Speaker: Lu Gang. PhD, TechCrunch (mobinode), blognation (readwritebweb)
Old school BBS: The Chinese Social Networking Phenomenon
China’s Facebook Clones
Research and Development – Jboss and J2EE
Business Development – netvibes Asia
Why Open Web Asia?
In US/Europe Web, becoming an international company is relatively much easier!
And language is not a huge barrier, eg. Le web 3. In Asia, is there any cross country web company or service?
What is really happening in asia?
Korea – naver.com still dominating the market, online gaming is conquering the world, eg. Nexon, CMUNE, CyWorld is operating in the US, StoryBlender won TechCrunch 40, Wisia.us, just look at the design.
Japan – mobile market is probably 5 years ahead of the rest of the world. eg. FelicaNetworks; always the entry market for western service, eg. Youtube, facebook, twitter etc; also clones, but with more innovations, Nicovideo.jp
Hong Kong – small market. Not many startups, but they focus on global market, eg. AliveNotDead; Some companies have their office set up in GZ/BJ/SH, eg. CityIN, Moochi etc.
India – is not really in Web2.0, but they don’t have the language barrier and very active in western market, eg. SlideShare.net. Startups are getting hot, eg. Buurp, Picsquare etc.
Singapore – small market but its government is very supportive and keeps track on the trend of the web.
Israel – many startups actually are founded by Israeli entrepreneurs, eg. Snapfish
Vietnma - The battle place when those big names decide to go abroad.
China – The most active market in Asia! SNS, Video-sharing, Open platform, P2P, B2B, C2C etc. the market is so promising, Those startups founded by foreigners who live in China, eg. Qifang, Neocha, Chinesepod, etc. are doing great work. Mobile market is much larger than wired web market and more mature; web market is still young and still entertainment-centric.
The OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup ‘08
Pepared for 3 months,
Mission
Build an efficient channel connecting the Western and Eastern and web. Bring more Asian countries and regions into openwebasia and bridges Asia local markets. Build an ecosystem that recognizes great startups, individuals in Asia.
OWA is working with netexplorateur to reward 100 innovative companies of the year
speaker contact info:
- uklugang@hotmail.com
- www.mobinode.com
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not Hboss, should be Jboss ;)