Comments on: XIHA Life: A Social Network For Multilinguists

By: Vindoura » Blog Archive » Jani Penttinen - XIHA Life: bringing together multi languages @ SLUSH

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:11:17 +0000

[...] appreciate his language skills. So that is why the couple founded XIHA Life. They describe it as a social network for multi-linguists. Besides standard social networking modules, you can tell the site which languages you speak, and [...]

By: Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - xiha life

Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - xiha life — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:23:44 +0000

[...] die sie auch verstehen. Inhalte in anderen Sprachen werden ausgeblendet. http://www.xihalife.com via: TechCrunch "xiha life" bookmarken oder [...]

By: Xiha Life gets a double peak | ArcticStartup

Xiha Life gets a double peak | ArcticStartup — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:06:15 +0000

[...] based multilingual social network, got mentioned yesterday by both: TechCrunch and Mashable (here and here respectively). Regardless of the quality of traffic that a company’s web page [...]

By: No Names

No Names — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:44:27 +0000

Just one thing the name for people that can speak 4 languages or more is “polyglot”!

By: Jani

Jani — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:54:48 +0000

jeff: compete.com monitors US traffic, which represents something like 3-4% of the XIHA Life total… no reason to stare those numbers. For a site with global audience it’s better to use Google Trends, which shows we have a totally different case than you guys: http://trends.g...=all&sort=0 … it doesn’t seem to count all visitors, so the actual daily counts it shows are quite a bit lower than they are in reality, and the geographical distribution is not quite right, but the trend is pretty correct.

jas: bootstrapped… initial funding by the founders and there’s actually nice revenue coming in from content sales so making profit is not many months away at this point.

Kristoffer: Thanks for your comments, appreciated!

By: MoreTraffic

MoreTraffic — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:48:29 +0000

http://www.quan...om/xihalife.com

By: jas

jas — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:32:36 +0000

The question is “is this bootstrapped ?” or do you have outsider funding ? and by the way your growth is solid and steady the way to go

By: jeff hock

jeff hock — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:44:25 +0000

Good luck. We had a great run at http://www.phrasebase.com, which is also a multilingual social network, but with the additional purpose of connecting people for language exchange partnerships. But the question becomes… ok, now what? If someone has an answer to that, please do tell me.

http://siteanal....com/?metric=uv

By: Kristoffer Lawson

Kristoffer Lawson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:37:22 +0000

Congratulations, Jani, on your US launch. Nice amount of users you have there and always good to see another startup based in Finland reaching out. The language recognition is actually something I’d like to see at other sites too. Now that you introduced me to the idea I’ve been frustrated that this technology isn’t everywhere. Perhaps offering it to others is an additional approach to consider.

By: RahulC

RahulC — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:33:24 +0000

Why we are so -eve about social networking sites… we are not paying a dime… well of-course the time if we decide to explore…

BTW I don’t really agree with the statement “but most of these people are probably comfortable on an existing network and are unlikely to switch just for diversity”.

I think every product/service has a life cycle not that fb or myspace will be going to deadpool in the next 15 years…

but we don’t know the next social portal might take the page hits out from fb and myspace.

By: Jani

Jani — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:12:48 +0000

Geof, relax… take a deep breath. It’s not like you’re part of the target group (my guess) anyway, but you can choose no-color, no-gradient design for your profile if you choose to. Multilingual not being compelling – not sure where that comes from? I mean, zero to half a million in less than a year with no advertising… someone *has* to like it. XIHA is actually not even trying to be “something for everyone”, so it’s quite obvious it won’t work for everyone quite as well. But oh well… you’re entitled to your opinion.

By: Kevin K.

Kevin K. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:51:55 +0000

(linkback) Thrive or Fail? XIHA Life- “the world’s first truly multilingual social network” [VOTE] – http://www.thri...rfail.com/dff0a

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:40:05 +0000

Man is that site fugly. No attention to negative space, gradients everywhere…..

YETANOTHERSOICIALNETWORK. Ugh!!!
Multilingual is a feature not compelling enough to bank on whatsoever.

Do not collect 1 million users, go straight to the Deadpool.

By: Brake

Brake — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:37:34 +0000

ya i m still join with xihalife.com