At one of the Pacific Epoch blogs, which are an invaluable resource on internet and technology businesses in China, Elias reports that Chinese site Xiaonei has produced a blatant rip-off of US social-networking site facebook.:

I said in the previous post that Xiaonei is an almost exact copy of the Facebook site. I included some screenshots below comparing the sites. This is the original Facebook website:

This is Xiaonei’s site, taken Monday:

The site has undergone a slight modification since the theft.

(Via the Stalwart, who has more to add.)

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