Web2.0 Story in Chinese Men’s Magazine

Written by Tangos on March 1, 2006
Tags:, ,

It is not news, in fact, it is the photo for a feature story about web2.0 by Esquire China in this January.

Since Marshall Kirkpatrick are surprised that maybe higher percentage of Chinese know the term web2.0 than American, I think this photo may help to answer his question. Even a men’s magazine published a feature story on web2.0, then it is understandable that about 30% Chinese know web2.0, if no sampling bias in survey.

People in the photo are web2.0 related, except one, they are keso, the most famous IT blogger in China who wrote internet commentary every day; Bo Yang, founder of Douban; Pingke, one of the most famous podcasters in China, and Dabeini, in fact she is just a famous merchant of Alibaba, I can not figure out her relationship with web2.0.

And more people covered by the feature are Gary, co-founder of Toodou; Shizhao, key editor of Wikipedia Chinese version; Michael Anti, the most famous political blogger in China, his blog taken down by Msn Spaces; Li Xuelin, founder of online RSS reader Gougou; and Andrew, leader of a philanthropic organization 1kg, who use blog as an effective tool to promote their ideas.

4 Responses to “Web2.0 Story in Chinese Men’s Magazine”

  1. BlueAce » De Chinese Esquire en Web 2.0 on March 2nd, 2006 5:26 pm

    [...] In de januari-editie van de Chinese Esquire duiken een paar van China’s meest bekende Web 2.0 geeks op. Onder andere een blogger, een podcaster en de editor van de Chinese Wikipedia. Meer informatie vind je hier. [...]

  2. Thijs on March 3rd, 2006 2:55 am

    Well of course the people in this article might use services and technology, that could be described as Web 2.0. And maybe, somehow, some people actually know who these people are. But to claim, that 30% of the Chinese population knows Web 2.0 is absurd. I bet not even 30% of the Chinese population knows what Internet is.

  3. Tangos on March 3rd, 2006 9:29 am

    Well, I think I missed a key point in the posts. The sample of the survey is based on internet users, so I think it would make sense for the percentage of 30%.

  4. Marshall Kirkpatrick on March 4th, 2006 4:22 am

    Interesting! Also, I didn’t catch that the survey was just of internet users, though that makes a lot of sense. The number still seems really high to me, but posts like this help me understand better! Thank goodness you are covering this space (and in English - thanks!)

Post a comment