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Chinese report on Web 2.0 adoption released

According to an English summary by China Web 2.0 Review, a new study by the Internet Society of China makes some interesting observations.

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.

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