Meet Jet Li! Interview with Stephen Wang, CTO of AliveNotDead

By Gang Lu on August 26, 2008 · Filed Under China Web2

alivenotdead.com (AnD) is a self-funded Hong Kong based social network for artists across the Asia. You probably never heard of it and they never proclaimed its web 2.0 loudly, but having 800 artists including Jet Li and Kelly Hu as its official artists, AnD is indeed very special!

We have the great pleasure to have an interview with Stephen Wang, CTO of AnD who shared with us some very interesting stories behind AnD. Enjoy!

1. Would you please tell our readers the brief history of AnD and also introduce your team?

AnD is a social network supporting artists (filmmakers, musicians, visual and performing artists, and more). Artists come on-board and establish their own profiles (blogs, photo albums, events listings, forums and more) from which they can communicate and interact with other artists as well as safely communicate with fans. Regular users can become fans of the artists as well as establish their own profiles to help promote the artists that they like. The site is currently based in Hong Kong and a majority of the artists on the site are based in mainland and Greater China, but our network of artists and fans is global reaching across to other parts of Asia as well as overseas.

AnD is the combination of Patrick Lee, myself (Stephen Wang) who formerly co-founded RottenTomatoes.com, and Alive, the band comprised of Conroy Chan (陈子聪), Andrew Lin (连凯), Daniel Wu (吴彦祖) and Terence Yin (尹子维). Terence, Patrick, and I all graduated from the University of California, Berkeley around the same time so we form a close core as founders. Terence Yin serves as a principal in the company while the three other Alive members are active partners. Patrick and myself bring proven experience on the web-front with our experiencing building Rotten Tomatoes into one of the most respected and popular web sites for entertainment.

DCCI Reports: Average 80 Millions Chinese Users Tracking Olympics Online Daily

By Gang Lu on August 24, 2008 · Filed Under China

The exceptional Beijing Olympic Games have drawn to a close with a glittering closing ceremony. The Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI), a third party providing the uniform market monitor and audience measurement on China Internet has been tracking the online Beijing Olympics for 2 weeks. The traffic to Beijing Olympics authorized online broadcaster, including the leading Chinese portal Sina, Sohu, Netease, Tencent and video-sharing site Ku6, p2p video streaming software PPS, PPlive etc, has been monitored and 16 daily reports have been released by DCCI. The following are the highlights (details can be found on the official DCCI website in Chinese):

According to the report released on 8th, August, around 32 millions Chinese Internet users were browsing/watching the news/broadcast of the opening ceremony. From 9th to 23rd, around 24.7 billions page views have been generated, the daily average page views per user has reached the highest 30.7 and 80 millions users in average are tracking the games through Internet in the 15 days.

Three figures below show the Page Views, Average Page Views per User and Daily Users monitored from 9th to 23th by DCCI.