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November 18th, 2007
TechCrunch has the story tonight of Facebook’s $85 million offer for Zhanzuo.com, the largest college-focused social networking site in China, with over 7 million users. Zhanzuo’s CEO Jack Zhang and Mark Zuckerberg have been in discussions, but nothing official has been announced yet.
About Zhanzuo, according to its site:
Like the popular SNS website in the US, such as Facebook, Zhanzuo has captured the dynamic of active young Internet user through connecting them with its interactive communication platform. Meanwhile, unlike those US based SNS sites, Zhanzuo goes deeper into the Chinese youth’s life, before, during and after their time in school. With many unique interactive features and applications that fit into the tradition of college life in China, zhanzuo appears to the college-bonded Internet users as essential, fun and dynamic ways to get in touch with friends.
Zhanzuo’s Alexa graph looks a little confusing. Anyone know why?
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November 19th, 2007 at 2:49 am
That graph does look strange. So, let’s compare Famously Inaccurate Data with other Famously Inaccurate Data: http://pcpcword.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/zhanzuo-v-56com-v-za-warudo/
Numerous other Chinese sites probably fell the same way at the same time.
-Pat.
November 25th, 2007 at 3:46 am
the chinese facebook is xiaonei.com, not zhanzuo.com .
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:50 am
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