Sunday, April 15, 2007

Social Networks in Russia

In last several years the difference between Russian internet (Ru-net) and Internet became minimal. There are all general kinds of Web 2.0 services: Mash-ups, AJAX Applications, web-services, "youtube-clones" and, of course, Social Networks. There are more then 10 well-known social networks with 100.000 users and more. And they double their network every month! Most of the users are students, graduated student and IT persons. Now, you can encounter with girl in cafe, that provides Wi-Fi services, which is sitting in one of this network.

Most global services has announced about its IPO. And about the half has been bought by Leaders of Ru-net. e.g. yandex bought moikrug few days ago.

here is a list of most popular:
vkontakte
moikrug
fakultet
etc.

Also, Social networks is the one of popular topic in russian blogs for several weeks.