Thread: My Space launches in India

With the growing market share of the social networking sites in India, the US giant My Space could not stand out of the race any longer. MySpace recently launched its India chapter along with a rock show The show featured Pentagram, Super Fuzz, The Clones, and also included a postlaunch party featuring the Raghu Dixit Project, Shaair and Func, and Swarathma. Few might know the website has been in live beta since anuary IS year.

II MySpace is a place for creative people to express themselves and to find their fire, I' said Tarun Tripathi, director (marketing and content) of MySpace India at the launch. MySpace coming to Inc is part of the Web site's globalization drive to get a feel ( local cultures across the globe and get them all on one global platform. Besides, the site is looking to expand itself in the face of severe competition from the likes of Facebook and Orkut of which the latter is extremely popular in India.



Orkut added 'Orkut Apps' to I, its users upload music and videos and showcase their talent, similar to MySpace. Maybe, the timing of the MySpace India launch couldn't have been better with the social networking space on the web expanding exponentially.