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Top 100 Webpages In Singapore

Geek SG has an article referencing the Top 100 sites in Singapore, and the list is pretty interesting.

Yahoo comes in at #1 with Google at #8 (any relation to poor people using yahoo vs rich people using Google?)

Friendster at #2 while Facebook is at #8, Myspace is at #32 - My theory (based on personal observations) is that largely, Singaporeans are still early to late majority. I joined up with Friendster in 2003, Myspace shortly after that, and Facebook in 2006 (yes, when there was no one on it). I observed the exact same trends in the 2 years I was on Facebook as I did Friendster: At first, they’re just the people who’re trying out new things and a pretty normal. After awhile as network externalities kick in, more and more people start joining, including those who don’t use English as a first language. (not discriminating, just stating facts). Locally we might classify them as bengs and lians - I don’t even know how to classify that for the non-Singaporeans reading this blog. And now Friendster is almost completely run by them, while the early adopters have moved to Facebook, but the rest are slowly catching up.

This also accounts for Myspace being at #32. The rest of Singapore simply missed out on the trend - MySpace came and went in the time early adopters moved from Friendster to Myspace to Facebook, so the rest of the majority just makes the transition from Friendster to Facebook.

YouPorn comes in at #25, Sammyboy at #31 and Megaerotic at #35 (what do you think of that, government?)

Mininova and Rapidshare are in at #38 and #39 respectively (now we know where all that bandwidth is going) and beat this, NUS is at #22, NTU is at #40 and SMU is nowhere to be seen.

Quite a few sites I don’t recognise so I won’t comment, but I’d encourage you to check out the link and comment here on what surprised you, what didn’t surprise you, and any explanations if you have them.

All I can say is I’m glad Xiaxue isn’t on the list. That would be a kicker.

Tags: bengs and lians, early adopters, early majority, friendster and facebook, geek sg, late majority, myspace, network externalities, poor yahoo rich google, top 100 webpages in singapore, yahoo and google

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Follow Up On Singapore’s Google Race

I’ve been blogging multiple times a day for the last few days and sometimes I wonder if it’s an overkill, but yet there’s so much in the blogosphere that I really feel I need to share.

One great conversation that has been picked up, is that of Singapore attempting to create the next Google which I posted about here. While I certainly don’t claim to have started this conversation, it’s been talked about in other sites like Geek SG and TIMMGuru posted a very Singaporean comment (and I mean that in a good way), about how this isn’t so much about the ends of creating a Google clone, but the process in which Singapore gets the publicity (mockingly so or not), which then serves the purpose of attracting talent.

What are your views on the issue? Comment here, over at GeekSG or TIMMGuru, it doesn’t really matter, but the web should hear the voices of others - particularly Singaporeans - on what they think on the issue.

Tags: a*star, geek sg, geeksg, Google, google race, Singapore, timmguru

Posted in Google, Singapore | 2 Comments »