Gang Lu occasionally covers China startups for Read/WriteWeb. He has a PhD, MSc, BSc. His research interests include:
Mobility Modeling, Routing, Positioning in IEEE802.11b Mobile Adhoc
Networks (MANET), Wireless Sensor Networks, Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Ad
hoc Networks, VoIP, Mobile IP, Web2.0, Applications/Services in 3G/4G
(e.g. mobile payment, video streaming, etc.).
Gang Lu's personal blog is MObinoDE, where he notes: "China has a massive internet market, nobody doubts it. But this market is still like a Forbidden City where not many people from outside knows what is happening in China."
Note: number of comments in brackets
06/24/08: China's Facebook Clones (14)
01/17/08: Old School BBS: The Chinese Social Networking Phenomenon (11)
06/10/07: EditGrid Announces Series A Funding - Goal is to Re-define the Spreadsheet (0)
06/ 7/07: Top Web Apps in Hong Kong (7)
04/ 1/07: HiPiHi - A Virtual World Born in China (5)
02/19/07: QQ - China IM Service Goes Web 2.0, With Half a Billion Registered Users! (14)
02/15/07: EditGrid - New Online Spreadsheet, Better Than Google Spreadsheets (4)
01/ 1/07: China-based Browser Maxthon Going Global in 2007 (12)
12/21/06: FeedSky, China's Version of Feedburner - But With Bigger Numbers (2)