Now this is like digg.com vs. digg.de (now yigg.de after some confusion) taken to the next level.
The new kid on the block is Studiverzeichnis.com (Studiverzeichnis translates roughly into “students directory”). It is a community website for German students - you log in, you set up a profile, you find people from your university, there are interest groups, a message system, etc., and you can see who is befriended with whom. Basically, it is like facebook.com.
Wait - it is really a LOT like facebook…. just compare the frontpage of both websites:
As far as I can tell (I’ve been using studiverzeichnis.com for a week now and have been occasionally looking into facebook before) studiverzeichnis offers all the basic functionality that facebook does, but facebook knows some more tricks, like photo galleries. Still, I wonder if it was necessary to copy the layout of facebook to that extent - that somehow takes the genuinity out of studiverzeichnis, and that is a shame, because Germany really needs a good adaption of the facebook idea. What do you think?
This may not be true but I heard something about Sudiverzeichnis being somehow directly or indirectly connected to facebook.com as an effort by facebook to expand intenationally. This would explain the extremely similar interfaces. But, again, this is an unverified statement. Nice blog by the way.
studiverzeichnis also offers photo galleries (click on “Meine Fotos” in the menu).
Probably you might also take into comparison our Website www.camspuContacts.net - same funcionality but a differen design