Oct 28, 2007
Aiming to settle the discussion on this blog about Chinese Internet advertising statistics, Bill Bishop offers numbers he compiled from the annual reports of publicly listed Chinese Internet companies. To Bishop, his numbers (shown and explained below) prove at most US$850 million in Chinese Internet ad revenue for 2007, significantly less than the US$1.3 billion
Oct 26, 2007
Nice article today in the International Herald Tribune on Angel Cabrera, a friend who, as president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, has been pushing an ethics oath for business school students. The oath: Students at Thunderbird have voted to adopt a Professional Oath of Honor, which they helped formulate. Graduating students
Oct 25, 2007
The world is not so flat after all! Only six percent of the Chinese Internet’s hyperlinks leave China’s webspace. The above chart was based on a study of 40 million external links on 5 million pages of 15,000 sites in China. Professor Jonathan Zhu of City University of Hong Kong led this research into Chinese
Oct 25, 2007
China’s Internet is extremely difficult to quantify As I mentioned in a posting on why China’s web stats are so unreliable (government concerns) and another on the impact (heavy reliance on Alexa; banner ads are sold by the hour on major sites). Nielsen Online noticed They just sent over their latest statistical update on China.
Oct 23, 2007
In China for AdTech, Friendster’s president, Kent Lindstrom (Current Friendster status: “I’m having fun in Hong Kong”.), told the conference why the site refuses to localize. From Friendster’s position Claiming to be largest social network in Asia Pacific and largest Chinese social network outside of mainland China, Friendster was launched in 2003. Current size: 50
Oct 22, 2007
Built on the rim of the Gobi desert and one of the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing residents are forced to take extreme measures to survive the winter, including facial cream. Other necessary equipment discussed in this video are humidifiers and air filters. Winter life in Beijing is a bubble-boy existence! Any tips
Oct 22, 2007
Non-technical people: Check out this link of fun old stories hacked out of the newly opened NYT site. Techies: The The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune (I formerly worked at both papers), have earned high praise for welcoming engineers into sections of their websites that were formerly off-limits. The move – according
Oct 22, 2007
Thomas Friedman highlights, efforts by Jack Hidary, a good friend who recently visited us in Beijing, to turn New York’s car fleets green: Take the New York City taxi story. Two years ago, David Yassky, a City Council member, sat down with one of his backers, Jack Hidary, a technology entrepreneur, to brainstorm about how
Oct 18, 2007
The Alibaba Group, one of China’s best known Internet companies, is expected to list a section of the company in November on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The part being listed is involved in B2B activities – linking buyers to sellers online – while their popular auction website, Taobao, will likely be listed later. The
Oct 17, 2007
For those who can break themselves away from their newsfeeds for a day, Sriram Krishnan and some friends are organizing Asia’s first Facebook developers garage next Wednesday (October 24) in Singapore. There’s a wiki and – of course – a Facebook group. Technorati Tags: Facebook, Sriram Krishnan
Oct 17, 2007
UPDATED March 17, 2008: YouTube now appears blocked in China once again due to the violence erupting around Tibet. See comments below for getting around the block. Good luck! XXX Oct 17, 2007 at 9:24am: Blogger.com is back up, but YouTube now appears blocked in China. It is hard for this newcomer to follow the
Oct 16, 2007
Here on trip to China Kent Lindstrom, president of Friendster, just described all Internet innovation as fitting into only 3 kinds: 1- A new technology (such as Bittorrent) 2- A new idea (such as PayPal) 3- An idea that was there all along (such as a video platform like YouTube) Technorati Tags: Beijing, China, friendster,
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
