Offensive social bookmarking site enters American market *DO NOT WANT*
mister wong, nptech, racism, Web 2.0 | (6)
A recent article from 8asians.com that I read off the nptech feed pointed out some remarkably insensitive marketing coming from a new German social bookmarking site called Mister Wong. It's remarkable in this day and age that such obviously stereotyped imagery is happening in Web 2.0 world but apparently, these folks were not in the office when that memo was handed out.
I hope I don't have to point out here why this is particularly offensive to myself as an Asian American despite their launch in China (with a Chinese support person on the front page). I think the name, the ...