FaceKoo

Facekoo was a social networking service created and designed by Facekoo, which targets the Chinese language market. It offers a unique facial recognition system to connect each member to create a social circle. According to Alexa's ranking, its page views surpassed MySpace China in November 2008 and December 2008.[1]

FaceKoo
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Social networking
Available inSimplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
FoundedChina, March 2008
Headquarters
Beijing
,
China
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Calvin Pak, David Yan, Sheryl Liu
IndustryInternet
URLhttp://www.facekoo.com/
AdvertisingYes
LaunchedMarch 2008

Launch

Facekoo (simplified Chinese: 飞思酷; traditional Chinese: 飛思酷; pinyin: fēi'sī'kù) was a social networking platform created by a private proprietorship, the FaceKoo, Inc., which was based in Beijing, China. The FaceKoo name is derived from "face" and "koo" (a homonym for cool in Chinese). In the Chinese-language based market, this social networking platform targeted teenagers.

FaceKoo was created by co-founders Calvin Pak, CEO, David Yan, Chief technical officer, and Sheryl Liu, CMO, who are all Chinese Americans with extensive business track records in the Silicon Valley.[1] FaceKoo offered numerous features, such as Mojing, a magic mirror that liked users to another FaceKoo member by facial analysis.[2] Facial features could be chosen by users, so they could find their ideal “koo-friend”. Online games and other interactive applications are also fascinating features available on FaceKoo.

FaceKoo rapidly grew since the initial launch in March 2008 in China. A Facebook sound alike website, FaceKoo, was considered as one of the major Chinese social networking site that can fit into the Eastern culture, said FaceKoo's founder.[3] According to San Francisco Chronicle, FaceKoo had 350,000 users since its introduction in 2004.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Update: SNS FaceKoo Overtakes MySpace China in Page Views for First Time in Exploding Chinese Internet Youth Market". PR Newswire Association LLC. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  2. Wee, Willis. "Mojing: An App To Look For Flings in China". TechInAsia. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  3. Floethe, Victoria. "Chinese Web Surfers Embrace Facebook Clone". newser. Retrieved Jan 14, 2009.
  4. Gage, Deborah (12 January 2009). "Cal alum designs social network for China youth". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 12, 2009.


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