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What Are Top Apps on China’s Open SNS Platforms?

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:22:00 -0800

Last year, many China’s social networking sites have embraced open platform ideas, including leading player such as Xiaonei and 51.com. After several months operation, you may want to know the development of the apps on these platform. Appleap.com, launched in last October, is a website which monitors apps on four main SNS platform in China. According to its website, it currently monitors 2,352 apps, 999 of them on Xiaonei, 242 on 51.com, 234 on Myspace.cn and 877 on Sohu. According to Appleap, on Feb 23rd, total daily active users on Xiaonei is about 3 million vs. 2.35 million on 51.com. On its website, you can find the lists of top apps, top app developers and the top changed apps on these four platform. For example, currently the most popular apps on Xiaonei.com is Happy Farm, which has been installed for over 5 million times, and has over 1.4 million daily active users. Compared with Xiaonei, the most popular app on 51.com, Slave only has about 300k daily active users. Appleap offers an estimated value for each apps based on its stats, which they briefly explained in its blog. Appleap shows growth curve of traffic and estimated value for each app in last 30 days as well. Appleap also enable you to compare apps on different platform. If you are interested in apps in China, you should check its website. And you might also be interested in incoming event on apps organized by Appleap.com.

Post tags: 51.com, Appleap, openplatform, Xiaonei

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Anti Opensocial?

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:07:00 -0800

Today, some of my friends is twittering a new website called Anti-opensocial.com. The site said, “Not real open but just cheat, this is OpenSocial in China. We think Google could do better than just support fake Open Platform. Could OpenSocial do something really useful to help these surviving third party developers?!”. Why they boycott Opensocial in China? That’s because 51.com just announced that in next 6 months, 51.com will develop several kinds of apps inhouse, all of them are very popular apps such as friends for sale, parking war, pet raising. This actually makes it impossible for third-party developers to develop and monetize similar apps on 51.com’s platform, which is unacceptable to app developers. Since 51.com is a close partner of Google’s Opensocial in China, they ask developers to boycott the coming Opensocial Hackathon in Beijing and Shanghai(check out this event calendar), and want to appeal to Google not to be with evil partners. Actually, 51.com’s announcement also tell the situation of open developer platform in China. Many China’s open platforms are not really open, they are not building an healthy eco-system. They not only want to be a platform to take advantage of third-party apps, they also intend to be app developers who own all the most popular apps, and take the biggest benefit from the apps. If there is no healthy ecosystem, what can you expect from an open platform?

Post tags: 51.com, anti-opensocial, opensocial

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Xiaonei Integrates Payment System Into App Platform

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:28:00 -0700

Xiaonei, the leading Facebook-copycat in China, announced today that it has started to allow third-party apps to integrate Xiaonei’s online payment system, i.e. Xiaonei Dou, to monetize the traffics. What is Xiaonei Dou? It is the virtual coin of Xiaonei.com, you can use Alipay, Yeepay, mobile phone or pre-paid card to pay for Xiaonei Dou, then you can use Xiaonei Dou to pay for services on Xiaonei.com. Now apps developers can develop apps to try to charge users and make money. When Xiaonei rolled out its developer platform, it was criticized by many developers for its not-so-open policy, but it became more and more developer-friendly, for instance, in August, it changed policy to allow developers to have online ads in apps. Now the new Xiaonei Dou payment system offers new way for developers to make money, it’s good for whole eco-system. Currently, there are about 800 third-party apps on Xiaonei’s platform. Actually, it is not the first developer platform to integrate virtual coin system. On Oct 20th, 51.com also announced developers on its platform can use 51 coin in apps. The system is there already, the widget developers now need to focus on product, to think out how they can ask users to pay for it.

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Post tags: 51.com, openplatform, Xiaonei

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