Startups from Finland: MuslimSpace is a MySpace Clone for Muslims
MuslimSpace is a social networking site for Muslims that’s based in Espoo, Finland. According to Alexa they reach 145k users per week. The users come from around the world. The top three countries are Malaysia (18.5%), United States (13.6%) and Serbia and Montenegro (12.3%).
MuslimSpace is very much a MySpace clone especially when looking at the profile pages which feature all the same elements as MySpace. Besides the usual networking features the site also has blogs, photo galleries, groups, polls and forums.
The site has had its share of controversy especially about the now apparently terminated rule that the female users had to wear the hijab in their photos.
MuslimSpace was founded by Mohammed El-Fatatry, who is originally from Egypt. The site was acquired by a company called Muxlim, that was established in Finland in 2006. Muxlim also runs other sites targeted to Muslims, notably IslamicTorrents.net and Muxlim.tv. Not hard to guess what those sites are related to…. They also feature an online version of the Quran and a Search for Muslim-related sites created with Google Custom Search. According to them there are currently 150M Muslims that use the internet and they hope that in a few years most of them will be using their services.
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Date: December 6, 2007 | Time: 3:54 pm
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