Social Networking Websites Ever wonder how and when

Social Networking Websites Ever wonder how and when they started?

History of the Internet n n J. C. R. Licklider of MIT, first proposed a global network of computers in 1962, and moved over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in late 1962 to head the work to develop it. The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah

History (cont’d) n n The Internet was designed in part to provide a communications network that would work even if some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack. If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes. Al Gore did not invent the Internet, but had probably done more than any other elected official to support the growth and development of the Internet from the 1970's to the present.

Myspace n n n The origin of the My. Space. com domain was a site owned by Your. Z. com, Inc It was intended to be a leading online data storage and sharing site up until 2002. By 2004, My. Space and My. Space. com, which existed as a brand associated with Your. Z. com, had made the transition from a virtual storage site to a social networking site. On January 26, 2008, over 567, 000 private My. Space user pictures were downloaded from the site by using a bug published on You. Tube and put on the Piratebay torrent site for download

Youtube n n You. Tube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of Pay. Pal, in February 2005. In November 2006, You. Tube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1. 65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, www. utube. com. The owner of the site, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against You. Tube in November 2006 after being overloaded on a regular basis by people looking for You. Tube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com.

Twitter n n n Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as “SMS of the Internet. ” The tipping point for Twitter's popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest festival. During the event usage went from 20, 000 tweets per day to 60, 000.

Facebook n n Mark Zuckerberg invented Facemash on October 28, 2003 while attending Harvard as a sophomore. The site represented a Harvard University version of Hot or Not, according to the Harvard Crimson. That night, Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl who had dumped him and trying to think of something to do to get her off his mind. Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e -mail address. In October 2008, Facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland

Bebo, an acronym for "Blog early, blog often”, is a social networking website, founded in January 2005. n It was bought by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 m n

Formspring n n On November 25, 2009, Formspring. Me, a social media site where users can ask each other anonymous questions, was launched. Formspring. Me, which links to Facebook and Twitter, became a craze in early 2010. Formspring. Me has garnered some controversy, especially among teenagers, for opening the door for harassment, due to the anonymity of the entries. A fight between several students at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania High School, which started after an argument over Formspring. Me, garnered some media attention in February 2010.

Tumblr n n n Tumblr is a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users are able to "follow" other users and see their posts together on their dashboard. Users can "like" or "reblog" posts from other blogs on the site. David Karp founded Tumblr in 2007 with Marco Arment as lead developer. Right away, 75, 000 existing bloggers switched to the platform, and since that time the service has garnered more than 3 million users. Jeff Rock created a Tumblr app for the i. Phone, which was acquired by Tumblr in 2009.

Hi 5 n n Hi 5 is a social networking website. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO. As of January 2009, Hi 5 claims to have over 60 million active members. In Hi 5, users create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments. Hi 5 also allows the user to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile.

Flickr n n n Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004. Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. As of October 2009, it claims to host more than 4 billion images.

Google n n Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph. D. students at Stanford Google is the most popular web-based search engine. The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol, “ which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb, "google, " was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning, "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.

Yahoo n Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories. . . and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.

Pros n Online business people use these social services as tools to promote their websites, products and services basically because of the overwhelmingly significant number of people that they have brought together to form communities. Internet marketers cannot be faulted for seeing these sites as good venues to do some aspects of their Internet marketing efforts.

Pros Cont’d n Creating your network of contacts goes beyond geographical and cultural differences as you get to know and meet people who share your interests from almost all sides of world. Procuring information on a specific subject is faster and easier, for you can ask your network of friends to provide you with links to websites that can best provide you with that information. Or, they can provide the information themselves, especially if they are experts of that particular subject or field.

Pros Cont’d n More than anything else, social sites provide better ways to keep in touch with our classmates, friends and family. Even though we are from them, you and these people both have easy access to how each other is doing, as you can send messages as well as upload photos and videos.

Con’s n Identity theft and fraud are two bothersome concerns that have come out of social networking sites. The e-mail address, name, location, age, and many others are personal information that users give out, and others can use them in performing illegal activities. There also people who pretend to be somebody else and convince you that they are in for a business deal. But, the truth is they are there to rob you out of your money

Cons Cont’d n Cases of online harassment and stalking have also been a concern. People who have issues with you or for whatever reason just can search on your name and stalk or harass you. In order to address this, users are allowed to report or block users that go out of bounds.

Cons Cont’d n Knowing the pros and cons of social networking sites is indeed important as it allows you to make informed choices in your social networking activities, and these informed choices are your best weapons against the adversities that social networking may cause you.

Sources n n n WWW. GOOGLE. COM WWW. WIKIPEDIA. COM WWW. YAHOO. COM

UStream • Ustream. tv was born when the founders (John Ham, Brad Hunstable, and Dr. Gyula Feher) wanted a way for their friends in the Army, who were deployed overseas in Iraq during the war, to be able to communicate with their families back home. • Established in March 2007, the site has over 2, 000 registered users who generate 1, 500, 000+ hours of live streamed content per month with over ten million unique hits per month.

Livestream n n Livestream, formerly known as Mogulus, is a live streaming video platform that allows users to view and broadcast video content using a camera and a computer through the internet. It offers a free ad-supported service and multi-tiered premium services. Livestream was cofounded in 2007 by Max Haot, Dayananda Nanjundappa, Phil Worthington, and Mark Kornfilt, and has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Ukraine and Bangalore.

Constant Contact • Constant Contact®, Inc. was incorporated as Roving Software in 1995 and began operations in 1998. • The goal was to develop an affordable, easy-touse email marketing tool—to help small businesses build successful, lasting customer relationships. • Today, more than 400, 000 customers worldwide from all types of small businesses and organizations use Constant Contact