I have a feeling this is going to be an increasingly common theme.
At the moment it seems like there is more competition and thus more new ideas coming out of China. Social media in the west seem to be dominated by a few giants that succesfully chokes any newcomers before they get started.
it s an old story. Most of the social games that became popular, most of the stuff that zynga did was copied from simpler social games that were popular in china/japan
I thought Vine was designed in California as well.