Isaac Mao
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Isaac Mao (simplified Chinese: 毛向辉; traditional Chinese: 毛向輝; pinyin: Máo Xiànghuī) is a blogger from the People's Republic of China. He is co-founder of CNBlog.org and a researcher in social learning. In 2005, he started the movement for adopting Chinese bloggers on overseas servers.
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.[citation needed] He is now Vice President of United Capital Investment Group and Director to Social Brain Foundation, advisor to Global Voices Online and several web 2.0 businesses.
Mao is a co-founder of CNBlog.org and a co-organizer of the Chinese Blogger Conference (2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou).
Mao is a regular speaker/keynote to Wikimania, the Chinese Internet Conference and other global events on internet culture. As a trained software engineer, he has a long history developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in the Intel HomeCD project and the Tangram BackSchool suite.[citation needed]
Recently, Mao got a lot of resonance in the technology and business world with his open letter to Google,[citation needed] challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its strategy on China.
[edit] 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.
