Isaac Mao (simplified Chinese: 毛向辉; traditional Chinese: 毛向輝; pinyin: Máo Xiànghuī) is a venture capitalist, software architect, and student researcher from the People's Republic of China, known for co-founding of CNBlog.org and for his research in social learning. He is the Director of the Social Brain Foundation and a vice president of the United Capital Investment Group.
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Mao is a venture capitalist, blogger, software architect, entrepreneur and researcher in learning and social technology. He divides his time between research, social works, business and technology. [1] Mao has written extensively about on-line journalism, and advises Global Voices Online and several web 2.0 businesses.
Mao is a co-founder of CNBlog.org and a co-organizer of the Chinese Blogger Conference (2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou). He started a movement in 2005 to adopt Chinese bloggers on overseas servers.
Mao is a regular speaker at global conferences (such as Wikimania and the Chinese Internet Conference) about Internet culture, in China and more broadly and other global events on Internet culture. As a trained software engineer, he has a long history of developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in the Intel HomeCD project and Tangram BackSchool suite. [2] [3]
As of 2008, Mao published an open letter to Google, challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its strategy on China. [4]