For the first time, Hitwise reports that UK Internet visits to social networks (blue line) overtook visits to web-based email services (orange line).
As the chart below illustrates, Hitwise's category of the top 25 social networks, which includes Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, accounted for 5.17% of all UK Internet visits, compared to 4.98% for Computers and Internet – Email Services, which includes Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail.
To bite back, Yahoo and Google plan to turn their email services into social networks.
Already My Yahoo and iGoogle are increasingly collections of widgets that hold content and applications from multiple sources, some of them already social, like e-mail and feeds from social sites like Flickr. But much more is coming
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