SubscribeJeremiah Owyang’s Field Report on Web in China
The Internet in China is so different from silicon valley, which makes western people difficult to understand what happened in China. Recent series blog posts by Jeremiah Owyang, senior analyst of Forrester Research, provided some of his learnings on China’s Internet after visiting Hong Kong.
Sam Flemming from CIC Data has some comments on part III of Jeremiah’s field report, which you should read. Here are my quick thoughts and comments on some of points in Jeremiah’s posts.
- “Although this growth(broadband user) seems massive only 10% of China is on broadband, I believe the stat in United States is around 70-80% (from memory)“: In fact, according to latest CNNIC report, there are 122 million Internet users in China are using broadband, that is 75% of 162 million Internet users in China as of the end of June.
- “In Asia, Cyber Cafes make the web social“: cyber cafe is a very important web culture to study in China, CNNIC report suggests more than one third of Chinese Internet users access Internet in cyber cafes. It also partly explains why entertainment demand is so strong in China. Quite a lot of Chinese Internet users only use Internet for QQ chatting or online gaming, they seldom use browsers.
- “China blocked Feedburner when they were acquired by Google. thus making stats for subscriptions using Feedburner highly innacuriate.“: In fact, the subscription number of my Feedburner’s feed did not decreased after it was blocked. I guess the reason is most of rss users are using online rss readers which can get around the Firewall. BTW, regarding rss, I think you must check out the article from John Kennedy of Global Voice, which summarized the response of blogosphere to the fake story of rss block in China.
- “Chinese Culture [mainland] doesn’t do a lot of real world social activities, so applying that to the web is challenging“: I agree with Sam that online social networkings serve “as conduits for offline activities (and vice versa)”. And Chinese are quite active in online social networking, as you may find from how they use those social network sites, such as 51.com and Xiaonei.com.
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