrael): @chinkerfly running out of a building is certainly an effective anti-earthquake strategy in a city made of concrete, methinks.

5:13:27 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): Shanghaiist: China Eastern has cancelled all flights bound for Chengdu.

5:13:34 PM twitter@twitter.com: (TDJ): @NadineTouzet So far, I have just seen some ordinary news that tells about the seismic intensity of this earthquake, a magnitude of 7.5

5:13:35 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): New blog post: BREAKING - China Earthquake - 7.8 Magnitude http://tinyurl.com/6ompde

5:13:38 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): video's of earthquake in China at Shanghaiist: http://tinyurl.com/5kasw9

5:13:46 PM twitter@twitter.com: (WKRG): national: Earthquake Rocks China:


Thousands flee office buildings as far away as Vietnam and .. http://tinyurl.com/4k9f3l

5:13:52 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ojblog): Twitter and the Chinese earthquake - crowdsourcing without managers: So there’s been an earthquake i.. http://tinyurl.com/693glh

5:14:01 PM twitter@twitter.com: (cnafrontpage): China warns earthquake could occur in Beijing later Monday: BEIJING - China has warned that an earth.. http://tinyurl.com/6y4to8

5:14:28 PM twitter@twitter.com: (heymilly): Am trying to keep up with a range of tweets about the earthquake in China... amazing stuff! So connected...

5:14:32 PM twitter@twitter.com: (paulbradshaw): Twitter and the Chinese earthquake - updated again http://twurl.nl/vz440n

5:14:47 PM twitter@twitter.com: (bexxi): @hlao_roe Hope the earthquake hasn't affected your hubby or anyone else yo know!

5:14:49 PM twitter@twitter.com: (justingsouter): Like @billt and @ruskin147, quick look via #tweetscan & #tweetmeme at China earthquake. Poor Burmese, this will knock cyclone from headlines

5:14:51 PM twitter@twitter.com: (smartmobs): China earthquake: A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County in China.. http://tinyurl.com/5gtuj5

5:15:00 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): China Eastern cancels all flights bound for Chengdu http://society.people.com.cn/GB/41158/7229124.html

5:15:57 PM twitter@twitter.com: (awfulady): There are some minor damage in SAP Chengdu office, now the office have been closed safely...成都的同事可以work from home了！

5:16:06 PM twitter@twitter.com: (paulbradshaw): Sorry, correct link for Twitter and the Chinese earthquake: http://twurl.nl/orsllk

5:16:13 PM twitter@twitter.com: (casperodj): these Danish guys came driving into Chengdu when the earthquake hit. they just told that the Chinese were driving even crazier than normally

5:16:19 PM twitter@twitter.com: (virtualreview): Earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 strikes western China http://tinyurl.com/3sa5py

5:16:29 PM twitter@twitter.com: web2asia: from @tangos on China quake: 2 schools damaged, 4 students dead in Chongqing http://tinyurl.com/6g5ump
5:16:29 PM twitter@twitter.com: (amberinblack): was just out of the building in breeze cafe...when people were talking about EARTHQUAKE rushing into the street.

5:16:47 PM twitter@twitter.com: (chinaherald): China A-shares close higher; off highs after earthquake - UPDATE - Forbes http://tinyurl.com/47oy6u

5:16:49 PM twitter@twitter.com: (chinaherald): China Is Hit by 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Near Chengdu (Update3) - Bloomberg http://tinyurl.com/55m8ww

5:16:57 PM twitter@twitter.com: (marketingfacts): photo's at flickr about earthquake in china: http://tinyurl.com/58pd2j

5:17:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): retweet (jondillon): (AFP) - Five people have been confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, state ...

5:17:12 PM twitter@twitter.com: (kahong): earthquake measuring 7.8 that has hit SiChuan, tremors were felt as far afield as Beijing, the Thai capital, Bangkok, and Hanoi in Vietnam.

5:17:59 PM twitter@twitter.com: (wennberg): From Twitterfeed: Twitter and the China earthquake: "I was beginning to think Twitter -.. http://tinyurl.com/5sduj9

5:18:03 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Chinkerfly): @isaac Just had a weird moment reading that and thinking "there was an earthquake on Monday too?" (need more sleep)

5:18:57 PM twitter@twitter.com: (rakeman): Flickr-Stream http://tinyurl.com/58pd2j #earthquake

5:19:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): (rakeman): Flickr-Stream http://tinyurl.com/58pd2j #earthquake

5:19:37 PM twitter@twitter.com: (isaac): Flickr: tag:Earthquake+china http://tinyurl.com/58pd2j

5:20:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jansn): Nice article on the earthquake and Twitter. Also they mentioned @tweetburner http://twurl.nl/fqb2kq

5:20:35 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): Flickr-Stream http://tinyurl.com/58pd2j #earthquake

5:20:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: bjornlee: snowstorms, torch relayprotests, now earthquake... 8 dun seem luck this year for China?
5:20:48 PM twitter@twitter.com: (gwbstr): Retweeting @isaac: Flickr: tag:Earthquake+china http://tinyurl.com/58pd2j

5:21:05 PM twitter@twitter.com: (TwitLinksRSS): China Earthquake: Large Tremor Shakes Sichuan Province |Sky News|World News: Four children have been.. http://tinyurl.com/5sagol

5:21:55 PM twitter@twitter.com: (danwashburn): 27 China earthquake updates so far on Shanghaiist: http://is.gd/feq

5:22:11 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Karoli): (danwashburn): 27 China earthquake updates so far on Shanghaiist: http://is.gd/feq

5:23:17 PM twitter@twitter.com: marcothesis: @davidatsg Who actually uses an iPod Touch as a PDA? I think they would much rather stick to their blackberries.
5:23:36 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fengyiyan): earthquake here in China.

5:23:43 PM twitter@twitter.com: frankyu: retweeting @casperodj thank the lord Skype is still working
5:23:54 PM twitter@twitter.com: (fuzheado): Echo @danwashburn: Be sure to monitor running log of China earthquake updates on Shanghaiist: http://is.gd/feq

5:24:10 PM twitter@twitter.com: (inrsoul): i seriously hope that no one i know in china is seriously hurt at the moment. big arse earthquake that was.

5:24:20 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Ignatia): major earthquake about 4 hours ago in Chengdu, china. Got new through twitterer @casperodj global news travels very fast with twitter!

5:24:45 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ChinaMatt): @imagethief: Felt nothing here in Shenzhen. I'd be shocked if my building could withstand an earthquake

5:24:51 PM twitter@twitter.com: (trusip): traffic jams all over Chengdu...I see people coming home, one by one. Still waiting for my girlfriend to come home...

5:24:53 PM twitter@twitter.com: (tweetipFH): Earthquake China ~ Video of buildings being evacuated... http://tweetip.us/lk2wf

5:25:06 PM twitter@twitter.com: (mikedunn): @paparatti Gotta love that spicy hotpot. Sounds like most people/ buildings are unharmed, even in Chengdu.

5:25:14 PM twitter@twitter.com: (intelligent113): big earthquake, now waiting for aftershocks....felt death

5:25:20 PM twitter@twitter.com: (xarj): @JackChang Twitter is absolutly amazing! Being able to warn about the earthquake before any other media is simply incredible! I'm impressed!

5:25:44 PM twitter@twitter.com: (latesttechstory): Twitter is first on the scene for a major earthquake — but who cares about that, is it mainstream yet? - Tonigh... -> http://g8l.us/8wi

5:25:48 PM twitter@twitter.com: (ElizabethBennet): Dinner time. Starving. Running out of energy, patience and interests in earthquake.

5:28:21 PM twitter@twitter.com: (expatacular): Daniel joined the group Chengdu Expats http://snipr.com/28g4c

5:28:26 PM twitter@twitter.com: (siumuimui): Kylie who strongly disagrees building tall skyscrapers in Shanghai, once said IF there's an earthquake, we'll be like swaying on the boat.

5:28:27 PM twitter@twitter.com: (Loknath_Rath): Earthquake in shanghai. Sichuan worst affected

5:28:27 PM twitter@twitter.com: (greggscott): Via @Karoli @danwashburn "27 China earthquake updates so far on Shanghaiist: http://is.gd/feq"

5:28:27 PM twitter@twitter.com: (turbotodd): Sitting in lobby of beijing Hilton trying to get news on earthquake here in china

5:28:27 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jumphong): @Titter023 not sure about the quake center. i'm in beijing now. the earthquake happened in Sichuan, a southern province.

5:28:28 PM twitter@twitter.com: (jwijgerd): damn I have friends who have a company in chengdu... supposed to have a meeting with them right now

Earthquake in China May 12 14:28

it was around 2:30pm just now. Out of sudden I felt dizzy and developed headache. my co-worker next to me ask me if i felt the earthquake... then he quickly checked online and found this :
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008ryan.html#details
(what you see now is already been updated. 10 minutes ago it was still just very basic info of where it might have take place.)
about over 40 minutes... finally there was a news post by sohu.
it's here: http://news.sohu.com/20080512/n256802637.shtml

my roommate just returned to Sichuan after the May 1st long weekend. I sent him an SMS and he called me back around 3:24pm, almost an hour after the earthquake. He's located in Nanchong (Northe East of Chengdu). He said the telecommunication network was down and it went just back up on. He managed to contact his mom and he called me after that. He said they probably need to stay out tonight. I suggest him get more food at this point of time. Survival is important and food is important.

the Sohu news reported the center of the earthquake is Wenchuan, Sichuan. now news on the situations or any statistics have been reported.

2008 is a year that every Chinese is happily expecting and looking forward to. It is also a year that the entire nation have disasters one after another... the cold disaster, tibetian riats, olympics torch relay cases, the train crash, and NOW it's natural disaster - earthquake... 10 years ago... China was flooded with water in the central and southern part. it's only end of spring and there were already so many things happening. really hope after all these the Beijing 2008 Olympics will create history... the one that shows the pride and proud of the Chinese.

while writing, just got another news covered the earthquake from QQ.com:
http://news.qq.com/a/20080512/002522.htm?qq=0

a friends sent an IM message saying: today is 88 days to the 8-8-08' 8:08:08pm Beijing Olympics. the entire country was shaking to remember the longest 8s ever in history. some more the magnitude of the earthquake is reported as 7.8. Glad that it was not 8.8. (scary!)

hope the friends overseas could get in touch with your family! All the best!
it's time again to test how Chinese government is reacting to the large scale natural disasters.

more news while blogging:
http://news.sina.com.cn/z/08earthquake/index.shtml
http://michristensen.blogspot.com/2008/05/earthquake-in-china.html (video)

Beijing, Shanghai and even Hainan all experienced the (sorta nation-wide) shake... especially for people in high-rises.

all this news are being passed around on twitter.com. a twitterer said, " It is amazing the way we can cover news on twitter. Far faster than the professionals."

updated: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/12/china.quake/index.html

(yes... we started talking about right after the shake... then we know Beijing, Shanghai and many other cities have experienced the earthquake on different levels. that's how fast...

on the other hand, the very first info was found via the US websites. How grassrootie are they!!! =p it's almost within 5minutes the info was up on the site and after 40 minutes, it was updated again. all faster than the news professions here in China.. well it could be well understood that the network was down (might still be down) but then, how did the USGS found out about the earthquake in China. You've gotta believe in technology, don't you? try watching "Iron Man" )

updated: 16:18
messages passing on QQ chats

天将降大任于斯国也,必先撞其火车,抢其火炬,震其国土，涨其物价，空泛其民。

各位网民，请大家少安毋躁。
全国都有地震的感觉。
经国家科学院最新研究得出结果。此次地震是因为外星人来看奥运会，飞船着陆没处理造成的。
请大家继续聊天。
国务院党中央


最权威的解释：今天是距离08年8月8日，北京奥运会还有88天的特殊日子，举国同震庆祝一天

updated(16:56) tracking "earthquake" & "chengdu" on twitter now... it's amazing how many people are talking about it... how fast it is spreading right now. twitter is a media... seems Vietnam and Thailand experienced the aftershocks too. gosh! it's not about China... it's global!!!
I guess it's time to put this up and let you know how this earthquake might travel.
it was pretty accurate for beijing.

BASE event May 8th

it's the first time we tried twittering at the very beginning of the event while waiting for attendees to arrive. It's fixed at 7pm but people do not come until about 8pm or something. =) I guess the reason is that there's no speaker to attract them to be here.

David Feng and I had a conversation about the topic. the topic is a question:
"What are the current characteristics of the growing internet use in China that are different from the historical growth of the Internet use in the US?"

This question is rather to help the entrepreneurs who want to understand the Chinese Internet market... I am a native Chinese myself and I started using Internet on a regular basis is rather 2000 as far as I can remember. I entered high school in 2000 and the school just installed PC for each classroom to aid the teaching. It was great. The on-campus students could make the PC in their classroom more useful there. In the same year, we finally bought our first PC (not branded) in my house. It was meant for my mother to learn some computer skills but the PC was finally bought at the price RMB 2000 more over the budget. It was me who influenced the decision. The computer now is still sitting in my room, trying to look new. Unfortunately, the appearance can be deceiving but the sound does not. it's loud and noisy.

after I left China in 2002, all my Chinese internet experiences were sort of ceased and developed very little since then. My venture in the English Internet experiences started and it developed faster and faster especially during my stay in Silicon Valley from August 2006 to August 2007, the one year entrepreneurial journey there. It went great and I managed to get in touch with the most cutting edge technology and the pioneers of the new Internet services providers/builders/developers. so the Chinese one was left bank or rather undeveloped during the past 6 years. what a pity! If you ask me, why does Baidu is more successful in China than Google?
My answer to that could be very shallow because I did not understand the Chinese market. I can admit that 'NOT AT ALL". So this trip back to China is to help me regain the Chinese Internet experiences and get the mentality development process started! I did not realize that till the discussion of May 8th discussion.

Thanks to Dong Huang's sharing at the end. He used to work in Sina and now he's an entrepreneur working on his own company on technology consulting.

Let me start with what David Feng has shared with us.

David F. has been in China since 2000. He was at Switzerland during 1988-2000. He was born in China.

basecn: very cool... nice... well... that's the period of the fast economy development.

DF: Yup, real fast... especially with what we have right now.

basecn: today we want to talk about what characteristic of the growing use of internet use in CHina. We also want to compare that with the US one. how's your internet experiences like so far? especially in China?

(
basecn:i started using internet on a regular basis starting in 2000... it's kinda when you started in china
DF: My first Net link was back in 1995, first email account in 1998, back on CN Internet for good starting late August 2000. I've been in "hiding" till late 2005, when I (only then!) first started blogging...
)

DF: We have to content with invisible sites in China, but hey, being on the ground for 8 years, I get used to it or reroute around.
They don't call it the People's Republic for nothing. Just the SHEER number of netizens in the PRC. This is absolutely amazing.

basecn: what are the three things you want to say about the growing china internet?

DF: First, there's a bit of rail-linking to do. Folks in China have to get a bit of what the Net is outside the nation. People outside China have to be clued in what's happening inside the PRC. I did blognation China and techblog86 to this end.

Second thing about the Chinese Internet is that I hope we get access to more information. And I mean healthy information. Multiple voices on a single topic would be pretty good. Let the flowers bloom.

Finally, I hope that we get more Tweeters in China. Twitter is a fan-freaking-tastic "thing" and me love it! :-D

basecn:
i agree with you on the information access. i found that it is just easier in the English world...
do you think it is because the web is more organized?

DF: In fact in terms of organization, quite a bit of those sites in China are a tad difficult to navigate... even in Chinese...

davidatsg: most of the Chinese websites are flooded wth information, ads, and texts ... just too much...
what's your opinion about that?

DF: That's the thing I don't like. We have too many semi-porno ads on even the news sites. It's absolutely disgusting.

davidatsg: well... another thing is that the english ones look very clean and neat

DF: Thing is not all look clean and neat I think, but quite a few do. Chinese sites can be clean, too, if efforts are made. I mean imagine reading the latest subway news with a semi-done lady ad next to the text. Totally sick-o. This "ca bian" (擦邊)-ism has got to stop. For good. I don't mind the ads. I just don't like those that have little or no taste and cater just to your money and nothing else.

davidatsg: you are right... so... i don't really experience the development of the US internet development... do you see any similar patterns happening in China that happened to the US one? what's your opinion on that?

DF: I'm of the opinion that the Web is to serve everyone, not just those people looking for "刺激".


Finally I believe the Net extends our daily lives (real lives!). As a result I favor a real-name registration system.




I mean what we say on the Web is part of us. There's no escaping. The anonymous era is pretty much over as I see it.


Having said that, I favor RESPONSIBLE freedom of speech. Speak ahead -- but BE RESPONSIBLE and stand by what you say.

The Chinese Internet will only go up and up. Only 200M are wired up. The PRC is 1.3B+.

There's nothing scary about using your real name on the Internet. Use it well and it "adds glamor" to you (so to speak).

Don't see anything too clear here, except for that I use the Web not for games, but to get actual things done... ;-)

davidatsg: any cultrual differences you see here?

DF: But then again I do see a bit of a difference in the West and China. On the Chinese Web people are more "人情". But then again on the Western Internet, the so-called "nobody" can speak freely, too. In China it's much the same, but...
Having said that, people in China "favor" those with authority or with a proven track record. Nothing bad about it, tho'.

davidatsg: yes... we know DavidFeng... don't we.... is that a real name?

DF: Yup, @DavidFeng is David Feng. It's "real". ;-)
I am afraid I'll have to run. Tweet to you after about 21:45! :-)
and the rest -- feel free to tune it at 20:00 if you wish! Thanks for the twinterview! ;-) And all the best to tonight's BASE. I'm sure it'll be great. All the best! :-)
Thanks for having me. All the best! :-)

davidatsg: thank you verymuch! "DavidFeng"... enjoy your radio show and we will catch up on twitter and the tweet meet up (end of twinterview)

I was using twhirl and it was kinda slow to receive the so fast updates from DavidFeng. I was not able to follow him very closely. I guess twhirl is definitely not good for twinterview then. way too slow to get message out and in at the same time. Thank you very much, David! We will try another time and make it a much better one, for sure!!! =)

later on, Resh presented her own work on pseudolocal.com and tracy pitched her conference at PKU/Tsinghua.

the group discussion did not start really well because not many people shared their view. Resh and Tracy tried to start the conversation but people might not be ready for it. In fact, I had a short conversation with a few local attendees in Chinese and we talked about the Chinese Internet markets. They mentioned so many interesting characteristics that I did not understand about the Chinese market. Yes, they experienced the development of the Chinese Internet development. Later I invited him to share with us about what's his view. He spoke in Chinese and I translated for him. He said:

the Chinese internet markets is so different from the US one. In China, it was all started with the news portal, like Sina, Sohu. Sina and Sohu are not content providers but rather more like agents to pull all kinds of information from other places and put all together at a news portal. thus, the new portal really worked here in China and many other websites grew, NetEase (163.com) etc. Don't forget the media in China is controlled by the government. The Chinese website cannot be like the vertical news site in the US. for example, US can have a news site tailored just for sports. and the sports site is both the content provide as well as the portal. but it cannot be like that in China in the vertical manner. Content is censored.

Why Baidu is more successful in terms of ads in China than Google? (higher CTR)
The main business values and beliefs are different for the two companies. Google is user centric and Baidu is business-centric. Because of that, the way ads being displayed are so different now.
(I guess it really has something to do with the characteristics of the netizens in China. as DavidFeng said earlier, they don't believe anyone but some sort of authority figures). How different?
Google puts ads in texts formats on the side of the search page. But Baidu puts the ads within the search results and on the side of the search results. It has a lot to do with the business beliefs. The Chinese mentality is that if you pay to advertise, it must be something worth advertising and the ads really want to get people's attention (CTR). as the users, they believe that if somebody is paying some big amount money to display some ads at some prominent places, it ought to be something great or useful. Because of that, the users clicks more on Baidu. more clicks attracts more enterprises to advertise on Baidu.

[Baidu ads picture]
[Google ads picture]

He also shared with the attendees that the netizens in the Chinese Internet Markets can be categorized into three: one is to obtain fame, generate awareness of him/her - social status; one is to gain materialistic benefits; and the last one is the SO-BORED people that have nothing to do but to surf the net.

the first blogging provider in China is blogchina.com but it did not make people blog and blogging did not take off as a common thing on the net. who did? Sina.com did. It provides the super star a place to talk about what they do (blogging), which attracted so many readers and generated awareness not only for sina, sina blogging but also blogging in general. [The Chinese people are naturally more introvert and not too expressive but they are looking for other people's privacy and gossips, especially the super stars. he added] as you may know, the most viewed blog is xu jinglei's sina blog.(so you can imagine how it worked there.) Sina till today is still the top one blogging provider in terms of readership and membership.

because there are so many so-bored internet users, entertainment on the net has been a common place for the Chinese websites, even down to simple SNS applications. A similar application to "friends for sales" on facebook is called friends trades (朋友买卖） on Kaixin. If you paid some virtual $ to buy a friend that is on your friend list, you could assign some tasks to him to do, like clean the toilet, get starved for a day etc. These are very entertainment centric for the users. [maybe we can interpret that to certain extent a web shall be of entertaining values to users in China]

Thanks to his sharing and it really made me think of the Chinese Internet market different today.

Looking forward to more sharing next time. it's on May 22, thursday!

Continue my Blogs - BASE Updates

It's been really exciting lately.
There are multiple events going on and I feel very motivated and of course excited.

BASE - Beijing Angels and Startup Entrepreneurs

we have a Facebook Page and you can find it here. It is a non-profit organization a few of friends are running right now. Of course, I am the playing the coordination role in all the planning and execution. It's fun doing it, since I like helping people and organizing stuff. What we do here? We organize meet-ups for Web entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun Haidian, Beijing, China (Asia...) Both local and foreign entrepreneurs are very welcomed. You are the key people here! We believe in sharing, being open, helping one another and most importantly keep updated on what's going on here in Beijing, in China as well as else where in the big (and kinda small) world.

The main events are free to all. You need to buy and pay for your own food and drinks at our venue Urban Backyard (http://tinyurl.com/3rktr6), an Italian restaurants opened by three architects in China. It's a three-story restaurant. You can find vegetarian hot pot (steam boat) on the third level. the 2nd floor which is the main one, is primary a bar and the restaurant. The basement is the REAL western dining area that has very nice ambiance and lighting. The food there is okay and it's pretty expensive in the Wudaokou area. But there is free Internet connection there and it's really fast. I could even access blogger.com there. Have not tried wikipedia yet. Will try tomorrow 'cause it's BASE event (http://tinyurl.com/6jj5xv). Please feel free to join us! we are going to answer to this question:

"What are the current characteristics of the growing internet use in
china that are different from the historical growth of the internet use
in the US?"

What's new this time is that: we are going to use twitter to start some small conversations online. @DavidFeng (twitter.com/DavidFeng) will join us at 7pm to start the conversation. Initially I wanted to invite him to join us this time and to share with us "why does he simply tweet so much every day?" by now he has already passed the 5000 tweet mark and marching for the higher one. that's really a lot! I still have 100 over to reach 500. It's like he's been sending over 5000 texts in the whatever time-span it is.

after the tweets, we will start our conversation per normal. people will be in their small groups and start networking... post-it and pens will be provided and they can write their thoughts down any time and post it on a wall before they leave. we will collect all the post-its and make it available online at Resh's wiki site (http://www.pseudolocal.com/). it's nice. By the way, you can find our previous meeting notes for the past two events (April 10 and April 23).

What else you can expect? Resh is going to present to us at the event! (Finally! She wanted to present during last event but she was not able to do it. ) Looking forward to it. There is other demo signed up. I don't know why. Maybe we have not publicize this event earlier enough. hopefully, we can do faster the next time.

There are a few events coming up, too.
1. May 8th

BASE event @ Beijing

You should definitely come for this one! =)

X-Media-Lab Sozhou event @ Suzhou

it's actually from 8th through 10th at Suzhou Industrial Park. Its about animation industry! It's nice! I attended their Beijing one last December. (that brought me to the Hall of People. ^^) met so many good friends from the virtual world space and greet casual tours to Forbidden City and Great Wall. Of course, the unforgettable LAN Club experience. we had a blast. So, if you go there, do you not anticipate a great conference and people, but also great fun with the people!!! Definitely going to be great! Good luck, Brendan, Mega and Peili. (George, are you involved too? even bettter yah!)

StumbleUpon 5 M user party @ San Francisco, CA

Do you love social bookmarking? Do you use stumpleupon? Do you love stumpleupon? Do you want to attend free party? either one answer is yes. you should go to attend this one! it's great! have fun there!
I so much want to go there and meet people. You know, i can't! great stuff! have fun!

2. May 13th

FC Club Beijing Networking event @ Beijing

There are lots of headhunters and if you are looking for a job. It's a perfect event to go! You can find out more about how China is doing right now there, I believe. I have never been to one so far. I've signed up to be a volunteer but they have not responded to me at all.

China Entrepreneurs - Startup 101- "the State of Entrepreneurship in China" @ Shanghai

Do check with Elsa from CE and see if you can get discount being a friend of BASE. She kindly offered for the last event in Beijing, about "Exit Strategies". It was a great topic and I learned a lot there. Thanks, Elsa!

3. May 17th

OpenSource & Drupal Camp Shanghai 2008

If you like OpenSource and passionate about it, you sure do not want to miss this one! check it out!

the list of events can go endless... let us stop here for a break! will update again!

Updates on our friends:
1. @DavidDehghan have fun home! have a great stay in the US. keep us posted on the cool things going on there yah! =) see you back in Beijing in a few weeks.

2. @FrankYu sorry we will miss you this time! thanks for the support! you will speak next time, won't you? =P

3. @BjornLee hey bro! Happy belated birthday! you went too far away to celebrate your birthday! Man, HK! well, the good thing is that RMB is stronger than HKD. =) hope you enjoyed the shopping and parties there!

4. @DariusRoberts sorry for the confusion! my apology for making it unclear! see you at the event. we will have great things to talk about, yah!

5. @ReshmaKhilnani We missed you at the fun group chill out night. sorry! okay. let us exchange phone numbers the first thing we meet at the event!!! thanks for the great notes! it really makes BASE event different! =)

6 @TomWang hey dude, where have you been? you disappeared for quite some time, eh! Good luck with all the cool things you are doing and we will catch up soon! =)

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