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Kaixin001, China’s New Social Network Power Clone

by Jason Wilk on October 16, 2008

  • Kaixin001 is the hot new social network in China aimed at white-collar workers who sit in front of their computer 9-10 hours a day.
  • In just a couple months, it has gained 7.5M users and has tripled Twitter’s traffic.
  • Xiaonei is the leading social network in China, aimed at college students.
  • Kaixin001 has gained its success by cloning their design as well as ripping off the most popular apps on Facebook like:
    • FriendsForSale
    • iLike
    • WhereI’veBeen
  • No telling what will happen with the startup market in China, as investors are still bearish on websites that aren’t supported by much revenue and potential buyers in the marketplace just aren’t there yet. I lived in Beijing in 2006, and when I investigated what kind of work enviornment and talent China was dealing with in terms of design and program ability, it was very weak. Doesn’t look like much has changed.

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Twitter Needs To Kill The Clones. Let The Powers Of Ning Save You

by Jason Wilk on September 26, 2008

  • Twitter clones have been popping up left and right since their inception, offering niche versions of the original service.
  • Twitter launched their first topic focused vertical with their election page recently. There needs to be more of this, so we can have a Twitter group for movie lovers or Los Angeles restaurant goers, etc.
  • Twitter could have even launched an enterprise feature that could have squashed Yammer and Present.ly.
  • They recently raised $15m and they could certainly use it to build out group focused sections of the site, or let users build their own. Kind of like a Ning for Twitter, build your own.
  • I would love to have a little Twitter feature on tinyCrunch, where I could adjust some character limit settings, add more users, and start to utilize the micro-blogging platform to help improve upon my standalone service.

Will Twitter pull it together or are they still worrying about their ability to stay live?

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