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viernes, 29 de octubre de 2010
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All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees. The website is based in San Bruno, California near San Francisco (where the website was first based). Twitter also has servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas and Boston, Massachusetts.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users.It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet."
Type Private Founded San Francisco, California,United States Founder Jack Dorsey
Evan Williams
Biz StoneHeadquarters 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107,United States Area served Worldwide Key people Jack Dorsey (Chairman)
Dick Costolo (CEO)
Evan Williams (Product Strategy)
Biz Stone (Creative Director)Revenue ▲ US $150 million (projected 2010) Employees 300 (2010) Slogan What's happening? Website twitter.com Alexa rank ▲ 9 (October 2010) Type of site mobile social network service,microblogging Registration Required Users 190 million (visitors monthly) Available in Multilingual
English, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, and ItalianLaunched July 15, 2006 Current status Active
Social Networks
Facebook is one of the most visited websites in the world.
The Facebook network growth was very strong between 2008 and 2009. In January 2009, had 150 million users, 175 million in February and in April exceeded 200 million.
Facebook Facts
* Release Date: February 4, 2004.
* Headquarters: Palo Alto, California (USA)
* He has more than 200 million users (April 2009)
* He has more than 700 employees (November 2008).
* Website: www.facebook.com
Bebo is a social networking website launched in July 2005. It is owned by Criterion Capital Partners. From March 2008 to June 2010 it was owned by AOL Inc.
The website's name is an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often. Users receive a personal profile page where they can post blogs, photographs, music, videos and questionnaires to which other users may answer. Additionally, users may add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
Bebo was founded by Michael Birch and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home inSan Francisco.
It was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for $850 million. In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo, with the sale being completed on June 17, 2010 to Criterion Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. It has been reported that the sale raised less than $10 million.
Orkut is a social networking website that is owned and operated by Google Inc.[2] The service is designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. The website is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Although Orkut is less popular in the United States than competitors Facebook and MySpace, it is one of the most visited websites in India and Brazil. As of April 2010, 48.0% of Orkut's users are from Brazil, followed by India with 39.2% and United States with 2.2%.
Originally hosted in California, in August 2008 Google announced that Orkut would be fully managed and operated in Brazil, by Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues.
As of October 2010, Alexa traffic ranked Orkut 81st in the world; the website currently has more than 100 million active users worldwide. Anyone 18 years old or older can join Orkut
domingo, 29 de agosto de 2010
Do you ever feel bad when you need help and nobady help you? Are you tired of cleaning your home alone?
viernes, 30 de julio de 2010
World Cup South Africa 2010
Awards:
Zacumi The leopard's birth dat coincides with a day known and celebrated as Youth Day in South Africa. The group A match played between South Africa and Uruguay also coincides with Zakumi birthday. He turned sixteen on 12 June 2010.