Lesson 04 Round-Up (29/09/2014)
Social Networks - Optimazation of web sites
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app.Twitter Inc. is based in San Fransisco and has more than 25 offices around the world .
LinkedIn is a social networking site designed specifically for the business community. The goal of the site is to allow registered members to establish and document networks of people they know and trust professionally.
It is a web and mobile application company that offers a visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage tool. Users create and share the collections of visual bookmarks (boards). Boards are created through a user selecting an item, page, website, etc. and pinning it to an existing or newly created board. Users save and share pins from multiple resources onto boards based on a plethora of criteria, e.g., similar characteristics, a theme, birthday parties, planning a vacation, writing a book, interior decorating, holidays. Boards can develop projects, organize events, or save pictures and data together. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. It is managed by Cold Brew Labs and funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and investors.
Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus) is a social networking and identity service that is owned and operated by Google Inc. Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with its owner/author.It is the second-largest social networking site in the world after Facebook. 540 million monthly active users are part of the Identity service site, by interacting socially with Google+'s enhanced properties, like Gmail, +1 button, and you tube comments.
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Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.
"Capture and Share the World's Moments".Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family.Take a picture or video, choose a filter to transform itslook and feel, then post to Instagram — it's that easy. You can even share to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. It's a new way to see the world.
VK is the largest Russian social networking service in Europe. It is available in several languages, but particularly popular among Russian-speaking users around the world, especially in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
Flickr is a popular photo-sharing and hosting service with advanced and powerful features. It supports an active and engaged community where people share and explore each other's photos. You can share and host hundreds of your own pictures on Flickr without paying a dime.
Vine is the best way to see and share life in motion. Create short, beautiful, looping videos in a simple and fun way for your friends and family to see.
- Unlimited uploads and free- Instantly post videos on Vine, then share to Twitter and Facebook (more coming soon!)- Find, follow, and interact with people close to you- Explore trending posts, featured hashtags and editor's picks- And so much more
Meetup is an online social networking portal that facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world. Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common interest, such as politics, books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies. Users enter their postal code or their city and the topic they want to meet about, and the website helps them arrange a place and time to meet. Topic listings are also available for users who only enter a location. Meetup receives revenue by charging fees to administrators of groups.
Tagged is a social discovery website based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2004. It allows members to browse the profiles of other members, play games,and share tags and virtual gifts. Tagged claims it has 300 million members.As of September 2011, Quantcast estimates Tagged monthly unique users at 5.9 million in the United States, and 18.6 million globally.Michael Arrington wrote in April 2011 that Tagged is most notable for the ability to grow profitably during the era of Facebook.In 2009, Tagged was criticized for sending deceptive bulk email and paid $1.4 million in legal settlements regarding those practices.The company has since adopted privacy reforms and changed its invitation processes.
Ask.fm is the app for social Q&A that lets you explore your friends’ personalities by asking them to answer smart, interesting and fun questions about themselves. It’s entertaining, completely easy to use and you can quickly connect using your Facebook, Twitter or VK login.Ask.fm is used by millions of users around the world every day, asking and answering millions of questions every month in over 40 languages.
official Ask.fm app has to offer:
- Easy, intuitive interface
- Access to all your social media friends
- See the activity of everyone you follow
- Read and respond to your questions anywhere, anytime
- Add photos and animated GIFs to your answers
- Always stay on top with push notification
MeetMe shows you who’s nearby, ready to chat and meet.It is for all ages, all nationalities, all backgrounds.Whether you’re at the bar, on the beach, or hanging out at home, MeetMe is the BEST app for meeting new people near you!
More than 90 MILLION PEOPLE are on MeetMe making friends, chatting, and hanging out.
Use MeetMe to:
- Meet great people near you by joining the conversation in Live Feed
- See who's right nearby and start chatting fast in Locals
- Ask and answer anything with Ask Me
Classmates.com is a social networking service created in 1995 by Randy Conrads who founded Classmates Online, Inc.
The social media website was originally designed to assist members in finding friends and classmates from kindergarten, primary school, high school, college, work and the United States military. In 2010, CEO Mark Goldston described the transition of the website "to increasingly focus on nostalgic content" such as "high school yearbooks, movie trailers, music tracks, and photographic images."
Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics. It was launched in September 2008 and the site now has over 11 million registered users as of 2014.The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price, who raised $600,000 from Spark Ventures, Brent Hoberman, and others.
