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Xiaonei and 51.com – merging social network with games

Sherman | July 20, 2009 in 51.com, China, Internet, Web 2.0, Xiaonei, social network | Comments (0)

Global Times, a newspaper in China, is running a series about the book- one article a week. It started in May 2009 and has been going on for the last 2 months. .
This week’s article is about Xiaonei and 51.com – the Chinese answers to Facebook and Myspace. The two realized that merging social networking sites with online games could be a formula for success in China. Read Global Times’ article.
The person in the picture is Joe Chen – China’s king of Web 2.0. He owns Xiaonei and a bunch of other online communty / social networking sites