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Kaixin001: China’s Apple of Social Networks
TechCrunch — ... Kaixin001, the latest newcomer to the Facebook clone wars in China, is China’s fastest growing social network having amassed a staggering 7.5 million users in the first 5 months since it launched in May 2008. The site tripled Twitter’s traffic reach in the month of September alone and is currently the 250th most popular site on Alexa worldwide. Compared with rival incumbent Xiaonei, which targets college students, Kaixin001 appeals to white-collar office workers with a simpler UI that is more intuitive to older audiences. This is a significant ...

Kaixin001 Chinese Social Networks Service
D' Technology Weblog — ... . Kaixin001 succeeds simply by cloning only the most successful Facebook applications and bringing them to the Chinese market before anyone else. ...

Baidu literally was “the Google of China” in 2002
The Next Web — ... When we, the China 2.0 group, later visited a presentation of upcoming social network Kaixin001 - it turned out that the founders were proud of the high Google usage under their users. Why? Well, it proves their users have a good education, as Google is mainly used by students for English searches. When searching for info in Chinese, Baidu is the better option, author Andrew Lih told us. ...

Chinese Social Networks ‘Virtually’ Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace: A Market Analysis
TechCrunch — ... with approx. 40 million users. It is backed up with $430 million in funding from its parent company Oak Pacific Interactive and investors like Softbank. Kaixin001, which skyrocketed out of nowhere to 30 million registered users from the middle of last year, targets white collar workers in China’s largest cities by employing controversial invitation techniques and copying apps directly from Facebook. ...

Inside Facebook Reports: Why Hasn’t Facebook Grown More in China?
Inside Facebook — ... 2005 40 College students Known as Facebook clone Kaixin001 2008 ...

GeeksAPlane Briefing On The Chinese Tech Industry At Startonomics Beijing
TechCrunch — ... There’s a perception in the West that Chinese web companies clone Western services instead of coming up with their own ideas. My impression has been that this is certainly the case, although not exclusively. There are also web companies trying new things, or at least copying Western services and then remolding them for China; they just tend to get drowned out by the clones, which actually affect Chinese companies as well. The popular social network Kaixin (at kaixin001.com), for example, was cloned by competitor ...

Five Minutes Adapts Popular Chinese Social Game Happy Farm for Facebook
Inside Facebook — ... social games, the exploding “genre” of farming games has long been popular in China. However, while many US-based Facebook developers have been importing popular game concepts from China for a while now, we haven’t seen too many Chinese developers building on Facebook directly. Nevertheless, one new game to hit Facebook from across the Pacific is Five Minutes’s Happy Farm, which is also one of the most popular applications on popular Chinese sites like Xiaonei, Kaixin, and QZone. Currently, the game has approximately 1.7 million active users ...

China’s growing addiction: online farming games
VentureBeat — A new agrarian revolution has occured in China, but only in the virtual worlds of social games. Social farm games now dominate all major Chinese social networking sites — RenRen (formerly Xiaonei), Kaixin001, 51.com, and QQ’s QZone. The May launch and 2H 2009 adoption of QQ Farm — a version of China’s already popular Happy Farm game built to run on Tencent’s estimated 228 million active-user QZone platform — may very well have transformed China into the leading country of online farmers. According to ...

Don't Assume China Mimics US-Style Social Media
ReadWriteWeb — ... One of China's "Facebooks," Kaixin001.com, has already secured over 40 million users since launching only last year. The platform gained its initial popularity through applications that you would recognize from the real Facebook, such as "Friends for sale" and "Parking wars" - but with a Chinese twist. ...