Chinese report on Web 2.0 adoption released
My favorites:
"Awareness of web2.0 is very low, 73.3% of respondents don’t know web2.0."
26.7% of respondents did know what Web 2.0 was? If I'm understanding this correctly and the survey asked people if they new the term Web 2.0, instead of asking if they new about blogs, podcasts, etc. - then this seems really high to me! Can you imagine what percentage of US citizens would say "yah, I know about Web 2.0." I'd guess way less than 26%.
"87.1% users changed their reading habits after subscribing to rss feeds."
That tells me that RSS has really fit with many peoples' lives and information consumption in China. Again, I'd guess that in many other parts of the world a far greater percentage of people subscribe to an RSS feed without it really effecting their reading habits.
"Most of the users get to know podcasting from internet, rather than newspaper, magazine, television or radio." With the flurry of mainstream media coverage of blogs and podcasting in the US, this is hard to imagine too.
There may be some translation issues here, but China Web 2.0 Review is generally a very good source of information and there are definitely big differences in adoption patterns globally.
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. For those who didn't catch it, the first comment was from the webmaster of China Web 2.0 Review. Tangos, that's hillarious to think that the Chinese media abuses the term Web 2.0! US media almost never uses the term, it's almost exclusively used by bloggers and such. Further example of how different the cultural landscapes are around these issues!
Thanks for dropping by to clarify!
Posted at 8:36PM on Feb 23rd 2006 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
3. So what exactly *is* Web 2.0? Nobody has a definition. It's a catch-all buzz word.
Posted at 10:03PM on Feb 24th 2006 by Confused
4. http://marshallk.com/web20/ That's where my working definition of the term is posted.
Posted at 10:16PM on Feb 24th 2006 by Marshall Kirkpatrick









1. According to my understanding, maybe they count those who heard the term web2.0 as who know web2.0. It does not mean that 27% respondents know what web2.0 means.
Since the term web2.0 is abused in China, 27% citizens know the term is also possible. And in fact, when most Chinese media report the news, they say "ONLY 27% know web2.0" :)
Posted at 8:19PM on Feb 23rd 2006 by Tangos