- From: Oshani Seneviratne <oshani@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:50:06 -0400
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, "public-xg-socialweb@w3.org" <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>
Apparently BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) seems to be *still* very popular in Taiwan. According to my friend who uses it quite frequently, during peak hours popular forums may have around 500,000 users. This is not really comparable to the numbers for the top social networking sites today. But it's fascinating to see that people are still using this 80's way of social networking! :) On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a pretty good list. Though, alexa is only one measure, it > seems to be pretty good. > > If amazon makes the list, I think the following 3 are worth at least a > question mark: > > Google? > Yahoo? > MSN? > > Skype has over 440 million registered accounts, according to wiki, so > is probably worth a mention, too. > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote: >> I went through the top 100 sites from Alexa and got some of the top >> sites. I'll try to go through more! One of the most obvious problems >> for myself is that lots of sites I think *may* be social networking >> sites are not in English. In particular, speakers of Chinese, >> Japanese, and Russian are needed to investigate to see if some of >> these are actually social networking sites. >> >> Here's the list: >> >> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/TopSocialNetworkingSites >> >> > > -- Oshani
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