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| Japan’s Mixi: A Social Network As A Purely Local Phenomenon (TechCrunch) |
| Japan’s biggest social network is called Mixi, launched in February 2004 by the company of the same name. Drawing in one in five web users in the country, Mixi now boasts over 15 million members. The site ranks sixth on Alexa Japan and racks up over 14 billion page views monthly. Google Trends for Websites [...] |
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| Zimbabweans use blogs for info (MSNBC) |
| Increasingly, Zimbabweans are going online and using cell phone text messages to share stories of life and death in a country where independent traditional media have been all but silenced, and from which reporters from most international media have been barred. |
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