Friday, December 24, 2010

Facebook Founder's Chinese Visit

Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg has started a revisit to China, sparking rumours that the site might enlarge its participation in the country.

Speculation started when a print of Zuckerberg at the offices of China's largest finding engine, Baidu, appeared online,

A Baidu orator fixed Zuckerberg had lunch with CEO Robin Li, but after that updated that the span had well known any other for a long time.

Posting on his Twitter page Baidu's Kaiser Kuo said: "C'mon people. Robin and Mark have well known any other for a while. Mark's fascination in China is well known. Keep the conjecture in check."

At the short time the Chinese government's so called Great Firewall stops people using Facebook together with other websites similar to Twitter and Youtube.

But 26-year-old Zuckerberg, who complicated Mandarin, has already hinted he would similar to Facebook to have a actual participation amongst China's 500 million periodic internet users.

"How can you link up with the entire world if you leave 1.6 billion people out?" he asked in October.

Having been denied access to China, Mr Zuckerberg is not as well well known there as he is in the rest of the world.

But Mr Kuo says he has had a few bearing after not long ago being declared Time Magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.

It is considered Mr Zuckerberg is in China primarily for a legal holiday with his long tenure Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.

No other sum of the revisit have been suggested solely that the span visited the Tibetan Lama Temple in Beijing.

Facebook purebred a .cn domain name back in 2007.

It even introduced a Chinese denunciation chronicle of the site in 2008.

However, it still can't be accessed by people living on the Chinese mainland.

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