Time to update some Facebook facts and numbers worldwide. By now most of us knows that Facebook has over 500 million users; that’s just little less than total number of people living in North America. And it’s almost 1/12th of total world population ( 6 billion ). Traffic wise Facebook has surpassed many big online networks. Though these are gigantic numbers for any social networking site, Facebook still is not number one social network in many countries. Other social networking portals dominate these countries. Like in India and Brazil, Orkut is number one ( Though Facebook has almost ousted Orkut in India ). As one can conclude from the chart below, all other countries except India and Brazil has social networks dominating are of their own language.  Zyng, Hyves, Orkut, Mixi, Vkontakte are still dominating respective countries over Facebook. And this situation might not change for years to come as the language barrier has high impact on user’s choice. Anyway 500 million is not a bad number after all!

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“I have Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, Twitter and blah,blah,blah social network profiles. I can’t manage them.” You hear and might feel yourself the same things as social networks are increasing in numbers and nature. GizaPage can end this dilemma by providing one common platform where you can organize all your social network profiles and share them with friends. GizaPage organizes your all social network profiles in no-nonsense way of tabbed pages and one single vanity URL. You can register with GizaPage and get one fancy yourname.gizapage.com url which will be your homepage for all social networks. On that page you can see different tabs for each social network profile and can manage through that. GizaPage helps organizations make one brand of all their social network presence. That’s a brief overview of GizaPage. But in this article we will see more about entrepreneurial journey of the founder in the making of GizaPage, his learning and experiences and most importantly – the advice for early stage entrepreneurs and startups in whole. Recently I talked to Amit – Founder and CEO of GizaPage. He candidly explained about GizaPage as well as his experiences and entrepreneurial journey. Here’s that Q&A session.

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