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2 Social Ecosystems Will Emerge?! China and Rest of World #socbiz #ibmsocialbiz #ls12

I was awaiting Tom Smith’s new Global Web Index and I found the results fascinating.   I’ll blog for the next 3 days on surprising results from the survey!

The first surprise to me, is the progression of China in Social.   In fact,

Some interesting facts:

  • China is up to 50% active users
  • China social technology is on par with the rest of the world.
  • Question:   Will their technology spread to the rest of world?  The report argues that China has the most competitive platform in the world.
  • Officially, Facebook, Twitter & Google+ are banned in China; unofficially, via V.P.Ns and mobile, they are growing.

http://www.slideshare.net/Tomtrendstream/global-webindex-6-trends

1 Comment

  1. Chris Boudreaux (@cboudreaux)

    Hi, Sandy,

    I appreciate the information that you publish, and would love to see you add some sharing functionality. I’ve been happy with this plugin on my WordPress blog: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/

    Regards,
    Chris

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