Myspace is to lanch in China with blogcn

the negotiation has come to the 2nd stage with ICP licence as a focus

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News said that Myspace China would be launched in the 2007 fiscal year. The negotiation between two parties has come to the 2nd stage with ICP licence as a focus.

[bill]

There was some news that they were looking at this in September:

News Corp plans MySpace in China [ft.com]
September 19 2006

Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that his wife, Wendy Deng, was working with senior News Corp executives to help bring the company's popular MySpace social networking site to China.

"We have to make MySpace a very Chinese site," Mr Murdoch said at a media conference organised by Goldman Sachs. "I have sent my wife across there because she understands the language."

Are there more concrete reports now?

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Dear moderator Bill:
The above news came across Chinabyte, one of China's IT news portals. We can't confirm the news until it happens. According info available here in the Mainland, Myspace is under negotiation with Chinese blog portals like bokee, blogcn etc. No matter whom will myspace partner with, it seems to be a trend that myspace will enter China market in the following year.
As an end user, i hope the coming my space China will bring me with some "real value" online, as the internet market is turning mature, so does the appetite of the internet user :)

[bill]

It looks like MySpace Japan [webmasterworld.com] will open a bit ahead of China then. If they don't have a partner yet in China that will slow things down unless the entire deal is being kept under wraps.

In my experience MySpace really doesn't have a strong appeal to the mature internet users (maybe it's just me). It can be an interesting site, but I'm still struggling to determine the value of their brand of social networking. In an Asian or Japanese context I see a model like Mixi [webmasterworld.com] providing a more popular format for social networking than the open chaos of a MySpace type of site.