• more about

    #facebook

    Making Facebook Pay

    The Facebook Privacy Settings You've Lost Forever

    Alisher Usmanov: The Scary Russian Oligarch Seducing Silicon Valley

    read more: #thesincerestformofflattery, #facebook, #xiaonei, #softbank, #wangxing, #hainei, #valleywag

    Facebook ripoffs around the globe

    Chinese Facebook clone Xiaonei claims 15 million unique visitors and $430 million in venture from backers like Japan's SoftBank. And while it sports Facebook's trademark white-and-blue, it's not our favorite foreign-language knockoff. That'd be Hainei.com, yet another Chinese imitator from Xiaonei creator Wang Xing. As our glorious leader said it best:

    There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

    Go check out the rest of Facebook's foreign knockoffs at Forbes.


    Contact information for this author is not available.