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Friendster was a social networking service originally based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. [ 4 ]
Friendster, like the phoenix has thousands of times before, has risen again renewed, refreshed and predictably re-branded. TechCrunch reports that the failed social network, after it shut its ...
Friendster was an early social network that once boasted over 111 million users and was the inspiration behind MySpace [7] and other more modern social networks. Google offered to buy the company in 2003 for $30 million in Google stock (about 200 million shares) before Google had IPO'd in 2005.
Google+, a social networking service, launches. [54] 2011 Launch Keek, a video-sharing and social media service, launches. [55] 2011 Acquisition Myspace is sold to Specific Media by News Corp. for $35 million. [56] 2011 Launch LinkedIn files for an IPO and trades its first shares under the NYSE symbol "LNKD", at $45 per share. [57] 2011 Launch
Ryze was a social networking service established in 2001 by Adrian Scott. The platform catered to business professionals, offering networking and professional connections. [1] [2] [3] Ryze contributed to the development of subsequent social networking services such as Friendster, founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2003.
Illustrations showing various icons of some popular social networking services. A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services into a unified presentation. Examples of social network aggregators include Hootsuite or FriendFeed, which may pull together information into a single location [1] or help a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into a single profile.
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...