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Sina Weibo iPhone App, Now in English

The fast-growing popularity of Sina Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like microblogging service, has sent share prices of Sina Corp. soaring and made the Chinese Web portal the subject of much discussion.

Now, Sina Weibo’s iPhone app has a new English interface enabling non-Chinese readers to see what some of the hype is about.

Of course, an English-language interface isn’t going to help users understand the many messages being posted on the site everyday or interact with most of Sina Weibo’s some 100 million users. But it might make posting messages a little easier for Stephon Marbury, Bill Gates, and Tom Cruise, who post Weibo messages in English and get responses in both English and Chinese.

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Charlie Sheen iPhone app: #notwinning

The MaSheen iPhone app — straight from the tiger-blooded warlock himself — claims it puts “the mind of Charlie Sheen in your pocket,” but does it really? And are you sure you’d even want that thing in your pants?

When we peeked into the Apple App Store, we found that the MaSheen app’s official description didn’t exactly help us determine whether downloading it would be worth $2.99 or not — so naturally we just plain had to try the app out.

As soon as the app launched, we were faced with a few menu selections:

• Mind Torpedos
• Fastballs of Truth
• Warlock Gear
• Friendly Fire
• Magik Tiger

Before we explored any of those features though, we took a look at the app’s “info” section. There we were told that we’re “the coolest human” beings ever for buying this app and provided with reassurance that “if this beauty were ten bucks” we’d have “still grabbed it.”

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