The year is getting over so this is a good time to remember what happened on social networks. These are the main trends that we went through during 2015 and which do also mark the…
Comscore and Nielsen disagree on which is the…
We have an interesting data war in Spain. While Nielsen and Alexa put Facebook as the main social network, Google Trends and Comscore say that Tuenti outranks the US based site. Comscore's study also states…
Mio.tv buys one of the largest social networks…
New York based Mio.tv, a community for latinos, has bought Wamba, a social network from Mallorca, Spain, funded by Danish angel investor Morten Lund, now famous for becoming bankrupt. The price published by Carlos Blanco,…
Facebook becomes the main social network in most…
Facebook is rapidly becoming the main social network everywhere around the world, but in Asia and Latin America. Countries in which another site was more popular than Mark Zuckerberg's are falling down to the charm…
Spanish mainstream media compare social networks to criminal…
Social networks are being demonized these days in Spain. Everything started when a journalist discovered that a 17 year old girl killed in Seville had a profile on Tuenti, a Spanish social network, and so…
Is it posible to compete with Linkedin?
Some days ago I read that Viadeo, a social network that competes with Linkedin, had acquired one of the largest sites in India, ApnaCircle, founded by one of Hotmail's cofounder. On the other hand, Linkedin…
Data mining is the future of advertising
I got a bit shocked by MySpace's Chris deWolfe's answer to a question Michael Arrington made to him during an interview at Davos. We all know that what happens at Davos is supposed to be…
European social networks: Facebook with a local flavour
Business Week has a report on some European social networks (I got to it thanks to Loic Le Meur's twitter). I am convinced that Facebook won't need to buy them, as it will easily conquer…
Top European countries in terms of Facebook users
These are the top European countries in terms of Facebook users (in brackets, the percentage of their population using Facebook): UK: 14.9 million (24%) Turkey: 7.9 (11%) France: 6.6 (10%) Italy: 5.6 (9%) Spain: 2.6…