Sohu Released iPhone App for Its SNS, New Battle For Chinese SNSs Is On

Bai, the three-months old SNS operated by one of the largest portals Sohu is now available on iPhone (link to App Store). I tried it, not good as Faceb…

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Motorola is losing its market share. I dislike it mainly because its crappy operating system although some of its models do have fancy design. More and…

The Best Strategy For Facebook in China: Forget About China

We are still talking about Facebook and try to learn from every change it made; but in the meanwhile, we don't really care about Facebook anymore as so…

Rumors And Facts In China Web

Lots of meetings and talks last week when I was in Beijing. Here I wrap up some good ones (rumors and facts) to share with you. 1. Joe Chen, CEO of Oa…

RockYou, Asian Silicon Valley Co-founders Look To Rock Asia

[Gang Lu: There are some companies which you know they are based in Silicon Valley or somewhere outside Asia and they are already the shining stars in …

2009: The Year KaiXin Beats Xiaonei and Chinese SNS Fizzle?

2009 is gonna be fizzling for most. Maybe even Chinese SNS. I doubt that Alexa's figure is the best judgement of Kaixin001 (chart below), but having…

Watch Out! ShanDa Is To Enter SNS Market From Internet Bar

There are so many SNS running in China, but still the opportunities are everywhere. We thought no one can possibly steal users from QQ, but 51.com did …

Prepare for The Widget Economy, China Web

In April, I was invited to the China Webmaster Annual Conference in Beijing. It was a great honor sitting with these great guys in China web: Wen Xie…

It Is More About Clones, Facebooks Made In China

[Gang Lu: You can also find a revised version of this post on ReadWriteWeb. ] Facebook has officially launched its Japanese version, and its Chinese v…

Tuyuan, A Photo-Centric Social Network

Tuyuan, a Beijing-based startup allows users to do the online social networking by using Facial Recognition technology. Surprisingly, Tuyuan was first…

Thanks To Facebook, $430 Millions Into Oak Pacific’s Xiaonei.com

Microsoft bought 1.6 percent stake of Facebook for $240 millions, which valued Facebook at $15 billion. It has just been confirmed that Xiaonei.com, t…

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 implementatio…