{"id":1331,"date":"2007-06-26T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2007-07-03T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T17:51:54","slug":"hipihi-interview-cindy-jiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"HiPiHi Interview: Cindy Jiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>InsideTonic has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidetonic.com\/interview-hipihi-a-3d-digital-world-from-china\/\">interview (Link)<\/a> with HiPiHi marketing spokesperson Cindy Jiang that&#8217;s worth a read. It&#8217;s short (apparently there&#8217;s more to come) but I already found some of the responses interesting. Here are my takeaways:<!--more--><\/p>\n<li>emphasis on calling HiPiHi a &#8220;platform&#8221; and not a &#8220;game&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>stressing that unlike Second Life, to which it&#8217;s often compared, this offering is &#8220;targeting different values and cultures&#8221;. <\/li>\n<li>focus is on an app for people to &#8220;embrace Chinese culture&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>two-tiered creation system: pre-fabs and advanced(?)<\/li>\n<li>what sounds like limited options for avatars; 10 bodies with swappable features<\/li>\n<li>currency issues undecided<\/li>\n<p>Looking forward to hearing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InsideTonic has an interview (Link) with HiPiHi marketing spokesperson Cindy Jiang that&#8217;s worth a read. It&#8217;s short (apparently there&#8217;s more to come) but I already found some of the responses interesting. Here are my takeaways:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}