SubscribeUCenter Home: Comsenz Helps You to Build Your Own Facebook
In my post about Softbank’s huge investment on Oak Pacific Interactive, or say Xiaonei.com, I believed that the investment will inspire more people in China to try to build another similar Facebook-wannabe. Actually, Comsenz, the leading developer social software in China, has rolled out a software called “UCenter Home” in late April, which can enable you to build your own Facebook.
You can download UCenter Home and install it on your own server, which requires php and mysql. Now on UCenter Home, you can add friends, write blogs and miniblogs, share photos and create and join group discussions, and post your sharings. Since it is just the first version, it is no doubt that more features will be added later. But we have no idea whether UCenter Home will support a open developer platform.
Comsenz has six main software products now, including UCenter Home, Discuz!, leading BBS software in China; SuperV, a software for you to build your own video sharing website; ECshop, a software to build online shopping site; SuperSite, a CMS software; UCenter, a platform to manage data exchange across softwares above. Based on UCenter, UCenter Home can be integrated with other software offerings by Comsenz. If you installed these software in your server and connect them with UCenter, your activities on Discuz!, SuperV, ECShop will be displayed on your minifeed in UCenter Home.
Just less than one month after its release, if you try to search “powered by UCenter Home” in Baidu, you can get 159,000 search results already. With such a convenient tool, we will see a lot of small social networking sites from China.
But will UCenter Home become a Ning.com in China? I think the key is whether Comsenz will be able to launch a universal ID and data portability policy for all site powered by UCenter Home. Such policies can highly reduce the cost to attract new users for SNS sites, and make users to manage their various niche social networks better and more efficiently. We noticed that Comsenz provides hosted service for BBS and online shops, so maybe it will also launch a hosted SNS platform as what Ning.com does.
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Comsenz has already use the unite user api for years.
When their Discuz! bbs release about 4.0 or 5.0,the provide the interface to use the offical site.
Anybody registered in the Discuz.net can use the unique ID to logon the other BBS whose use Discuz program.
So UCenter and other products will continue provide this API.
If webmaster who use comsenz’s products like to use the API,Users of the site can logon by unique ID.
[...] Besides Xiaonei, 51.com also started closed beta of its developer platform, I still cannot find it in 51.com’s website. Comsenz also launched a developer platform for its distributed SNS software UCenter Home, I’ll write another post on it tomorrow. [...]
[...] on two products: Discuz!, a popular BBS software and the core asset of Comsenz, and especially UCenter Home, a SNS software and which is critical to Comsenz’s future [...]