Alexa gives us a quick barometer of the where the social networks sites are in the relation to the rest of the web.
As of December 10, 2003, we see:
Consumer-Oriented Social Networks:
Craigslist – 114 (ranking of overall trafficked site on the Internet)
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=craigslist.orgEmode/Tickle — 149
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=emode.comFriendster — 157
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=friendster.comHotOrNot — 381
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=hotornot.comTribe — 7,216
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=tribe.net
Business-Oriented Social Networks:
Plaxo — 3,087
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=plaxo.comSpoke — 25,190
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=spoke.comGoodContacts — 45,810
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=goodcontacts.comZeroDegrees — 92,122
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=zerodegrees.comLinkedIn — 146,747
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=linkedin.com
Overall — this is a really impressive showing …. by contrast, Summation is over 1,000,000 — so we are not even on the map:(
I’m very surprised Spoke has more traffic than GoodContacts — which has been around for a very long time.