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The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

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Re: The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

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Post by coconutrandom »

That was a really good article

  Put another way: Sure the Chinese can learn a 
  thing or two about original Web ideas from the
  Valley, but the Web 2.0 generation can learn a 
  lot about monetization from China.
and it goes to explain with an example with a Chinese version of match.com

Re: The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

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Post by liuliu »

coconutrandom wrote: post #2

That was a really good article Put another way: Sure the Chinese can learn a thing or two about original Web ideas from the Valley, but the Web 2.0 generation can learn a lot about monetization from China. and it goes to explain with an example with a Chinese version of match.com

That's true. The virtual good actually made Tencent, the largest IM provider became the most profitable company in China. And few months ago, one of my friends still argued that online-casual game has no market in U.S. because "the market was dominated by game console". The first widely-adapted webgame invented in China (www.mop.com), the company behind renren.com(largest facebook.com copycat in China). Those randomness (copycat vs. innovation) just amazed me how dynamic Chinese market is. There are too many innovations, but just too many are failed too early.

Re: The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

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Post by chrischen »

coconutrandom wrote: post #2

That was a really good article Put another way: Sure the Chinese can learn a thing or two about original Web ideas from the Valley, but the Web 2.0 generation can learn a lot about monetization from China. and it goes to explain with an example with a Chinese version of match.com

I think Chinese people will just relate better to homegrown stuff.

Good thing I'm Chinese. Hopefully I will have a cultural advantage if I decide to operate there one day.

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Post by swernli »

joblessjunkie wrote: post #3

"men are universally attracted to women with a .7 hip-to-waist ratio"? I suspect that this ratio has been reported backwards.

The number is correct, the wording is backwards. Studies have shown that waist-to-hip ratios (WHR) for women considered attractive within their cultures hover around average of 0.7. Interestingly enough, variation in attractive frontal WHR across cultures dissapears when using circumference as a measurement; in that case it collapsed down pretty reliably to 0.7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio

Re: The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

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Post by padmanabhan01 »

amix wrote: post #8

I think author misses that the Chinese market isn't free and most of the western sites are blocked by the great Firewall. I think their market would look at lot differently if their market was free and anyone could compete on it.

So basically the Govt blocks free western sites so that these entrepreneurs can make money. Nice.

Re: The Chinese Internet: Why the “Copy Cats” Win

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Post by dstorrs »

The thing that impressed me the most was the discussion of the quantitative work they have done. Song Li has generated an enormous database of pragmatic, mathematically proven advice about how to be successful with the opposite gender...somehow, using it for nothing more than a matchmaking service restricted to China seems small potatoes. Granted, it was gathered from a Chinese-only audience, so some of it is probably locale-specific. I'd be interested to see the same thing done on a more global scale and then adapted for other uses.
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