Post #7 The Social Media in China

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     We've already led by the professor to learn the social media in US and their background stories for nearly a semster. It is a wide view for me to know these world famous and popular social media. During this semester, sometimes when professor introduced us a US social media, I felt like meeting it in somewhere and sometime but I just cannot remember it immediately, is it déjà vu？I am not sure. However one thing I can make sure is these things they are real existed and I literally used and saw them. They are the same function social media in China.
     We have our google which called Baidu. There is a fashion sentence in an American movie I've seen it is said "if you don't know sth, just google it " while on Baidu's main page it is written in Chinese which means"Click on Baidu, you will get what you want to know." The owner of Baidu is Yanhong Li, who onced graduated from a US university and worked in an IT company the Sillicon Valley for couple years. After that, he came back to China and create Baidu.
     We have our facebook which called RenRen. It is said that the creator was inspired by Mark Zuckerburg and created RenRen. Now it has been the No.1 social network in China. Almost every Chinese student who surf on the internet has their own account on RenRen. I still remember when I just enter in the university in 2006, there were few people knew this site. I was told by my roommate who said he can find his middle school classmate on that, it made me to decide log on it and I really find some long time no contact friends which made me feel excited. Later I introduced it to the people I knew. Now it is not a surprise that when you log on  it found a old friend send you a friend apply because everyone use RenRen. It has the same function and layout as Facebook has. Now it is not only a simple site to find your old friends, it become a  second world for the people who has it to live.
     We have our twitter which called Sina Microblog. The reason why it become such popular I guess is that after 2008, some incidents happened in our country made the government change its policy on the media. There are more censorship for the internet information since 2008. I still remember I heard twitter and facebook in that year and I viewed them logged on them, I even used twitter for a consecutive days after I logged on it. However, some day I found I cannot log on it and facebook anymore. Two years later, Sina Microblog become the most popular microblog in China, we call it the Chinese Twitter.
     We have our youtube called Youku. It is also a video streaming site that you can upload your own video clips to share with your friends. Now it is more popular to see the TV dramas and the movies there.
     In a word, the social media in China as the same as here, US is the origin place that social media was born, we learned these from here and introduce to more people. Hope one day we can use our brand social media and the origin social media simultaneously.

Baidu: www.baidu.com
RenRen: www.renren.com
Sina Microblog: www.weibo.com
Youku: www.youku.com

Post #6 Theme parks contemplate

     When we related to the theme park, I guess we can not ignore American--the origin place of theme park. There are many famous theme parks in American, most of them are known for all over the world such as Disney land, Universal Studio, Sea World and so on, some of them even open their theme parks out of the country. Every theme park have its own characters and culture. For example, Universal is one of the most famous movie company, its theme park filled with the elements of the movie produced by Universal, the role play movie characters wandering in the park make jokes with the tourist and lots of rides, shows based on the movie scene made the tourists feel happy and excited. Theme park not only bring the enormous revenue to the movie produce company, but also provide a platform for the people who like the movie and curious how to make the movie, it is indeed a mutual gain business model.
     I went to Universal Studio Hollywood and Universal Studio Orlando in different times. Compare these two same brand theme parks  in different, the city where it is located can make a good explain for what they have. As known for the movie center, universal studio in Hollywood have more experience about the movie while the one in Orlando have more rides. Hollywood universal studio have a nature connection to the movie industry, one of the most famous ride in it is the studio tour, it will show you how to make movies and some special effect in the movie. In addition, it will show you the real stages which is belong to Universal movie company, they are the real places that the movie is born. However, universal Orlando are filled with the rides related to the movies, they will take you into the movie no matter use the rollar coster or the shooting game. Personally, I prefer the one in Hollywood, you can know the story behind the screen. The one in Orlando is only for fun but decorated with the movie character.
     No matter where it is, it always can bring you the happiness, theme parks have already been a mainstream model of contemporary entertainment. The mature business opreation and the a complete industry chain gurantee its success right now and in the future.