Named after a spice used in Szechuan cooking, Douban allows Chinese consumers to share, tag and browse through one another's collection of books, music, and movies. Users can also form various groups to recommend cool entertainment to each other.This year Douban released Douban 9Taps, a social aggregator that recommends blogs and news articles, which helped double its traffic. Ranked among the top 300 Chinese sites by Alexa, Douban's English version is gathering steam both inside and outside of China.
CEO: Bo Yang
Location: Beijing, China
URL: douban.com
Launch: 2005
Funding: Not disclosed
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