China Blogging Tour

Dell launches a Chinese version of its corporate blog

Dell today launched a Mandarin Chinese version of its Direct2Dell blog. Digital Media Manager Lionel Menchaca, who writes a lot of the entries, says the Dell blog is now getting 2.5 million page views a month. (It launched less than a year ago, in July 2006.) I suspect Dell will be the first in a pack of multinationals to launch a corporate blog in Chinese. Good move.

Also check out Dell's IdeaStorm (designed to capture and rank customer ideas for new products) and StudioDell where you can down and upload videos and podcasts. 

Finding my way in the Chinese Blogosphere

Apart from the language problem it was also a bit of work to find my way around the Chinese blogosphere. By following some random links I did find interesting blogs who cover the China Web 2.0 and blog world. Here's just 3 of them:

China Web 2.0 Review: is a blog dedicated to track web2.0 development, review and profile web2.0 applications, business and services in China. It runs an interesting story on the Chinese "Second Life" virtual world called "Hipihi".

China Blog List: is a collection of links to English language weblogs focused on China. It has a good list of technology related blogs in English.

The blog of Fons Tuinstra is also a nice resource  - good to read the insights from a European who has lived in China for several years now and who follows new media  development in the country.