Shehuixing wangluo
With a population that amount, according to the China Internet Network Information Center , more than 250 million (163milioni larga.Dati-band refer to June 2008) China is positioning itself as the country with more Internet users in the world and one of the most attractive markets for FARM de West.
The 2008 looks like a busy year for the Internet in China and the Chinese market seems to be in full swing with regard to the activities of socialnetworks.
socialnetwork However, these are not simply of Chinese copies of the American model, but real socialnetwork by its "Chinese characteristics". If in Italy the most popular social networks appears to be Badoo, Bebo domains in Ireland, Canada, Facebook, Hi5 and Portugal USA My Space, in China the most common form of networking seems to be the traditional foru m, otherwise known as BBS.
This does not mean that the models of "social networking" traditionally used in occide nte today does not exist, just the opposite.
In China we can find QZone which is owned by Tencent, which can count on a consolidated network of 220 million users QQ (the most used IM in China, both in China and abroad) Then there sunnyoz (offered by Discuz!) 51.com who claims to have 160 000 new registrations a day. Linkist and Wealink are two professional network based in Shanghai.; Tianji.com is another professional network based in Beijing, a member of Viadeo, one of the most popular professional social network in the world, n ed to provide a platform for business networking online between Europe and China. Then there Xiaonei, which reminds not just interface his more famous colleagues, Facebook
Zhanzuo and many others divide the square of the college social network. China, with its huge market of consumers capable of transmitting, is one of the most coveted by Western networks with expansion plans.
MySpace has opened an office in Beijing; Facebook seems interested to buy the Chinese social network Fenbei.com (and has since purchase ato share of the social network that Tianyi Laiba oscillerebe between 10 and 60% ) ; Friendster moved skillfully in Southeast Asia and is expected similar success in China. Xing, Europe opened an office in China in 2005; Last.fm is trying to increase its presence in China to compete with 9Sky , Yobo and 8Box .
Paradoxically, since one of the most common methods used to communicate from the Chinese BBS (traditional Bulletin Board Systems), light years away from Web 2.0.
In China, u try bbs have reached 3 billion (this is explained as an Internet user could himself have recorded multiple accounts on different sites BBS): 80% of sites Chinese websites have their own internal bulletin board, for a total of 10 million daily contributions.
Inside the Internet phenomenon in China, the BBS is a topic that does not really talk a grancche. The guru of BBS in China is Kevin Day, CEO and co-founder of Comsenz Inc., owner of Discuz! , the first Piatt social aphorisms - BBS-system for the Chinese Internet.
In China, more than 400,000 BBS sites are built with the system Discuz!, Or more simply put: Discuz! controls more than 70% of Chinese BBS.
The Chinese BBS phenomenon
According to a survey by consulting firm iResearch Consulting Group in 2007, every day, 36.3% of users in China spend about 1 to 3 hours BBS sites, the 44.7% it spends about 3 to 8 hours and even exceeds the 15.1% 8 hours. More than 60% of surfers in China will log in 3 different BBS for more than 3 times a week
According to the survey the main reason why we use the BBS are: I find
solutions to problems, general discussion, finding information and sharing life experiences.
98% contributed to the BBS by publishing articles, replying to messages, participating in polls, etc. .... People tend to rely on BBS sites because they believe that the information will have first-hand, frequently updated and published in a family environment.
The activities of Chinese BBS apparently also continue to develop off-line. The survey also shows that 64.5% of users have participated in events sponsored by administrators or by users themselves. More than 80% of users use the BBS for raccolgliere informations about the products they intend to make purchases and then 61.7% are inclined to seek the opinion of other users before making the purchase of a product. Many times the same BBS offer themselves as intermediaries in the cart of products: 47.3% of users buy directly from the BBS.
Under the BBS of the Hong Kong pop group, Twins, offered by Discuz!
... Discuz!
If you ever happen to log in, in a Chinese BBS ( but not only), most likely it will be a site built with the system Discuz!.
Discuz! was developed in 2002 by Kevin Day università.La in his first year of the first version of Discuz! was subsequently sold to a company in Hong Kong and in 2003, Kevin Day decides to discontinue his studies in Beijing to set up a year after the Comsenz Inc.
Currently Comsenz Inc. has become a famous company with more than 200 employees a complete product line that includes Discuz! (Bulletin board), X-Space (Social Network), SupeSite (content management system), ECShop (B2C and C2C open source system) and SupeV (an on-line video sharing). The company also manages some Internet services, such as "free forum hosting service" 5d6d, a free B2B shop hosting service Maifou , and a community advertising network Insenz . Day was only 26 years old but has already been hailed as one of the most successful entrepreneurs
born in 80.
The BBS and Social Networks
With 70% of BBS built on Discuz!, Kevin is obviously a key figure behind the phenomenon.
According to Kevin why risk so much the BBS system popular among Chinese users of the Web lies in the mentality of the Chinese, even if
generally reluctant in public life, love to be exposed directly be part of a community. The BBS provides a stage for everyone, easy to use and fast.
The BBS you are then subsequently evolved into a media platform, not yet official and probably will not ever place, but the latest
and hottest news in the forums always be networked, distributed on all other and regularly commented on by millions of users.
( Go mentioned that the first Chinese BBS was probably placed online in 1997, as well as e-mails, bulletin boards have been one of the first Internet services provided to its users in China. )
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Have a look at how quickly they grow in the Blog China and you'll see what I mean. The BBS users are more mature, usually their age ranging from 20 to 40, educated and with a solid professional background, their contribution to different forums makes our BBS is an appreciable source of information. "
But the growing success of social networking in the Western world will become a threat to the BBS? will be able to replace the BBS in Chinese society?
"BBS will not be replaced by SNS and will not even compete with each other, there will be no conflict between the two "he resp
osto Kevin." BBS is a "must" that each SNS should have within it, at least in China. "(In fact, most of social networks has an internal Chinese BBS)
The characteristics of the BBS become the instrument through which a user of social networks can exchange ideas effectively with another person.
The two systems are otherwise conceptually different
social networ k are individual-centric platforms, when the BBS are topic-centric.
Social networks draw a map of social relations of real life of a person in the cyber space: who knows his profession, his religion, his interests, etc. etc..
The BBS are designed to follow the news or topics virtually all kinds and to expand your experiences in the social field.
A surfer enters a bulletin board for your interest test with regard to the Treaty del'argomento and his partner takes a back seat.
Some Chinese social networks
Tianyi Laiba one of the busiest and most popular social network. More like a blog connected to a forum that we are accustomed to social networking sites like us, in the user profile, you can:
upload photos, search and add friends, a reminder of all forums in which action was taken, you can send and receive gifts "virtual" commenti.E 'can also cotruirsi own blog. In the social platform
Tianyi Laiba You can browse through photo albums published by users (visible to non-members), even from some very hot content.
search engine to track down lost classmates, friends, or simply sign up to make new friends as search criteria contains the group also knows nguigno, as well as the zodiac sign.
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