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Sina breaks into social TV and personal broadcasting with a new service called Kandian, which allows users to live stream and share video content with friends on Sina's Weibo platform. Facebook has overtaken Cyworld as the most visited social network in Korea according to one report, though Cyworld still has more total users. The Android Market is currently blocked in China like Google Maps and Gmail, likely due to blocks imposed by the country's firewall without any official notification from the government.
20111014 in the news
- 1. Week of October 10, 2011 Digital Report www.asiadigitalmap.com Since 2009 Sina breaks into Social TV and Personal Broadcas<ng (headline) Kandian is a new social TV service from Sina. Essentially, its a multimedia viewing and sharing service linked closely to Sinas own Weibo platform. Users can upload or live-stream in a manner similar to the Americam site, Justin.tv and then share and discuss the content with friends. In addition to user-generated content, there are some proper TV channels on the site that can be streamed for free. The site is still in private beta. Source: http://www.penn-olson.com/ Facebook overtaking Cyworld Korea? A recent report in The Korea Times is indicating that Facebook has overtaken the nations dominant social network Cyworld in terms of monthly visitors, citing metrics from Rankey.com. According to these, Cyworld saw 15.9 million visitors in August. Facebook saw 16.3 million visitors and is reported to have grown 16 times on the previous year to 16.3 million visitors last month. But user base figures indicate that Facebook still has a long way to go. In comparison with Cyworlds 25 million users, Facebook only has about 4 million to date (according to Social Bakers). Source: http://www.penn-olson.com/ Google Android market blocked in China The Android Market is currently blocked in China, presumably by the Great Firewall. It may be temporary (there have been earlier blocks), but testing it with different devices always resulted in the same error message: connection expired. Blocks in China always come without any official public notification. When Google Maps updated to 4.70 for Android it was blocked too. The last time I checked Gmail on my phone, that was blocked too. Google faces a severe deficit of trust with the Chinese government. Source: http://techrice.com/