{"id":29,"date":"2007-11-13T00:36:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/2007\/11\/13\/the-interview-with-bo-yang-of-douban\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T00:36:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:36:42","slug":"the-interview-with-bo-yang-of-douban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"The interview with Bo Yang of Douban"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bo Yang earned his B.Sc. from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D in physics from University of California. He Joined IBM (San Jose) in 1998 as an advisory scientist. From 2000 to 2004 he was the CTO and a co-founder of egistics Corporation in Beijing, a startup in supply chain management solutions. In late 2004 he started working on douban.com and in 2005 founded Douban Inc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bo Yang was guest speaker at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cnbloggercon.org\/2007\">3rd Chinese Blogger Conference<\/a>,  speaking on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/jmsc.hku.hk\/blogs\/cnbloggercon07\/2007\/11\/04\/music-20-conflicts-and-value\/\">Music 2.0: Conflicts and Value<\/a>. His company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douban.com\">Douban<\/a>, launched in 2005 and compiles user-generated reviews and recommendations of books, movies, and music.<\/p>\n<p>I am one of the earliest users of Douban, having formed a group called &#8220;Hong Kong Book Worms&#8221; in 2005, just after the launch. I wrote several blog posts about Douban, which brought hundreds of Hong Kong bloggers to Douban&#8217;s membership, and they generated thousands of books reviews. That impressed Bo Yang quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Douban.com has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douban.net\/\">English version<\/a> which operates in partnership with Amazon.Com for sales and data use.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Douban and its founder, check out Bo Yang&#8217;s interview at the 3rd Chinese Blogger Conference:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/video.sanriotown.com\/flaon\/us\/loader.swf?key=7e6647640e10dc1c\">http:\/\/video.sanriotown.com\/flaon\/us\/loader.swf?key=7e6647640e10dc1c<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cnbloggercon\" rel=\"tag\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/static\/img\/pub\/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=cnbloggercon,\" alt=\" \" \/>cnbloggercon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/outblaze\" rel=\"tag\">outblaze<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/cbc2007\" rel=\"tag\">cbc2007<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/douban\" rel=\"tag\">douban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Yang earned his B.Sc. from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D in physics from University of California. He Joined IBM (San Jose) in 1998 as an advisory scientist. From 2000 to 2004 he was the CTO and a co-founder of egistics Corporation in Beijing, a startup in supply chain management solutions. In late 2004 he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}