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Opening Asian Web: What is Happening in China
1. Opening Asian Web:
What’s Happening in China
Dr. Gang LU – http://www.gang.lu | twitter.com/ganglu
Co-founder of MOBINODE Networks & KUUKIE.com
Co-founder of OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup
2. MOBINODE Networks
ReadWriteWeb
TechCrunch
Blogger
KUUKIE.com
3G Application
Widget Evangelist
JBoss
Universal Widget API China/Asia Web
Ad hoc Networks Netvibes OpenWeb.Asia
2002 Now
bio: http://www.gang.lu
3. What is Open Web
OpenSocial, F8
Open Standard
Open Platform
Facebook, Renren
DataPortability
Open Data
Open Open
Communications
Collaboration
Open Web
Open Web is not only about Open technology, but also
the Open communications and collaboration
4. Why Open Web Asia
In US/Europe
Becoming an International company is relatively Easier
Language is Not huge barrier, e.g. Le Web conference
In Asia
Hardly find a cross-country web company or service
It is very interesting that Asia local industry, especially
China, Korea, Japan, seldom or never talked to its
neighbors despite the culture is similar.
5. What Open Web Asia
Asia has learned a lot from US/EU;
However, how much we know about us: China now has
No.1 market with around 380+million Internet users;
mobile market is huge and much advanced in Japan;
Korea leading the online gaming industry. What else?
How about Malaysia, Singapore, etc?
How much does the global industry know about Asia?
Where are the startups, what are they doing? How’s the
big names such as Mixi, Naver, Tencent, Baidu etc? In
fact, we are still lacking of Channels bridging the west
and the east.
6. The Mission of OpenWebAsia
Builds an efficient channel connecting the western and
the eastern web
Builds an ecosystem, recognized the great startups,
companies, individuals from Asia and bring them to
the greater stage
Improving the communications in the Asian local
markets.
7. Unite the Local Communities
E27 (sg) Bangke (cn)
Lunch 2.0 (cn)
5G Group (cn)
iDrink (is)
TokyoWeb2.0 (jp)
Barcamp
NTalks (cn) PunchParty (tw)
WebWednesday (hk)
Entrepreneurs.my (my) SGEntreprenuers (sg)
Mobile 2.0 Forum (cn) China Wall Club (cn)
OWA Union: Unite the Local Communities
8. OWA & Local Communities
OWA could be the Hub which can help you talk to the
local active communities and reach local markets
OWA together with local communities can make a
greater impact on the global market
Local communities together can reach the potential
sponsors and international contributors to help the
local communities, identify and incubate international
business opportunities
9. The Ecosystem
TechCrunch
LIFT
OWA OpenWebAsia
& Local Communities Conference
Individuals DLD
Le Web
Angel Fund
Venture Capital
Talk to Asia, Identify the Best, Introduce them to the World
10. It is a Open Concept
join us: contact@openweb.asia
12. Statistics
420 million Internet users by June,
2010; 176 million users are using
online social networks (end of
2009);
142 million users are shopping
online by June, 2010 (via CNNIC);
Chinese e-commerce transaction
volume in Q1 2010 has hit rmb
1015.27 billion (~$150billion) via
iResearch;
The Internet penetration has
reached only around 31.8%;
13. The Key Players
Portal
e-commerce
search game
Social networks
web2.o
14. Tencent
by end of 2008, 891.9 millions
registered user accounts, 376.6
millions active user accounts;
31.4 millions Fee-based Internet
value-added services registered
subscriptions; 14.7 millions fee-
based mobile and
telecommunications value-
added services registered
subscriptions.
Tencent, owner of QQ has RMB
7.15billion revenue, its gross
profit reached RMB 4.98billion.
15. QQ.com
QQ Instant Messenger
QZone SNS bigger than
Facebook?!
QQ Game – Virtual Currency
QQ Online payment
QQ Pinyin Input
QQ Paipai auction site
16. Alibaba Kingdom
2008, Taobao took 84.1%
C2C market share, Paipai of
Tencent took 8.3%, EachNet
took 6.2%.
18. To Be or Not To Be: Copy-to-China Model
YouTube - Youku, Tudou, Ku6, 56 etc
Facebook - Renren, Hainei, Xiaoyou,
Tongxue, Kaixin001 etc
Twitter - Fanfou, Jiwai, Zuosa, Digu,
Sina, QQ etc
Linkedin - Wealink, Tianji, Ushi, etc
Localization is the KEY!
19. Microblogging
Twitter is dying in China, Celebrities Grassroot
together with its first
round of copies;
Microblogging is growing
super fast as Chinese
portals entered the
market
Marketing strategy is the
KEY: Entertainment-
centric, instead of
information-centric
http://t.sina.com.cn
20. Groupon & Foursquare
400+ Groupon clones already in
China, some are startups, and
some are launched by big names
including Taobao, Renren etc
Although everyone knows the
competition is getting very tough,
VCs are still throwing money in
Location-based Service attracts
many eyeballs as everyone is
thinking of the new opportunities
in 3G (e.g. K.ai, Jiepang, etc)
21. Old Style Web– Bulletin Board System
Bulletin Board System (BBS) - In
China the registered BBS users have
reached 3000+ millions; ~80% of
Chinese sites are running their own
BBS and the total daily page view is
over 1600 millions and 10 millions
posts are published every day. In
China around 36.3% users spend 1-3
hours on BBS, about 44.7% users
spend 3-8 hours and even 15.1%
users are on BBS for more than 8
hours a day. Over 60% of users will
login at least 3 BBS more than 3
by iResearch & Comsenz report 2008 times each every week.
22. Liba.com
Liba started as a
BBS focusing on
home decoration/
home improvement
market;
Now it provides a
life-long service to
its users.
Home Decoration -> Wedding -> Mum&Baby -> Car Decoration
26. Mobile Market Overview
• 786 million mobile subscribers by end of April 2010;
• Total revenue of telecommunication market (Jan –
April 2010) rmb 967.38 billion
• >276 million mobile subscribers are surfing Internet
on mobile phone;
• By end of 2009, a year after 3G started operation in
China, the 3G users reach 10 million;
• By end of 2010, the number of mobile internet users
is expected to reach 300 million.
27. Characteristics of Mobile Users
Who are actually paying for
the services:
Low Education
Low Income
Low Age
High School
Student
28. Shanzaiji (Bandit Phone) Culture
In 2008 alone over 250 million Shanzhaiji
handsets where produced. The handsets are
mainly targeted for China’s rural markets
and are extremely cheap feature-to-feature
compared to established brands (starting at
$40).
Shanzhaiji manufacturers have a wild
ambition to innovate and endlessly cater the
needs of customers. They are able to
constantly adapt, innovate and tweak their
offering as the turnaround time is only 3
months for a handset (instead of the 9
months that established brands need).
The revolution is heavily supported by the
Taiwanese Mediatek which has a 90% share
of Mainland China’s mobile chip set
market.
30. The Hype of App Store
Operators: China Mobile, China
Telcom, China Unicom
Phone Manufacturers: Nokia (Ovi
Store), Motorola (ZhiJianYuan), Mezu
Ecosystem
Mobile Service Providers: NetDragon,
Sky-Mobi, Crossmo
Startups: eoeMarket LakooStore
Thousands of Mobile Gaming/App
development companies/individual
32. MOBINODE.com
Independent Media: English and Chinese blog (mobinode.com), and
video blog (mobinode.tv)
Industry Events: NTalks Events (mobinode.tv/ntalks)
Monthly Industry Report StartupsWatch
download:
http://www.mobinode.com/startupswatch/startups-watch-1st-issue-
en.pdf
http://www.mobinode.com
MOBINODE Angel Group
Orange France
BlueRun Ventures
TrilogyVC
More…
33. Follow Your
Curiosity
Geek forever
The Spirit of Geek