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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Ten really cool Web 2.0 companies outside the United States that are hits today

Without further ado, they are:

Social networks
Cyworld
The Korean social networking giant is quickly expanding its dominance in the online media market. Consider that Cyworld now has more video uploads than YouTube and sells songs at a rate that's second only to iTunes.....

Location: Seoul, South Korea

URL: cyworld.nate.com

Launch: 1999


Social networks
Habbo Hotel
Here's a surprising fact: Habbo Hotel sells more furniture worldwide than Swedish retailer Ikea. Even better, it sells virtual furniture that teens decorate their online Habbo rooms with. Best of all? Kids are spending real world dollars to buy not only virtual chairs and sofas, but also fashion for their avatars......

Location: Helsinki, Finland

URL: habbohotel.com

Launch: 2000


Social networks
Xing (formerly OpenBC)
Formerly known as OpenBC, Xing's professional networking site was Germany's first social network to go public. With a stronghold in Europe, Xing is now moving to build its presence overseas....

Location: Hamburg, Germany

URL: xing.com

Launch: 2003


Web video
Metacafe
Metacafe, with more than 25 million visitors a month, aims to be one of the most influential video-sharing sites in the world. The company recently relocated from Israel to Silicon Valley and doubled its staff to 70 employees.....

Location: Palo Alto, CA (formerly Tel Aviv, Israel)

URL: metacafe.com

Launch: July 2003


Social media
Last.fm
Thanks to its popular social features, which let you tag and recommend songs, Last.fm grew quickly to 20 million users and was sold to CBS Interactive in May for a cool $280 million. Six weeks later, Last.fm partnered with Sony BMG to stream all of its music for free, and also has deals with Warner Music Group and EMI.....

Location: London, England

URL: last.fm

Launch: 2002


Social media
Bokee
Fang Xingdong's blog publishing site is the clear leader in the Chinese blogosphere. Bokee hosts 14 million bloggers, which represents a quarter of the Chinese market, and more than 10,000 new bloggers sign up a day....

Location: Beijing, China

URL: bokee.com

Launch: 2002


Social media
Douban
Named after a spice used in Szechuan cooking, Douban allows Chinese consumers to share, tag and browse through one another's collection of books, music, and movies. Users can also form various groups to recommend cool entertainment to each other.This year Douban released Douban 9Taps, a social aggregator that recommends blogs and news articles, which helped double its traffic.....

Location: Beijing, China

URL: douban.com

Launch: 2005


Social media
MyHeritage
You know when you're staring at an old family photo and have no clue who's standing next to Uncle Dan? So do 16 million other users, who have registered for MyHeritage, which takes those long-lost relative stumpers by scanning photos with cool face-recognition software to build online family trees. Genealogy enthusiasts can use the Smart Matching technology to create their own family tree and link to related offshoots......

Location: Bnei Atarot, Israel

URL: myheritage.com

Launch: 2006


Social media
Toudou
Tuduo accounts for more than half the online videos watched in China. This growth has been matched by steady rounds of funding as investors and advertisers alike grow enamored of the three-second ads that can be inserted into Tuduo videos. China's lax attitude towards enforcing copyright laws helps too. A quick search on Tudou turns up the complete collection of Star Wars.....

Location: Shanghai, China

URL: tudou.com or toodou.com

Launch: 2005


Web applications
Netvibes
Netvibes, a site that allows users to easily create customizable homepages, doubled its audience last year to more than 10 million. Even P. Diddy uses it. This spring the company launched Netvibes Universe, which lets you drag and drop any media-enriched feature you can think of onto your homepage. A hodgepodge of widgets, RSS feeds, podcasts and videos can be rearranged onto a single page. In two months, Netvibes landed partnerships to serve up Universe pages on 500 sites, including CBS.com, Time.com and USAToday.com.....

Location: Paris, France

URL: netvibes.com

Launch: 2005



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Greenville, Rhode Island bakery owned by the Cavanagh family, which uses the plant to produce church communion bread from just water and bread. That business is known to produce about 850 million sacramental wafers annually and to supply 80% of the Holy Communion bread used in American, Australian, Canadian, and British churches. The only middlemen in the supply chain are nuns living in convents! Now they want to expand to West Africa with their Christian sacramental ware for Pentecostal, Catholic, 'New Wave', and Orthodox church offerings. I make reference to the so-called New Wave churches - my term for those churches that broke away from the orthodoxy of the Protestant fold, just as the latter roke off from the Catholic church by virtue of the exploits of Martin Luther centuries ago. Many new-wave and other church goers in the generally undeveloped West African subregion of Africa pay more to religious organizations in monthly tithes and offerings than they do to their government in personal income and value added taxes. Now, that last fact is quite interesting because it is an admission that a bakery in Rhode Island has seen a huge market in the center of Black Africa for small white perfectly laminated and non-crumbly holy wheat bread, reportedly costing "less than a penny" apiece, for the use of both the bible-reading and the bible-believing religious organizations. However, the picture from the Cavanagh's factory floor speaks volumes, in my own opinion, about the need for the company to watch its business ethics and to treat all customers equally irrespective of location, creed, or other discriminatory demographic information or criteria. So, I just hope and pray that the wafers falling off the conveyor belt and by the way side are not destined for West Africa and that the actual wafers delivered will be wheat bread and water, and not just glutamate-free bread and 'pure' water, if you get my point, even if so requested by some shady, greedy, and unethical businessmen over in West Africa. Posted by Okonkwo O. Awa on Sunday, December 28, 2008.

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