Rating the Estonian Facebook

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Rating the Estonian Facebook

May 08, 2008
By Marge Tubalkain-Trell

Whiz kid: Korobeinik the young pioneer who has shaped the Web in Estonia.

TALLINN - Estonia did it first. When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was still in high school, Parnu genius Andrei Korobeinik was busy building a social networking site that would capture a nation. With more than 300,000 users, Rate.ee is a phenomenon – not many countries have a Web site where a third of the population has voluntarily put up personal information pictures and their souls for others to a judge. Police use it to catch criminals and find lost children. Couples use it to ...

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