Founded in 2005, Beijing based Tianji is one of the first to do Linkedin type professional SNS in China. Currently, it has 6 million members in the country and is adding 200,000 more a month. Tianji’s founder and CEO Derek Ling was a former VP in Sina when it had just 20 person in the U.S. He […]
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Tianji CEO Says It Is the Best Professional Social Network in China – Interview Part II
In the last part of our interview with Derek Ling, CEO of Tianji, he said professional SNS grows slowly in China because the Linkedin model does not fit China’s environment. In Linkedin, people frequently get requests like ‘I need this and this,” or “I need to hire such and such”. However, in China, it will be […]
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Ushi – the making Chinese Linkedin
Recently, I talked to Dominic Penaloza, CEO of Ushi, whom my partner, Technode’s Lu Gang, interviewed in February. Within three months, Ushi has progressed quite a lot. It doubled its number of members, to 200,000. These includes 12,000 CEO and 5,000 CTO. 75% of VC active in China are also in Ushi’s network. (Entrepreneurs looking for funding probably […]
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How to Run the Professional Social Network in China, Interview with Co-founders of UShi.cn
We’ve been trying Professional Social Network in China for a couple of times. The copycats or Linkedin-likers failed: Linkist is dead; Wealink is running still but the team has shrinked to <10 people; Tianji used to claim 3millions users and now partners with a French professional social network Viadeo, which I don’t know what is […]
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Tianji.com, The First Chinese Social Networks On OpenSocial Partners List
I have been wondering who would be the first OpenSocial partner in China for days. I learned from Isaac Mao that Wealink.com, the Chinese Linkedin would support OpenID and was also considering OpenSocial; Bruce Wang, CTO of Linkist.com which is another popular Social Networks talked with me in Beijing two weeks ago, he also said […]
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DataPortability, First Keyword of 2008
What is the breaking news today? I might pick up Apple’s announcement of new Mac Pro, but it is a bit egoistic. DataPortability, it is the first keyword of 2008 for me. The big news today is Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org. But I will keep this post very short, two reasons: 1. I am […]
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Chinese BBS – The Undiscovered Phenomenon in Chinese Internet
[Ed: This post is edited by Josh and co-published on ReadWriteWeb.com. Here is the original post.] According to latest report from China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), by end of 2007, there are over 200 million Internet users (including 163 million broadband users) in China. 2008 must be a very busy year for Chinese Internet, […]
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CityIN Joins OpenSocial
We have reported that Tianji.com was the only Chinese SNS in OpenSocial’s partners list. But it has been a long time we have not seen any implementation of OpenSocial on Tianji.com. Like many others, announcing the support of OpenSocial seems just a PR strategy. However, CityIN, this very young startup is going to release its […]
