MySpace Chinese clone to fight against MySpace Japan
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South-East Asian kids are getting their spaces. According to SearchEngine Journal, “China’s Baidu.com will soon be launching their own blogging service named Baidu Space. This service would be similar in way to Google Blogger and MSN Spaces.”
Soon, but how soon, because MySpace is planning to cross the Pacific and build a sister company. Reuters reported that Softbank and News Corp. reached a deal to launch MySpace in Japan by mid-September. The info was directly taken from a Softbank parent company’s research note.
Both Baidu and Softbank (formely Vodafone Japan) provides 3G mobile services and mobile contents. Both certainly are luring to follow Helio, the MVNO that partnered MySpace to bring blogging on mobile phones.
And this social practice could likely take off much more faster than in America. Why? Because cellphones are over popular in South-East Asia. And because both countries show a tremendous growth according to the Technorati quarterly statistics.
Did you know that for more than a semester, blogs written in Japanese outnumbered those written in English? They still were 37% against 31% of the total acknowledged population back in March 2006. The Chinese blogosphere is expected to reach 100 millions users in 2007.
Be ready to see a bunch of Asian Google idol to appear.
Jun 30, 2006 | By Nuno
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