Comments on: Sonico: The Biggest Social Networking Site You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

By: investorsconundrum.com - Donde Invertir Hoy - El Blog para el Inversor con Ideas Propias » Facebook y MySpace los reyes mundiales en redes sociales por Internet.

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:16:26 +0000

[...] último, os enlazo un articulo en Techcrunch de una nueva Web de relaciones sociales en castellano de éxito. Se llama Sonico.com [...]

By: Stephan Paternot » Recent Press on Sonico

Stephan Paternot » Recent Press on Sonico — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:25:52 +0000

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....y-never-... [...]

By: Latin American Social Network Sonico Raises $4.3 Million : New Web 2.0 Magazine

Latin American Social Network Sonico Raises $4.3 Million : New Web 2.0 Magazine — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:52:49 +0000

[...] in February Duncan described Spanish language Sonico as “the biggest social networking site you’ve probably never [...]

By: Latin American Social Network Sonico Raises $4.3 Million

Latin American Social Network Sonico Raises $4.3 Million — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:09:39 +0000

[...] in February Duncan described Spanish language Sonico as “the biggest social networking site you’ve probably never [...]

By: Sónico no se queda atrás | En el Medio

Sónico no se queda atrás | En el Medio — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:17:28 +0000

[...] los comentarios de una nota en TechCruch (febrero 2008), a esta red social la destrozaron. la catalogan, como mínimo de Spammer. [...]

By: ANALYTICS 2.0 - much more than just tagging

ANALYTICS 2.0 - much more than just tagging — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:19:42 +0000

[...] is landing in Latin America. Techcrunch recently published an article about Sonico describing it as the largest and most unknown social network in the region. Social networks are the foundation of the Web 2.0 - would be the equivalent of the traditional Web [...]

By: futurePR » Blog Archive » Emprendimiento, venture capitals y empresa

futurePR » Blog Archive » Emprendimiento, venture capitals y empresa — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:48:18 +0000

[...] Hace poco también nos enteramos que techcrunch elogió a Sonico como una de las redes con mayor crecimiento en la región incluso apuntando a competir con Facebook [...]

By: franciana

franciana — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:12:15 +0000

hola atodos de sonico soy nueva en esto y no se que escribir por hora ,quiero k sepan k me encanta sonico.

gracisa adios

By: window of opportunity extends for other SN

window of opportunity extends for other SN — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:53:44 +0000

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008.....-in-the-us

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:08:19 +0000

Did anyone else experience malware at sonico? When I logged in, some program tried to install itself on my computer.. and when I asked around a friend of mine, who is doing currently a purely student network in Mexico, Chile and Argentina

http://www.unibicate.com/

told me that their users experience sometimes a browser redirect to sonico, if they put in the unibicate domain. The same sometimes with Hi5 .

By: MySpace vs Orkut

MySpace vs Orkut — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:39:51 +0000

We can judge the popularity of these sites by seeing their ranking in http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....ehotels.in Alexa. Orkut has been steadily rising on the Alexa charts but MySpace is still significantly bigger than Orkut.com.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:35:39 +0000

Spammico - its all about the “leveraged services” and joining the millions…of hits that is. Damn there is so much cheap traffic in Latin countries!

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:55:54 +0000

te amo sonico!

By: Un usuario molesto

Un usuario molesto — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:53:18 +0000

SPAMMERSSSSSSSSSS

By: amber

amber — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:57:17 +0000

Its really unfortunate that Techcrunch had published this without even knowing the reality that there are many places much older and with REAL (NOT BOUGHT) TRAFFIC they deserve this title. They not call themselves as “facebook in latin”, they work hard and make great things also. Sonico has been trying to sell their company since they were born, while other hispanic sites doesnt appear on Techcrunch cause they dont pay for being on news. Next time at least contact a few big sites in latinamerica to have real data instead of bubbles.

By: J.P.

J.P. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:31:19 +0000

And what is all that nonsense abput “I keep getting this annoying notifications, I stay with Facebook”?!

Facebook wallposts, spammy aplications that need you to invite people to work and those infamous “ZombieVampire Vs NinjaPirates” games, is that your Paradise?

I stay with mi email

By: marc0s

marc0s — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:02:41 +0000

Hi Duncan,
as a lot of people pointed out before; Sonico is not growing as Juan Pablo Sueiro is telling you about.. it just leveraged the business of birthday reminders and greeting cards, moving it to subdomains just to claim they are growing and the biggest social network in latam etc.

And, as Pablo pointed out it made sense; what kind of investors can you get to a greeting card site or a birthday reminder site? Zero. But, what if you get all that traffic and “paint it” like a “social network”? Maybe more than zero

And Pablo, please.. dont compare your greeting cards or alerts to FB apps, because yours were not built on the community… as in facebook, a social network you might like or not, but who created the community from scratch without aquiring cheap traffic

By: Juan Pablo Sueiro

Juan Pablo Sueiro — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:15:38 +0000

Sonico.com was launched in late July of 2007 after many months of planning with an amazing team that you will probably hear much about in the near future.

1) It’s no secret that Sonico has leveraged it’s former properties. It’s not traffic manipulation like “juan carlos galdos” says, it makes no business sense to manipulate anything. The team has a long story of business successes, including ecommerce… we are in for the long run, no flipping, nor creating garbage… creating useful applications for our users, period. Users of the birthday reminder and greeting card sections are not forced to register to the social network, they can continue using it separately. We know that not everyone who wants to be reminded of a birthday wants to be part of a SN.

2) Sonico integrated the leading greeting card site in Latin America and the leading birthday alarm system with 23 million users with over 170 million alerts (just like FB applications). Why? it made sense, both were about people that knew each other and were about real relationships. Might remind you how bebo.com started.. we went further. From a business point of view, these integrated sites had low stickiness (set up the birthday alarm and never come back), and we saw an opportunity to increase the stickiness and utility of our services: hence, the SN. At no point we force anyone into the social network… they are separate - but leveraged - services.

3) Sonico’s recent MEGA spikes are due to 2 seasonal events, Christmas and valentines day. In the mean time people learn about Sonico’s SN services and join in the millions. Then the virality kicks in with invitations as any other SN. The momentum is strong and as Duncan Riley put it, “If their current growth continues Sonico will be a site to watch.”

4) Sonico’s main concern is product development and reaching critical mass… many things are coming out soon to reach that goal. (Open social integrations, IM, etc)… keep an eye on us!

For those who are truly interested in knowing more about sonico, you can contact us at pablo.sueiro at sonico.com… or just visit the site, register and look for yourselves!

By: May lovelace

May lovelace — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:49:36 +0000

Way too many social sites make social animals suffer by yet another site fatigue.

To socialize more and fast and stay organized,
MashedLife.com has been the heaven for me.

By: Pau

Pau — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:05:10 +0000

I was wondering how can it be possible to have Sonico at 40th place in the Argentinean Alexa Ranking and to have Tuenti (tuenti.com) at 16th place in the Spanish Ranking and to have such a big difference in terms of reach: tuenti is about 3 times less popular than Sonico in terms of reach.

By: Juan Carlos Galdos

Juan Carlos Galdos — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:49:55 +0000

Well, the people behind Sonico (company called FNBox) are experts at manipulating traffic and claiming millions of registered users (anyone remember when sonico used to say on its homepage only a few months ago that it had 23 million users? it was actually really funny and so Latin American of them! wish i had saved the screenshots), when it fact all they did was merge traffic from their other sites. Here is the proof - notice how in August when Sonico launched all of their sister sites experienced reverse traffic stats (they almost died off!):

http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....ize=Medium

The spikes and falls in Sonico’s traffic just prove to you how reliant these guys are on search marketing and publishers getting them users and hits, all of which is a) not sustainable over the long term; b) a stupid way to grow a social network because there is no viral activity or real connections behind the people joining (ironic that that’s their motto on the front page), so over time it will all fall apart. Anyhow, sorry guys, unlike real communities out there such as FB, this one’s all smoke and mirrors. Best of luck to any investor or advertiser who buys their story/stats!

By: Bernardo

Bernardo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:03:49 +0000

As German says http://www.metroflog.com is quiet interesting, I was under the impression that the success was base on a community of the North of Mexico, but they are very success in LA as well as in Spain. It would be interesting if TechCrunch analyze it.

By: Nick Wright

Nick Wright — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:32:23 +0000

Hey, don’t forget exiva.com!

http://www.exiva.com
share your life, treasure the privacy

By: German Herebia

German Herebia — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:47:17 +0000

Have you heard about http://www.Metroflog.com?
They are also growing very fast down here in Latam.
I am agree with Juan, Fotolog is huge in Argentina and Chile.
Also you can see Flodeo which is the fotolog from FNBox people.

By: Dr Fist

Dr Fist — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:38:12 +0000

I agree with you Molis