Jul26th2010
Published by richard July 26th, 2010
in Business Development, China and The Cloud.
Just a quick update on ICP since that is what I get a lot of hits for – that and ESX disk woes.
Previosuly you would have to decide between a “normal” ICP as needed for all business online properties. Or a “commerical” ICP for doing trades/shopping cart/ecommerce.
Well if you had the latter – get ready to go an apply for the former AS WELL and IN ADDITION to the latter. Otherwise the nice men at 5PM on a Friday on the phone will be demanding that your site is taken down. Even though you have a commercial ICP and put up the millions in RMB in registered captial required for it.
Published by richard May 20th, 2010
in Uncategorized.
Not sure when exactly this happened – I am guessing in the past 2 weeks as the Missus is declaring we need a new webcam at home so inter family video chats can resume. So all up it was about 1 year of being cut off from modern communications.
For the rest of us. Facebook (who cares), Twitter and Youtube are still blocked and flickr is as usual suffering from split pers
May20th2010
Published by richard May 20th, 2010
in The Cloud.
Jason Calicanis sent out an email recently that reinforced what I had already thought. Get out of facebook. Delete and see that useless molasses of nothingness get what it deserves.
Well it turns out that for the past two months I had only been “Deactivated”!
Deleting is a whole new option (hidden – until Jason showed me) that also needs 14 days to complete.
Getting China residence is easier than canceling citizenship to Face Book! :-s
Published by richard April 19th, 2010
in China.
Going through some old scans from last year (bit of a back log). Here is one I took of Kevin Rose (digg.com founder) when I took him out for Chaunr after a regrettably too lately planned and informed tweetup that prevented the execution of some serious piss cutting out on the town. :-s
Since Andy Ihnatko mentioned me on his blog, I do need to get his pics from Beijing up as well.
Apr19th2010
Well it is not news to most people in the industry and it has been sort of expected for a while:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
It is also no secret that the percentage of users in China that would love to use foreign web sites for most of their daily stuff – is quite low. Yes stuff is blocked. But the lion’s share of Chinese speaking people want Chinese sites with Chinese stuff of them. These servers are located inside China.
Continue reading ‘Google Using Site Speed Ranking & China Based Servers’
Published by richard April 7th, 2010
in Business Development and China.
A former client of mine who was involved in a new venture recently quizzed me as to whether or not “We require clients to undertake the Cultural Understanding Course” if they do hosting and services with us?
ICP, yes… but a “Cultural Understanding Course” ??!
My client explained to me that according to their current infrastructure provider, “since we are running a site that targeted the Chinese and had music and culture on it, in order to continue to host he needed to undertake a Cultural Understanding Course or just make a special payment of 10K RMB to avoid it.” I’m paraphrasing but that is the gist of it.
Something didn’t smell right. I have never known of any law or regulation in China that can be avoided simply by paying money to someone! 
Continue reading ‘Cultural Understanding Course (Payment)’
Mar15th2010
NOTE: This started off as a little blog post. But after including all of the elements and history, we end up at 2700+ words. I’ve made it as easy as possible with headings, however if you want to understand clearly and not be asking why and why not questions later – just read it all now in one hit.
Start Here
There has been a bit of a maelstrom recently regarding the use of .CN and ICP certificates all on top of the existing confusion.
So, to try and set the record straight this article is a nice little walk through the pages of history and clearly state the facts of the matter from the inception until the present. And hopefully not only explaining what the situation is, but also how it came about and the anthropology of how we got to the situation that we have today.
Continue reading ‘The History of Chinese ICP and .CN Requirements’
Published by richard January 13th, 2010
in Business Development and China.
Just like the current confusion over .cn, registrations, ICP – ICP by itself let alone in combination with others. Rules in China are one thing – but this isn’t the first time that two regulators don’t agree and have a pissing match. Or the rule creation and rule enforcement depts are thinking different things.
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