What Are Top Apps on China’s Open SNS Platforms?

Last year, many China’s social networking sites have embraced open platform ideas, including leading player such as Xiaonei and 51.com. After several months operation, you may want to know the development of the apps on these platform.
Appleap.com, launched in last October, is a website which monitors apps on four main SNS platform in China. [...]

Anti Opensocial?

Today, some of my friends is twittering a new website called Anti-opensocial.com. The site said, “Not real open but just cheat, this is OpenSocial in China. We think Google could do better than just support fake Open Platform. Could OpenSocial do something really useful to help these surviving third party developers?!”.
Why they boycott Opensocial [...]

Xiaonei Integrates Payment System Into App Platform

Xiaonei, the leading Facebook-copycat in China, announced today that it has started to allow third-party apps to integrate Xiaonei’s online payment system, i.e. Xiaonei Dou, to monetize the traffics.
What is Xiaonei Dou? It is the virtual coin of Xiaonei.com, you can use Alipay, Yeepay, mobile phone or pre-paid card to pay for Xiaonei Dou, [...]

China SNS Roundup: Sina, Netease, 51.com, Yiqi.com

Sina and Netease adds SNS games: What are the hottest features of China’s SNS? The answer is “Friends for Sale”. Last week, both Sina and Netease add “friends for sale” function into their blog/space service. Friends For Sale was first introduced to China by Kaixin001.com, together with Parking War. Leveraging on these two apps, Kaixin001.com [...]

Roundup: Mobile Search, Fundraising of 51.com, Ku6 and Youku

Mobile search: Google China vs. Baidu: If you check any mobile Internet usage report, you will find a large percentage of traffic come from Guangdong Province. Google China recently launched offline marketing campaign to promote mobile search in Guangdong. We can find its outdoor advertisements in subway station of Guangzhou, (more photos in DWGoogle.cn). On [...]

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