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  • Pieter-Paul Walraven
  • Url: http://pietchinathesis.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 20
  • About the user: Besides enjoying my MA New Media and doing research on Web 2.0 developments in China at the UvA I am working 2 days a week as a project assistant at KREM (www.KREM.nl). KREM is a web 2.0 oriented company which specializes in so called corporate social networks. Movies: Koyaanisqatsi, O Brother where art thou?, Amores Perros. When not studying: Golf!, running, traveling, China, Web 2.0. Books: Life of Pi, War and Peace, The World is Flat. Furthermore I am currently doing research on Web 2.0 in China and Chinese Web companies expanding overseas. For this MA thesis research I will travel to China on the 14th of April to interview the most prominent Chinese Web companies that have the ambition to expand internationally.

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Pifworld: an Engaging Graphical Donating Platform

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 25 April 2009, 12:44 pm | tags: , ,

A friend of mine informed me about an interesting service that was recently launched: Pifworld. It is basically a Google Earth/SNS – mash-up that facilitates global crowd funding. It allows individuals and communities to support specific projects in a fun and graphical environment. Together with friends and their friends, they can take action and realize projects around the world. Visitors can…

How to Pave a Digital Silk Road

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 31 March 2009, 10:17 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

If somebody would have told me 1 year ago that as a result of my New Media Master’s thesis research on the Internet industry in China I would be moving to Beijing, I would have reacted: ‘Right, and I am the father of Steve Jobs!’ Now, as I am writing this I have been…

Online video in China leading the way

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 19 February 2009, 10:08 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

An interesting video report by The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) on online video and TV in China and the way that it will influence the West in the near future

Convergence of Social Networks and Games

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 07 December 2008, 4:19 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

A PICNIC Special this year was called ‘Games go Social’ which was about the future of gaming and social networks. An upcoming trend as both industries are evolving is that both can learn a lot from each other and lately the 2 industries have been converging. Gaming companies are adding more and more social features…

Tangos Chan on the Chinese Internet (Beijing 05/13/2008)

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 03 August 2008, 5:04 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

bund-shanghaiThis post contains parts of a 2 hour interview I did with Tangos Chan from China Web2.0 Review. Among others I asked him about his views on the globalization of Chinese Internet companies, the future of the Chinese Internet market, and the influence of VCs on innovation in China.

Pieter-Paul Walraven: What are your thoughts on Chinese Internet companies…

Patterns in China’s Economic Development

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 20 June 2008, 6:41 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

\'four tigers\'

For my Masters thesis I am doing research on the global emergence of Chinese Internet companies. The theoretical part of my thesis consists of several studies on successfull development of other Asian countries in the past. The current emergence of the Chinese economy has many similarities with the past emergence of the Japan and the ‘four Asian Tigers’ Taiwan,…

Social Network Saturation Indeed

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 20 May 2008, 3:05 pm

A colleague of mine sent me this funny and very true vid. It’s funny how the positioning and target groups of the different SN’s is translated into characters. Check it out!

Getting the Most Out of My China Trip

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 09 May 2008, 1:36 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Stockmarket: live in tha HutongIt has been a while since I wrote my first post on international expansion of Chinese Internet companies and my experiences here in China. I wrote the post during a train ride from Guangzhou to Shanghai. A lot has happened after that. I have met so many interesting people, visited companies, and when there was time I also tried to…

China Internet Experiences

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 20 April 2008, 2:33 pm | 8 comments | tags: , , , ,

Restaurant/sleeping compartmentFinally, after a 24 hour delay due to an annual trade fair in Guangzhou I am on my way to Shanghai. While listening to the snoring of my opposite bunk bed neighbor, smelling the noodles of the next door restaurant compartment and watching the rice fields blended with factories pass by, I will summarize some of my experiences and findings…

Chinese Internet companies expanding overseas

Pieter-Paul Walraven | 05 April 2008, 6:28 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A nice cup of cha in ChenduThis Friday it is finally happening; I will head off to China for my research! After months of stalking people with interview requests and reading everything I could about Internet in China, I am going to visit some of the most innovative and prominent Chinese Internet companies. I am really looking forward to traveling through China, finally meeting all the…