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Russian Exact Copy of Facebook
- andre 19y agoIt's written in Russian, but pretty much everything is the same. From the "Wall" feature, to posting of pictures, Groups, ETC. They did add a little bit of new features, but not much.
- whacked_new 19y agoChina has at least two copies. of those I remember, faceren.com and xiaonei.com. one of them was sold for around 5M iirc. The concept works, the entry barrier is low, being copied is inevitable unless you move very fast. This isn't a bad thing imo though; the local dev teams understand local culture better. faceren and xiaonei both looked like carbon copies of facebook when I saw it on TechCrunch (or something). If you look at faceren now it's completely different.
- willarson 19y agoI wonder what the mindset is of someone who duplicates--exactly--not only the functionality, but everything down to the layout and color scheme. It doesn't seem that this kind of venture is going to penetrate very far, especially outside of Russia. Then again, the recent article posted about Friendster mentions they are focusing on smaller Asian countries (Malaysia, etc). I guess this is the web equivalent of a niche company: trading potential success for potential market safety.
- andre 19y agoI don't think they are looking to penetrate other countries that don't speak Russian. Although USA and other non-eastern-european countries are available to register under, you still need a Russian connection somewhere for it to be useful. I also have issues with handing over too much of my info to a Russian company, as their track records aren't that clean.