Is Xiaonei Going To Get Harmonized?

August 3, 2009 | Filed Under SNS |

We have a scary tweet coming in from @xinhaiguang on Twitter, who may have it that — Xiaonei might get harmonized. What’s known for sure is that big university-centered SNS networks won’t see major developments, as development in this direction has been frozen.

Apparently, hard hit will be both Baidu’s University Bar as well as Xiaonei itself. Oak Pacific Interactive, who’s the company which made Xiaonei possible, might even be on the verge of announcing a major shift in directions.

Not sure is just how much this will go — will we see the annihilation of the SNS in China? Xiaonei has come under fire previously as a Shanzhai Facebook. But to shut the SNS down and to nix millions of innocent accounts would be taking the whole thing too far.

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  1. [...] for Xiaonei — once “detested” and ridiculed as the Chinese carbon copy of Facebook. As we’ve reported a bit earlier on techblog86, Xiaonei as we know it right now might get harmonized — or see a lot of changes [...]

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