Thursday, 19 July 2007
Netlog - New and Very Popular Social Network 
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Interestingly enough, despite the major hype, so far Pownce didn't take off, at least not compared to the service it was trying to beat, Twitter.
Well, here is another relatively new service that caught my eye recently (after I got spammed with invitations to the service to be somebody's "friend"), but that I have not seen covered anywhere before - Netlog. I never heard of it before, so I was amazed to see how popular it is and how quickly it reached that popularity. See the charts below.
Have you heard of Netlog before? It seems to be targeted at Euro crowd, just like Bebo and Xing. The traffic seems to have plateaued, but it is still impressive. Its current traffic was reached in the second half of April. That is some pretty fast service scaling!
UPDATE: Ah, ah, ah. So Netlog is not that young after all. Netlog is the new name of a site/service formerly known as Facebox (hmmmm). Here is the switch:
The service claims over 20 million users in Europe (but what about the resto del mondo, people???)
Simpify!
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Thank you for your interest in Netlog, Europe's largest social portal (ComScore May 2007). The site was originally launched as Facebox in September 2006, but was rebranded to Netlog in May 07. Netlog has over 25 million members throughout Europe, as many unique visitors per month and over 3 billion pageviews per month.
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