Friday, January 12, 2007
Russian ad offends the Chinese
Complaints from the Chinese embassy in Moscow forced an advertising agency to scrap a chewing gum commercial playing on Russian television which featured China's national anthem as backing music.
China's People's Daily newspaper said the commercial for chewing gum produced by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. using the "March of the Volunteers" had "harmed the dignity of China."
Read more: RussiaMySpace launches French language website
MySpace on Thursday launched in beta a French language site, as the popular U.S. social network continues to expand its online reach internationally.
MySpace's latest addition joins its other foreign sites in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom. But while MySpace dominates online social networking in the United States, it doesn't hold the top spot in other countries.
Read more: MySpaceA Review of China's Internet Expansion in 2006
In this relatively calm year, business power stood out. Venture capital has been withdrawn from pure Web 2.0 website promptly as investors can't envisage the rational profit mode. However, internet giants started integration with Web 2.0. Search engines like Baidu.com and Google.com began to build themselves into a huge community to share favorites and information, to seek an approach to enhance profits by increasing client faithfulness.
Read more: ReviewWord of the Day: incarnadine
incarnadine \in-KAR-nuh-dyn\, adjective:
1. Having a fleshy pink color.
2. Red; blood-red.
transitive verb:
1. To make red or crimson.
Captain Dobo opened the castle's wine cellars and broke open the casks for his men, who greeted the sultan's soldiers without first politely wiping the incarnadine wine from their blood-red lips and bearded chins. -- Kevin Keating, "Kilroy Was Here!", International Travel News, October 1, 2001
The more he scrubbed it, the more it bled. It made the seas incarnadine, he said. -- Judy Driscoll, "Biddy takes pink gin to the country dance", Hecate, May 1, 1993