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XING (named openBC/Open Business Club until November 17th, 2006) is a social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. The company operating it claims that it is used by people from over 190 countries, albeit the majority of users are Germans. Available languages include English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Hungarian. By displaying how each member is connected to any other member, it visualises the small-world phenomenon.
The platform offers personal profiles, groups, discussion forums, event coordination, and other common social community features. Basic membership is free. But many core functions, like searching for people with specific qualifications or messaging people whom one is not already connected to, can only be accessed by the premium members. Premium membership comes at a monthly fee of around 9 USD. The platform uses https and has a rigid privacy and no-spam policy. Unlike many other networking websites, XING provides its members very easy email access to any members.
OPEN Business Club AG was founded in August 2003 in Hamburg, Germany as a German limited liability company by Lars Hinrichs. The platform was officially launched on November 1, 2003. It was renamed from OpenBC to Xing on November 17th, 2006.
It gained high attention in German media and is used a lot as business-network in German-speaking countries. Membership from other countries throughout Europe and the Far East helped growing the network platform to more than 1.5 million members in July 2006.
Xing.com is a competitor of the American platform LinkedIn for social networking among businesses.
XING offers the system as well for closed communities, i.e. private clubs, academic clubs or corporate clubs with own access paths and own interface designs. The platform serves as the infrastructure for corporate groups, including IBM, McKinsey, Accenture and others.
In March 2007, Xing purchased the Spanish business social network eConozco and intends to merge its members into Xing over the next 12 months.
The platform offers personal profiles, groups, discussion forums, event coordination, and other common social community features. Basic membership is free. But many core functions, like searching for people with specific qualifications or messaging people whom one is not already connected to, can only be accessed by the premium members. Premium membership comes at a monthly fee of around 9 USD. The platform uses https and has a rigid privacy and no-spam policy. Unlike many other networking websites, XING provides its members very easy email access to any members.
OPEN Business Club AG was founded in August 2003 in Hamburg, Germany as a German limited liability company by Lars Hinrichs. The platform was officially launched on November 1, 2003. It was renamed from OpenBC to Xing on November 17th, 2006.
It gained high attention in German media and is used a lot as business-network in German-speaking countries. Membership from other countries throughout Europe and the Far East helped growing the network platform to more than 1.5 million members in July 2006.
Xing.com is a competitor of the American platform LinkedIn for social networking among businesses.
XING offers the system as well for closed communities, i.e. private clubs, academic clubs or corporate clubs with own access paths and own interface designs. The platform serves as the infrastructure for corporate groups, including IBM, McKinsey, Accenture and others.
In March 2007, Xing purchased the Spanish business social network eConozco and intends to merge its members into Xing over the next 12 months.
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