in ascending order.
10.
MySpace:
Creators:Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe
Date of Birth:August 1, 2003
Estimated users:over 110 million
Peculiar feature:Free marketing
For bands and unsigned performers, MySpace is a sort of virtual audition stage, a place to debut new tracks, get their names out there and share information with other musicians. It's also a place to share information or arrange special shows just for their fans. Many have released rare or alternate music tracks online through MySpace.
9.
Orkut
Creator:Orkut Buyukkokten
Date of Birth:January 22, 2004
Estimated users:over 30 million
Peculiar features:
Scrapping is popular among the Orkut community as a form of offline and online communication.Anyone with an Orkut account can create a community on anything.Unlike Facebook, where a member can view profile details of people only on their network.Another feature is that any member can add any other member on Orkut to his/her "Crush List" and both of them will be informed only when both parties have added each other to their "Crush List".
8.
51.com
Creator:Andy Yao Yonghe
Date of Birth:August 2005
Estimated users:over 120 million
Peculiar features:
Members can create personalized profile pages, upload photos and write blog posts. The site has a reputation for pretty exceptional user engagement, most members visit the site multiple times each month. The site plans to launch a major game project, with an investment of more than 100 million yuan(about $14.6 million) would only enhance this engagement.Investors in 51.com include Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital China and Redpoint entures, the company that invested in another well-known social networking success MySpace.com.
7.
Friendster
Creator:Jonathan Abrams
Date of Birth:2002
Estimated users:over 90 million
Peculiar features:
In 2007 Friendster added Fan Profiles, the Friendster Developer Program (open platform) and starting launching Friendster.com in 9 additional languages. In 2008, Friendster continued to launch the site in new languages and also launched Friendster Mobile which includes SMS text alerts.(Alas, Friendster lost its dominant position in the U.S. social networking site market when MySpace's popularity skyrocketed, though it still has a strong user base in the U.S. and continues to be very popular in Asia.)
6.
Skyrock
Creator:Pierre Bellanger
Date of Birth:December 17th, 2002
Peculiar features:
5.
Hi5
Creator:Ramu Yalamanchi
Date of Birth:June 27, 2003
Estimated users:over 60 million
4.
Youtube
Creators:Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim
Date of Birth:February 2005
Estimated users:over 100 million each day
Peculiar features:
3.
LinkedIn
Creator:Reid Hoffman
Date of Birth:Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003
Estimated users:over 35 million
Peculiar features:
Professional networking.The site also supports activities beyond networking with potential employers, employees or clients. For example,LinkedIn provides a platform that allows members to collaborate on projects -- a virtual meeting room of sorts.LinkedIn boasts a membership of more than 35 million people and claims that executives from every Fortune 500 company have member profiles on the site.
2.
Twitter
Creators:Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams
Date of Birth:2006
Estimated users:over 6 million each day
Peculiar features:
Twitter is part Web site, part Web service -- an online environment where users can create profiles, fill them with information and then build a network of people they "follow" (and a band of others who follow them). Twitter sends messages between users via the Short Message Service (SMS), better known as text messaging. Members send their texts through Twitter to those they allow to follow them. The messages, Tweets, are super short: only 140 charters or shorter (there are technically 160 characters for use, but the first 20 are there to make room for user names in messages.)Some Twitterers use the service to arrange parties or other events. Others just like to keep their friends up to speed on what's going on in their lives. The messages can be sent via phone, through the Twitter Web site or one of hundreds new desktop or smart phone widgets.
1.
Facebook
Creator:Mark Zuckerberg(Founder and CEO),Dustin Moskovitz,Chris Hughes
Date of Birth:February 4, 2004
Estimated users:over 175 million
Peculiar features:
Initially in 2004,it allowed peers to create personal profiles, search for friends profiles and invite others from the university to join. It was a smashing success almost immediately.Half of the Harvard undergraduate student body had Facebook profiles within a month of the site's launch.
After being limited to academic institutions for two years, Facebook opened to the general population in fall 2006, and just three years after its launch, the site had 30 million users.Zuckerberg soon extended the site to allow students from universities in the Boston area to join. Before long, he opened the site up to students from any university in the United States. The site continued to grow. In 2006, Facebook opened its virtual doors to anyone with a registered e-mail address.Since then, the site's popularity has exploded. Not content to rest upon his accomplishments, Zuckerberg continued to push for new features. One of the most revolutionary was creating an application programming interface (API) for third-party developers. Suddenly, programmers could design applications that could tap into Facebook's massive population. Applications range from simple games and diversions such as Lexulous
to clever marketing campaigns like Burger King's short-lived Whopper Sacrifice application which asked you to delete 10 friends to earn a free Whopper sandwich.
In short Facebook has become the most visited social networking site in the world, receiving more than 10 million unique visitors than MySpace in January 2009, making it the No. 1 social networking site on our list.
Members can create profiles, write blog entries, converse in chat rooms and send messages to each other. They can make friends and see what other people are up to. And this all takes place in a kinetic Web environment packed with features -- there's not a square inch of Skyrock that isn't covered by pictures, profiles, animations or video.(Skyrock started off as a blog site called Skyblog, compliments of a French independent radio station SKYROCK Radio, 96.0 FM, in Paris As its popularity grew, the site evolved gradually until into a fully-fledged social networking site)
5.
Hi5
Creator:Ramu Yalamanchi
Date of Birth:June 27, 2003
Estimated users:over 60 million
Peculiar features:
It allows users to create personal photo albums and set up a music player in the profile.The network of friends consists of a user's direct friends (1st degree), the friends of those direct friends(2nd degree) and the friends of the friends of direct friends(3rd degree).While sites like Facebook and MySpace began to dominate the U.S. social networking scene, Hi5 began to look at other opportunities internationally.In 2006, it launched a Spanish version of the site to great success. Versions of the site in other languages soon followed. This new focus paid off. Hi5 became the most popular social networking site in Mexico and many Latin American countries.4.
Youtube
Creators:Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim
Date of Birth:February 2005
Estimated users:over 100 million each day
Peculiar features:
YouTube isn't what you'd traditionally call a social networking site.The hippest thing to do on YouTube these days may be video logging, or vlogging. It's similar to blogging--members post videos in which they talk about a subject that interests or concerns them. Other users can
comment on the video and conversations develop as a result.While YouTube has always featured a user comments option, the social networking aspect of the site really took off when the site introduced video comments in May 2006. Instead of leaving a text-based comment in response to a video, members can now record short videos in responses
comment on the video and conversations develop as a result.While YouTube has always featured a user comments option, the social networking aspect of the site really took off when the site introduced video comments in May 2006. Instead of leaving a text-based comment in response to a video, members can now record short videos in responses
3.
Creator:Reid Hoffman
Date of Birth:Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003
Estimated users:over 35 million
Peculiar features:
Professional networking.The site also supports activities beyond networking with potential employers, employees or clients. For example,LinkedIn provides a platform that allows members to collaborate on projects -- a virtual meeting room of sorts.LinkedIn boasts a membership of more than 35 million people and claims that executives from every Fortune 500 company have member profiles on the site.
2.
Creators:Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams
Date of Birth:2006
Estimated users:over 6 million each day
Peculiar features:
Twitter is part Web site, part Web service -- an online environment where users can create profiles, fill them with information and then build a network of people they "follow" (and a band of others who follow them). Twitter sends messages between users via the Short Message Service (SMS), better known as text messaging. Members send their texts through Twitter to those they allow to follow them. The messages, Tweets, are super short: only 140 charters or shorter (there are technically 160 characters for use, but the first 20 are there to make room for user names in messages.)Some Twitterers use the service to arrange parties or other events. Others just like to keep their friends up to speed on what's going on in their lives. The messages can be sent via phone, through the Twitter Web site or one of hundreds new desktop or smart phone widgets.
1.
Creator:Mark Zuckerberg(Founder and CEO),Dustin Moskovitz,Chris Hughes
Date of Birth:February 4, 2004
Estimated users:over 175 million
Peculiar features:
Initially in 2004,it allowed peers to create personal profiles, search for friends profiles and invite others from the university to join. It was a smashing success almost immediately.Half of the Harvard undergraduate student body had Facebook profiles within a month of the site's launch.
After being limited to academic institutions for two years, Facebook opened to the general population in fall 2006, and just three years after its launch, the site had 30 million users.Zuckerberg soon extended the site to allow students from universities in the Boston area to join. Before long, he opened the site up to students from any university in the United States. The site continued to grow. In 2006, Facebook opened its virtual doors to anyone with a registered e-mail address.Since then, the site's popularity has exploded. Not content to rest upon his accomplishments, Zuckerberg continued to push for new features. One of the most revolutionary was creating an application programming interface (API) for third-party developers. Suddenly, programmers could design applications that could tap into Facebook's massive population. Applications range from simple games and diversions such as Lexulous
to clever marketing campaigns like Burger King's short-lived Whopper Sacrifice application which asked you to delete 10 friends to earn a free Whopper sandwich.
In short Facebook has become the most visited social networking site in the world, receiving more than 10 million unique visitors than MySpace in January 2009, making it the No. 1 social networking site on our list.
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