Monday, November 25, 2013

Life after fame: Renren, once “China’s Facebook”, tries and tries again to remain relevant (Yahoo News/Tech in Asia: 8/19/2013 - Ken Chester)


Every so often I open up Gmail’s spam folder to see if anything important has been misdirected there. Typically, I find at least one notification email from Renren (RENN), the faded-out ‘Facebook of China’, coming from another unknown URL among its apparent suite of domains.

Last year, there were Renren notifications coming from xiaonei-inc.com (a defunct URL from its first name when it was a campus-oriented social network; but xiaonei.com still redirects to renren.com). Then, this April, I began receiving Renren notification emails from its Tongxueshuo domain, which hosts an under-publicized student-focused mobile messaging app. More...

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