Kaixin001 is a Chinese social networking website launched in April 2008. After one year success operation, it is the top1 Chinese SNS now. According to Alexa Traffic Rankings, it is the 16th most popular website in China by March 2009. Different from Xiaonei, Hainei, and other Chinese SNS, Kaixin001 is not a localized copy of Facebook. It has limited amount of applications which mostly developed by Kaixin001 itself. All those 30+ apps are quite unique and fully fit Chinese young people’s culture and user experience. Currently, the most popular app is the “House & Garden”. Garden is a newly-added function on the original House app, which makes the whole app become very popular now……

Youku (优酷网), one of the top video sharing sites in China, recently commissioned Nielsen to do a user survey. Kaiser Kuo shared some data on Youku Buzz. Here is a quick highlight……

Recently, my employer CIC issued a book 《“网论我见”博文精选集》 to summarize all the posts from 2007 to 2008 on its Chinese company blog Seeisee. Pretty much valuable and insightful stuff in the book. If you are interested in Internet Culture, Social Media, and Internet Word of Mouth in China, it worth a read…….

Yesterday, the New York Times reported the story and phenomenon of “Grass Mud Horse”, a very popular dirty pun on China Internet since it first appearance in January. The word “grass mud horse” sounds similar to “mother fucker” in Chinese pronunciation……