China Builds Its Own Hackers Mentality
I’ve recently completed a week long stint in China and have seen and experienced some very interesting moments relating to the Internet which made wonder how it affects Chinese businesses…
Tessa Sterkenburg
Tessa Sterkenburg has a background in scientific publishing and web technology and is the founder of The Next Speaker.
Stories by Tessa Sterkenburg
Chinese Startups: Clones Or Innovators?
The big success stories in China are about companies like Baidu and Youdao (search engines) and Tencent (social services), companies that have their equivalents in the West. Chinese tech companies are often referred…
Kwestr Is Social Gaming For Real Life
Kwestr is an online social game which provides Facebook and Weibo users with an opportunity to earn badges for things they do in real life. Where Zynga let’s you grow…
Tips for doing business in China
The internet market in China is enormous and growing. As Jon was writing earlier Chinese citizens spend significantly more time on the internet than Americans and, in spite of Chinese…
Advertising Model For Angry Birds Works
Angry Birds, the hilarious game originally developed for the iPhone, is the fastest selling paid iPhone game to date. The game, which sells for $0.99c was released in December 2009…
Jason Goldman to leave Twitter
Jason Goldman, VP of Product at Twitter will be leaving Twitter. This is what he announced today at leWeb. He will stay on as an advisor and specifically said that…
Subtlety in Subtitles
Almost all the movies that I watch are in English. There must be an enormous amount of brilliant movies made in other languages, but I don’t know about them. Because…
Cloud Computing: Mi Data es Su Data?
Last week the harddisk of my computer crashed and unfortunately there was nothing the repairshop could do. Of course this happened on the day that I realized that my last…
The People versus The Expert
On Friday afternoon The Next Web Conference hosted the world premiere of the documentary The truth according to Wikipedia from IJsbrand van Veelen. The leading questions in the documentary were:…
Still hope for old-fashioned publishers!
Since online user generated content is picking up, newspapers get continuously slashed for their inability to adjust to modern times and the demise of the old media was predicted. Now…
