This week I am in Guangzhou, China for the Canton Fair, a huge exhibition for Chinese manufacturers. These are the folks who actually make the stuff we all see in Walmart (think: obscenely low prices, and just-as-obscene minimum order quantities). Walking through these isles is kind of like walking through your grandmother's garden and seeing where everything you eat (/consume) actually comes from. It's the biggest show of its kind in China.

Have any of you thought about anything along the lines of Alibaba.com (which Yahoo paid $1 billion for 40% of)? Connecting international buyers/sellers? Related services? Importing/branding/product-design?

I've been living in China for 10 months. Just interested in whether any of the community here has dabbled in stuff like this (or wants to).