Isaac Mao
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Isaac Mao is a venture capitalist, software architect, and student researcher from the People's Republic of China
, known for co-founding of CNBlog.org and for his research in social learning
. He is the Director of the Social Brain Foundation and a vice president of the United Capital Investment Group.
and several web 2.0 businesses.
(2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou). He started a movement in 2005 to adopt Chinese bloggers on overseas servers.
Mao is a regular speaker at global conferences (such as Wikimania
and the Chinese Internet Conference) about Internet culture, in China and more broadly and other global events on Internet culture. As a trained software engineer, he has a long history of developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in the Intel HomeCD project and Tangram
BackSchool suite.
As of 2008, Mao published an open letter to Google, challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its strategy on China.
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
, known for co-founding of CNBlog.org and for his research in social learning
Social learning
Social learning may refer to:* Observational learning , learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in ones environment or other people....
. He is the Director of the Social Brain Foundation and a vice president of the United Capital Investment Group.
Life and work
Mao is a venture capitalist, blogger, software architect, entrepreneur and researcher in learning and social technology. He divides his time between research, social works, business and technology. Mao has written extensively about on-line journalism, and advises Global Voices OnlineGlobal Voices Online
Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world...
and several web 2.0 businesses.
Blogging and blog advocacy
Mao is a co-founder of CNBlog.org and a co-organizer of the Chinese Blogger ConferenceCnbloggercon
The Chinese Blogger Conference was the first national bloggers conference held in China. The conference first convened in Shanghai in November 2005, and was held in the subsequent years in Hangzhou , Beijing , Guangzhou and Lianzhou...
(2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou). He started a movement in 2005 to adopt Chinese bloggers on overseas servers.
Mao is a regular speaker at global conferences (such as Wikimania
Wikimania
Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation...
and the Chinese Internet Conference) about Internet culture, in China and more broadly and other global events on Internet culture. As a trained software engineer, he has a long history of developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in the Intel HomeCD project and Tangram
Tangram
The tangram is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape using all seven pieces, which may not overlap...
BackSchool suite.
As of 2008, Mao published an open letter to Google, challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its strategy on China.
External links
- The 'blog' revolution sweeps across China, an article on New Scientists, November, 2004.
- Isaac Mao's blog
- English entries in Isaac Mao's blog
- Not Losing Facebook in China - The Economist, on Internet in China and Isaac Mao views.