This is the final segment of “the dark interview”. In part 4 of my interview with Ben Crox, we discussed Google’s controversy in China. A very sophisticated hacking incident was orchestrated against Google from within China in December 2009, prompting Google to stop complying with the Chinese government in censoring search results. They shut down [...]
I must begin with an apology. The lighting in this interview was very dark! In Part 1 of the series, I dubbed my interview with Ben Crox ‘the dark interview‘ because of the poor lighting. Now, let’s flashback in time. Back to the spring of 2010. At the time, Google was in the midst of [...]
The interview I dubbed “the dark interview” is back for round 3. We are halfway through a five segment interview with Hong Kong’s very own Ben Crox, the Principal Consultant for Web Fusion Technology Limited who is also an evangelist for Project West Chamber. More on that project in a minute (unless you want to [...]
Let’s dive back into “the dark interview”. The Chinese government is estimated to spend over 200 Million RMB (US $30 Million) per year on maintaining and expanding its Great Fire Wall to censor the Internet. Why? Because free expression is not allowed in China. The government fears that sites like Facebook and Twitter “will provide [...]
The clock is ticking past 7:30am. I’m in a hotel room in Shanghai. All-nighter. Flight to Hong Kong leaves this afternoon. Breakfast is at 9:00am. Meeting with Bill Morrow tonight. Why did I push myself to stay up? Simple. I couldn’t wait to bring you this interview that I did a few days ago here [...]
I think I’m gonna call this “the dark interview”. Frustrated by the Chinese government’s stubborn commitment to censoring the Internet (which basically prevents people like me from being able to connect online with entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders in China), “dark” would be a great word to describe my mood with the web situation in [...]
OKAY. There’s no disputing it: China has been making leaps and bounds. They boast the world’s 2nd largest economy. And, they have been “shucking off” communism (Source: Tom Friedman, New York Times) and moving towards “laying a talent foundation for the socialism modernization to be basically realized in the middle period of this century.” STOP. CENSORING. [...]
Google. China. Perspective from Singapore startup Techsailor from John Exley on Vimeo. During the “BizAsia 2010 Entrepreneurship Conference” this past spring, I interviewed Cheng Shun Ling (http://twitter.com/csling) while we were touring the offices of the Singapore-based startup Techsailor (http://techsailor.com/). Ling is the Creative Director for the Web 2.0 startup, and they provide social media marketing [...]