Large flows of capital cause imbalances. "Financial globalisation has not generated increased investment or higher growth in emerging markets." Personally, I would disagree with this article's premise.
Coverage from China Web 2.0, Kaiser and Chinalytics.
Estimates are for strong growth, around 50% in 2008, slowing to 30-40% 2009-2011 and the online ad market to increase to more than 10% of the total China advertising market.
Some questions raised over the figures. CTR high, even for Baidu, even for search advertising.
There has been some coverage of the SARFT and MII regulations for sites hosting online video sharing sites (think YouTube). Original article here translation here and probably the best interpretation by Ogilvy with some follow up by Danwei. From Ogilvy:
"My gut take on this is that it’s more about holding these video sharing and P2P companies responsible for naughty content than about trying to shake- or shut down the industry."
Some excellent points that although Open Social may be an improvement on a Facebook-only world, it may not be a utopian pancea solution. Big companies tend to like keeping control on things.
This will be huge. It SHOULD be huge. Manage 'friends' between any social network. "...will prevent Facebook from having any kind of long-term proprietary developer lock-in." "This is very, very good for the web."
Based on a sample of 5 million webpages from 15.000 websites in China with a total of 40 million external hyperlinks (i.e. pointing outside their website), they could built the following model: 6% link abroad, 13% link to another province, 81% link to the
An article about Alibaba which turns into an amusing argument about dominant players, and perceptions of dominant players, and the reading Chinese can make to understanding the market.
Well, directly. From Qingdao to the US due to be completed July next year (2008). Good for bandwidth, but speed problems to remain.
