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Former video-streaming king launches new social app
    2019-01-17  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A NEW socializing app, developed by the founder of once popular video-streaming website QVOD, went online Tuesday, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

MT, which Wang Xin started developing last June, offers anonymity while socializing, according to the Daily.

Dubbed the “hidden social network,” MT differentiates itself from other social networking apps by allowing users to hide their identity. “MT focuses on content,” said Wang at the launch ceremony in Shenzhen High-tech Park in Nanshan District on Tuesday. “A chat group on MT is set up to link users interested in a specific topic, and the chat group dissolves after one hour,” said Wang.

MT was developed for short-term social connection. “There are many good long-term socializing apps in the market now, like WeChat, but no short-term socializing app is available, which prompted me to start planning to develop one 10 days after I was released from prison,” Wang said.

According to Wang, who was jailed in 2016 for spreading pornography on QVOD, WeChat is a powerful long-term socializing app that helps people keep in contact after getting to know each other. But there is a scenario in which two people meet for a specific event but don’t need to keep in touch after the event. MT offers this kind of short-term socializing connection.

“Just like the car-hailing app Didi, what a Didi user needs is a temporary service, so the user doesn’t need a long-term connection with one specific Didi driver,” said Wang, adding that this kind of socializing network cannot be found on WeChat or other existing social apps.

“Content is what MT is based on,” he said.

Wang on Tuesday also addressed a concern that MT’s feature of hiding users identities is likely to get the app involved in pornography.

His former company, QVOD, accounted for 80 percent of China’s online video-streaming market with 500 million users before he was convicted of distributing “obscene materials” in 2016. Wang founded a new technology company Feb. 26, 2018.

“My company has set up a special team to filter for sensitive issues and pornography on the app by applying image and keyword censorship,” he said.

Wang said his company has also developed a voice-altering feature to change abusive voice messages into funny cartoon way.

He said the function was inspired by his experience with QVOD. The former video-streaming king set up Shenzhen QVOD Technology in December 2007 and the media streaming application gained the largest number of users in the country in less than four years. In 2014, QVOD was busted for copyright infringement and “spreading obscene materials.” QVOD was declared bankrupt after it was fined 260 million yuan (US$38.24 million) by the Shenzhen authority for copyright infringement. Wang was sentenced to three years and six months in prison by a Beijing court in January 2016, and he was released from jail Feb. 7, 2018.

Wang said that company supervision is important, and that was what he didn’t do well in his previous venture.

(SD News)

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