You know you’ve arrived when you’re being cloned in China. Pinterest has, of course, arrived — here and in China. Yesterday, Chinese tech company Taobao launched a photo-sharing, social media site that is modeled almost exactly after Pinterest. The name of the new social network is Wantu (translation: mischievous rabbit). The site can be accessed through Taoboa’s website at: wantu.taobao.com. Hardly the first [...]

You’ve probably never heard of Elk Creek, Nebraska.  If you have, you probably don’t know much about it.  It sounds like one of those sleepy towns featured in a Warner Brothers teen, angst vampire drama (thanks to Warner Brothers, any town that has “creek” in its title is pretty much full of vampires or desperately horny, misunderstood teenagers). I’ll admit [...]

Let’s face it.  No one wants to be the dateless, fat kid at the prom.  Lagging woefully behind other world leaders and government officials in their understanding and usage of social media, Chinese government officials are clearly sitting on the sidelines of the social media party (even as its own citizens master the use of social media tools in powerful [...]