India Web Joins OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup

We are very happy to announce that 3 excellent tech blogs focusing on India web are now members of OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup:

Pluggd.in is edited by Ashish Sinha who is a product manager for Yahoo India and also involved with several startup focused events in India.

Startup Dunia, edited by Pranav Dharma is covering Indian startups, Web 2.0, Indian Internet industry and entrepreneurship.

Webyantra is a tech blog that profiles Indian web products & services. It is edited by Amit Ranjan who is also the cofounder and COO of SlideShare.

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June 30, 2008 · Filed Under Asia Web, India Web

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It Is More About Clones, Facebooks Made In China

[Gang Lu: You can also find a revised version of this post on ReadWriteWeb. ]

Facebook has officially launched its Japanese version, and its Chinese version was also released last week. However, the fact is that many Facebooks have been made in China and in operation for a long while, which probably means whether it will be officially running in China or not does not really matter any more for millions of Chinese users. Here are some news: A new look-liker Yiqi.com is in public test. The guy behind Yiqi is Wen Xie, former CEO of Yahoo China, a very influential veteran in China web; UCenter, a mini-version of Facebook developed by Comsenz, now can be downloaded for free. The lastest stats from Comsenz is that there are over 50,000 UCenter have been set up, only 3 months after its release;