Xiaonei

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Xiaonei (Chinese: 校内网; literally "on-campus network") is a social networking site with the look and feel of Facebook except that it is in Chinese.

According to BeijingReview.com, as of November 2007, Xiaonei was "China's largest online community website among universities" with more than 8.8 million active users and an estimated 15 million users who have registered their real names.[1]

Xiaonei.com is also considered to be the most powerful student social network service in China.

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[edit] Comparison with Facebook

In June 2007, Facebook had 2.245% of global internet users logging on to its sites daily compared to Xiaonei's 0.084%. [2]

[edit] History

Xiaonei was started in December 2005 by Tsinghua University graduate Wang Xing, Wang Huiwen, Lai Binqiang and Jacky.

In October 2006, Xiaonei.com was acquired by Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), a Chinese internet consortium that created a similar college social network called 5Q.

Wang left Xiaonei in July 2007.

Softbank, an international investment company located in Tokyo, acquired 14% of the OPI stock with 10 billion JPY on Apr 30th 2008.

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