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Royal Pingdom has posted a great article on the top social networking sites by country using data from Google Insights for Search.

So lets kick things off. Which countries are the following social networking sites most popular in?

MySpace: United States
Facebook: Turkey
Hi5: Peru
Friendster: Philippines
LinkedIn: India
Orkut: Brazil
Last.fm: Finland
LiveJournal: Singapore
Xanga: Hong Kong
Bebo: Ireland
Imeem: Philippines
Twitter: Japan

How many did you get? Not many I’m guessing.

Chris Brogan has compiled a great list of 50 online applications sitting within the social media sphere.

My personal favourites:

- Wordpress.com
- Twitter
- StumbleUpon
- Digg
- Reddit
- LinkedIn
- Pandora (circa 2006 before they banned people from outside the US)
- Twingly
- YouTube (circa 2006 before people really started to abuse it)