What is it with YouKu this week? It’s like Kaiser leaves and the whole thing goes to pot. I tried three times to upload “Imagethief and the lost apartment of Qin Shihuang” to YouKu, which I’ve used in the past without any problem. Total failure with 188mb and 100mb versions of the file in .mov and .mp4. It uploads, looks done and then…nothing. I don’t know if they don’t work with the latest version of Firefox or what, but I switched to Tudou instead and everything worked fine. But if it’s any consolation to YouKu, I still have the great “牛年更牛叉” coffee mug that they sent me for Chinese New Year in early 2009.
So, following yesterday’s post, which included a YouTube embed, here is a China-friendly version of the video tour of China’s strangest apartment.* There are some frame-rate conversion or compression issues that make this a bit jumpier than the YouTube version, but such is the price of cheap-ass convenience and you don’t need a VPN to watch it.
*Probably not literally true, but it’s at least a contender.
Thanks for this bit of Tudou promotion Will, will see if we have any coffee mugs left and send you one as well
Mark, I’d proudly keep a Tudou mug on my desk as well. And I host a lot of coffee drinkers in my office.
The answer to the “Xi’an Taxi Conundrum” is as follows:
When you can earn a good living driving once per day from the airport to downtown Xi’an, why would you want to bother actually driving people around Xi’an itself?