Virtual Goods in Asia – The US Gold Rush Begins

This is the presentation we gave at the Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco (you can fill the form below to download it). There were over 500+ attendees, it looks like the US market reaching $1bln is now getting a lot of attention.
We received nice coverage from:

Virtual Goods News: “Asia Driving the Virtual Goods Marketplace“
VentureBeat:
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Mobile From East to West

This week we are in Jeju Island, South Korea for the LIFT Asia conference. We were invited yesterday by the Internet portal Daum (Korea’s #2 Internet portal) to give a workshop on the “Current State and Future of Mobile“. We decided to cover US (esp. iPhone), Japan and China.
Interestingly, the presentation already got about 5
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Presentation | Lessons Learned From Asia

During our visit to Silicon Valley this month, we gave a talk to a group of local investors about web & mobile innovation from Asia. Our main target was to illustrate how:

Our assumptions get in the way of our understanding
Asia not only innovates, but can be leveraged by foreign companies to accelerate innovation by way
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If you don’t stick it on the Internet, it did not happen

The past 2 months have been hectic with a number of large projects that kept our team too busy to post! We’ll be catching up with web activity in the next 2 weeks, including reports on UnConference, Infinity Ventures Summit, Startonomics Beijing, Startup2Startup Beijing, BarCamp Shanghai and more!

Celebrating 100,000+ views of our presentations & some thoughts

A few days ago while exchanging ideas with our friends at Slideshare (“the YouTube of presentations” that is possibly going to monetize better than YouTube and certainly cost a lot less), we thought about making a count of the views and downloads we had over the 20+ presentations we put on there. All those presentations
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Humans and Robots | Part 4 (Final): Are we robots or avatars?

:: This article is the Part 4 and final part of a series covering our future as Replicants. (Part 1, Part 2) and Part 3 are waiting for your discovery ::
Final Twist: Are we all robots?
Would you be fooled by a robot? Here is the final twist: a few weeks ago, I sent a message
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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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Micro-Entertainment

+ This article is a monthly column written for the Chinese business magazine Asian Business Leaders and Interfax TMT News in March 2008 +
Observing the evolution of a product over a long period of time is often full of surprises: growing in size, shrinking, getting color variations, becoming cheap, expensive, trendy, out of fashion, changing
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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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