SubscribeEx-Yahoo China CEO Taking On Facebook, Launches Yiqi
Last big news we heard about Xie Wen was in 2006, when he resigned from CEO of Yahoo China, one month after being on board. Yesterday, he formally announced Yiqi as a project he would spend the next few years on.
Yiqi is not available for registration yet. But from the appearance, it’s very like yet another Facebook clone. According to a report from Netease yesterday, the service is indeed taking on Facebook.
Last year, Hainei launched with a focus on real human community. Yiqi seems to be focus on recommendation, in other words, personalized life information. It’s not only competing with new sites like Cityin, but also with veterans like Douban.
The technology force behind the service is a Tianjin based company, Hylanda, which is specializing in data mining.
We will come up with following post when new information comes in. Here’s a post by Xie Wen introducing the service (registration required).
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