Isaac Mao
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Isaac Mao (simplified Chinese: 毛向辉; traditional Chinese: 毛向輝; pinyin: Máo Xiànghuī) is a Chinese venture capitalist, software architect, and social media researcher. He is also known for co-founding CNBlogs.org, doing research in social learning and for developing the philosophy of Sharism. He is the director of the Social Brain Foundation,[1] a vice president of the United Capital Investment Group[2] (2004-2008) and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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.[3] Mao has written extensively about on-line journalism, and advises Global Voices Online and several web 2.0 businesses. Mao's essay "Sharism: A Mind Revolution" appeared in the Freesouls book project.[4]
Blogging and blog advocacy
Mao is a co-founder of CNBlogs.org and a co-organizer of the Chinese Blogger Conference (2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou).[5] 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[6]) about Internet culture, in China and more broadly and other global events on Internet culture. In 2009, he was a speaker at the 40th anniversary of The Internet Conference held at UCLA[7][8] 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.[9][10]
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.[11]
References
- ↑ Social Brain Foundation
- ↑ United Capital Investment Group
- ↑ http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/isaac-mao-0
- ↑ Sharism: A Mind Revolution, Isaac Mao
- ↑ Cnbloggercon
- ↑ Chinese Internet Conference 2012
- ↑ Isaac Mao, 40th Anniversary of the Internet conference, UCLA
- ↑ 40th anniversary of the Internet
- ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacmao
- ↑ Issac Mao on wikimania2007
- ↑ http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/7681/en
External links
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- 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.
