Hyves is growing
Hyves is a really famous social network site in the Netherlands which is getting bigger and bigger. But there are some competitors.Myspace is coming to the Netherlands and opens a frontal attack on Hyves. MySpace wants to conquer Europe but is doing this gradual. The American site launched at first an European site in the UK where now a days 6.5 million people make use of. The question is now, is the Dutch Hyves, with almost 3 million Dutch users big enough to offer capacitance against the News Corporation of Rupert Murdoch, who is since July 2005 for 580 million dollar the owner of MySpace.
Hyves has of course a serious projection at the Dutch market compared to MySpace. Nevertheless a lot of the Dutchmen already have a MySpace profile.
To keep itself on the market, Hyves needs to do a lot of innovation with functionality and tools to keep it popular. The number of friends is for now the biggest strength of Hyves. MySpace must firstly build a substantial Dutch member file. It is the best for Hyves to make creating a membership less interesting at MySpace. The more friends and pictures you have on Hyves, the less you feel like changing your profile site.
But MySpace will work hard to make it self big!
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Hyves seems to pass Google as most visited website. That becomes clear at least from figures of bureau Alexa. According to Alexa, de social network site Hyves often has more page views than the search machine Google. Hyves has daily about 1 million unique visitors and that are less visitors than Google has everyday. www.nu.nl
