I just read a social network study of the “User Interface Design GmbH” from 2006 about MySpace usage. There was written that there is still no chinese Myspace like social network and the users from China expect a network in their language and never give their main email away (and that Germans are some kind of voyeurs – we seem to be very interested in others life).
So a friend who is in China very often just recommended http://www.meet8.com/index.php or life365 which is THE chinese network site today. Never heard about it and also I could not read anything but this is a good market niche….
Hm, what are the indian guys using today? Perhaps there is some market space for a page…I should ask a colleague from Bangalore
The younger indian generation which are going to trigger the the growth for the indian economy soon when they get older is a really interesting market perspective as german and US students have been two years ago … A guy from Goldman Sachs predicted last year at a session about BRIC countries that india will see massive growth rates as in China primary in 3-5 years but I think there is already a page today
Update: Oliver just told my that http://www.yaari.com/ is popular in india
Update 2: Aidyta and Abesh (from India) think Orkut is the most famous
A new Indian Social Network by the name of SocialSynapse will be launching later this year. http://socialsynapse.com .
They are currently accepting beta testers.