Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg founded the social networking website -
facebook with his roommate friends - Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes in Harvard University. On October 28’ 2003, Mark Zuckerberg wrote
the Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook and launched the facebook on 4th
February 2004.It is created in C++ and PHP. Now facebook have a more than 1
billon active user and half of them use facebook through mobile.
Twitter
Twitter was created in 21 March’ 2006 and launched in 15 July’2006.
The founders of twitter are Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan William and Biz
stone. Jack Dorsey is executive Chairman; Dick Costolo is CEO, Evan William company
director and Biz Stone creative director of company. Twitter is microblogging social
networking site. The users send the message in 140 characters in text based
message. The twitter headquarters in San Francisco, United State. In 2012 the active users are – 500 million.
Linkedin
Linkedin is the professional social network website. Santa
Monica founded linkedin in Dec 2002 in Mountain View, California and launched
in 5 May 2003. Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke and Eric Ly are
the founder of Linkedin. Reid Hoffman is
the Executive Chairman and Jeff Weiner is the CEO of Linkedin Corporation.
Google+
Google Plus is the famous multilingual social networking and
identity service site. It was launched by google inc, originally launched as Google
Circles in 28 June 2011. 100 million users are actively on monthly basis
and till now it has more than 400 million users.
Myspace
Myspace founded by Santa Monica in California in 2003. The founders
are Chris Dewolfe and Tom Andeson. The Head quarter is in Beverly Hills,
Califonia. Myspace is the social networking site significant influence in pop
culture and music and also launched the gaming platform - Zynga and Rock.
Reditt
Reditt is known as a social news website. It was founded in
June 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.
The CEO of the company is Yishan Wong.
In 2008 the reditt become the open source project and in 6 Sep ‘ 2011
Reddit became operationally independent of Condé Nast.
Stumbleupon
Stumble Upon created by Garrett Camp, Geooff Smith , Justin LaFrance and Eric Boyd in November 2001
during Garrett's time in post-graduate school in Calgary, Canada. It is known
as the discovery engine it means that it is a form of web search engine. The stumleupon
uses collaborative filtering and discover the page and rate web page, video,
music, pictures to virtual communities of like-minded Web surfers.