You may not have heard about it, but the German social networking site Studivz.com is making big news, mostly in that it may be acquired by Facebook. What makes it interesting is that Studivz is basically a exact clone of Facebook. The only difference is that it is red and in German.
An interesting business model: Copy an successful business in a different market, then position yourself to be acquired when the original business wants to move into your market.
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Cool. Thanks for the whole scoop! Didn’t realize there was so much to this story.
I run a clone script site, we stock a few Facebook and Twitter clones, and believe it of not, this kinf of this is quite common to see. Truth is that people dont like the larger sites, they simply use them because they are simply what there is, and its what their friends use. This is why clone sites are such big business these days, its a suprisingly big market!