mixi, one of the biggest social networks in the world, and the largest in Japan, is introducing a ‘social pages' feature today.  No doubt inspired by the success of pages in Facebook, the new service will allow users to look at ‘pages' for businesses and individuals, and also will allow for ‘public' pages.  This is a change for the usually (and very Japanese) private social network, where a login and confirmation is necessary to see anything on the site.

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