Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
Posted in Market on Dec 4th, 2008
If you want to learn about online media in a certain market, one of the first steps is to get the correct numbers. Starting from the general demographics, going on with overall usage patterns and more detailed data about specific market segments, down to the hardcore access data of single websites.
Posted in Blogosphere, Market on Nov 28th, 2008
CIC has published the first two parts of their white paper “The Internet IS the Community”. Over the last years, Sam Flemming and his team in Shanghai have done a lot to bring the importance of the chinese Internet community to the attention of their target group, which consists, of course, mostly of business people […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Market, Realm of Thought on Oct 8th, 2008
China’s Internet community is ablaze these days with the Social Networking phenomenon. Whereas the Facebook hype seems to finally deflate (at least according my own subjective observations), the Chinese have just discovered the joys of six degrees social graphs and buddy functionality. Big portal providers and bloghosters like Blogbus are adding SNS features to their […]
Posted in Market on Feb 25th, 2008
Saturday evening I’ve met Héng Gē (横戈), CEO and founder of Blogbus, the oldest independent blog service in China, in a small café opposite of the Shanghai Public Library. Heng Ge, whose regular name is Dòu Yì (窦毅), founded the service in late 2002. With more than 4 million accounts they […]
Posted in Blogosphere, Market on Dec 28th, 2007
From the “Survey Report on Blogs in China 2007″ press release, published on December 26, 2007, by the “China Internet Network Information Center”:
[B]y the end of Nov. 2007, the number of blog spaces has reached 72.82 million in China, and with 47 million blog writers, it is reaching one fourth of the total netizens. […]
Posted in Market on Dec 14th, 2007
Global Voices have a disconcerting piece about the current run on job fairs in China. It seems that even before graduation chinese students have to not only enter but fight their way into a cut throat white collar labour market. With university graduates now as abundant as industrial workforce used to be (2.4 million graduates […]
Posted in Market on Nov 17th, 2007
Trying to come to grips with the all-important topic of Chinese portal brands and their strategies. I’m still crunching the available numbers and details, but here are some first observations:
Reading the 3rd quarter financial reports of the big players, one thing that becomes obvious is the overwhelming importance of (meaning also: dependence upon) a still […]
Posted in Market on Nov 9th, 2007
As an aside, when I recently mentioned my fledgling Chinese media research in a conversation with some german colleague, he immediately talked about the recent spectacular Alibaba 阿里巴巴 IPO. Something like that would have been impossible even only a few months ago. It seems that China’s finally got some global brands after all (and it’s […]