AlexDong's presentation on Ignite 2007 Beijing

A practical way to shape tomorrow’s china Problems – Solutions - Challenges Alex Dong Ignite 2007 Beijing http://alexdong.haokanbu.com/

Who am I?
Tech Geek:
Mechanical engineer
Assembly, Gadgets
Wireless
Python
Microsoft Solution Architect MVP of 2004-06.
Co-founder of Haokanbu.com

Problem - Today’s China - Society
True problems:
Medical system
Education system
“Button Up” changes
Ad-hoc
Uncoordinated
Repeat itself

Problem - Today’s China – Internet
Copycat: over estimate
Wrong focus !
Still top-down: Media
Sex
Scandal

Problem - Sex – Sina.com

Problem - Sex & Scandal

Problem - Internet Censorship

Solution - When Photo meets Text - Photo
Good at:
More creditable
Straight forward
Never being so easy before
Weakness:
Hard to get the context
Search engine

Solution - When Photo meets Text - Text
Good at:
Well thought out
Organized, Searchable, Indexable
Glimpse supported
Fine grained discussion (very important)
Weakness:
Credibility

Solution - When Photo meets Text – Granuality
Granuality is the key of participation model
Blog:
Per post comment
Text wins out
Flickr:
Per photo comment
Photo wins out

Solution - When Photo meets Text – Haokanbu.com
Haokanbu.com: Photext
fusion of photo and text
equally important role
fine grained communication participation model
different target audience
Designed by and for Chinese

Solution - Model #1: Transparent Education System

Solution - Model #2: Collaborate Learning

Solution - Model #3: Open Source Medicine

Challenges - GFW
Sensitive keyword filter
Heavy editorial control

Challenges - Social Inertia
Blogsphere
Traditional media
TV

Challenges – voice recording
Hard to search/index
Linear model
< 0.3% usage rate
Perfect for memory capturing

Challenges - Trust
High cost in China
A sad but true story
Transparency
Data export/import
Open source

Thank You
Alex Dong
[email_address]
http://alexdong.haokanbu.com/

AlexDong's presentation on Ignite 2007 Beijing

by alexdong on Nov 08, 2007

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