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SOCIAL NETWORKING
- SIX DEGRESS
- It was named after the six
degrees of separation
concept and allowed users to
list friends, family members
and acquaintances both on
the site and externally;
external contacts were invited
to join the site. Users could
send messages and post
bulletin board items to people
in their first, second, and third
degrees, and see their
connection to any other user
on the site.
- 1999
- ASIANAVENUE
- the site was launched on July
21, 1997 by co-founders
Benjamin Sun, Peter Chen,
Grace Chang, Michael
Montero, and Calvin Wong. By
1998, The New York Times
described it as "unusually
successful" despite being "run
out of an apartment", having
hit five million page views
from 50,000 users.
- 1997
- BLACKPLANET
- BlackPlanet is an
African-American social
networking service for
matchmaking and job
postings; it also has forums
for discussion on political
and social issues.
- 1999
- MIGENTE
- the current iteration of
MiGente.com is an online
social-networking site
specifically targeting the
Hispanic community.Its
former parent company,
Community Connect Inc.,
claimed that MiGente.com
was the fastest growing
English language site for the
Hispanic community with
over 3 million registered
members.
- 1999
- FRIENDSTER
- Friendster was a social
gaming site based in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. It was
originally a social networking
service website.Before
Friendster was redesigned,
the service allowed users to
contact other members,
maintain those contacts, and
share online content and
media with those contacts.
- 1999
- HI5
- The company was founded in
2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi. and
had become the 8th largest
social network by mid 2006.
Prior to 2004, the Company had
raised $250,000 in an angel
investment round, and utilized
this early investment to bring
the Company to profitability. In
2007, the Company raised $20
million in series A venture
capital from Mohr Davidow
Ventures, as well as $15 million
in venture debt.
- 2003
- PHOTOBUCKET
- Photobucket is an American
image hosting and video
hosting website, web services
suite, and online community.
Photobucket hosts more than
10 billion images from 100
million registered members,
who upload more than four
million images and videos per
day from the Web and
connected digital devices.
- 2003
- LINKEDIN
- LinkedIn is a business- and
employment-oriented social
networking service that
operates via websites and
mobile apps. Founded on
December 28, 2002, and
launched on May 5, 2003, it is
mainly used for professional
networking, including
employers posting jobs and
job seekers posting their CVs.
- 2003
- MYSPACE
- Myspace is a social networking
website offering an interactive,
user-submitted network of
friends, personal profiles, blogs,
groups, photos, music, and
videos. It is headquartered in
Beverly Hills, California.
- 2003
- DELICIOUS
- Delicious(stylized del.icio.us) is a
social bookmarking web service
for storing, sharing, and
discovering web bookmarks.
The site was founded by Joshua
Schachter and Peter Gadjokov in
2003 and acquired by Yahoo in
2005. By the end of 2008, the
service claimed more than 5.3
million users and 180 million
unique bookmarked URLs.
- 2003
- FACEBOOK
- Facebook is an American
for-profit corporation and an
online social media and social
networking service based in
Menlo Park, California. The
Facebook website was
launched on February 4, 2004,
by Mark Zuckerberg, along
with fellow Harvard College
students and roommates,
Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz
and Chris Hughes.
- 2004
- MULTIPLY
- Multiply was a social
networking service with an
emphasis on allowing users to
share media – such as photos,
videos and blog entries – with
their "real-world" network. The
website was launched in March
2004 and was privately held
with backing by VantagePoint
Venture Partners, Point Judith
Capital, Transcosmos, and
private investors.
- 2004
- ORKUT
- Orkut was a social networking
web.site owned and operated by
Google. The service was
designed to help users meet
new and old friends and
maintain existing relationships.
The website was named after its
creator, Google employee Orkut
Büyükkökten
- 2004
- NING
- Ning is an online platform for
people and organizations to
create custom social networks.
launched in October 2005. Ning
offers customers the ability to
create a community website
with a customized appearance
and feel; feature sets such as
photos, videos, forums and
blogs; and support for “Like”,
plus integration with Facebook,
Twitter, Google and Yahoo!.
- 2005
- WORLD OF WARCRAFT
- World of Warcraft (WoW) is a
massively multiplayer online
role-playing game (MMORPG)
released in 2004 by Blizzard
Entertainment. It is the fourth
released game set in the
fantasy Warcraft universe,
which was first introduced by
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in
1994.
- 2004
- DIGG
- Digg is a news aggregator with a
curated front page, aiming to
select stories specifically for the
Internet audience such as
science, trending political issues,
and viral Internet issues. It was
launched in its current form on
July 31, 2012, with support for
sharing content to other social
platforms such as Twitter and
Facebook.
- 2004
- YOUTUBE
- YouTube is an American
video-sharing website
headquartered in San Bruno,
California. The service was
created by three former PayPal
employees — Chad Hurley,
Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —
in February 2005. Google
bought the site in November
2006 for US$1.65 billion;
YouTube now operates as one
of Google's subsidiaries.
- 2005
- REVVER
- Revver (formerly ChangeTv) is a
defunct video sharing website
that hosted user-generated
content. Until its shutdown in
2011,[1] Revver attached
advertising to user-submitted
video clips and originally
offered to share ad revenue
with the video creators.
- 2005
- REDIT
- Reddit (/ˈrɛdɪt/) is an American
social news aggregation, web
content rating, and discussion
website. Reddit's registered
community members can
submit content such as text
posts or direct links. Registered
users can then vote submissions
up or down that determines
their position on the page.
- 2005
- TWITTER
- Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online
news and social networking
service where users post and
interact with messages, "tweets",
restricted to 140 characters.
Registered users can post tweets,
but those who are unregistered
can only read them. Users
access Twitter through its
website interface, SMS or a
mobile device app.
- 2006
- USTREAM.TV
- Ustream is an American live
video streaming and video
hosting company. It is based in
San Francisco and has more than
180 employees in their San
Francisco, Los Angeles, and
Budapest offices. Company
partners include Panasonic,
Samsung, Logitech, CBS News,
PBS NewsHour, Viacom, and IMG
Media.
- 2007
- JUSTIN.TV
- Justin.tv was a website created
by Justin Kan, Emmett Shear,
Michael Seibel and Kyle Vogt in
2007 to allow anyone to
broadcast video online. Justin.tv
user accounts were called
"channels", like those on
YouTube, and users were
encouraged to broadcast a wide
variety of user-generated live
video content, called
"broadcasts".
- 2007
- TUMBLUR
- Tumblr is a microblogging and
social networking website
founded by David Karp in 2007,
and owned by Oath Inc.service
allows users to post multimedia
and other content to a
short-form blog. Users can
follow other users' blogs.
Bloggers can also make their
blogs private.
- 2007
- FRIENDFEED
- FriendFeed was a real-time feed
aggregator that consolidated
updates from social media and
social networking websites,
social bookmarking websites,
blogs and microblogging
updates, as well as any type of
RSS/Atom feed. Created by Bret
Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit
and Sanjeev Singh.
- 2008
- KOTAIN
- Works in a bit diferent than
many social networks, putting
the focus on usability and
allowing users to follow each
other trought photos videos and
music, rather than just simple
status updates
- 2008
- POSTEROUS
- Posterous was a simple blogging
platform started in May 2008,
funded by Y Combinator. It
supported integrated and
automatic posting to other social
media tools such as Flickr,
Twitter, and Facebook, a built-in
Google Analytics package, and
custom themes. It was based in
San Francisco. Posterous agreed
to be shut down in March 12,
2012 after much of the team was
acquired by Twitter on March 12,
2012.
- 2008
- 4CHAN
- 4chan is an English-language
imageboard website. Users
generally post anonymously,
with the most recent posts
appearing above the rest.
4chan is split into various
boards with their own specific
content and guidelines.
Registration is not possible
(except for staff). Launched on
October 1, 2003, the site was
modeled on Japanese
imageboards, particularly
Futaba Channel. 4chan's first
boards were originally primarily
used for posting pictures and
discussing manga and anime.
- 2003
- USERNET
- BBSS
- IRC, ICQ, AND INSTANT MESSAGING
- ONLINE SERVICES
- FORUMS
- MAJOR ADVANCES IN SOCIAL NETWORKING
- COMPANY SPONSORED SOCIAL NETWORKS
- SOCIAL NEWS AND BOOKMARKIMG
- REAL TIME UPDATES
- NICHE SOCIAL NETWORKS
- MEDIA SHERING
- LIFESTREAMING AND LIFECASTING
- OTHER MAYORAL SOCIAL NETWORKS
- PRECURSSORS