RE: List of Social Networking Sites from Alexa

Melvin points one fact. Here supply another.
Among current Chinese websites, many content/service providers are
rebuilding themselves to enhance with social network features. For example,
the two biggest IM sites on China, QQ by Tecent and Fetion by China Mobile,
both rebuild their social sites to keep charming and fashionable for young
people, in order to maintain their 0.2 billion users.

So for this investigate, we may give a distinct criteria on definition of
social network to reflect the trend of the industry.

Best regards
Howard

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:public-xg-socialweb-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Melvin Carvalho
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:18 AM
To: Harry Halpin
Cc: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
Subject: Re: List of Social Networking Sites from Alexa

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/TopSocialNetworkingSit
> es
>
>

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