Dragon’s Web - It is much more than censorship!

A week ago, in Le Web 3, Paris, over 1000 bloggers, entrepreneurs many from U.S and Europe, only 2 Chinese (Bo Y. Shao, founder of eachnet.net and me),  and one panel named ”The Dragon’s web : what can we learn from Internet in China?”. The panel speaker, Bo Y. Shao, Netanel Jacobsson - Partner & SVP Maxthon and Pierre Haski - Liberation Journalist, author of 5 years in China. I was really expecting this, it was supposely to reveal some power of Chinese internet market.

I have to say that I was dissapointed. The panel was directed to a wrong way by Loic’s unneccesary first question: Why chinese web is always cencored by the government.  Then Shao started explaining why the censorship is sometime required, Net was trying to defense Shao, the entire conversation was completely drifted away. Everybody know China has a massive internet market, but from this panel I am afraid the only image the audience can learn is that the censorship is everything about Chinese web. What!

Thanks to Loic and Ouriel for their hard work to organise this huge conference and for a panel talking about China. But I really wish one day we can see more Chinese entreprneurs come out of China and present their talent works to the world. What I can do now is to introduce more Chinese startups in English somewhere soon.

The following is the videoclip of that panel recorded by vpod.tv.

December 20, 2006 · Filed Under Le Web3

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Technorati中文版-Web2.0的全球化

如果说2006年是Web2.0在美国大行其道的一年的话，那么我相信2007年一定是Web2.0全球化的日子。

昨天写到了NetVibes走向全世界的信心，在Le Web 3遇到的另一个人David Sifry，他就是Technorati的Founder & CEO。

David Sifry在Le Web 3演讲的题目是State of the Blogosphere。David根据Technorati中得到的统计信息对现在blogosphere的情况作了很详尽的分析。其中很多数据都很有意思，这里提两个：

上图是blog的排名，从数据中可以看出，一些个人博客网站已经进入top50，成为主流媒体的竞争对手。（中国的老徐榜上有名。）

上图是根据blog使用的语言的排名。英文博客占了39%的市场，这个不容置疑。有趣的是日语排在了第二位，占了33%的份额，而中文仅占了10%。在和David的简短谈话中我也对这个数据提出了疑问，因为很多中国博客并没有在Technorati中注册。而David实际也了解这个情况，认为中国blogosphere的前景无可限量。

David谈到了2007年Technorati对全球市场的展望，我也进一步追问Technorati怎么解决其在中国市场还比较真空的问题。David透露了Technorati的中文版（以及韩文版）都在开发中，但他并不希望说明中文版发布的具体信息。

有消息说MySpace也在为进入中国市场作准备，2007年不知道会有多少Web2.0将进入中国市场。但是考虑到中国Web2.0的现状（copycats等等），我更感觉象Technorati，NetVibes这样的Web2.0的服务性网站更有可能在中国存活。

这里是David的个人博客，你可以从中了解到state of blogosphere的所有数据和分析。

December 17, 2006 · Filed Under Le Web3

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