So as an avid Twitter user, not yet a junkie but moving down that road, I have been following the tweets, yes that is what they call them in Twitter land, of Christine Lu (TheChinaBusinessNetwork.com), Elliot Ng (Uptake.com ) (Cnreviews.com), and some other Twitterati on the China 2.0 Tour hosted by Christine Lu. A recent tweet came out from everyone on the tour, Kaixin001 is getting 300million page views per day. This is the word from the corporate offices where the China2.0 Tour stopped off today.

Now my commentary here will be short, but it is simply food for thought. I run an office here in Shanghai. I have over twenty Chinese employees, and at any one time I can walk around the office anf find them browsing Kaixin001.com

Let’s think of all the lost productivity that has come about from Kaixin001 in just the last 8 months since its launch. It must be staggering. The question is, what is an employer supposed to do in order to get those lost hours of production back? Your comments are most appreciated.

This afternoon I had a great conversation with Lonnie Hodge of CultureFish, a firm based in Guandong focused on SEO, SEM and online management of your company’s brand. It sounds like a lot of boring stuff, but when you meet Lonnie he makes you see otherwise. Beyond the SEO stuff we were knocking around, Lonnie brought up an intersting point about tech in China. So I am asking you, where is the best place to be a running a tech company? Lonnie made some great points about southern China(including HK) as THE spot for tech in China, including access to IT decision makers, talent pool, foreign media to push your product to the world to name a few.

We all know of the incubation centers bursting at the seems in Beijing. Google and Microsoft keep their Beijing campus right next to the main gate to Qinghua University (for those of you out of the loop, Qinghua is the MITof China). Hangzhou and Suzhou are flooded with incubation centers, as well as every other city in China looking to attract tech dollars, or should I say the little red maos.

Being that I run two tech start-ups, and I do so in this little city we call Shanghai only because this is where we have always been, I would like to know from the China tech world where they think China’s tech home is. Today’s conversation makes me believe there may be some real opportunities lurking elsewhere that the land of Oz in Shanghai is blinding my eyes to.

I want to hear your thoughts and opinions on where the tech epicenter of China is.

I found an interesting PR tool for all you PR gurus and start-up founders in need of new ways of spreading the word about your product or service. Check out PitchEngine. It was created by a PR executive with the idea to assist web 2.0 PR social media releases. If you don’t have a clue as to what I am talking about, well then your may want to start reading here. SMRs are becoming the buzz words in PR these days. To be honest I do not fully grasp what is going on with SMRs, but in a nut shell your press releases and press page need to be more dynamic. This may include RSS feeds, video, audio, applications, and a whole laundry list of other convenient media tools. You can have a look at the NextStepDirectory.com Press page to get a look at the basics, we still have a long way to go with that page. We are still learning ourselves. Another good Press Page to look at is Uptake.com, it can give you an idea of where we are going with our own press page. Take notes. Elliott Ng and the gang know what they are doing,they have been at it for quite some time. So if you haven’t updated your Press Page, or never really thought twice about the page or your current press releases, you may want to think again.