Europe is the world area with the highest social networking penetration, according to a recent ComScore’s report. The “Europe Digital Year in Review” shows data like that social networking monthly penetration in Europe reached 84.4 percent of all European internet users.Europe’s leaders are Turkey and Poland. Turkey’s high penetration is related to Facebook’s important role […]

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Once upon a time, Sonico was the largest social network in Argentina and Chile and the second one in huge countries as Brazil and Mexico. Nowadays it is almost non existant in most of Latin America and is not even one of the two largest social networks in its home country Argentina. So what happened?These […]

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Time spent on social networking is increasing day after day. Not only Facebook keeps growing but the number of applications and pages is bigger, so people can enjoy more things on this social network. If one year ago social networking was accounting for almost 25% of time spent online, nowadays it could be nearing 50%.Look […]

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Advertising will not be the only source of revenues for Spanish social network Tuenti. It is launching a mobile operator together with Telefónica, the company that bought it last summer. The service is already being used by some betatesters and will soon extend to more users thru an invitation system.No news have been filtered about […]

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One year and a half ago my friend Jan Hinrichs offered me to cofound a social network with him. He was obsessed with plants and trees, as he had a sick sequoia in his garden and could not find anybody who could help him. So we cofounded iBotanika, a social network for people who love […]

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Wamba used to be the second social network in Spain, to the point that Skype’s Morten Lund invested €1.5 million on it and it was almost sold to an international group. Things started to go bad and finally its founder, serial entrepreneur Enrique Dubois, has decided to take it to Facebook, the new web platform […]

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“European social networking sites have lost their leadership in their domestic markets”. This is the conclusion of the last European report on digital competitiveness. The document outlines the cases of diVZ (Germany), Skyrock (France) and Tuenti (Spain), which used to be “undisputed leaders” in their markets.What happened? They had limited international expansion and Facebook started […]

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The post that TechCrunch’s Michael Arrignton wrote about Jason Calacanis’s threat to sue them for launching a new competitor for TechCrunch50 startup competition, really called my attention. It was extremely personal (this type of things do not happen in Europe) and sounded like a bloody battle about who had the idea first.Actually the first FREE […]

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Which country has the highest penetration for Linkedin and Twitter? According to ComScore, it’s not the US, nor Brazil (leader in terms of social networking usage), but the Netherlands. How come? Probably, a higher professional usage of social networks has a lot to do.Facebook (and local leader Hyves) are very general social networks, as compared […]

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ComScore has just released data about the most successful video viewing (and most of the time also sharing) sites in Spain. Results are as expected with some exceptions: Vevo is larger than Dailymotion and there is no single Spanish company among the first 5 properties. Vevo is a music video website owned by Sony, Universal […]

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