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As an experiment with Google appengine I started playing around with reverse proxy software written in python located at netputing.appspot.com.

To my surprise it appear as if Google think that all users of my proxy application are chineese as can be seen below:

Google think I am Chinese

OK, I ate Dim Sum with some family members this past Saturday but I somehow doubt that Google is picking up on this

Maybe it has to do with untold Google support for the Chinese cause and is helping them obtain free speech information access via it’s appengine service? And as a curtsy they are presenting ads in Chinese?

I have been having some fun working with Google appengine recently. Just for the fun of it I decided to see if I could use it to build a reverse proxy service.

After searching a bit I found the it had already been done by others. So I picked up a copy of mirrorr source code and modified it to better suite my taste. There is still quite a bit left from the original code but I did rewrite the transformation.py engine quite a bit.

The resulting free proxy is still a bit rough on the edge but quite decent to use I think. Running on Google app server make it as fast as using the real one.

You can find the gree proxy at netputing.appspot.com.

I hope the revenue generated by the adsense advertisement will allow me to scale it to the level that will make it self sustainable. You see, Google offer limited resourced for each appengine account. To get more in/out bandwidth you can buy more of it as you need.

It will be interesting to see how things evolve.

Here is a couple of small news regarding Livestation:

Jackson Memorial

We are ready to stream the coverage of Michael Jackson’s memorial today at 6pm BST, 1pm EST and 10am PST. The memorial will be covered by most of our news partners so go ahead and pick the one you prefer. We will be hosting a special BBC World News stream on our home page too for ease of access. www.livestation.com

BBC Persian

Last night, the Farsi channel run by BBC World Service went live on Livestation. This addition was planned for later in the year but due to the recent events in Iran and to the block of the BBC Persian website there, we fast tracked the addition on Livestation. The channel is available on our site here www.livestation.com/channels/71 or on the Livestation player.

Al Jazeera English on the iPhone/iPod touch

Apple has finally approved our app for AJE so now iPhone and iPod touch users worldwide (rumored to be almost 40 million!) can download and watch AJE live 24/7 unrestricted for a special intro price of $2.99 (one-off). AJE joins BBC World News which is already offering this service in 16 European countries. More on both here: AJE on the iPhone & BBC World News on the iPhone

Frontline Club events now live and online on Livestation

We are very excited about this one: you can now take part in all the live debates held at the Frontline Club in London (around twice a week) with some of the most influential journalists in the world. The Frontline Club is an organisation championing independent journalism. Past participants include John Simpson, Robert Fisk, Jeremy Paxman, Jeremy Bowen, Christina Lamb, the late Benazir Bhutto, Boris Berezovsky, the late Alexander Litvinenko and his widow, Marina Litvinenko. Their list of upcoming events is here http://frontlineclub.com/events/