Facebook and Renren in China
Late last year Mark Zuckerberg, founder and owner of Facebook, paid a visit to several companies in China. In particularly Zuckerberg visited Sina and met with CEO Charles Chao, had discussion with Alibaba and Taobao. He also had lunch with Baidu’s CEO Robin Li, of whom Zuckerberg have known for a long time.
The one China social giant that Zuckerberg did not meet was the team at the Beijing based Renren (人人网). As of this writing Renren is the largest social network in China with over 100 million users. Could this omission be because Renren copies Facebook too much?
Norwegian “Let It Be” Viral Marketing
This past weekend a video became viral. It is often hard to explain why a video becomes viral. In this case it used a well known song by The Beatles “Let It Be” [iTunes Link] and a bunch of over the hill celebrities to create a music video.