Mipang: 43Places?

Written by Tangos on April 20, 2006
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MipangWhen I see Mipang for the first time, I cann’t help thinking of 43places. Similar to 43places, Mipang is also a website for users to share their experience or wishes on any places.

Zheng Gaozhao, one of the founders of Mipang said:

Mipang.com is a people-driven theme community about places all over the world. People can write down their stories, share photos about the city he live or he have been. He also can mark some places as “I want to go here”, so he can forgather with the guy who live or have been here. And, because everyone have some favorite places and expecting places, so mipang.com can commend each other something(places, people, photos, etc.) they maybe like.

Since it’s a community, people can create or join some groups about place or not. they also can initiate some events and invite someone have the potential interest(through “I want to go here”) to take part in.

Though Zheng said Mipang is positioned to be a geographic community rather than on tourism, I can not find much difference between Mipang and 43places at this stage. And it is obvious that 43places has better features than Mipang at least now.

PS, in last July, a site called Afanti, who also provides similar services, was launched almost at the same time when 43places was online.

2 Responses to “Mipang: 43Places?”

  1. zheng gaozhao on April 21st, 2006 12:55 am

    Thanks very much to Tangos Chan for your review of mipang.com. Though the initial idea of mipang.com from the plan called “recommend everyone’s hometown” and “local news”, actually we have learned much from 43places, but what we need indeed isn’t current version of mipang.com, we will update the website some time later. :)

  2. Comparing Some New Chinese Travel Websites : China Web2.0 Review on August 15th, 2007 5:34 pm

    [...] Mipang is the most “web 2.0” like website in this list. It has a nice and clean UI with a good user experience. One feature they really want to emphasis is Social Network. People write their travel stories, share photos about their city and places they have visited. Users also can organise their photos or search for interested photos by tags. The search feature in this site is too simple and not very useful. You will not get a result by search anything other than the destination name. mipang uses google ads as their monetizing method. [Ed: Mipang was first rolled out as a 43places clone. In June, it relaunched with focus on travel blogs.] [...]

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