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Anatomy Of New Sina Weibo, Is It More Than a Microblogging Site?
[Translate] Whether you like it or not, Sina finally rolled out the new look of its Weibo to a small group of users. Like other typical Chinese web site, the page is now fully packed with menus, information and links. For the readers who are interested in the new layout but don’t read Chinese, here...
Facebook – China is Number 1 Priority
[Translate] Although Facebook is blocked in China, there is still deep interest in how Facebook managed to become what it is today. The closest the general public has come to learning about the Facebook story, was through the Social Network movie. The movie portrayed Zuckerberg as an obnoxious genius, who would not let anything, including...
CEO of Wealink Resigned, Professional Social Network in China Still Uncertain?
[Translate] We wrote a lot about Chinese professional social networks recently. It seems that the local market is really boosted by the IPO of Linkedin. Especially for those new comers such as Dajie, UShi, Hengzhi which are either raising more money or claiming millions of users. Every player feels very positive about the market, except...
Professional SNS Hengzhi Reached 1 Million Users
[Translate] Aggregating offline communities seems the way to go in developing Linkedin like professional SNS in China. Beijing based professional SNS Hengzhi said its registered users has reached 1 million. Two months ago, there were only 600,000. Part of the reasons was it started partnering with some offline organizations with huge memberships. “One of the partner...
SNS Boom In China | Social Networks Event
[Translate] From Facebook in the U.S. to Renren in China the social web has become a part of many people’s lives. Social networking can no longer be ignored as a force of nature and will continue to develop for years to come, but the development of an online presence comes with its own challenges. When...
Zaizher, Building The Professional SNS from Events
[Translate] As we covered in our previous posts, Chinese LinkedIn clones do not work very well. The original Linkedlin relies most of its revenue on recruitment service. And, for most people, they open their LinkedIn account just to put their resume in. But that does not work in China, as there are not enough business...
Mamashai – SNS for Mothers and Fathers
[Translate] Found in 2009, Mamashi is a social network for mothers and fathers to talk about their experience in raising children. Many mothers started from the day they got pregnant. “There is a nature need for parents to recording the everyday changes of their babies,” said Tracy Ji, founder and president of the Beijing startup. Most...
Sina Weibo Will Launch Virtual Currency Next Monday
[Translate] Although Sina Weibo is spreading rapidly in China, investors are concerned about its ability to generate revenue. To address such an issue, Sina Weibo is to launch its own virtual currency. We already reported that the information about its virtual currency named Weibi had been leaked in its wiki page for developers. An industry insider has...
How 5 Professional Social Networks in China Compare
[Translate] We’ve now covered all the main professional social networks in China. This space in China is gaining a lot of attention due to Linkedin’s recent IPO and valuation of US$4.25bn. Here are some of the challenges we’ve learnt about building professional SNSs: Finding users As Sherman just posted, China only opened up to economic...
Short of Business Professionals, Why LinkedIn Does Not Work in China
[Translate] Why LinkedIn does not work in China? This is one of the hottest questions being discussed recently in China because Linkedin went to IPO and apparently the massive Chinese market has no real professional social networks yet. A hedge fund manager recently gave me a very interesting point of view, which I also agreed....
If RenRen is Not Chinese Facebook, What is? Kaixin, Sina Weibo Or Douban
[Translate] RenRen claims itself as Chinese Facebook, but as we look closer into the Beijing based company, in many ways, it is not as successful as its U.S. counterpart . We have discussed these in previous posts, Thoughts On RenRen’s IPO and RenRen is Just a Social Network Not a Chinese Facebook. Another point worth noticing...
Wealink, 4 Years Experience on Chinese Professional Social Networks, A Slow Business
[Translate] If we talk about the Linkedin business in China, we should not forget about Wealink, one of the earliest adopter and used to be the No.1 professional social network in China. Launched at June 2007, Wealink has been working on this field for 4 years. Wealink should not be considered as a successful business,...
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