Virtual goods in Asia: it’s even more than you think! (25 times USA?)

Following the publication of our free report on virtual worlds in Asia, that was downloaded several hundred times in a couple of weeks (which in itself is a testimony of the rising interest in virtual worlds), we got a few nice quotes here (Virtual Goods News) and there (PocketGamer) as well as good Twitter buzz.
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Free Report on Virtual Worlds in Asia | Courtesy of the EU-China Information Society Project

A few weeks ago we were commissioned by the EU-China Information Society Project to prepare an overview of the state of virtual worlds in Asia. This organization is a joint effort between the European Commission and the Chinese Government to work on IT policies and regulation. The purpose of the research was to provide some
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Virtual Worlds in China, Asia, the World and the Digital Third Place

Last week we presented the summary of the research on virtual worlds in Asia (covering China, Japan and South Korea) commissioned by the European Commission via the EU-China Information Society Project, in cooperation with the Chinese Government.
To summarize the summary:

The 2D web of virtual worlds is doing well, while the 3D web is recovering from
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eComm 2009 | Presentation on Asian Mobile & Telecom Ecosystems

Today was the last day of the Emerging Communications “eComm” Conference in San Francisco, CA.
The turnout and talks were great thanks to the hard work of its organizer, Lee S Dryburgh. It was a mix of telecom, design, web stuff and thoughts about the future of communication (who said “Technology, Entertainment, Design“?) so probably the
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Event Report | Asia Venture Capital Forum in HK

Still catching up on November’s event – here is the presentation we gave at the panel on “Social Media” at the Asia Venture Capital Forum in Hong Kong. Some new slides about mobile books in Japan, interesting video websites from Korea (ever heard of “broadcasting jockeys”?), the market cap of SNS – we found 4
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Event Report | Singapore Entrepreneur Week – Stories of Entrepreneurship from Asia

Our friends Howie and Mun Hew from the Mobile Monday Singapore + Open Web Asia mafia invited us to give a presentation on Asian SNS. We eventually decided to add some stories about the entrepreneurs behind the most successful services, and how they came about. The slideshow below was more a visual support than providing
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Event Report | Mobile SNS @ Mobile Monday Beijing

Is mobile SNS a popular topic? OrangeLabs’ Innovation Gardens were packed with a dynamic audience (Q&A were half of the session!) to learn about China and Asia’s mobile SNS scene.
We got clearance from all presenters, get ready for lots of information! The Q&A transcript is mentioned below the presentations.
+8* | Mobile SNS Best Practices from
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Event Report | Mobile Monday Presentation on Asian Mobile SNS

We share here the update of the presentation we gave in June at O’Reilly’s GSP East in Washington that we prepared for yesterday’s Mobile Monday on “Mobile Social Networks“.
For confidentiality reasons, we had to remove part of the information but this version contains some elements of our core expertise (it’s not “presenting”): cross-market analysis of
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The trouble with Virtual Worlds

Reading the recent article by The Economist about Google’s Lively we thought that a bit of analysis would be useful to bring some perspective to the current state of virtual worlds.

Valuating social networks – it’s not that easy (TechCrunch remix)

In a recent post, TechCrunch has been trying to model the “real market value of social networks“. While the effort is interesting and gives some ballpark figures for Facebook/MySpace-like SNS, there are a number of issues with the model – in addition to those highlighted in the comments – that prevent it to be applied
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