App Exporting On the Rise: Xiaonei App Developers Copying Top Facebook App Developers

Recently, top Chinese social network Xiaonei (which looks a lot like Facebook and doesn’t try to hide it) launched its Open Platform for developers. With the launch, Xiaonei also announced a $50,000 application competition for developers who create the most successful apps on the Xiaonei Platform.

So how are developers responding? By copying top Facebook app developers, of course. Hiadong Wang has uncovered several apps that, following Xiaonei’s lead, are almost pure clones of their Facebook counterparts.

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