facebook
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc.Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.
twitter
Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet." Unregistered users can read tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices.Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio.
linkedin
myspace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake. Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In June 2012, Myspace had 25 million unique U.S. visitors. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million.MySpace had a significant influence in pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and Rock You, among others.The site also started the trend of creating unique URLs for companies and artists
friendster
Friendster is a social gaming site that is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was previously known as a social networking website.Before the site was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile and their network.It was considered one of the original and even the "grandaddy" of social networks.The service became popular in Southeast Asia and is a major site in that region of the world.
hi5
Hi5 is a social networking site based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi.Hi5 acquired social gaming company Big Six.Hi5 has many features common to social networking sites, such as friend networks, photo sharing, user groups, and status updates.At Hi5, users can create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown. Users can also upload photos and create personal photo albums where other users can post comments. Hi5 also allows the user to play online games and set up a music player in the profile. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users.
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc.Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.
Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet." Unregistered users can read tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices.Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio.
LinkedIn Corporation is a social networking website for people in professional occupations. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003,it is mainly used for professional networking. As of January 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 200 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories.The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Indonesian, and Malay.Quantcast reports LinkedIn has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.In June 2011, LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique visitors, up 63 percent from a year earlier and surpassing MySpace. LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011 and traded its first shares on May 19, 2011, under the NYSE symbol "LNKD"
myspace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake. Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In June 2012, Myspace had 25 million unique U.S. visitors. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million.MySpace had a significant influence in pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and Rock You, among others.The site also started the trend of creating unique URLs for companies and artists
friendster
Friendster is a social gaming site that is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was previously known as a social networking website.Before the site was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile and their network.It was considered one of the original and even the "grandaddy" of social networks.The service became popular in Southeast Asia and is a major site in that region of the world.
hi5
Hi5 is a social networking site based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi.Hi5 acquired social gaming company Big Six.Hi5 has many features common to social networking sites, such as friend networks, photo sharing, user groups, and status updates.At Hi5, users can create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown. Users can also upload photos and create personal photo albums where other users can post comments. Hi5 also allows the user to play online games and set up a music player in the profile. Users can also send friend requests via e-mail to other users.
orkut
Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by GoogleThe service is designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil.An Orkut user can also add videos to their profile from either YouTube or Google Video with the additional option of creating either restricted or unrestricted polls for polling a community of users. There is an option to integrate GTalk (An instant messenger from Google) with Orkut enabling chatting and file sharing. Currently GTalk has been integrated in Orkut – users can directly chat from their Orkut page. Similar to Facebook, users may also use a "like" button to share interests with friends
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