Today I had the pleasure to have lunch with Tangos (aka Chen Huan), the editor of the Chinese “Techcrunch” (but without the commercial tags
) China Web 2.0 Review in Beijing. Chen is a product manager at the Chinese Web 2.0 search engine/portal Qihoo (that just raised $25M from US investors) at day and blogger by night. I have been following the development of his blog ever since it’s inception and it has become an important source of information for me on what is cooking on the Chinese Web scene.
Except that it is always nice to meet up with a fellow blogger it was great to hear Tangos view on what’s hot and what’s not on the Chinese Web scene. When I asked Tangos what if there was anything new he found particularity interesting right now, the answer was no. In fact, although Web2.0 companies are mushrooming all over in China, it seems that there is nothing really new happening this year as opposed to last year. That very much seems to echo the sentiments back in the Valley and outside China at large.
When I asked him what he personally found most exciting, he mentioned Douban – the book, music, movie, travel and blog review site.
I know I have mentioned it several times before but I can warmly recommend China Web2.0 Review.
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