Links for 2008-01-10 : Chinglish, Jawbone, Collective Purchase, Westminster Car-Charging, Video Sharing Soars
January 10, 2008
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Chinglish is rampant in China. It’s so prevalent that the government has dispatched teams of bloggers and linguists to clean up signs all over Beijing.
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I couldn’t get this to load for a while and the film itself comes across like a long (albeit fairly engaging) ad. I would be interested to know Anomaly’s social media approach to this … I found one “Boo Boo” film on YouTube and it had three views. It had (rather unimpressively) been uploaded by a newbie with no other views.
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Approximately 26,000 people have banded together online to collectively purchase and manage Ebbsfleet United, a minor-league soccer team in southeast England. Another great example of digitally enabled community and “crowdsourcing”.
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Westminster Council unveiled their plans to expand the city’s streetside car-charging service, eventually bringing the total number of charge-points up to an impressive 60.
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Nearly half of internet users have visited video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, and typical daily traffic to such sites nearly doubled from the end of 2006 to the end of 2007.
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Springwise’s reader favourites from 2007.
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