http://www.plus8star.com Mobile and Internet Strategy in Asia Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:48:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.plus8star.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3327 China And Asia Digital Innovation. C2C Means More Than Just Copy To China. | Business88 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:23:18 +0000 #comment-3327 [...] +8* blog (a consistently interesting Asia/China tech blog written by Benjamin Joffe) just posted on Asian internet and mobile companies seeking to go global. The post is entitled “From Asia to the world: going global in a digital world,” and it describes what it will take for Asia to go “global in a digital world.” Great stuff for those interested in innovation or high-tech and I urge you to check it out. [...] [...] +8* blog (a consistently interesting Asia/China tech blog written by Benjamin Joffe) just posted on Asian internet and mobile companies seeking to go global. The post is entitled “From Asia to the world: going global in a digital world,” and it describes what it will take for Asia to go “global in a digital world.” Great stuff for those interested in innovation or high-tech and I urge you to check it out. [...]

]]> http://www.plus8star.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-3328 China And Asia Digital Innovation. C2C Means More Than Just Copy To China. | Business88 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:23:18 +0000 #comment-3328 [...] +8* blog (a consistently interesting Asia/China tech blog written by Benjamin Joffe) just posted on Asian internet and mobile companies seeking to go global. The post is entitled “From Asia to the world: going global in a digital world,” and it describes what it will take for Asia to go “global in a digital world.” Great stuff for those interested in innovation or high-tech and I urge you to check it out. [...] [...] +8* blog (a consistently interesting Asia/China tech blog written by Benjamin Joffe) just posted on Asian internet and mobile companies seeking to go global. The post is entitled “From Asia to the world: going global in a digital world,” and it describes what it will take for Asia to go “global in a digital world.” Great stuff for those interested in innovation or high-tech and I urge you to check it out. [...]

]]> http://www.plus8star.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-2502 CommunicateAsia » Blog Archive » 132. Very Useful Observations About the Xiaonei Deal Mon, 05 May 2008 01:02:22 +0000 #comment-2502 [...] Last night I read this great post from Benjamin Joffe over at +8*.  He examines the Xiaonei US$430 investment in detail, breaks out the winners and losers, and once again has plenty of insight to share.  Being in Singapore and just a bit further from the conversations, I always find the entries at +8* extremely useful. [...] [...] Last night I read this great post from Benjamin Joffe over at +8*.  He examines the Xiaonei US$430 investment in detail, breaks out the winners and losers, and once again has plenty of insight to share.  Being in Singapore and just a bit further from the conversations, I always find the entries at +8* extremely useful. [...]

]]> http://www.plus8star.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-2366 CommunicateAsia » Blog Archive » 110. Want to Listen to Asia’s Best 2.0 Conversations? Start Here. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:42:30 +0000 #comment-2366 [...] That is a pretty amazing claim in some ways.  Sam is not the only one raising this point, however.  Benjamin over at +8 Star has, I have only recently learned, long been focused on Internet markets in Japan, South Korea, and China.  As I read Benjamin’s great posts, my interpretation is that he is taking a similar stand and pushes the issue a step further to ask why Western 2.0 afficionados are not looking more closely at Asia?  The answer I take from an article Benjamin wrote for Asian Business Leaders magazine and translated back to English, titled The US Bias and Asian Innovations, is that the western 2.0 conversation is ethnocentric.  I love these quotes, “Everything from the US is great” and “everything from Asia is weird (sometimes funny).”   The article offered these two stereotypes as common frames we use when discussing 2.0.  But when we look at the facts, these frames can be at times very misleading.   [...] [...] That is a pretty amazing claim in some ways.  Sam is not the only one raising this point, however.  Benjamin over at +8 Star has, I have only recently learned, long been focused on Internet markets in Japan, South Korea, and China.  As I read Benjamin’s great posts, my interpretation is that he is taking a similar stand and pushes the issue a step further to ask why Western 2.0 afficionados are not looking more closely at Asia?  The answer I take from an article Benjamin wrote for Asian Business Leaders magazine and translated back to English, titled The US Bias and Asian Innovations, is that the western 2.0 conversation is ethnocentric.  I love these quotes, “Everything from the US is great” and “everything from Asia is weird (sometimes funny).”   The article offered these two stereotypes as common frames we use when discussing 2.0.  But when we look at the facts, these frames can be at times very misleading.   [...]

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