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 reform […]
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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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Short of Business Professionals, Why LinkedIn Does Not Work in China
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. He […]
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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 […]
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Yiqi Launched The First Chinese Open Platform Fully Supports OpenSocial
Yesterday, Yiqi released its open platform which is reported the First Chinese open platform fully support OpenSocial standard, despite that Tianji is the first Chinese SNS listed on OpenSocial partner list and CityIN had its OpenSocial application platform released back in April. The official announcement can be found here (Chinese) and you can read more […]
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The Evolution of Dragon's Web: Copy-to-China, Reformation, Innovation and More
According to the latest report from CNNIC, we surely see a huge potential on web and mobile market in China. A Massive Market might be the most common description for the Dragon’s web. : 316million Internet users, ~2.9million Chinese web sites; But, the Internet penetration has reached only around 25%; 107million bloggers by end of […]
