AsianAvenue.com And BlackPlanet.com Parent Company Community Connect Is Turning 10 Years Old

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2007

Community Connect is one of the first multicultural-focused social networking companies. And today I found out that CCI is celebrating their 10-year anniversary soon.

Some of the social networks that Community Connect powers include BlackPlanet.com (African American focused), MiGente.com (Latino-focused), AsianAvenue.com (Asian-focused), GLEE.com (GLBT focused), and Faithbase.com (Christian focused). According to Comscore, Community Connect’s social networks are the 5th largest U.S. social network property based on page views.

Community Connect was founded by Benjamin Sun, Calvin Wong, Peter Chen, and Michael Montero. Between all of these aforementioned social networks, Community Connect has 19 million members.

BlackPlanet alone accounts for 16.5 million members and had 80 million page views in June 2007. Hitwise ranks BlackPlanet at #5 behind sites like MySpace and Facebook.