In the past year, it has overtaken the likes of Mixi in Japan, Zing in Vietnam and other local competitors in markets as diverse as Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latvia. We made it through 2012 without facing an apocalypse, and now thoughts are turning...
Mixi (Japan) In addition, 21 sites have signed on as partners within Google’s Social Data Hub, allowing Google to share the sites’ activities stream within Analytics. Google Analytics Social Data Hub Partners
Will Google+ be popular enough to topple Orkut in Brazil and India, Mixi in Japan, or even Qzone and Ren Ren in China? If you’ve been active on social media in the past few weeks – or have been reading Search Engine Watch and other geek and tech...
In regards to social media usage in Japan, Facebook isn't doing so well; with around 1.5 million users Facebook is struggling to compete with the local social networks such as Mixi, which has around 10 percent market share with 13 million users.
Twitter is rapidly gaining popularity in Japan, but local Japanese sites like Mixi and Gree still maintain dominance over the social media market, according to online statistics firm Socialbakers. Social media networking sites continue to be one of...
Facebook.com ranked as the top social network across the majority of individual markets in the region, while competing brands commanded the top position in certain markets, including Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea and...
What makes this so intriguing is the large list of particpating companies, including: Bebo, Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, mixi, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.