Archive for August, 2011

The world’s best selling beer? Snow Beer from China

Back in 2003 when I was working with Sierk Vojacek in TV and video productions we produced a TV commercial for a local beer brand I had never heard of: Snow Beer. I am not sure anymore whether it was part of the payment, but after the shooting we ended up with quite some bottles of beer. I remember I didn't particular like it, the color was very light and the beer didn't have much taste, but on a hot summer day it was drinkable. Over the years I saw Snow Beer more and more, especially...
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Excellent China Eastern experience

I just had an excellent experience with China Eastern in New York, their service in their New York office is really good. Interestingly, it actually all started pretty bad. Because we didn't know exactly when we would fly back to Shanghai after the Tudou IPO we didn't book a ticket yet. So this morning we called China Eastern to see if there were any business class seats available on their direct New York-Shanghai flight tomorrow that we can book with miles (I collected almost a million KLM...
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Tudou.com IPO on NASDAQ

Today Tudou.com was listed on the NASDAQ, almost 7 years after Gary and I founded the company! No time to write a post, so just a couple of random pictures that I took today. Grace and Marc with the NASDAQ listing certificate I love the slogan: Dream it, Do it, NASDAQ NASDAQ welcomes Tudou on Times Square! Closing ceremony, can you spot me? More Tudou logos on Times...
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My blog is suddenly very slow

Since a few weeks the speed of my blog is a lot slower than it used to be. If you're on a fast Internet connection you may not really notice it, but I now even got an email from a reader complaining about it. Because I did not change any settings in Wordpress and my hosting provider has not changed I had no idea what the problem was. But then UnitedStyles CTO Joop Dorresteijn noticed that the pictures cause the long loading time. It turns out that during my holiday I probably changed some...
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Stormy days ahead: super typhoon Muifa will hit Shanghai this weekend

Every year a couple of typhoons pass by Shanghai, but the last big one that exactly hit Shanghai was on the weekend of August 6-7, 2005. Exactly 6 years later another super typhoon will hit Shanghai on the same weekend, also on 6-7 August. Current predictions are that typhoon Muifa will blow into Shanghai from the East China Sea and make landfall here late Saturday night, with wind speeds of up to 130 mp/h (210 km/h). Its path can still change, but has been pretty stable for the past 24...
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