An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms

NEW YORK (AP) – AOL splashes images of Bollywood celebrities on its new home page for India. MySpace accepts sign-ups from mobile phones in Japan. Google departs from its customarily spartan home page and peppers its Korean site with colorful, animated icons.

As major U.S. Internet companies stake their ground abroad in anticipation of the next billion people coming online – and the advertising revenue they might generate – the flags they are planting aren’t the Stars and Stripes.

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Very good social networking article

Political affiliations aside, I think this article on Barack Obama’s online strategy has some really good lessons for creating social networking communities.

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