Facebox - Insane Growth?
News/Social Networks/Facebox/Peter Cashmore
Found on: Mashable.com
Facebox, a new social network that sounds a little too much like Facebook, is getting a few mentions in the comments after going from zero to hero on Alexa over the past 10 days or so. The reason is pretty simple: Facebox isn’t a new site, but rather a relaunch of an established brand. The site is the product of Belgian company InCrowd, and began five years ago as a community site called ASL.TO - it then became Redbox, a social network for Belgians. Beginning late last year, they rolled out more “-box” sites across Europe, and this month it seems they’re trying to consolidate those under the Facebox brand. Hence the appearance of a site coming from nowhere. At the moment, they’re reporting 10 million European users and more than 1 billion monthly pageviews - presumably that’s an aggregate of all their existing networks.
Found on: Mashable.com
Facebox, a new social network that sounds a little too much like Facebook, is getting a few mentions in the comments after going from zero to hero on Alexa over the past 10 days or so. The reason is pretty simple: Facebox isn’t a new site, but rather a relaunch of an established brand. The site is the product of Belgian company InCrowd, and began five years ago as a community site called ASL.TO - it then became Redbox, a social network for Belgians. Beginning late last year, they rolled out more “-box” sites across Europe, and this month it seems they’re trying to consolidate those under the Facebox brand. Hence the appearance of a site coming from nowhere. At the moment, they’re reporting 10 million European users and more than 1 billion monthly pageviews - presumably that’s an aggregate of all their existing networks.
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