
168 ◾ Web 2.0 and Beyond: Principles and Technologies
sites: there are hundreds if not thousands more. In the spirit of Web 2.0, Wikipedia pro-
vides a fuller (200+) list which, presumably, is undergoing regular maintenance.
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It is important to recognize that despite Western media attention on a handful of big US
names such as MySpace and Facebook, which seemingly dominate the SNS market, this is
far from the whole story. Not only are there very large SNSs in other parts of the world, for
example QZone in China,
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but there are a large number of niche players serving diering
demographics and interests. Indeed, there is evidence of SNSs tendi ...