Facebook continues march of world domination

Vincenzo Cosenza has just updated his world map of the most popular social networks by country for Dec 2010.

Facebook is now the market leader in 115 out of 132 countries, although LinkedIn and Twitter are on the rise as second or third networks in many countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, UK and the US).

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Google Me - The future of social networking?

There’s been plenty of debate over what Google Me will be when it launches - and I’ve certainly not read all of it. I do however believe that Google is in the best position to create a killer and yet open social network.

My idea of a perfect social network at this point would be 

• Open identity - to allow me to login with my OpenID
• Ability to create and share status updates, photos, videos, and links to any of the social networks that my friends are using
• Ability for my friends to comment and interact with my activity streams such that I get the comments back on my original item - back in my preferred social network
• One list of contacts that I can segment into groups and transport between social networks and my email/phone
• Location based checkins, with my locations available to a select group of my friends

Here’s why I don’t think facebook, twitter or foursquare will win this in the long run

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