Comments on: MySpace Russia Quietly Launches; MySpace Turkey Coming

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[…] think this move strengthens the fact that there is a growing market in Turkey. Earlier we had heard that Myspace was getting ready into the Turkish social networking scene. Looks like there is going to be a nice competition of global players in Turkey pretty soon. On the […]

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Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:58:38 +0000

[…] MySpace Russia Quietly Launches; MySpace Turkey Coming: “MySpace likes to put a team on the ground before launching a localized site, Travis Katz told me today (MySpace’s Managing Director of International). The key to a successful launch isn’t just localizing the site’s language. It’s also about figuring out what local bands and artists are hot, and integrating them into the service. He confirmed that Turkey is on their short list of new launches, although he won’t say when the site will launch.” […]

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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:22:08 +0000

[…] must say I prefer the MySpace approach to Translation/localization, even though I am a heavy Facebook user and there is a Translator Power group and also The Global […]

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Facebook Turns 1,500 Users Into Spanish Translation Slaves — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:07:08 +0000

[…] takes a very different approach to localized sites than rival MySpace, which is opening up offices all over the world to serve those […]

By: Piotr Zalewski

Piotr Zalewski — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:45:06 +0000

Hi,

MySpace will soon launch in Poland. They are opening office in Warsaw: http://www.pracuj.pl/oferty/1137244.html

By: Bali

Bali — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:02:53 +0000

MySpace has to deal with the ruling censorship culture in Turkey.

By: New Andrew

New Andrew — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:20:41 +0000

1. There must now be at least one Russian federal security mole already, forget a music manager!
2. Not being registered, I get “I seek women 18-35″ filter set for me when I navigate to the Search page. Wow. That either proves my #1 or something entirely else, and more profound. Like MySpace is onmiscient.
3. t.A.T.u lovers and DOM-2 discussers, jump onboard. There’s even more space for you now, your space. ))

By: Burak Arikan

Burak Arikan — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:06:00 +0000

MySpace has to deal with the ruling censorship culture in Turkey. As you may know Turkish court has just banned YouTube.com yesterday (second time). Wordpress.com is not accessible since August 2007, see also Matt Mullenweg’s blog post. I guess Facebook will be a victim sooner or later. In fact, the victim is the Turkish speaking people.

By: Yuri Ammosov

Yuri Ammosov — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:57:26 +0000

Oh, everyone in Russia Internet business knew long ago that MySpace is looking for a manager with music and TV connections. The recruiting ads were around since last November. Not sure who was eventually hired.

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web hosting server — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:42:12 +0000

Facebook looks too clean, most of the users are polite, qualified and love simplicity.

By: Templates

Templates — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:54:22 +0000

My goodness, I wish Myspace would just dissapear. I can see it’s advantages but hearing the word “Myspace” everywhere I go is so annoying. I do see a decline in overall popularity and Facebook is just a grownup version of Myspace.

By: dale

dale — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:27:51 +0000

I think myspace is falling behide facebook.

By: Emre Sokullu

Emre Sokullu — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:54:41 +0000

Facebook is now sooo big in Turkey, MySpace is too late.

By: vic

vic — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:39:08 +0000

gosh, EH, I swear you beat me to it by 4 minutes.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:35:34 +0000

“Myspace Turkey.” The jokes will write themselves.

By: Devrim Demirel

Devrim Demirel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:26:19 +0000

Turkey is one of the most rapidly growing and most exciting internet markets, with approx. 4 million broadband internet users, steadily increasing internet penetration and plenty of investments and startups with new products each month.

Facebook has had an unbelievable growth in Turkey in only 4 months, and Facebook took the #2 slot in traffic rankings in Turkey ( http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/t.....;lang=none ). We should that facebook was not even in the first 50 popular web sites in Turkey six months ago. (Alexa stats can be considered to be very reliable for the first 50 spots in Turkey)

This is certainly an important sign for Myspace and others.

By: Arda Kutsal

Arda Kutsal — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:23:47 +0000

This is exactly what I mentioned in Webrazzi.com yesterday (Turkish post). MySpace Turkey will be launched so soon and the office is ready in Istanbul. They have more job openings and interviews are going on.

Turkey is a great market for new international startups. It has a growing internet population and also really active users. European VC firms are so interested with the market, too. For example: European Founders Fund had more than one deal in Turkey.

By the way there is a rumour that Fox has a close relationships with a Turkish portal for a possible acquisition (related Turkish post). This is just a rumour for now, but MySpace Turkey move makes a great match with this rumour.

Also, I must admit that it feels so good to post before Mike

Thanks.

By: PCFAN

PCFAN — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:56:27 +0000

Global village, thanks for that

By: Webrazzi

Webrazzi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:04:36 +0000

Güzel bir duyguymuş :)…

Dün yazmış olduğum “MySpace Türkiye ofisi açılıyor” isimli yazımdan sonra biraz önce TechCrunch‘da “MySpace Russia Quietly Launches; MySpace Turkey Coming” isimli yazıyı görünce şöyle bir şaşırdım.
Arka…

By: Arda Kutsal

Arda Kutsal — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:55:22 +0000

Also, I must admit that it feels so good to post before Mike

Thanks.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:54:17 +0000

I am more surprised that it took them this long to get something “international” in Russia. You would have thought they could have done this YEARS ago… I would love to find out why there was such a big delay in deploying the obvious?

Jon
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By: teknozat

teknozat — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:46:40 +0000

I wish, facebook had a turkish web site too:D