Sina Technology News on May 18 morning news, Fun Quartet (play4f.cn) CEO Xie, \its development in China. Foursquare interview guests that the Chinese have to wait until 2012, the initial maturity.
Video: Foursquare Model in China to explore media Source: Sina TechnologyFoursquare last March in the United States on the line, six months after the first round of angel financing. This year in April, Foursquare break one million users, the user logged in the past month the number to double. Foursquare presents the current development curve, even faster than that year’s Twitter.
according to the official statement, Foursquare mode records 50% of the tools of geographic information, 30% of social sharing tools, 20% of game tools.
talk about the mode of Simon Liu said that as early as 67 years ago, Internet companies have started similar Foursquare footprint class site, but has not been successful, basic combination with tourism website . Foursquare pattern appears, the traditional Internet and mobile Internet had a very good fusion.
Foursquare model as practitioners in China, Xie said that although the CEO Quartet Fun Foursquare has a very good framework, but in fact migrate to China’s domestic needs to be done to improve. One important aspect is how to guide users to share valuable information.
In Xie view, the Internet services is characterized by a large scale and, as the entrepreneurs of the most important thing is to make users really like the product. Xie that the current Foursquare model too early to talk about profit, but he pointed out that the location-based services (LBS) is expected to reach several hundred billion dollars, there is substantial market opportunity.
which also is based on the judge, Xie that by virtue of providing differentiated services, Fun Internet giants involved in the Quartet is not afraid of competition, does not believe that a similar pattern of Hundred Regiments is a Groupon bad.
Throughout the development of the entire industry now, said Simon Liu, on the various competitors are already present in their own ways and resources to explore the layout and direction of development. He believes the industry will be there next year, more profound changes, around 2012, the hardware and software support Foursquare mode conditions will be ripe.
Simon Liu Xie also determine the time node support, he said that Foursquare is LBS Sina science and technology is an important opportunity for the industry matured, the second half of next year or the year after, will have the overall situation in blowout appears. (Meng Hung)
guests Description:
Xie: Fun Quartet co-founder and CEO, has been at Microsoft for seven years, leaving Microsoft as the Shanghai R & D team is responsible for cloud computing people. Micro-Bo Address: t.sina.com.cn/play4fxiexiao
Simon Liu at (Korean implicit Bo): best-selling book \and researchers. Micro-Bo Address: t.sina.com.cn / hanyinbo
The following is the text of this interview Record:
SAN Meng Hong: Hello, everybody! You are welcome to watch Sina science and technology to bring you the Silver Age of the interview. This year, there are two words in the Chinese Internet is really very popular, especially among the entrepreneurs, one Groupon, one is Foursquare. Groupon model, silver age before our interview which has been mentioned, and today we focus on to talk about the Foursquare.
Foursquare more fire? We have some data you can see, is that it has broken one million users in the last 1 month which, the entire registry number, the relative accumulation of double a year ago. Many companies are beginning to say that we should launch a similar service, similar to the bid, as Yahoo has acquired more than one billion dollars the company, or even Facebook has privately approached with this company.
Foursquare model in China affected? In China, what practice? Today we have invited two guests to share with you their ideas and understanding on the Foursquare.
first left, the first guest is the founder of the Quartet, Mr. Xie Xiao Fun.
Xie: Hello, everybody!
Sina technology: there is the \
Simon Liu at: Sina friends, Hello, everybody!
Sina technology: His name is Simon Liu, this is the pen name it?
Simon Liu on: Yes, the pen name.
Sina Technology: Simon to us about, because you are the outbreak of the revolution the Internet has done some research, tell us about Foursquare in the end what kind of concept? Because for many of my friends know Foursquare s hot, but we know that yes what Bu something, probably the first time we are not able to Jiechu to this new thing, can not Jiandan the Yong you as a writer for the observer Huo Zhe Jiang us about Foursquare?
What is Foursquare
Simon Liu on: OK, in fact Foursquare now online comments about this very much, we can easily see the interview when the search on. Actually seeing is believing, I, or from a more popular way to describe it, said another. First, such as my footprint Class website, 03,04,05,06 more and more people when they are doing, including watercress previously done, in fact, there has been no such thing as a very successful Internet companies see it done, essentially combines with tourism website. In fact, we have no way to hold a PC that I go, because usually after you go back where memories of the original where I went, in fact, often you record this time the context has changed the.
the Foursquare this model, there is a benefit, you can sign in anywhere handy for, but also by the location where you sign what their feelings and experiences, know any good news, such as discount shopping centers which can share with their friends. Is actually a very good mix and match, to former traditional Internet and cell phones, had a very good fusion, this is equivalent to speaking a strange poem \. Prior to that the traditional migration of the Internet and mobile Internet, the middle one can not see the gap, many Internet entrepreneurs, how to do all that mobile Internet, including the SNS’s business, including traditional LBS, found it difficult to have a breakthrough. The Foursquare This pattern appears after you click on to see a breakthrough, so there is a bright spot, in addition to Foursquare addition to a number of other models are Foursquare model, but with different emphases.
Sina Technology: Simon just about us talking about what kind of situation model is also mention about how to apply this thing. We just go to the Fun always thank the Quartet’s CEO, can you tell us something about you as a pioneer of this model in China, you give us about how you look at Foursquare into domestic development model? Do you think the future is how it kind of domestic situation?
Xie: I think we can first talk about the Foursquare development in the United States, in fact Foursquare began last March on the line, there are a General Assembly in the United States, many new innovations in new media where the release in March after the other side, once released, they found access to great acclaim, slowly and quietly began to pop up. To September, when, Foursquare to melt the first round of angel capital, was very well-known angel investors, including the founder of Twitter. Since September after beginning their financing, Foursquare was a very fast development, the fact that the last month in April this year, they Twitter is almost two years to one million users, they quickly went to 100 million users. In the past month, the sign of the number has doubled in one month than the combined number of all previous attendance doubled. Foursquare in the United States is such a development curve, even faster than Twitter year.
Break Quartet at home we actually do Foursquare model company, First Foursquare in the country also has some of the more fashionable crowd, is very early in use. In fact, I take the subway in Beijing, such as end of line 10 from the ground to sit, watch Foursquare in the mobile phone can also see a lot of people have some comments in the side or stay some footprints 也好. However, in which we find, Foursquare fact a very good framework, in fact, the process of moving to China, which do a lot of home improvements, such as how to guide the user to send some of the more valuable information, not to say that on empty look in the above said, \
in the inside, from the perspective of the Quartet Break we do a lot of exploration and innovation, in which we find in fact that China’s user acceptance of this concept can be, frankly, to some extent beyond our expectations the beginning.
For example, our Fun iPhone version of the Quartet on the line might also two to three weeks, but the on-line only 3 days, we find for example in Shanghai, Nanjing West Road is more famous of a street, the road above the 49 relatively well-known landmarks, all occupied by a girl, in three days time as she made 49 local lord, is in fact the concept of a landlord, the number of times that she sign up. From this point of fact, we can see, in fact, users of this thing is a great psychological needs.
we have an example, we know a user, she may be an early 20s girl to do one thing to say, she would be into her cell phone will ring at 3 o’clock, Why? Because we have a medal is in fact above 3 o’clock in the morning after the sign, in fact, more than a day to get this medal attendance. Although we do not encourage this behavior, but she went to get this thing, she would go to set alarm clock. We asked her, why you do such a thing? Many people may not understand, she told us to say, I have an obsessive-compulsive disorder, I just want to get this thing.
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