SHARKRIDE! » china http://sharkride.com/blog A Wm. Matthew Jaunich presentation of innovative concepts. http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sharkride is blocked in China. And, Free, ubiquitous and uncensored internet for every human on earth. http://sharkride.com/blog/2009/03/16/sharkride-is-blocked-in-china/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2009/03/16/sharkride-is-blocked-in-china/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:00:24 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/?p=1385 The great firewall of China has blocked this blog.

What if we could deliver free, uncensored Internet to every human on the planet via satellites?

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]]> http://sharkride.com/blog/2009/03/16/sharkride-is-blocked-in-china/feed/ 0 LEARNING CHINESE (audio) http://sharkride.com/blog/2008/02/26/learning-chinese-audio/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2008/02/26/learning-chinese-audio/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:35:09 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/2008/02/26/learning-chinese-audio/ Tonight was my first Chinese lesson – I tried Rosetta Stone, and the teaching style didn’t work for me. You can follow along with me, if you want to learn some basic Chinese in a perfect Beijing accent!

The first clip is an overview of the vowels and the different sounds in the Mandarin Chinese language, as well as some simple phrases, and the second clip includes some basic introduction phrases.

Enjoy!

Chinese vowel sounds – click here

Introduction phrases – click here

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]]> http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/12/29/a-paper-like-battery/feed/ 3 uWink PROMO VIDEO http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/12/20/uwink-promo-video/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/12/20/uwink-promo-video/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:16:46 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/12/20/uwink-promo-video/ I really think uWink would be a hit in Asia. It’s like an Internet cafe on steroids.

Click here for video promo.

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]]> http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/12/20/uwink-promo-video/feed/ 0 FUNNY CHINESE ADVERTISEMENT (video) http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/11/14/funny-chinese-advertisement-video/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/11/14/funny-chinese-advertisement-video/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:13:22 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/11/14/funny-chinese-advertisement-video/ Alexander Graham Bell makes a “special-guest” appearance pointing out the fact that his 100 years old Telephone line invention wasn’t designed for today’s Broadband connections. This is set in a traditional Chinese Hell like environment to imply the hellish experience of surfing the internet with a slow connection.

Click here to view the embedded video. ]]> http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/11/14/funny-chinese-advertisement-video/feed/ 1 A SOCIAL SHOPPING TWIST, virtual control worldwide shopping! http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/10/19/a-social-shopping-twist-virtual-control-worldwide-shopping/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/10/19/a-social-shopping-twist-virtual-control-worldwide-shopping/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:25:52 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/10/19/a-social-shopping-twist-virtual-control-worldwide-shopping/ ShangBy.png

In a twist related to my previous post about PrevYou here (link), a social shopping platform, an Austin, Texas-based site ShangBy (link) has an unconventional way for you to shop in Shanghai, where prices for luxury goods can be significantly cheaper than in the U.S., by allowing you to shop virtually via a camera following a Swedish guide in Shanghai! As a ShangBuyer, you tell them what items to zoom in on, which products Nina should try on, what questions to ask the merchants, and which products you’d like to buy. Now here’s actually a potential reason for justin.tv’s technology!

[thanks, VentureBeat]

]]> http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/10/19/a-social-shopping-twist-virtual-control-worldwide-shopping/feed/ 0 SHANGHAI SUBWAY INTERACTIVE ADS (video) http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/04/13/shanghai-subway-interactive-ads-video/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/04/13/shanghai-subway-interactive-ads-video/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:14:04 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/04/13/shanghai-subway-interactive-ads-video/ Click here to view the embedded video. ]]> http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/04/13/shanghai-subway-interactive-ads-video/feed/ 1 WATERWORLD, a resort concept set in Songjiang, China http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/01/03/amazing-architecture/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/01/03/amazing-architecture/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:49:34 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/01/03/amazing-architecture/ This amazing 400 bed resort and hotel concept designed by the Atkins Architecture Group is set in Songjiang, China. The building is integrated into the natural environment of a water-filled quarry. [via the cool hunter]

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]]> http://sharkride.com/blog/2007/01/03/amazing-architecture/feed/ 5 NEW SERIES: Statistic/fact of the Day! http://sharkride.com/blog/2006/12/27/new-series-statisticfact-of-the-day/ http://sharkride.com/blog/2006/12/27/new-series-statisticfact-of-the-day/#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:06:07 +0000 Matt Jaunich http://sharkride.com/blog/2006/12/27/new-series-statisticfact-of-the-day/ According to Faith Popcorn, there are almost as many Chinese learning English in China, as there are people who can speak English living in the US, UK and Canada combined.

Incidentally, one of the hottest cosmetic surgery procedures in China is a tongue snip, which helps with English pronunciation. [via BBC]

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