{"id":909,"date":"2007-08-01T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/internet-technology\/geography-of-social-sites-on-the-internet.html"},"modified":"2007-08-01T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:40:22","slug":"geography-of-social-sites-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Geography of Social Sites on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the amazing things about the Web 2.0 sites is that their founders seem to have no clue as to where success (their community members) will come from. It\u2019s one of the facets of globalization: one can <\/span>succeed<\/span> in the least expected place. I found a map describing this phenomenon in the case of social networks<\/a>. Lucas Shaw from Wandamere<\/a><\/span> is its author and it was published by <\/span>Valleywag<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Using Alexa<\/a> data, this map of the World shows how different sites position themselves in different countries. Bebo<\/a> dominates in Australia and New Zealand; Blogger<\/a> in Iran and Spain; Fotolog<\/a> in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay; Orkut<\/a> in Brazil, India, Pakistan and Paraguay; LiveJournal<\/a> in Russia and Belorussia; Facebook<\/a> in such different countries such as: Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Norway, Panama, South Africa and the United Kingdom. SkyBlog<\/a> is very successful in Belgium<\/st1:country-region> and Senegal<\/st1:country-region>; CyWorld<\/a> in South Corea; Studiverzeichnis<\/a> in Austria<\/st1:country-region> and Germany<\/st1:country-region> and Hi5<\/a> in Mongolia<\/st1:country-region>, Colombia<\/st1:country-region>, Tunisia<\/st1:country-region>, Honduras<\/st1:country-region>, Kuwait<\/st1:country-region> and Peru<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> (amongst many others).\u00a0 Now this was suprising to me because Fon<\/a> the company I manage is growing pretty evenly in all the developed world.\u00a0 Fon can only grow where broadband has previously deployed.\u00a0 Broadband is mostly deployed in the world in 7 time zones out of 24.\u00a0 These are the Japan, East China, Korea, time zone.\u00a0 USA, Canada, Mexico time zone and European time zone.\u00a0 These area which is 7\/24\/2 of the planet (these countries are all in the Northern Hemisphere) has over 90% of the broadband of the world.\u00a0 But it is very interesting that with Fon we don\u00b4t see strong preferences.\u00a0 Our Foneros are pretty well distributed between North America, Europe and East Asia. <\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the amazing things about the Web 2.0 sites is that their founders seem to have no clue as to where success (their community members) will come from. It\u2019s one of the facets of globalization: one can succeed in the least expected place. I found a map describing this phenomenon in the case of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t