Yesterday ReadWriteWeb has published a very informative post about the social networks in the far east. This post is an interview to Benjamin Joffe, Managing Director at Asia Internet consultancy +8* and Co-Founder of MobileMonday Beijing.
In this interview Benjamin Joffe compares global leader Facebook with the leading social networks in Asia.
Here a small but significative part of the interview:
Q | What are the key lessons from those successful services?
A | First, that users are willing to pay for services - even in China! Second, several companies in Asia have already solved a number of headaches on how to make it work and can help save a lot of time by adapting their best practices. Third, that the main barrier is the persistent bias that all US stuff is great, while Asia just copies. I don’t think QQ will make a bid on Facebook but there might be a need for a strong eye opener to realize that inspired by the West, Asia has made incredible advances that can now help us in return.
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