Comments on: Oak Pacific Interactive buys social network, Xiaonei.com

By: China Travel Trends » Blog Archive » Chinese SNS Xiaonei Rebrands to Renren to Target The Mass Market

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:12:00 +0000

[...] social network Xiaonei.com was bought out by Oak Pacific in October 2006 and even raised $430 million in May 2008. The name Xiaonei translated to “in [...]

By: Chinese Facebook Replica Xiaonei Changing Name To Renren In Preparation For Scalability

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:25:57 +0000

[...] social network Xiaonei.com was bought out by Oak Pacific in October 2006 and even raised $430 million in May 2008. The name Xiaonei translated to [...]

By: seo

seo — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:17:36 +0000

Definitely.

By: Xiaonei, A Chinese Replica Of Facebook Raises $430 Million ($72 Million More Than The Original Facebook)

Fri, 02 May 2008 05:22:41 +0000

[...] was acquired by Oak Pacific Interactive in October 2006.Â If anyone who the parties involved are for the new [...]

By: Former CEO of Yahoo! China Launching An Asian Facebook Competitor/Replica Called Yiqi

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:49:06 +0000

[...] a German clone of Facebook was acquired for â‚¬100 million in January 2007. And in October 2006, Oak Pacific acquired Xiaonei, another Chinese version of [...]

By: PULSE 2.0 » Blog Archive » StudiVZ, German Version of Facebook to Hit 1 Mill Users By End of November; Italian Version Following Footsteps

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:05:44 +0000

[...] StudiVZ, German Version of Facebook to Hit 1 Mill Users By End of November; Italian Version Following Footsteps Friday, November 10th, 2006 Amit Chowdhry A Facebook replica website, StudiVZ has been seizing a large marketshare of higher education students from the European market while Facebook is dominating the U.S. market.Â How similar do they look?Â Click on the thumbnails below to find out (opens in new window): Facebook Screenshot: StudiVZ Screenshot: And while I’m discussing Facebook replicas, how about I once again mention Xiaonei, a recently acquired Chinese version of Facebook that I’ve profiled from before: Not only is Ehssan Dariani the founder of StudiVZ, but he’s also a member that likes the movie Zoolander and is a 26 year old student at the University of St. Gallen inÂ Switzerland studying economics.Â Â Dariani started StudiVZ about a year ago and now the current user base is 950,000.Â Dariani claims that 15,000 people are signing up with StudiVZ per day compared to Facebook’s 20,000 people signing up per day.Â Dariani started this company with an initial investment of 5,000Â Euros at an Internet coffee shop and now has 50 people working for him.Â [...]

By: Amit Chowdhry

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:35:44 +0000

Definetely agree with that.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:12:56 +0000

Good story. I think the big difference is that if they are simply copying they may fall behind the curve.