Role:
Business Channel Architect, Product Manager, Producer
The Story:
In 1997, Peter was brought in by the CEO as Site Architect to help
re-orient the company's pioneering content, community & commerce
site for Asian-Americans into a mainstream USA retailing site.
Results:
While page views and revenues grew significantly during 1997 holiday
season, financial market 'contagion' in the Channel A's predominant
fundraising sphere - Asia, led to staff defections, cash flow problems
and eventual closure in 1998.
Press:
ZDNet: ChannelA.com Focuses On Asians
Red Herring: ChannelA.com Goes Off the Internet -- for good.
Unique Website Features:
 Producer's
Note:
You can call me "Cros." Most people do. The other's a bit much,
huh? But I couldn't find a simple nom d' e-mail when 1 returned
Stateside in 1995, so I went back to ye old birth certificate.
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 Asian
Business:
Despite the rhetoric surrounding
the U.S. Senate hearings on campaign finance, the picture emerging
is that Asians and Asian-Americans who contributed to the Democratic
campaign coffers did so in an effort to help overseas friends
in high places gain contacts and prestige here. read
on |
 Expat
Dispatch:
China Radio International is the government organization that
brings the world EZ FM. They run foreign language shows, generally
in English, but also in French and other languages. When it's
time, they stop whatever they're doing and run a short news
report, read by an English-speaking Chinese news hound. read
on. |
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