VIA, HTC, Lenovo, TCL, BestTV, Tencent, RenRen, Paypal Confirmed to Speak At TechNode Collide Conference

The full agenda of TechNode Collide conference – Powering the China Cloud has been published. With the great support from VIA, the sponsor of this conference, now we have confirmed 20+ great speakers from VIA, HTC, Lenovo, TCL, BestTV, Tencent, RenRen, Paypal etc. The online registration is still open here and for the details, please visit the official site: http://collide.technode.com

AGENDA

Date: 25th May, 2011 (Wednesday)

 

12:00 – 1:00	Doors open
1:00 – 1:10	Opening speech
1:10 – 1:30	Keynote – Ray Yam, Head of HTC China (confirmed)
1:30 – 1:50	Keynote – Dr. David Wei, VP of Lenovo (confirmed)
Cloud Computing Track
2:00 – 3:00	Cloud computing is a way to access applications over the internet, think Google applications like Gmail or Google Docs. It encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities.Cloud computing overseas has been established for years now, but China is still looking to find its way through this trend. JAMES ERON, COO ChinaNetCloud (confirmed) Michael Zhao, Head of Integration Service , Paypal China (confirmed) Kevin Day, CEO of Comsenz (Tencent) (confirmed) Deng Jisheng, Shanda Cloud Computing, Everbox (confirmed) Zhang Fubo, SkyCloud, Managing Director (confirmed)
Mobile Cloud Track
3:00 – 4:00	Mobile cloud is an extension of cloud computing and is easiest to think about as a mobile app on your smartphone, where the infrastructure of both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device.According to Juniper Research, the market for cloud-based mobile applications will grow 88% from 2009 to 2014 and reach US$9.5bn. A driving force of mobile cloud is the adoption of the new web standard HTML5, increased mobile broadband coverage, the proliferation of 4G-enabled netbooks and smartbooks and the need for always on collaborative services for the enterprise. In Asia a growing number of players are trying to fill in the demand for mobile cloud eco-system from mobile device manufacturers to application developers. Liu Jiang, Chief-editor of CSDN (confirmed) Adam Chen, Head of Marketing, VIA Telecom (confirmed) Cao Ming, VP of 3G.cn (confirmed) Huang Jing, Head of Product Marketing, RenRen (confirmed) Steven Liu, Special Assistant of WonderMedia (confirmed)
4:00 – 4:15	Break
4:15 – 4:30	Sponsor Presentation Epan Wu, Head of VIA Processor Platform Product Marketing (confirmed) Topic: From PC + Internet to Mobile + Cloud: Powering the Next Great Industry Transition
Smart TV Track
4:30 – 5:15	Smart TV is the next generation of TV entertainment experience, by knowing who you are and like and giving you more control. It is an integrated solution of television and internet that aims to help you personalize how you interact with TV.You can scroll through a list of programs that are currently showing. While watching, you can get information about the products being featured in the show. Smart TV can also recommend a show based on past viewing history. It is also searchable by voice recognition and allows you to interact with people on your social networks such as chat about the program you are watching together. Kevin Rui, VP, Best TV (confirmed) Wang Haila, CEO of Orange France Beijing (confirmed) Yang Jin, Senior VP of Technicolor Greater China, GM of Digital Delivery Business Group (confirmed) Liu Wenfei, Super Smart TV Director of TCL Research (confirmed)
Start-Up Jam
5:15 – 6:30	Start Up Presentations Everbox (cloud storage & sync service) confirmed Suishouji (mobile finance) confirmed Shanda Note (cloud storage) confirmed Camera360 (mobile image sharing) confirmed UMeng (reporting system) confirmed Hozom (social contact) confirmed Senscape (Augmented Reality) confirmed DianXin OS confirmed
7:00	VIP Dinner & Party (Invitation Only)

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Introduction of Four Micro-video Services: Is an era of Micro-video coming?

If you have read my introduction two days ago of photo sharing services for mobile phones, just like service provided by Instagram, maybe you will have a question-can we share videos in a similar way? In fact, there have already been such services. The recent launched on-line service called Viddy in App store is said to reach more than 10,000 downloads per day. Does it mean that it is the right time to share micro-videos? I deem that more and more people have started to pay attention to this field.

Micro-video Service

1. Viddy

Viddy, which I have recently been playing, is one of my favorite iPhone applications. I had doubted about the interesting of 15-seconds videos until I started to use Viddy, thanks in part to the contribution of perfect video effects and moving background music. These videos can also be shared to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Foursquare, and Tumblr.

Client: iPhone

Links: http://viddy.co/

2. Socialcam

If Socialcam application has been installed successfully, you can use your Facebook account to login, which is currently the only way to access. It then displays a list of Facebook friends who have already used it, and asks you whether to watch on them (Socialcam takes in the one-way focus mode like Twitter). It helps people share videos with their friends.

 

Client: iPhone, Android

Links: http://socialcam.com/

3. Weipai (Formerly known as Guoguo Video)

Guoguo Technology, a new-generation mobile internet company invested by three domestic top investment companies, focuses on software development on iPhone, Android, and other next-generation smart phones and mobile Internet business operations. Formerly known as Guoguo Video, it is now renamed as Weipai.

 

Client: iPhone, Android

Links: http://guoguo.me/

4. Weiguan

Weiguan is a new live-broadcast-sharing mobile platform launched by ku6.com. It helps users capture and share their favorite videos conveniently in their daily life, by two live-broadcast ways based on either PC cameras or mobile phone clients.

Client: iPhone, Android, Symbian

Links: http://www.weiguan.com/

 

Summary

1. The success of Instagram has proved that there are still large potential needs of photo sharing in mobile field (This is in part due to mobile terminals’ nonfeasance of photo-sharing websites, such as Flickr). The contents generated by mobile terminals are more close to users’ life and more valuable to be shared.
2. Perfect filter effects, provided by Instagram, let the process of sharing photos become more enjoyable and petit bourgeois. These effects are now introduced to micro-video services, for example, Viddy offers video effects and background music, making short videos very active and interesting.
3. Maybe it is the right time to share micro-videos. There had ever been 12seconds.tv, but later closed, I think, the reason is that the holdings of smart phones at that time didn’t reach an appropriate level like now.
4. Some large video sites, such as ku6.com, have already provided Micro-video services. Other sites like Youku.com, Tudou.com etc. are supposed to offer similar services.
5. Socialized Micro-video is a trend. Compared with abroad, where Facebook and Twitter have become standard of social system, China lacks of a relatively uniformed social network. Sina Weibo may have the opportunity to become that one.
6. The competition in Micro-video field may be more intense in future.

(This post is originally written by Watson Xu in Chinese, translated by Guo Tingting and proofread by Wu Chenchen. )

 

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May 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)

Early part of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)

Because of the Golden Week holiday, there were very few releases on Japanese web.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• Toyota Features Hatsune Miku For North America Promotion
• Nikkei Trendy's Twitter/Facebook Usage Chart After The Quake. using Nielsen/NetRatings data
• 
  TV Remote Simplified via @otsune
• Softbank Invests Gilt Group, Establishes A Joint Venture For Japanese Market
• Gizmodo Japan launches t-shirt charity project. All sales in Japan and US to be donated to the quake relief efforts.
• Tokyo-based affiliate rep Net Marketing launches a navigation portal for (potential?) Facebook users.
• A showcase of traditional- and extra-kind vending machines serving various foods and beverages with location map.
• Video: A bunch of Unidentified Flying Objects witnessed in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The UFO video trended on twitter all day. I think they are baloons.
• Takeshi Nomura of Hitotsubashi Univ. to host a conference for senior high & junior high student entrepreneurs.
• J-pop band Meridian Rogue launches a freemium portal of music distribution and promotion for indie artists.

If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.

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