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Twitter targets Asia with support for 5 new languages

By Jon Russell Thu, Sep 15, 2011 11:02AM UTC View Comments

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 help significant numbers of users across Asia gain access to non-English versions of the service. Each language will have its own dedicated...

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Assessing the growing influence of Asia’s internet

By Jon Russell Fri, Sep 09, 2011 2:00PM UTC View Comments

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, which has until now been the influencer-in-chief. Overall, I agree with Simon’s take on things – Asia is gaining greater significance, no...

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Japanese mobile gaming network Mobage launches in US

By Jon Russell Thu, Jul 28, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments

Japanese web giant DeNA and Ngmoco, its US games publisher partner, has announced the launch of Mobage, the hit Japanese social gaming network for mobile phones only, to English language markets yesterday. Mobage is quite unique compared to other more established social networks as it is available through mobile phones only. The service will now...

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Mobile internet flourishing in Thailand, but still no 3G

By Jon Russell Tue, Jul 12, 2011 11:30AM UTC View Comments

Thailand’s mobile telecom and broadband markets are performing well and showing much potential despite the ongoing issues around 3G technology, according to two separate reports published this month. Despite the lack of country-wide, public 3G mobile technology, Thais are amongs Asia’s most avid mobile internet users according to a report from research firm Nielsen, published...

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Malaysian govt reveals $600,000 Facebook campaign flop

By Jon Russell Wed, Jun 15, 2011 11:00AM UTC View Comments

*UPDATE: see here for my argument explaining why the spend was not as bad as reported and why miscommunication was the real reason for the scandal The Malaysian government invested a whopping 1.8 million Ringgit (circa US$590,000) developing Facebook Pages according to The Malaysian Insider. The funds, which were invested in a series of Facebook...

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