Social Application Panel On Chinese Blogger Conference 2007

Written by Luyi Chen on November 7, 2007
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SNS panel on cnbloggercon 07

The third Chinese Blogger Conference was over on last Sunday. I have come back to Shanghai for several days, but just got time to have a recap.

Several speeches/panels were the most impressing on the conference, including microblogging panel, grassroots media panel, Antiwave speech and Yeeyan speech. The speakers not only have done great jobs during the last year, but also presented well on the stage.

The panel moderated by me was the social application panel, the second panel on the first day. Wealink, Linkist, Geni and Haokanbu were on the stage, Aggua joined as a last minute panelist.

It was asked why we didn’t talk about OpenSocial? The answer was simple: time’s up. We were about to be on that topic when we stopped. On the other hand, I don’t think any of the panelists had really compelling point of view on that day, since we were all on our way to Beijing when OpenSocial was formally available.

As Ian Chin, president of Wealink, pointed out on the panel, Chinese social networks were still in a disappointing winless season. If it was not the success story of Facebook, the topic we covered on the stage would have been totally different one.

OpenSocial will not be the saver of domestic social networks. Most of them were not ready to be a platform yet. Wearing the common interface suit won’t do much good to them. My hope is that some of them will be open enough to provide friend-list hosting service. Six Apart’s Relationship Update Stream is a good example, but still too heavy weight from a technical point of view.

I was taking note during the conference, but instead of repeating the content which have been covered by others, I will just write down these words directly related to my panel. I have heard that the conference was considered too Web2.0 focused. Why not suggest the right topic for the next year early? The organization of the conference is open enough.

One Response to “Social Application Panel On Chinese Blogger Conference 2007”

  1. China BloggerCon 2007 at 852signal - Hong Kong Web 2.0 on November 8th, 2007 12:33 am

    [...] The topics covered a variety of topics and offered really good insights on the web scene in China, something I am not at all familiar with. You can catch up on all the tidbits with John Kennedy was live blogging and in excellent details (via Rebecca MacKinnon). Luyi Chen at China Web 2.0 Review also has a summary of his Social Application panel he moderated. My knowledge of the blogosphere and startups in China and Hong Kong is very limited, so learning and meeting Chinese bloggers and industry leaders there was just awesome. [...]

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