Fact checking the hype around mesh networks and FireChat

January 11, 2015 by Jason Li

Being based in Hong Kong, my tech friends and I still occasionally get asked, “So what’s the deal with FireChat?” In case you missed it, FireChat, a smartphone chat app with basic mesh support, made headlines during the recent Occupy Hong Kong protests. Protesters on the ground here turned to it in late September when rumors began to circulate that the government would shut down…

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Cheat Sheet for Hardware Startup Accelerators

November 10, 2013 by Jason Li

Here’s the link to the original Google spreadsheet. Please feel free edit! 🙂

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What’s interesting about the data above is that there are two programs that criss cross China, and a bunch that don’t:

HAXL8R starts in Shenzhen and does their final demo day in San…

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Stats: The kinds of tech startups in HK

December 18, 2012 by Jason Li

Last month, my friend Paul Orlando and I launched Startup Hug*, an experiment in cultivating an early adopter community here in Hong Kong. As part of the process, we evaluated over 130 local startup websites (the list came from Paul’s We Are HK Tech). One side product is that we categorized and annotated this list of 130.

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Shanghai Government to Sponsor Hacking Spaces?

December 15, 2011 by An Xiao Mina

I came across this article recently on hackaday.com, talking up the possibility of new hackerspaces in China:

Government leadership in Shanghai wants to build 100 community hackerspaces funded by the Chinese government. Each space will be at least 100 square meters, open 200 days a year, and come equipped with wood and…

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Tag: startups

Fact checking the hype around mesh networks and FireChat

Cheat Sheet for Hardware Startup Accelerators

Stats: The kinds of tech startups in HK

Shanghai Government to Sponsor Hacking Spaces?