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 [...]

Ex-Yahoo China CEO Taking On Facebook, Launches Yiqi

Last big news we heard about Xie Wen was in 2006, when he resigned from CEO of Yahoo China, one month after being on board. Yesterday, he formally announced Yiqi as a project he would spend the next few years on.
Yiqi is not available for registration yet. But from the appearance, it’s very like yet [...]