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 exactly — not to mention its growth rate. See Alexa graph and screenshot gallery, below.
Copying Facebook has already turned out to be lucrative in other countries.
In Germany, Facebook clone StudiVZ… Continue Reading