Attack of the Facebook clones: Russia’s Vkontakte

Attack of the Facebook clones: Russia’s Vkontakte

International ripoffs of successful web companies can be found everywhere, from Frazr, the German Twitter clone, to Digg Malaysia, the Malaysian clone of the news-ranking site Digg.

Not to be outdone, the Russian social network Vkontakte (or “virtual contact”) has copied Facebook’s look and feel almost… Continue Reading