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Hey all, just an announcement that Hao Hao Report has jumped on the Facebook bandwagon and now has its very own Facebook App.

The fairly straight-forward app simply displays the four top stories from the front page here at Hao Hao Report. Main links go directly to the original story's page, while a small link under the submissions description leads to the Hao Hao page for voting and commenting.

This is still very much in the testing phases, but as everyone LOVES to put "beta" after their Web projects (somewhat indefinitely, it seems), here ya are.

Christine Lu (of China Business Network) compiled a great list of the (primarily English-language) China Twitterati on Twitter. If you’re on Twitter and am interested in China, go follow the Twitterati on the ChinaList...

We've turned off anonymous voting (the ability for all site visitors to vote on stories) and limited it to registered users for the time being.

The idea behind the Hao Hao Report is to have a method for all of us to quickly find the best and most interesting posts and news reports about China.

It has always been the policy of HHR to allow users to submit articles from their own blogs, as a way of both promoting their blog and exposing the community to diverse sources of commentary and information.

Well, as any who've visited over the last few days will have noticed - the Hao Hao Report has received a bit of an overhaul. We've upgraded a bunch of things and added some new features, including:

* New Look: We're still working the kinks out of the slick new look. Let us know what you think.

* The Bury Feature: This has been a long time coming - but finally all users will have the ability to "bury" posts that are bu hao.

Hi all, thanks to some user feedback, I've modified the HHR in two small ways. The first being that the HHR story titles now link directly to the original article. Complaints were that the article link was too small. This solves that.

The second is it now takes 5 votes to make it to the main page. As the site is now receiving more traffic (currently about 25,000 visitors a month) and we're nearing our 350th member, I've decided to up this as a way to help maintain the quality of the published stories.

Sorry about the disruption in service over the last couple days. Had some pretty serious server problems, but everything is tip top now.

A reminder to check out The Zui Hao Report to nominate the BEST CHINA STORIES

Great news! The Hao Hao Report is being upgraded. Though many of the updates are behind the scenes, there are a number of additions that have improved functionability in the site. You'll likely notice a few new stylistic things as well. A few new things:

1. Avatars: A fancy word for "picture", these will appear (small) beside the stories you've posted, and (larger) in your profile. Time to add some personality to that account!

It's official, the 2007 China Blog Awards are here. If you run an English-language, China focused blog, or you just like clicking things that say "vote" be sure to check out this article for all the details.

The Hao Hao Report is proud to be hosting the China Blog Awards 2007 - Best Story. We've dubbed it the Zui Hao (Best) Report.

What Will Moss calls "unfortunate" I consider quite insightful. Imagethief posts a chronological account of his more than 40 Twits that he made during last Friday's Olympic Opening Ceremonies.