Posted by Ingrid Riley on July 14th, 2010
Remember when Hi5.com was the Facebook for us in the Caribbean and many others around 3 or 5 years ago. Well the 7 year old site, having been unseated and fallen out of favour with the social networkers is switching to social games and virtual goods. The San Francisco-based Hi5 has tens of millions of users and much of its fan base is overseas. The site also ranks as one of the world’s top 20 web sites. It has been noted that Hi5 is one of the companies leading and defining the rapidly emerging social entertainment category. More
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Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 23rd, 2009
I am not a fan of Hi5.com at all,since signing up about a year ago, but hey that’s just me. They seem to be heading in the direction of reinvention. They’re going virtual. Read more. Because Facebook is the largest, fastest-growing network in the world, a big question is what other social networks are going to do to compete. Hi5, with approximately 60 million monthly unique visitors, is in the process of making itself an “immersive social environment” that includes virtual goods, avatars, games, instant messaging and a 3-D world geared at older teens worldwide. The company plans to make money off of virtual goods — not traditional online advertising. More
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