Re: List of Social Networking Sites from Alexa

indeed, bbs is 'still' very popular, in Harry's list, there is this
wretch.cc, which is a taiwanese website, it started as a bbs, and now its
way of social interaction is still based on those bbs mechanisms. but it is
also attempting to transform by integrating with more services, for example
photo/video/music sharing. also it is interesting that they actually
develope a new bbs way of interaction through these integrations
btw, harry, i tried to edit the wiki, but so far it didn't recognize my w3c
public account...

yuk
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Oshani Seneviratne <oshani@csail.mit.edu>wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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>
> --
> Oshani
>
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