Comments on: Friendster Plays To Strengths, Launches In Chinese

By: Chris Devonshire Ellis

Chris Devonshire Ellis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:28:54 +0000

I hope they do well.
China can be tough sometimes.

By: michael cruz

michael cruz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:13:39 +0000

By: MIKE

MIKE — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:42:52 +0000

menjadi yang luar biasa

By: Réseaux sociaux: la lutte fait rage

Réseaux sociaux: la lutte fait rage — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:14:34 +0000

[...] de profils créées pour les chanteurs pop asiatiques et lance maintenant de nouveaux langages (Chinois, Japonais, coréen et espagnol). Friendster permet aussi aux développeurs de creer des [...]

By: The Global Race Among Social Networks Heats Up. Keep an Eye on Hi5, Friendster, and Imeem | DistrictSource.com

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:26:22 +0000

[...] by launching fan profile pages for Asian pop singers, launching four new languages since September (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish), and letting developers create apps for its [...]

By: InsaneIdea » Blog Archive » The Global Race Among Social Networks Heats Up. Keep an Eye on Hi5, Friendster, and Imeem

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:03:13 +0000

[...] by launching fan profile pages for Asian pop singers, launching four new languages since September (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish), and letting developers create apps for its [...]

By: The Global Race Among Social Networks Heats Up. Keep an Eye on Hi5, Friendster, and Imeem

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:56:07 +0000

[...] by launching fan profile pages for Asian pop singers, launching four new languages since September (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish), and letting developers create apps for its [...]

By: Kent Lindstrom: Why Friendster refuses to localize for China

Kent Lindstrom: Why Friendster refuses to localize for China — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:35:29 +0000

[...] for China (or elsewhere). “Our expertise is listening to our members and they tell us that we need to be the Chinese language, but other localization is taken care of by our [...]

By: Lily

Lily — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:24:18 +0000

This is in response to the comment left by Mr.Recycle… Do yourself a favor and Recycle your foolish thoughts back into the trash where nobody wants it.

Don’t hate others because your company couldn’t think of it first.

By: Global Social Networking Machinations: Facebook Takes UK, Friendster on the Move in Asia ¦ Online Media Cultist

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:30:39 +0000

[...] American circles – is seeking to expand its presence in South and Southeast Asia. Friendster is launching its first non-English version in Chinese. According to TechCrunch, close to 90% of its monthly [...]

By: Basic Thinking Blog | Dressman Mark Zuckerberg

Basic Thinking Blog | Dressman Mark Zuckerberg — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:25:25 +0000

[...] “Mutter” aller modernen Socia Networks ist noch da, stärker denn je. Friendster soll aktuell über 50 Mio registrierte Accounts (wieviele davon tot?) haben, auf rund 27 Mio Unique Visitors [...]

By: Ari

Ari — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:25:41 +0000

Even with a low CPM, localization into the languages of their main markets was something Friendster should have done years ago.
And now only Traditional Chinese?

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:31:45 +0000

Btw. doesn’t that mean Friendster is going directly for the same crowd that uses Xanga? In other words, far east, starting with China. I think so…

By: johntarter

johntarter — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:33:25 +0000

Getting in on the chinese growth is fantastic in theory, but what about execution… Can anyone tell me the CPM for chinese websites? The fact is advertisers, not just online advertisers, are stingy as hell in China and this will not change in the immediate future.

By: phenom

phenom — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:06:36 +0000

Globalization
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:36:17 +0000

The Chinese move makes a lot of sense just because of the population there. Its also clever idea to try and venture where your rivals haven’t been and I think this should help in the revival of Friendster.

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:03:31 +0000

I was going to make a comment that Brett above already made. That is precisely the reason why the first Chinese version of Simpy is in Simplified Chinese and not traditional (c.f. http://www.simp...browserLanguage for languages supported).

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:41:06 +0000

(汉语/漢語, Fake; 华语/華語, Ballmer; 中文, Rules

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汉语/漢語华语/華語

By: Mr. Recycle

Mr. Recycle — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:22:33 +0000

I think they should have launched the tagalog version first if they are really interested in their “asian” users. Enjoy the $.000000000001 CPM.

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:19:29 +0000

Thats very “Friendily”. Thanks for the sugestion!

Marcelo

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:15:51 +0000

The choice of Traditional Chinese is interesting. Traditional Chinese is officially only used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, not mainland china (although most mainland chinese can read traditional).

If it was a serious mainland chinese play, they’d have made a simplified chinese version. This move is more targeted at taiwan, hong kong and chinese communities abroad….

I wonder when FB will go multilingual? I’ve seen my friend’s “xiaoneiwang” which is a total chinese FB rip off… even the logo looks the same!

Except on xiaoneiwang they can customize the backgrounds of their profiles n stuff, and it’s still limited only to school/uni students.

By: Ritu

Ritu — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:33:54 +0000

with Chinese population it seems like everything should be in Chinese version as well. Can you imagine, if only 20% of the population uses the site that would convert into a huge traffic and popularity for the site

By: Biteme!

Biteme! — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:11:51 +0000

Hey mike… How about creating Techcrunch China?