These days there are so many ways to get in contact with people for communicating and sharing interests to furthering a career. What better place for an artist to be than a social network? Artist are always looking for those who have the "know", who do the same thing, who critique work, buy it, you name it. So how beneficial would a network just for artists and those in the art world be? Quite beneficial, especially when it comes to cost. Being part of a social network as an artist could be quite cost effective. 
 


It seems like every new day brings with it a plethora of Web 2.0 clone and spin-off sites - from micro-blogging to photo-sharing. Specifically, the last year or so has seen an explosion in localized social networking sites - particularly sites with accessibility and relevance to non-English speaking countries. From German Twitter clones to Chinese Facebook knockoffs, the trend is toward language- and region-specific variants of popular social networking phenomenon.

All of these clones make me wonder about the effect that language has on determining whether or not a platform is...