
About one month ago I started publishing weekly newsletters of China real estate information here on Mingtiandi and the response has been stronger than I imagined. More users sign up every day from several countries around the globe, and more than 30% of our 1830 readers are reading every edition.
So if response is [...]

Reports in the media both in China and internationally last week brought attention to a conflict between new media regulations in China and online mapping services by foreign companies such as Google and Microsoft that seem destined to end access to Google and Bing maps in China. Unless the situation changes soon, these [...]

There was big news in the tech world today as sources within Google let it be known that the company was moving away from using Windows on its workstations. At RightSite, we can only say, “What took you so long?”
As reported today in the Financial Times, Google has put in place measures [...]

As followers of this blog may know, RightSite was built using a content management system called Drupal, a development platform that seems to be going thermo-nuclear here in 2010. While I have seen numerous examples of famous sites the world over being built in Drupal, including the official White House [...]

Most folks can only count on death and taxes. If you are managing a startup, then you get a bonus — you can count on death, taxes and at least one system failure a week.
By necessity, most startups run on the cheap. We forgo expensive systems and big teams in favour of lightweight, [...]
One of the key factors in the whether a startup is successful is how effectively the team collaborates in accomplishing their goals. At RightSite we are a small team producing a very big website so we are always looking for tools that help us to share information and work together more efficiently, and [...]

While we may have created a few dodgy budgets at RightSite, we still haven’t figured out how to create a subversive spreadsheet. Despite this, it seems that while Google docs are accessible in China today, any of the spreadsheets that you may have created are not.
At this time, we are able [...]
It’s Saturday in Shanghai and that makes it time to celebrate another victory at RightSite. We completed another week of productive work under substandard conditions. We successfully produced a our latest newsletter, got about 90 new property listings added to our directory, and have gained considerable ground on completing our RightSite Pro features without [...]

It’s been a while since I checked in here at Mingtiandi, but that’s only because of how much work we’ve had to do building RightSite.asia.
One of the benefits of building RightSite has been getting the opportunity to find out more about some of the intense industrial development going on in China. During the [...]

The highways of China are littered with the roadkill carcasses of foreign Internet giants who stumbled, staggered, and got left for dead in their quest for the world’s biggest Internet audience. eBay, Google and Yahoo have all had heaping helpings of humble pie in the Middle Kingdom, and some of them keep [...]
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