Saturday, November 20, 2010

Crowdsourcing Model Helps China's Cellphone Online Game Developing

  The cellphone online game has a good period now since many years developing. China is also the largest market for the cellphone online game, the domestic game number from only 10 in 2006 to more than 500 in 2010; the user nmber of cellphone online game has more than 16 million .

  According to the prediting form ChinaVenture , the profit of this year will have about 500 million yuan, growth rate more than 330%.

  As the communication tech. development and amusement needs from clients, the booming time for cellphone online game will be come. It also require the game's quantity and quality, that means it must be enough fund and tech. doorsill and it makes many good ordinary research staff have not chance to show their ideas. So its need a platform for these people who can push the industry development. The MNG, a platform for the people who has ability join in the game development builded recently.

  MNG platform is combination by game development, game operating , and operating managerment to solve the problem. It use the open schema, to give the unitive develop tech. standard to simplity the develop process. And the platform is easy to use and hommization, you just have basic skills of java and be trained about 5-10 days.  The barrier between the professional and amateur being broken. The cellphone online game could have good atmosphere to development quick and well.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Crowdsourcing used in the Government Management

  In recently, the Gao Ming district government spokesman platform has been operateed in China.  From the feedback of 2 weeks, people's participate are very positive, more than 2000 leave the messages and 7000 registered the member. This phenomenon shows it satisfied people's demand for the participate of govenment managment and also prove interaction is the effective way and future trend for the e-government affairs .


  This is only a try for e-government managment , but i think it must be a trend for Chinese government to spread this model. Because this can bring many benefits for the government and society managment. Just like the company, the government also can post the issues to the public and ask for the good way to deal with. Such as the public project or the city construction ...  Talk back the network spokesman platform, we noticed that the  platform focus on the one to one consult, also some net friends leaved  good advising for the government , i think that's the way to participate the government managment as a citizen. The network spokesman platform not just to help people clear up doubts but also attract people to give good ideas for the government and improve the government efficiency to serve the public.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

China's virtual vigilantes: Civic action or cyber mobs?(Human-flesh search engines )

  come from: http://bbs.ifeng.com/viewthread.php?tid=3462559


  Beijing - Some call it a weapon in the hands of a righteous army, forged so that wrongdoers might be smitten. Others say it simply allows a mob of vigilantes to publicly vilify and humiliate anyone they choose to pick on through grotesque invasions of privacy.


  Either way, the peculiarly Chinese Internet phenomenon known as the "human flesh search engine," a citizen-driven, blog-based hunt for alleged undesirables, claimed a fresh victim this month when a mid-ranking government official lost his job.


  Accused of accosting a young girl, Lin Jiaxiang found his name, address, phone number, and workplace plastered all over Chinese cyberspace for 250 million Internet users to see, and his alleged crime the subject of hundreds of insulting blog postings.
Mr. Lin might be thought to have gotten his just deserts, especially since the police refused to prosecute him because he'd been drunk. Grace Wang, however, a Chinese student at Duke University, was outraged when netizens back home, offended by her efforts to mediate a campus dispute between pro-Tibetan and Chinese students last March, tracked down her parents' address and emptied a bucket of feces by their front door.


  Once the actions of Ms. Wang and Lin had attracted attention in Internet chat rooms, both were quickly identified by people who recognized the photos of them posted on the Web.


  It was not long before others who knew them had created an ad hoc human flesh search engine, and began posting many other personal details about the two.


  With more Internet users than anywhere else in the world, there is no shortage of amateur detectives ready to join the hunt. And with chat rooms the only public space where Chinese citizens can express themselves anonymously and with any real freedom, they have become forums for strong opinions on many issues.


  "It is a tradition in China," says Yu Hai, a sociologist at Shanghai's Fudan University. "People here like to moralize. And since traditional media are government mouthpieces, the Internet has become a very convenient channel for ordinary people to vent their feelings."


  They can do so pretty much however they like, not only because they can disguise their identities, but also because there is no privacy law in China yet. "There is no practicable, feasible, and concrete legal instrument" to regulate Internet use, says Li Xu, deputy head of Tsinghua University's Institute for Internet Behavior.


  One man who found himself the quarry of a human flesh search, Wang Fei, is testing the law by bringing China's first suit against websites that he says carried defamatory statements about him.
  Mr. Wang drew the ire of fellow Internauts after his wife committed suicide last year. Her diary, posted posthumously by her sister, voiced suspicions that Wang had an affair with a colleague. The blogosphere blamed Wang for his wife's death, and turned on him with a vengeance.


  "You will fall into the endless darkness and abyss of misery hated by billions" read one post, labeling Wang a "beast" and "scum."


The virtual insults spilled over into real life. Someone painted "blood for blood" on Wang's front door, his lawyer said. He and his relatives were bombarded with furious telephone calls, and he was fired from his job at an advertising agency, along with his alleged mistress.


  "Those websites published insulting, defamatory, and untrue information about Wang that damaged his reputation ... and violated his privacy," argues his lawyer, Zhang Yanfeng. "He is suing them for damages, for mental distress, and lost earnings."
The case has already taken nine months and will probably not come to judgment until next spring, says Mr. Zhang, because of "a great many disagreements" among the judges and the expert witnesses.


  Among the issues the court must resolve, in the absence of any clear legislation, is whether information such as a cellphone number, an ID card number, or an address can be said to be private. The judges must also consider how far website managers are responsible and legally liable for posts on their sites, and weigh the competing interests of free speech and privacy protection.


  A poll published earlier this year in the China Youth Daily found that nearly 80 percent of respondents thought that human-flesh search engines should be regulated, and 65 percent thought they invaded people's privacy.


  The dilemma, says Dr. Li, is that "allowing arbitrary speech with no regulation ... violates privacy rights. But if you over-regulate citizens' ability to express themselves, the Internet will lose its very nature and its attraction."


  Drawing too heavy a cloak around personal privacy, moreover, would protect abusive officials from the public pillorying they deserve, argues Liu Deliang, head of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Cyberlaw Studies.


  "Ordinary people have no enforceable right to supervise government officials' behavior or to control the corruption they see everywhere," he says. "So they use the Internet to do that."


  "Human-flesh searches are a neutral technology that can be used for good or ill," says Dr. Liu. "But they must strike a balance between public and private interests."

China's crowdsourcing way :(Human-Flesh Search Engines)

   come from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?pagewanted=1


  The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding a small brown and white kitten in her hands. She gently places the cat on the tiled pavement and proceeds to stomp it to death with the sharp point of her high heel.


  “This is not a human,” wrote BrokenGlasses, a user on Mop, a Chinese online forum. “I have no interest in spreading this video nor can I remain silent. I just hope justice can be done.” That first post elicited thousands of responses. “Find her and kick her to death like she did to the kitten,” one user wrote. Then the inquiries started to become more practical: “Is there a front-facing photo so we can see her more clearly?” The human-flesh search had begun.


  Human-flesh search engines — renrou sousuo yinqing — have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.


  There is no portal specially designed for human-flesh searching; the practice takes place in Chinese Internet forums like Mop, where the term most likely originated. Searches are powered by users called wang min, Internet citizens, or Netizens. The word “Netizen” exists in English, but you hear its equivalent used much more frequently in China, perhaps because the public space of the Internet is one of the few places where people can in fact act like citizens. A Netizen called Beacon Bridge No Return found the first clue in the kitten-killer case. “There was credit information before the crush scene reading ‘www.crushworld.net,’ ” that user wrote. Netizens traced the e-mail address associated with the site to a server in Hangzhou, a couple of hours from Shanghai. A follow-up post asked about the video’s location: “Are users from Hangzhou familiar with this place?” Locals reported that nothing in their city resembled the backdrop in the video. But Netizens kept sifting through the clues, confident they could track down one person in a nation of more than a billion. They were right.


  The traditional media picked up the story, and people all across China saw the kitten killer’s photo on television and in newspapers. “I know this woman,” wrote I’m Not Desert Angel four days after the search began. “She’s not in Hangzhou. She lives in the small town I live in here in northeastern China. God, she’s a nurse! That’s all I can say.”


  Only six days after the first Mop post about the video, the kitten killer’s home was revealed as the town of Luobei in Heilongjiang Province, in the far northeast, and her name — Wang Jiao — was made public, as were her phone number and her employer. Wang Jiao and the cameraman who filmed her were dismissed from what the Chinese call iron rice bowls, government jobs that usually last to retirement and pay a pension until death.


  “Wang Jiao was affected a lot,” a Luobei resident known online as Longjiangbaby told me by e-mail. “She left town and went somewhere else. Li Yuejun, the cameraman, used to be core staff of the local press. He left Luobei, too.” The kitten-killer case didn’t just provide revenge; it helped turn the human-flesh search engine into a national phenomenon.


  AT THE BEIJING headquarters of Mop, Ben Du, the site’s head of interactive communities, told me that the Chinese term for human-flesh search engine has been around since 2001, when it was used to describe a search that was human-powered rather than computer-driven. Mop had a forum called human-flesh search engine, where users could pose questions about entertainment trivia that other users would answer: a type of crowd-sourcing. The kitten-killer case and subsequent hunts changed all that. Some Netizens, including Du, argue that the term continues to mean a cooperative, crowd-sourced investigation. “It’s just Netizens helping each other and sharing information,” he told me. But the Chinese public’s primary understanding of the term is no longer so benign. The popular meaning is now not just a search by humans but also a search for humans, initially performed online but intended to cause real-world consequences. Searches have been directed against all kinds of people, including cheating spouses, corrupt government officials, amateur pornography makers, Chinese citizens who are perceived as unpatriotic, journalists who urge a moderate stance on Tibet and rich people who try to game the Chinese system. Human-flesh searches highlight what people are willing to fight for: the political issues, polarizing events and contested moral standards that are the fault lines of contemporary China.


  Versions of the human-flesh search have taken place in other countries. In the United States in 2006, one online search singled out a woman who found a cellphone in a New York City taxi and started to use it as her own, rebuffing requests from the phone’s rightful owner to return it. In South Korea in 2005, Internet users identified and shamed a young woman who was caught on video refusing to clean up after her dog on a Seoul subway car. But China is the only place in the world with a nearly universal recognition (among Internet users) of the concept. I met a film director in China who was about to release a feature film based on a human-flesh-search story and a mystery writer who had just published a novel titled “Human-Flesh Search.”
 

Friday, November 5, 2010

The witkey model(crowdsourcing) in China

In 2005, China has such crowdsouring business model called witkey. Different name, but same meaning. Zhu ming yue,  one of Chongqing local people in china, found an website to post issues and recruit the ways to deal with, called zhu ba jie website. http://www.zhubajie.com/  Zhu ba jie is an famous myth mage in china. Now the zhu ba jie website has became the biggest crowdsourcing website in china, the trade gross is equal to the second and third website gross, the sum of transaction business was 25 million but at the first half year in 2010, it has more than this number. 


In 2006, the CCTV(China Centre Television) reported this business model in focus and used an word witkey made up from Liu feng, an famous scholar to call such new model. Witkey means the an wit key to deal with the issues, in Chinese it called wei ke. From this time, the Zhu ba jie website became more famous than before and improved in quickly. Only half the year after it found, the website has received more than 10 million yuan investment.

The witkey’s operate model like this:

Requirement customers post their needs into the inside platform of Zhu ba jie, than give reward to the man who would figure it out. But the condition is: They have to prepay whole reward money to website as the guarantee of integrity. When the website received the money, the task will be public in website immediately.

The Zhu ba jie has ahout 1.5 million members called wei ke, focus on marketing originality, graphic design, office documents wrting , software development and so on. When Zhu ba jie public the task, all the members come to bid and the best one will be get the 80% reward money from the customer and the other 20% money give to the website.

If the customer finished the task themselves  always have to  pay times energy and money, but from the Zhu ba jie website you just spend may be small percentage of your budget. The biggest trade in Zhu ba jie is 300 thousands .

Use this crowdsoucing model, the website , customer, members can easily get what they want. Also it can decrease the operate cost of the website and can easily get the 20% brokerage from every trade.

That is why Zhu ba jie website could be succeed in a short time.