Bernard Leong

After the talk in Unconference 2009, I have received some queries about social networking sites in China. Based on what I have known, Xiaonei is not the number 1 SNS in China, but 51.com. Other than these two top social networks, there are other social networks which are also dominant within the Great Wall. As Gang Lu mentioned during the panel that the Chinese internet landscape has now moved from cloning era to an reformation era, where the sites are innovating within after realizing that some of the cloned services …

In this year’s For the coming UnConference 2009 organized by E27 team in the Biopolis, I will be doing a breakout session entitled “Much Ado about Social Networks in Asia” about online social networks in Asia. I will discuss the trends and observations emerging that I have seen from my experience in building an online private social network (SENATUS), investing in social networks (iHipo, Eteract) under Thymos Capital LLP and observing dominant home-grown social networks in Asia (CyWorld – Korea, Mixi – Japan and Xiaonei – China). This talk will …

In this year’s Unconference 2009 organized by E27, the topic led by me for the breakout sessions is entitled “Much Ado about Social Networks in Asia.” The talk addresses the trends of online social networks in Asia. Since it is not a keynote address nor panel discussion, I broke the session into two parts. In the first part of the breakout, I presented a set of slides which I have prepared that give a broad and perhaps academic definition of online social networks and its features, followed by looking at …

Review of William Cohan’s “House of Cards” – a book about the fall of Bear Stearns and the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the financial meltdown in September 2008.

The intention of this article, rather than just argue only on the merits of community moderation, also examines the many faces of moderation and self-regulation of the Internet in Singapore.