These are all examples of successful local Internet companies that have creat their own niche, despite international competition, by using local relevance. In every country there are local heroes, although social networks are a completely different story. Some people argue that Twitter and Facebook will dominate, as the boundaries are becoming increasingly blurr. On the world map of social networks, Facebook (blue color, see figure above) is the largest network in the world, but as you can see there are some exceptions.
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Kontakte (brown color on the map of social networks worldwide) dominates in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. In February 2010, the network had 135 million users, making it the second leading social network in Europe after Facebook. With 6,161,380 users in the above countries (Facebakers.com, February 2010), Facebook is no threat to V Kontakte, found in September 2006. One of the ways in which the network, found in 2006, distinguishes itself is the special sri lanka phone number list ‘soyueze’ or Soviet environment, which
Moving further east, we have China
A known for its linguistic, cultural and content (censorship) differences with the West. Google is the most us search engine worldwide, in China it is Baidu . Wikipia is consider the world encyclopia. In the land of the dragon it is Hudong , which has ten times the number of articles available in Chinese. The reach of Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Twitter and international social networks is nothing compar to the 100 million Chinese who use QQ . QQ is not a social network, but more of a very extensive chat service, which includes a dating site, music service and mobile access. The social network of China is RenRen , which has no less than 160 million members. It does not appear in the world map for social networks, which is bas on Google trends. Facebook has only 659,060 users in China. This is caus by blocks by the Chinese government. The social network is only available to the Chinese via proxy servers.
Closer to home, within the European
Union, there is a Polish social network locally dominant call Nasza Klaska . The social network has exist since 2006 and has singapore number 14 million members (measurement point 2010). Nasza Klaska is enormously popular among Polish migrant workers, among others, who use the site to stay in touch with their building rapport over the phone a telemarketer’s guid family and friends in their home country. The network start as a kind of Schoolbank and has now grown into a platform with games, blogs and a Twitter . The Russian socia variant. According to recent figures from Facebakers.com, Facebook has 5.6 million members.