News:

March 2007
The Jimei University Research Launched

The OS network research intitiated at Southern China Jimei University is now launched. The Chinese readers of the Krem Trekker Diaries can give instructions to the characters of the adventure and influence the plot. The story is published in real time in English with an abundance of background information and a discussion forum. If you are interested to participate the Web 2.0 research, please contact our scientific board.

January 2007
Join the Global Innovation and Network Research!

The MeLog research is an Open Source project in which everybody interested in innovation, networks and interactive Web 2.0 can participate. You can follow the story, vote, suggest, discuss, analyse and comment. At the same time you can do research and collect your own data.

Let’s share the Findings!

If you want to dig deeper in this research join our global task force. Unfortunately we are not able to offer you personal guidance or consultation but we can provide you with background information and unpublished data and statistics.

If you are interested in knowledge sharing please let us know ! For this we need your research disposition and your permission for us to use it in scientific papers and on non-commercial forums.

December 2006
Web 2.0 Research in China is starting

With of the largest homogenous population on earth, China provides the international research team an ideal platform for a large-scale study. Follow-up reports, statistics, collected data as well as the findings of the study will be available to university researchers and students.

China is an ideal environment for large-scale network research. Roughly 92 per cent of the total population of 1.3 billion have the same cultural and historical background. There are 20 million bloggers, 80 million blog readers and nearly 200 million Internet users. China is the fastest growing Internet market in the world.

The research project starts on March 2007. The same day the address of the concept will be published on these pages. This day, a new entertainment genre will be launched for university and college students and for young urban adults. The target group is 100 million Internet users. The objective of the research is to get new information about the diffusion of innovation and the formation of large networks, see also the Vizster project.

Voice of Contemporary China

The research object is an interactive storyboard, i.e. an adventure that will be written together with the readers. The locations are real as are many of the characters. The heroes, however, take gradually form as the story continues. The readers decide how they look like, what they think and how they behave. Thus, week by week, the Chinese students and young adults draw a picture of themselves.

The storyboard will be translated in English and published for the global audience simultaneously.

Diffusion of Innovation

The research objective is to find out how the network of the contributors grows. The hypothesis is that growth will follow the shape of the Fisher-Pry curve. However, the trajectory can also prove to be linear, even a bell curve. Thus the results of this research will significantly shed light on the diffusion of innovation in social networks.

A Jimei University Student Initiative

The project will start at Jimei University in Xiamen, China. It is also an international cooperation venture. This project is not commercial and has not applied nor received any public funding.