There can be little doubt that one of the most talked about websites over the past year has been Twitter, the microblogging service that has everyone from geeks and business people to presidential candidates and pop stars answering the question "What are you doing?".
Website clones
China's answers to Twitter
China's streaming video sites
by the ad:tech shanghai team on October 29, 2008 - 9:33am
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Following our coverage of China's Facebook clones, our attention now turns to what one may originally have called YouTube clones (as that is very much the idea most were based on), but really it is more fair to treat them as stand-alone video sharing sites. These sites have done very well because of two key factors:
1) In the early days, YouTube and other international competitors were simply not fast enough at streaming video through the Great Firewall of China.
2) China's Internet was really built on the back of broadband technologies and so it pretty much skipped the slow dial-up Internet speeds much of the West had to start with.
These two factors combined essentially make China one big intranet, serving up most sites hosted within China at lightning speeds.
China's Facebook clones - Xiaonei and Kaixin001
by the ad:tech shanghai team on October 24, 2008 - 6:21pm
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For a long time it has been said that China is a country of cheap knock-off products, but others may see it more as China's entrepreneurial spirit, providing products at a price that is more affordable for Chinese and Asian markets than their western counterparts.
