Twitter sees a lot of copycats right at the moment, while the original spawned quite some hot debates on the road to more growth (remember the discussion about the scalability of Ruby?).
Anyway, China Web 2.0 Review (one of my favorites) recently points to two new Twitter-twins in Mainland: Fanfou.com and Jiwai.de. I was puzzled to see that german top-level-domain–can somebody explain to me why they got a .de-address, anybody? To own a .de-domain as a non-german resident, you have to have at least an admin-c with a local german address. In Jiwai’s case (domain owner registered in Beijing), a german law-office–something quite obvious.
German IT-law forces you to display a complete company-address and -registration all over your site; not that Jiwai would care about that…

My colleague Stefan and me are back to Germany in the meantime, to pamper some of our local clients there and generally work on our german-related projects.
Our webspace will be on the move soon, too; we’re hauling it to a server in the US (very probably, after comparing a lot of hosting-services in UK, Switzerland, USA, Canada and so on in the last weeks), so hopefully there will be no hickups with our blogs and sites. As for myself, I’m super-busy right now with some of our products–more about that after moving to the new webspace.

I’m going to be back to Hong Kong in August or September then.