Jon Russell
Jon is a social media consultant and former freelance journalist based in Thailand. This blog follows his interest (bordering on obsession) with the rise and impact of digital in Asia, and how the continent - and its growing global significance - is affecting digital in Asia and beyond. For all enquiries contact: jmarussell@gmail.com
Internet censorship in Asia
Reuters has a write-up looking at how Asian nations are realising that they cannot control the internet (here). The article mentions a few obvious characters like China and Singapore with Malaysia, India and…
Twitter targets Asia with support for 5 new languages
Twitter has demonstrated how important Asia is for its service by introducing support for five new regional languages. Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Hindi, Tagalog and Malay are the new additions that will…
Assessing the growing influence of Asia’s internet
Social Media New Zealand has an excellent guest post from Simon Grigg looking at the rise of Asia online, and how the continent’s growth is likely to see it influence the western world,…
Why China group buying doesn’t work (even though it could)
The following article on China’s group buying site is a guest contribution that is republished (from here) with full permission from our friends over at TechOrange. If you haven’t already heard of it,…
Money trading goes mobile in Indonesia
Bloomberg has an interesting article looking at tech in Indonesia suggesting that online stock traders are tapping into mobile to identify new investors among the country’s tech-crazed population. The article looks specifically at…
Report: 512 million mobile internet users in Asia by 2015
Regular readers will recall how I’ve often lamented how the failure of certain web analytics firms to include mobile internet usage in their statistics renders their research and data fairly useless in Asia….
Facebook’s ‘mini-revolution’ gains momentum in Burma
Dedicated Burmese news and media site Mizzima has a fascinating article on Facebook’s “mini-revolution” in the country. The last two years have seen Facebook grow to dominate the social media scene in numerous…
Cost of broadband still beyond many in Asia
I’ve often talked about a “digital divide” in Asia and research from Ovum provides further fuel for the fire concluding that many customers in emerging markets are priced out of broadband internet. Via…
Indonesia: 87% of Twitter usage is mobile… and more
Indonesian social media analytics firm Saling Silang this week released its report on the country’s social media landscape over the first half of the year. Though explicitly related to Indonesia and local trends…
Infographic: China’s microblogging giants sized up
Chinese microblogging is a topic rarely off the radar in Asia, and recently its role in overcoming censorship and information bureaus in reporting the Wenzhoubar train crash garnered considerable interest. With that in mind,…
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