Discovering China

On Friday I (that's Ben) will be heading off to a 9 day trip to China. As I'm flying there within the scope of my studies it is not really a Tagcrumbs mission but of course I'll be on the lookout for our project - trying to speak to locals (this will be interesting: all I can say is "ni hao ma" and "xie xie"), see if the social placemarking concept makes sense to them and if there are interesting use cases to be discovered.



Everyone who works on the realization of his or her ideas of course knows this feeling: seeing the world through the lens of the project you are currently working on. For me this is a great experience: feeling driven every day by the wish to create something that you and hopefully many more people from different countries and backgrounds will find useful.

On the other hand let's not forget our general appetite to see the world. Discovering new places, meeting people and learning about different cultures is an amazing opportunity for everyone of us. I haven't been to Asia before so during my days there I'll not sleep much, keep my eyes open and come back with a bag of memories. And of course you'll find my recommendations for Beijing and Shanghai on Tagcrumbs as soon as we open the system up. If you want to be notified when this happens please click here.

Anyone knows Chinese and can tell me if my translation for social placemarking as 发觉 位 (public/social + place) would be correct? The amazing image of the Great Wall is by robysaltori.