On January 20th, Mixi, one of Japan’s largest social network, a direct competitor of Facebook, announced [J] their new alliance partner, German based Vznet Netzwerke.
Mixi says that both companies will standardize their social application platforms, to enable their third-party social application providers to run their applications on both networkings.
Mixi announced the same type of alliances with China’s Renren and Korea’s CyWorld last September.
Mixi side release tells [J] that Vznet is “the largest social network service in Germany” in Japanese, and Vznet official blog says [De] that Mixi is “the largest social network service in Japan”. But accuracy of both “the largest” could be challenged by how you count the size of the network, against Facebook in Germany and Gree/Mobage-Town in Japan.
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