Posts tagged “ICQ”

Online dating is an interesting business model. I have used dating app since the time when MSN was still our major IM (okay, I confess. I would search for random female users on ICQ when I was studying in secondary school. Was that the ancestor of modern online dating?). Now, I mainly use Tinder.I wonder what other dating apps are doing. What are their edges? And why? Luckily I found an Esquire post which cited 12 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder.But I have not found what I want. Since I have an idea of business networking app back to the year 2013, I wonder if this is possible to merge professional networking and online dating into one single concept. Out of these 12 alternative Read more [...]

You know you cannot officially use Facebook in China. You know there is only 3.8m out of 250m accounts on Linkedin come from China. You know there is tonnes of fake accounts on Weibo. You know if you want to expand in China you need to apply local insights. Here is a brief history of WeChat... ...WeChat, according to our interpretation, is an extension from QQ. QQ is a China version of ICQ, which was (or is?) a prototype of instantaneous messengers. WeChat is another clone of mobile concept which initiated from Western world - WhatsApp. But WeChat also learnt from its main rival, Navier's Line and has gradually shaped into a brand new type of social networking service provider in China, Read more [...]