5 International SN To Keep An Eye On

CNET NEWS -- Dec 18 -- It's a big world out there and Facebook and MySpace don't own it.

China: Xiaonei
Xiaonei is basically a Chinese Facebook clone.

France: Skyrock
Skyrock started as a blog in 2002, which was eventually abandoned in 2007 and turned into a social network. It was the right move.

Germany: StudiVZ
StudiVZ is, well, an almost exact replica of Facebook, but without the company's signature blue design.

Japan: Mixi
Mixi controls almost every aspect of the member's profile design and structure and it doesn't even let third-party developers deploy apps on the site.

South Korea: Cyworld
Cyworld recently launched a U.S. site in an attempt to expand globally and take Facebook and MySpace on directly.
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