Bump and Update I (07/02/2008):

Found the Youtube video:

Here I was eating my dinner and watching TV when an ad came on TV that beautifully meshed in The Mummy 3 with the Beijing Olympics for a TV commercial trailer. Now, regardless of what you may think of The Mummy (1 or 2), from an advertising perspective, that was an amazing mesh of two ads into one TV commercial.

The minute I can find the the commercial up on Youtube or the main site, I’ll link to it here.

Well done.

Update II (07/02/2008):

The main site still does not have it and from an SEO perspective–not very friendly.

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How aware are you when you focus on something? Click and view the test first before reading on:

The Awareness Test

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Boingboing has it all exposed!

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If there was ever a way to push online companies to support Net Neutrality and really push against ISPs, this situation would certainly qualify:

That’s right, you see Roger’s Yahoo! High-Speed Internet showing up on Google Canada in three spots. How dumb can the ISPs be to not think about these kinds of situations (even if it’s just a test)?

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From Slashdot:

Alberto G writes “As Jammie Thomas appeals the $222,000 copyright infringement verdict against her, the Department of Justice has weighed in on a central facet of her appeal: whether the $9,250-per-song damages were unconstitutionally excessive and violated the Due Process Clause of the Constitution. The DoJ says that there’s nothing wrong with the figure the jury arrived at: ‘[G]iven the findings of copyright infringement in this case, the damages awarded under the Copyright Act’s statutory damages provision did not violate the Due Process Clause; they were not “so severe and oppressive as to be wholly disproportioned to the offense or obviously unreasonable.”‘ The DoJ also appears to buy into the RIAA’s argument that making a file available on a P2P network constitutes copyright infringement. ‘It’s also impossible for the true damages to be calculated, according to the brief, because it’s unknown how many other users accessed the files in the KaZaA share in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.’”

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I wanted to follow-up on my previous post with a good night’s rest behind me (had a great dream of having superpowers). I want to make sure everyone knows I am not trashing his reputation or think badly of him, on the contrary for the most part I am/was filled with jealousy which very rarely feel or show.

Firstly, I think its great that he posted up some clips and is very smart to have done so on the Chinese Youtube, Youku, which caters specifically to the Chinese audience (I have seen previous singers on Youtube, but obviously that caters more to the English speaking audience).

Others will surely trash him and consider what his ulterior motives are behind him posting up on Youku (heck, it could have been a simple bet from a co-worker at HSBC to put up his vids there or something).

Still, I’ve never understood why people like him or my friend Adam who enjoyed singing the Communist National Anthem (which ironically is actually illegal to do in China on TV as my friend Adam found out), but then again I’m not exactly big on any kind of nationalism either so my bias clouds that judgment beyond the obvious marketing ability on catching eyes.

Now, singing 周杰伦 (Jay Chow) I can understand fully and have enjoyed many of hours singing the song, raving to 黎明 (Leon Lai) (wish I had a video of that instead of pictures), lip-syncing to girly 郑秀文 (Sammy Cheng) (guilty pleasure on that one), and even running a college CASA at GWU (yes, that old fable about some white guy on the East Coast running a Chinese club was me).

If that doesn’t help give an understanding of who I am, know that many people I knew back in high school and my friends still today call me a white Asian guy (hence the nickname: whiteaznguy) for my knowledge and interest over Asian topics. Heck, in my group of friends that I often hang out with, there is only one white guy (you know the token white guy?) and it isn’t me as they say I’m really Asian than I am white.

So truly in the end this guy has my respect, my interest in getting to know a fellow cultural 中国通, and a bow to his courage, but not my Shanghainese wife.

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*drools* times 1,000 (from /film, which I guess is a part of /.?):

Someone thought it would be a good idea to model their home theater after the Enterprise NCC-1701[-]D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The result is super geeky, but actually rather cool. Named the best theme theater installation at CEDIA 2007, this Palm Beach County, FL home features motion-activated air-lock doors with series sound effects, and a “Red Alert” button on the Crestron TPMC-10 controller to turn all of the LEDs bright red and flashing. The system also features “one of the largest Kaleidescape hard-drive based storage systems” ever created, amassing eight servers with 3,816 DVDs.

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Demerzel’s bias: I work for an online advertising agency, I love working with Google Analytics, and I just plain love working with analytics data.

Found from Andrew Sullivan’s blog originally on The Guardian:

Web statistics are complicated at the best of times, and video throws up even more problems. If a site embeds a piece of YouTube video, for example, should that user or that view be credited to the host site or the site where the video lives? Once a download is on someone’s desktop, how does the broadcaster know if it is ever watched? And how can broadcasters best track on-screen advertising?

To make sure there is an understanding (and to clarify what I presume Jemima Kiss was referring to) web statistics in the form of stat counters is rather basic whereas web statistics in the form of web analytics (Google Analytics, Site Catalyst/Omniture, WebTrends, etc.) is complicated, but that does not mean that measuring data is any less valid due to its complexity. (more…)

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Quoted from the Shanghaiist:

Seems like the event a lot of people are talking about is the upcoming Linkin Park concert this Sunday. From what we have heard there are still some tickets available (from Emma ticketing) but supposedly the event has sold extremely well. If that’s true, it’s impressive, considering this show is being held in Hongkou Stadium, a venue three times the size of the Shanghai Grand Stage.

I’m actually not very surprised–if there were a few English words that the young Chinese knew (and this was back in 2003), it was Linkin Park.

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