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I’m by nature a pretty trusting sort of person. But one of the effects of my having gone to China for a couple of weeks late in 2007 is that I can no longer look unquestioningly at a table of statistics about anything to do with the Internet. Because so often the figures I read…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
Along with no doubt many, many others, I am watching with fascination Shel Israel’s unfolding adventures in the Middle Kingdom. For those who just came in, Shel, who has an incomparable overview of social media internationally and its impact on business and culture, is currently visiting China for the first time. He is part of…
I mentioned some time ago that the OpenWeb Asia event, in Seoul, Korea 2008, was to focus on the social web. The program incorporated four streams: Insights and Best Practices Innovations in Asia Collaboration – An Introduction to Asia’s Social Web East Meets West – The challenges of Internationalization To and From Asia Today I…
Is there a rule of the universe that, when you are doing a presentation on a tech-related subject and/or to a group with lots of techies present, the technology will let you down, wholly or in part? Last night’s presentation to the Web Wednesday event in Guangzhou, via Skype video, on social media and advertising,…
I’m speaking tomorrow night at the Web Wednesday mixer in Guangzhou, China. As I’ll be several thousand miles/kilometres from Guangzhou, my presence will be virtual. No drinks for me. The Web Wednesday events, informal monthly gatherings of interested digerati, were started in Hong Kong by Internet entrepreneur and Sinologist Napoleon Biggs, who has been 20…