Qype gets a mention in Les Echos, Financial Times

One of our Portfolio companies Qype (from Quality or Hype) has been mentioned in the leading press magazines in Europe.

Qype is a UGC based Yellow page destination site with rich reviews on restraunts, cinemas, places to visit and more...with the added touch of social networking and active community it give a user the opportunity to discover all those hidden corner shops/jewels in a city ! Moreover, Qype organizes regular meetups/parties for fellow Qypers, a perfect occasion to make new friends and discover differnet tastes.

Visit Qype at www.qype.com

Financial Times : Qype’s online Yellow Pages get more green

Les Echos (in French): Sur Qype, les internautes mettent leurs bonnes adresses en commun

Social network world popularity index

Some interesting observations before we get started

• Facebook is most popular in Turkey and Canada.
• Friendster and Imeem are most popular in the Philippines.
• LinkedIn is most popular in India.
• Twitter is most popular in Japan.
• LiveJournal is more popular in Russia than it is in the United States.
• Orkut is more popular in Iran (10th country popularity-wise) than it is in the United States.
• MySpace is the only social network which is most popular in the United States.
• MySpace, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Xanga, and Twitter are the only social networks in this survey which have the United States in their top five countries, popularity-wise. That is just five out of twelve.

(via Pingdom)

Mixi.jp still Rules....MySpace and Facebook follow on...Orkut most engaging amongst users

comScore released a new report (report on PC based Social Networking and exclusive of mobile ones) today with stats on the Japanese Web social networking market.

In terms of growth Facebook saw the largest growth percentage at 213%(but then isn't that normal whenever any new viral sites launch but impressive nevertheless).

On the other hand the Japanese leader Mixi.jp clocks over 12M montly uniques vis-à-vis FB which is a little over 500k users.Mobile based networking though omitted in this report is a crucial point as Japan is one of the leading countries in terms of mobile based web access.

One of the startling points is the fact that "Orkut is the most engaging of social networking sites" with stats

• Average Usage days per visitor : 11.5
• Average minutes per visitor : 454
• Average pages per visitor : 1,557

(via comScore)