Occasional Observations on Chinese Online Media and Other Topics
Posted in Notes to Myself on Nov 17th, 2007
The very excellent Tangos Chan of China Web2.0 Review has put his Orange Lab presentation about Web Innovations in China online. Some very interesting hints to follow up, like Baidu’s tag-based discussion forums Postbar, social networking mashups on IM services, or Peer-to-Peer video streaming. The presentation is related to a previous interview that - how […]
Posted in Notes to Myself on Nov 17th, 2007
Rebecca McKinnon points to the nice and important project YeeYan 译言 (and its founder Zhang Lei), a community translation portal trying to bring together current relevant content, interested audiences, and potential translators, between Chinese and English. I’ve linked to this service before, for a highly enlightening piece of advice on Chinese Internet business strategy.
As Ms […]
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 […]
Posted in Corporate Media on Nov 9th, 2007
Corporate media are on the rise. In a country like Germany, where established journalistic standards like thorough research and independence are felt to be under attack by an ongoing commercialization, this fact is mostly met with suspicion and skepticism. In a country like China, where the times of a journalism dominated by government decree and […]
Posted in Events on Nov 7th, 2007
China is considered by many to be the wild Wild West of Intellectual Property. Not necessarily so, when there are reasonable standards, it seems. Thanks to the relentless work of Prof. Wang Chunyan, the Creative Commons movement is gaining ground in China. On November 4th, a Chinese CC Photo Award was celebrated in presence of […]
Posted in Blogosphere on Nov 6th, 2007
If I interpret this news correctly, Chinese portal provider Sina.com has registered 1.5 million entries as yet in its blogs related to Ang Lees movie “Lust, Caution”, making it the most commented-upon movie in the history of Sina.com.
God knows how many entries that would have been had the Chinese been allowed to see the unpurged, […]
Posted in Events on Nov 4th, 2007
I start this blog with an unspectacular pointer to the 3rd Annual Chinese Blogger Conference in Beijing. John Kennedy has an english language live blog from the event. Protocoling among other things a talk by Flypig (飞猪) about the very professional and interesting Podcast site “Antiwave (反波)” (produced by Flypig together with former […]