I just came back from an interesting journey through Germany, meeting with three rising school-student networks (btw, I also met with René who will soon release a very nifty university tool - more about this in a later post).

SchülerVZ is producing news with porno-images and nazi-groups on their network - but their growth in profile counts profile allows them to enter cooperations with search engines such as yahoo. Is there no room anymore for other social networks?

The journey convinced me that there’s more to German social networks than the Facebook-clones StudiVZ and SchülerVZ. Last week I met with Sebastian from Schueler.cc in Friedberg, a small town north of Frankfurt. I also met with Jasco, Klaudia and Florian from Fellowweb.de in Vallendar, a university town in the Rhine-Valley. Last but not least I met with Manuel and Bernd from Spickmich.de in their hometown Cologne. (more…)