- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:41:54 +0200
- To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: "public-xg-socialweb@w3.org" <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>
It seems to me the big email providers gmail,hotmail (not sure about yahoo), to be becoming much more soical in format. I just logged on to hotmail and the functionality seems much more like a social net than a webmail provider now. These are major players, hotmail and yahoo have 300 million users each, gmail around 150 million. The interesting thing about this is that email is federated almost by definition, whereas most social networks are not yet. Perhaps there will be a trend where social nets become more email like, and email providers become more social? 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 > >
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