QQ To Compete With Xiaonei.com

Today, QQ soft launches a new service called QQ Xiaoyou, which is a social networking service targeted at students in universities and high schools. Actually, Xiaoyou is the Chinese Pinyin for alumni. Currently, only invited QQ users are allowed to test the service.
Obviously QQ want to make Xiaoyou another China’s Facebook, it also has the [...]

Xiaonei.com Announced its Open Developer Platform

We’ve heard Xiaonei.com is working on open platform for a long time. Possibly because of 51.com’s announcement of open developer platform plan in last week, Xiaonei.com, the so-called China’s Facebook, can not wait to announced its open developer platform before it is fully ready. It even is not announced in Xiaonei’s official blog, but in [...]

What’s The Meaning of SoftBank’s Investment in Oak Pacific?

Lots of discussion on the news that Masayoshi Son’s Softbank will lead an investment totaling $430 million for approximately 35% stake of Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), whose main asset currently is Xiaonei.com, a Facebook clone, can be found on the blogosphere already, such as on Techcrunch, VentureBeat and DigitalWatch.
Honestly, I was surprised by the [...]

Who is Leading China’s Blog Market?

Among all China’s blog service providers, who is the leading player? Is it Sina blog which hosts many blogs of celebrities, is it Sohu blog who just open a widget platform, or Tencent’s Q-zone? A report released by Baidu today may answer this question. (Jan. 30th, Update: Interestingly, SearchLab, an research institute established by Baidu [...]

Hainei: Strong Competitor of Facebook Wannabe in China

Several of my friends were twittering a new social networking site called Hainei.com today. At first glance, I was thinking it is just another Facebook clone in China. But then I was quite surprised to know who is the founder of Hainei.
Can you believe that it is a new project by Wang Xing, the founder [...]

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