6park
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| URL | http://6park.com/ |
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| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Internet forum |
| Available language(s) | Chinese |
| Launched | 14 February 1999 |
"6park" was founded in 2003, its Chinese name is Liu Yuan, means a place which made people are reluctant to leave. It is a popular Chinese Internet forum specializing in community-written news. It is a "mega-BBS" with forums for subjects as diverse as economics, health, politics, and adult movies,etc, but its style is unique and unrelated to other mega-BBSes such as 2channel.Meanwhile, it is worth notice that 6park is becoming the most important platform for oversea Chinese people, which would like read news on this website. It could be said that 6park is not only a forum, but also a new media platform, which has vital influence in Chinese.
It is often critical of the Chinese government and for that reason is blocked by Chinese censors, though it has a large community of overseas Chinese students and expatriates from around the world.
It has been mentioned in news sources such as Hua Sheng Online as a way for Chinese people living overseas to get news.[1] The website does provide news from China, besides also translate news from foreign media,such as newspaper, television and websites.
According to the article 《oversea Chinese websites situation research》 from 《Phoenix Weekly》 which is the magazine of Phoenix Telesion[www.ifeng.com],6park is the number one oversea Chinese website[1], ranked around 1100 in the whole world[2].Furthermore,6park is developing steadily,it has a very good financial performance which compares with other oversea Chinese websites.6park uses Ip located technology to post different advertisement in different countries and focus on different member groups.It improves advertising effects obviously and bring a great benefit of profit for 6park.Thus, 6park also founded yeeyi.com in 2007 .It is a new vertical website which focus on Chinese people in Australia, and becomes number two[3] oversea Chinese website in this country(6park is the number one)
[edit] References
《Phoenix weekly》:oversea Chinese websites situation research--http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/china/2010/03/201003312332.shtml
[edit] External links
- (Chinese) 6park.com
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