Cloned In China

Xiaonei.com definitely is the most famous facebook clone. It copied almost everything from facebook,and its registered users has reached 40,000,000. Xiaonei’s active users are mostly university students. In May 2008 it Raised $430 Million investment from softbank.Oak Pacific is the owner of xiaonei.com, and it’s been sued for its cloning activity. Surprisingly the suitor is not facebook, but another facebook clone kaixin001.com. unlike xiaonei.com, kaixin001.com targeting at the white-collar office workers , is  popular for its apps and very fast growing since  May 2008. OAK Pacific purchased the kaixin.com domain name and launched a very similar website kaixin.com.  kaixin001.com was not going to keep silent, and last month kaixin001 sued Oak Pacific for unfair competition and by now the judgment is still not out.

Another trouble come to Oak Pacific. A  internet company Yeejee based in Shenzhen quietly launched a xiaonei.com clone xiaonei.net, which is extremely similar with xiaonei.com. really funny, isn’t it? Now people all put their eyes on OAK Pacific to see what action they will take to cope with  xiaonei.net