There are so many location-based service (LBS) Chinese start-ups appearing of late, that even some of the ones that look fantastic don’t seem to serve much of a discernible purpose. A case in point is Fasae, made by a Chengdu-based start-up, which has a superb UI atop a mobile app which does… pretty much nothing. The concept behind Fasae - which has an Android app out now, with an iPhone variant in the works - is that it uses geolocation to show you where others users are, and you can then ...
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Oct 19 2011
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India and the UK are Facebook BFFs [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. A bit of data-delving by Western Union has revealed that British Facebook users have more friendship ties to India than anywhere else in the world. The data was gathered using Western Union’s Your World Facebook app, which allows users to visualize where their buddies are in the world. Perhaps surprisingly, it reveals that the UK’s social media mavens have more ‘friended’ more people half the world away in India than in closer countries such as ...
Oct 17 2011
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TV-Time: A Chinese Start-Up Aims to Make Watching TV More Social
Watching TV is almost always an anti-social activity - but one Chinese start-up wants to change that, and is building a social network on discussions around popular TV shows. The TV-time SNS - with newly-made apps for iPhone and Android - aims to fuse China’s love of online discussion boards (BBS), with a fully-fledged mobile social network that encourages either fun or expert analysis of what’s on TV. The TV-time mobile apps break things down into three searchable segments: what’s playing now on TV; ‘hottest’ TV series; and program listings. Using ...
Oct 17 2011
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Ogilvy’s ‘Social Media Equivalents’ in China 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. Ogilvy’s Asia Pacific arm has recent republished its ‘China Social Media Equivalants’ chart. One of the most notable changes since the last time the group published this graphic is in the SNS/Microblogging section, where a couple of Weibos (Sina and Tencent) straddle both classifications. The graphic is pretty solid, I think, with our only suggested addition being social games. But then again, is there a Chinese answer to a company like Zynga? Not yet, ...
Oct 14 2011
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Japanese Interview Site Reaches 2 Million Page Views A Day
How much do you really know a person? How well do you know your Twitter friends, or even your colleagues? In many cases, conversations are often limited to very casual and superficial topics. But a popular new web service in Japan is trying to help you get know know people a little better. It's called The Interviews, and it is a fast-growing Q&A service for personal use that has taken off in Japan. Just a few weeks after its release, its per-day page views have surpassed 2 million and it ...
Oct 14 2011
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Social Marketing Company Makes Word-Of-Mouth Effective For Brands
The social marketing company Wildfire was founded in 2008 by Benjamin Duvall and Dr. Christoph Zrenner in Singapore. Don’t confuse this with the U.S-based Wildfire which provides plug-and-play Facebook marketing solutions. They have the same name but are two different companies. Wildfire, called Xing Xing Huo in Chinese, provides word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing solutions for clients specifically in China. I stumbled onto the company’s booth at TechVenture yesterday and found the service pretty interesting. Claire Pribula, a partner at Wildfire, explained to me that the company has over 100,000 influencers in their network. ...
Oct 12 2011
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Alphatown, China’s Hippest Virtual City and Social Game
Alphatown is a social network and virtual community created in real-time by its users. It was developed by Douban - now China’s fifth largest SNS - and launched on September 1. It’s now in public beta, and represents an innovative attempt to go both beyond conventional social networks, and to monetize Douban with its own virtual currency. When you login to Alphatown, the interface works like an online map, just like Google’s or Baidu’s. But Alphatown is not a real place. You can use the W-A-S-D or arrow keys to move ...
Oct 12 2011
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“Are You Human or Devil?” Teases China’s Weirdest Social Network
“Are you a human or a devil? Let people know your other side.” That’s the suggestive tagline of a brand-new, somewhat twisted, Chinese social network called Renmo (which means human-devil in direct translation). It will launch on October 20. Renmo wants users to be deliberately two-faced, and possibly evil, by providing them with two different IDs and social zones at the same time. In this way, Renmo wants to overturn the traditional pattern of SNS such as Renren (NYSE:RENN) and Weibo, which enforce real-name IDs and non-disruptive conduct. Although the web ...
Oct 12 2011
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Tencent Revamps WebQQ and Relaunches as Q+
Tencent’s (HKG:0700) QQ is the most widely used IM service in China. However only Windows users can enjoy the complete QQ experience - though the Mac version finally got video support this summer. In 2009, Tencent released WebQQ, a web app for the IM service which was widely welcomed by Linux and Mac users (and Windows users who could sneakily use it in the browser at work!). Yesterday Tencent totally revamped WebQQ to become Q+, which is a full-featured web app with icons and a dock that looks more like ...
Oct 10 2011
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Kandian: Sina Breaks Into Social TV and Personal Broadcasting
Kandian is a new social TV service from Sina, launched over the weekend. Essentially, it’s a multimedia viewing and sharing service linked closely to Sina’s own Weibo platform. Users can upload or live-stream - in a manner similar to the Americam site, Justin.tv - and then share and discuss the content with friends. In addition to user-generated content, there are some proper TV channels on the site that can be streamed for free. The site is still in private beta. The UI design of Kandian.com is simple and clean. The navigation ...
Oct 10 2011
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Turntable.fm Gets Cloned in China as Duomi DJ
Chinese music-streaming service Duomi has launched a clone of Turntable.fm, dubbed Duomi DJ. Currently in private beta mode, it’s a very social music service that incorporates sharable playlists, voting on songs that you rack up as a DJ, and chat-rooms. But whereas Turntable.fm links to Facebook, Duomi DJ will hook up to Renren and Tencent/Sina Weibo (or both) - but all that doesn’t seem to have been implemented yet. Although it’s good to see a fun service getting a localization that ties-in with Chinese social media, it’s a pity that Duomi ...
Oct 7 2011
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Mix: China’s Sexiest, Most Flirtatious Social Network
A Chinese start-up has this week launched China’s most flirtatious social network, called Mix. It’s a mobile- and LBS-based service that aims to connect - well, hook-up - people in the same area. The start-up’s own description of the service is that it’s like your favourite nightclub. It’s very simple: you can sign-up for Mix by connecting it to either your Sina Weibo or Renren account, and then you’re good to go, with your other profile's avatar and gender imported for use on Mix. Thereafter, it’s just a case of using the ...
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