Authors

MOBINODE is a popular webblog that covers the Internet market news in Asia especially in China. It also thinks web industry and provides analysis and insight of Asia web. MOBINODE is founded and led by Gang Lu and edited by a group of authors. If you are interested in writing for MOBINODE, please contact Gang Lu including sample of your writing and topics you want to cover.

Gang Lu [Universe, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter] - MSc, PhD in wireless communications, Internet expert, known speaker, co-founder of OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup. OpenWeb.Asia is the first independent workgroup focusing on Asia Internet industry, and is also the organizer of OpenWebAsia conference which is the first truly pan-Asia web technology event bringing together executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from throughout Asia. With strong academic background in wireless communications, years of research and development experience in mobile industry and international business management in web industry, Gang Lu is very passionate about the Open Web concept and plays very active role in building efficient channels among Asian local markets as well as between Asia web and global industry. Gang Lu was the Asia Business Development Director of Netvibes.com, the world leading personalized homepage and widget technology provider. He is one of the first introducing Widget economy and Open Platform into Asian market. Prior to joining Netvibes, he was in charge of research and development of Multimedia Messaging Service platform and 3G applications in Dialogue Communications Ltd. a leading mobile messaging service provider in UK.

Gang Lu is also a recognized tech blogger. He is the guest editor of the world top web2.0 blog ReadWriteWeb.com, and his personal blog MOBINODE.com covers the Internet market news in Asia especially in China, was also voted as the best China Tech Blog in 2007.

- Editors in Norway -

zibin Zi Bin, Cheah - Zibin thinks that mobile Internet will be the next revolution. He is an Apple fanboy, but feels that OSX is not without problems. He tries to convince others that Web2.0 is big in Asia by asking doubters to look at the keyword Web2.0’s regional interst in Google Insights. Zibin holds a double Masters in Mobile Computing and Security from KTH and NTNU. He grew up in sunny Malaysia and now works in Norway as a Web Evangelist in Opera Software.

- Editors in U.S. -

Xin Chen (Ben) - Engineer at Cisco Systems. Cisco brought me into networking; my passion for the internet and Web2.0 brought me to blogging; my Chinese roots brought me to mobinode.
China deploys the best and latest infrastructure and commands the largest and youngest internet population. Its Web2.0 industry will be an explosion. I just hope I could help to spread radiation.

- Editors in Japan -

Takuya Homma [Facebook, Twitter] - I am a student at the University of Tokyo and will start to study Information Management for Business at UCL in London from this fall, 2008. I am a heavy user of internet, mobile phones, and so many other new COOL things! I read tons of English articles on technology everyday and feel that they don’t always provide correct information about what’s really happening, and why it’s happening in Japan. Internet is to a great degree a cultural thing, and if one wants to understand what’s happening in one country, s/he needs to read articles from the perspectives of the people in the country. That’s why I want to write about the Japanese market and Japanese trend, from a young avid user’s perspective.

Sho Tabata [Facebook, Diigo] - A co-founder of user-generated mobile Flash content community Wizoc. Also an undergraduate student at San Jose State University with major in Management Information System. He strongly believes that mobile Internet changes our lifestyle and creates new cultures. He is also contemplating entrepreneurial opportunities in Silicon Valley to provide lifestyle-changing services to worldwide mobile. Through his posts with his strong focus on mobile social media and experience in mobile service management, he hopes to help to understand the impact of mobile Internet on our lifestyle and find entrepreneurial opportunities.

- Editors in China -

Jonathan Tse Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and Shanghai. With an EECS degree from UC Berkeley and years of academic research and professional experience in Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, UI Design, Jonathan is very passionate about how the Internet and computer technology play an ever increasing role in everyday life. With positions ranging from UI Engineer/Designer to executive management, he’s worked in enterprise companies such as Sun Microsystems and 8 different startups focused on online education, search engines, and social networking. Through his posts about Internet businesses in Silicon Valley and Asia, he will continue to learn and teach others how the social web and mobile technology will play an even greater role in the lives of future generations around the world, especially China with it’s ever growing economy and Internet population.

Pieter-Paul Walraven is a New Media Master student from the Netherlands. For his thesis research on the globalization of Chinese Internet companies he has visited numerous Chinese Internet companies and performed over 30 interviews with experts, government officials, bloggers, VCs, etc. Previously Pieter-Paul has studied in Hong Kong for 6 months and has traveled extensively through the Asia-Pacific region with a particular focus on Mainland China.