Barcamp Shanghai 2007 At Tudou: Belated Summary

Written by Luyi Chen on September 10, 2007
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Barcamp Shanghai 2007Barcamp Shanghai 2007 was successfully held on last Saturday. The quality of the event including the sessions, venue (same building, different floor) and the whole process are better than last year. Nearly 150 people showed up during the event.

Barcamp Shanghai 2007I gave a talk on blogging Chinese Web2.0 startups, which is the three of us are doing on this blog. I talked about the background of this blog and a bunch of Chinese Web2.0 services that worth mentioning based on audience request. Especially, I introduced those that I actually use personally. If I have more time to prepare for the talk, I would like to say something about how we break news, interview founders, and make the decision if a service is worthy of reviewing. In fact I haven’t decided to lead a session the day before the event. A big thanks to Robert Scales who encouraged me to give the talk. (Photos on the left side are taken by Kris.)

Several sessions impressed me the most. Henning Peters gave a presentation about user interface and multitouch devices. He finished some of the work in Microsoft Research Asia. The demos he showed us are pretty cool. Zephyr Fang introduced her Firefox extension, Mobilebrook, which helps remove nearly all advertisement on web pages. Advertisers are going to hate her. She has demoed the application both in Barcamp Beijing and Shanghai, which is appreciated and respected.

The day was ended by two excellent talks by Calvin Chin and Alex Dong of Haokanbu. Why their talks are considered useful is because they are not only focused on their own startups, but presented something useful in general to the audience. I missed Vinnie’s talk about Web usability because I was giving talk in another room. I just listened a tail of Jeff’s talk about developing web2.0, but the whole topic is what I am very interested in.

Thanks for the following people who have covered the event: Flyu, Micah Sittig, Carsten, Franz Patzig, Oliver Ueberholz. Please go on. We have added a press section on the home page of Barcamp Shanghai, where we collect links of event coverage.

As always, following is the full list of the sessions:

Room1
* Luyi Chen, Blogging Web2.0 Startups In China
* Scales, Open source business
* Jerry Mao, Something about relationship, The Interactive Model of People
* KK, Vivian Chen, Photography, Lomo, Photowalk, Photoshop
* Calvin, Share Your Idea, Raise $ ￥
* Ingredient to Found A Startup
* Alex Dong, Ten tips of starting web company

Room2
* Vinnie P., Simple Approach to Web Usability
* Mingli Yuan, Wikipedia in the past one year
* Eric Eldred, Nan Yang, Creative Commons
* Henning Peters, User interface/Multitouch
* Kevin M., How to use agile in distributed team
* Advertise Remover Firefox Extension
* Jeff Su, Developing Web2.0
* Vim, EDU/NPO

Room3
* Jimdo, Online Website Creator
* Alex, Zuosa, Twitter, Microblog
* EducationFunds.org, An innovative way to help poor kids
* Jon & Jeff, Command line Comp
* Zola, Personal News Station in China
* Recity.net, City Info Sharing Platform
* Geni, Web2.0, SNS, Genealogy

Thanks again to our sponsors who helped us make this happen.

Barcamp Shanghai sponsors

3 Responses to “Barcamp Shanghai 2007 At Tudou: Belated Summary”

  1. Franz Patzig on September 10th, 2007 4:19 pm

    I always wonder how you get the sessions on a list out of the chaos. Great + wish I had been there. But helping from 10000km away was also fun.

  2. Alex Dong on September 10th, 2007 10:11 pm

    Ingredient to Found A Startup was given by jan@PRIVATE-productions.de. A german based investment firm.

  3. fistball on September 14th, 2007 10:11 pm

    Can u include in future blog, how you break the news? How you interview the founders? etc.?

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