In 2008, SNS communities were just beginning to gain popularity on the Internet, with various types of SNS communities flourishing everywhere. The SNS community model continued to develop and mature, and some webmaster-oriented SNS communities also began to gradually establish themselves and show their strengths. Currently, the more distinctive webmaster-oriented SNS communities in China mainly include:
Ucenter
In 2008, the launch of UCenter Home, a social networking software under Comsenz, made SNS a platform that anyone could build. It enabled countless webmasters to easily construct a communication network centered around friend relationships. The official Ucenter website naturally attracts mostly individual webmasters. Webmasters here can not only experience the latest developments of UCenter Home at any time but also achieve more convenient and enjoyable exchanges through continuously improved programs.
Colleague Record
Colleague Record is the SNS brand under TechWeb, a well-known technology information website for webmasters. Here, it gathers many IT technology elites, mainly including blog, review, games, and workplace application systems. Colleague Record was originally known as TechWeb Colleague Record, using the home second-level domain. On September 19th, the home colleague record moved to a new server and simultaneously activated a new top-level domain. Later, it changed its logo, and there are no longer visible traces of TechWeb on Colleague Record. This precisely reflects TechWeb's efforts to strengthen brand formation. Due to TechWeb's strong influence in the industry, user interactions on Colleague Record are extremely active. The icon of the Colleague Record QQ group flashes almost uninterruptedly, and even at midnight, there are still a large number of users enthusiastically vying for the "mood index" sofa of the new day.
Kaidian Space
This KDD (Cut Little Brother), which was humorously teased by webmasters alongside GJJ (Cut Chicken Chicken), is another grand project by veteran webmaster Guo Jijun. Guo Jijun spent over a year in seclusion crafting this language tool website, which most people considered to have no profit model, and recently launched an SNS community. Relying on his extensive network of contacts over the years, Guo Jijun invited many friends, and within just 10 days, the registration count for this SNS reached several thousand people. Since Guo Jijun has extensive connections in the webmaster circle, this site gathers more webmaster groups. The "King of Pictures" from Admin5 and "Refuse Swimming Fish" from Luowu are among them.
IT Teahouse
The IT vertical industry SNS community version of IT Teahouse created by Wang Jialun, a well-known figure in Chengdu's internet circle, was recently tested and launched online. The homepage SNS of IT Teahouse seamlessly integrates with the back-end BBS. On the SNS platform, you can also see the latest dynamics of the BBS forum, while the forum strongly promotes the SNS brand. IT Teahouse is one of the current exemplars of the mutually beneficial and interactive development of SNS and BBS.
5gsns
5G is an IT SNS community jointly crafted by renowned bloggers like Liu Ren and KESO. The loyal users of Donews formed the early user base of 5G. Due to clear positioning and extensive network resources, 5G quickly gained over 6,000 registered users and 15% active users in a short period of time.
Webmaster Club
The Webmaster Club is the SNS community under Luowu. "Refuse Swimming Fish" described the Luowu Webmaster Forum and the Webmaster Club vividly: "Luowu Webmaster Forum is like the hall where people who like bustling crowds gather, lively and dynamic; Webmaster Club is like the private room where some friends prefer small circles, smaller scopes, and fewer people sitting together. Luowu clearly separates the content of com and net to offer everyone more choices. The webmaster forum and webmaster club model of Luowu will coexist in the future to meet the needs of different friends."