Mixi's not scared of MySpace or YouTube. The 3-year old social networking site currently has 8 million members--by far the biggest in Japan--and is willing to step up to the plate where needed to not give up its market share to American giants like News Corp and Google. Mixi started its own video sharing program on Monday, and the president, Kenji Kasahara, claims he's not threatened by MySpace's entry into the Japanese market last November. MySpace has 140 million members worldwide.
My two cents? For the same reason that Yahoo! still dominates over Google in Japan, so will Mixi remain ahead of MySpace. Why? Because Yahoo! and Mixi are both designed to cater to the Japanese user. More on that later, maybe, but really. I can't talk about this at 3AM.
I'd actually love to hear your particulars about why Yahoo! dominates in Japan and why Mixi will too. I can guess a bunch of reasons, but would rather hear what you have to say. Thanks.
Posted by: Adam | February 08, 2007 at 09:29 AM
Yahoo! > Google
Mixi > Myspace
Yahoo! Auctions > eBay
PayPal < ??
Would love to hear your thoughts as well :)
Posted by: Jordon | February 09, 2007 at 06:46 PM
Mixy is simply the perfect social networking site.
Interface is simple, efficent and you have time to socialize instead of customize your page like in MySpace... or better, you have time to focus on information that is the key element of japanese social networking: on mixi you can't show of your cool page, but you are interesting as much as your posts and community selection is interesting.
If you browse any Mixer's Comunity selection you will be able to learn a lot of that person and then, in case, start to socialize... and the community selection in mixi is way more real that any self description you can write by yourself...
Posted by: frankie | February 11, 2007 at 09:20 AM
Anything is better than Myspace.
Posted by: Dusty | February 17, 2007 at 11:13 PM