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neal24 — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:44:30 PDT

Too bad very few US blogs talk about Hi5. They are #2 according to the # of registered users (70 million+) and #3 in terms of uniques.

They are in top 10 in about 30 countries. They dominate online traffic in Portugal, Romania, Peru. BTW, do you guys know they are based right here in San Francisco?

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Nick Denton — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:04:09 PDT

@aheavens: What on earth are you doing in Ethiopia?

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david — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:14:39 PDT

If its the Risk boardgame rules then Blogger has won.

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aheavens — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:59:20 PDT

Purely anecdotal - but Facebook seems to be picking up in Ethiopia - although hi5 invites also keep coming in at the moment.

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ck209 — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:40:21 PDT

LiveJournal.com and Ya.ru for Russia. Social networking is not taking up there, as Russian legislature allows KGB to snoop on any electronic communication passing through Russian ISPs, and everybody pretty much thinks a vibrant social network would allow KGB/FSB to snoop on everybody.

They had an uproar a few months ago, when LiveJournal licensed out the pageviews on Russian-speaking journals to SUP.ru, which is located in Moscow, and is therefore susceptible to liberal Russian legislature.

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raincoaster — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:47:37 PDT

I think Canada went straight from Friendster to Facebook. We've lost our early broadband lead and lag behind other countries such as the US and if you've ever tried to open a Myspace page on dialup you'll know why it didn't succeed. The only group of Canadians I know on Myspace are performing artists, who are there for the music networking.

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patphelan — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:59:58 PDT

Nick
Surprised not to see the kiddies favorite Bebo mentioned in this article, pretty sure it was the most visited site in Ireland and the UK last quarter.
Hope your not forgetting your roots.

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DeltaGuy — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:46:52 PDT

So Facebook is dominant up north in Canada? I'd like to give my fellow countrymen a round of applause for avoiding the seemingly unescapable ghetto that Myspace has become. Come on America, you can do it to! Just think of your eyes.

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CVReps — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:46:24 PDT

Another one forgot to mention is miarroba.com. Not really a social network, but it looks better in Alexa, for those woh care.

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CVReps — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:43:06 PDT

Hi5 is popular in Peru and with a moderate success in some Central American countries (not the big ones such as Argentina, Mexico, Colombia or Spain). If I were to hightlight a social network with a large foothold in the entire Latin America and Spain, I'd suggest eGrupos (egrupos.net), a site that looks like Yahoo 10 years ago but with an impressive user base, probably because it's been up there since the Trumpet Winsock days.

eGrupos Alexa rating isn't impressive probably because it has all properties under different domains (elistas.net for email groups, zoomblog.com for blogs, zoomblast for videos, etc) but if you add them up it would probably be more significant (just guessing). Latest advertised numbers were around 20 million reg. users about a year ago.

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