The Behind Story For The U.s. Top 10 Web 2.0 Companies (1)

Social network has become the social activities, whether an inalienable part of personal life, or business contacts. Through these social networks, family and friends may at any time and place in online communication, items will be sold through the network, social circle can expands unceasingly, news to get wider dissemination; But marketers can go through those websites with customers more human communication.

Social media had no intention of changing the whole of society as a whole operation mode. A few days ago we released on this subject has an article about global traffic over 100 million daily the social networking site articles, some of these sites on is the accumulation of many years, while others are for the outbreak of growth. Today we'll pick 10 well-known web2.0 company, recognizes the story behind, the birth of their growth, their, their prosperity and their recession.

01, Digg
Long, long ago, that was in December 2004, one day, there was a guy who started Kevin suddenly thought of a idea, let some common interests of users to dig out the more relevant content, so Digg was born. Although website is based on the mining, "but the domain name and. Com possession, so gentlemen have been started to adopted digg such an advantage but a bit strange similar domain, also officially this domain name has become synonymous with the generation of the Internet wave!

Digg's story is this: for this website initially started only spent $6000, almost exclusively and some personal site or a small enterprise site the same scale. Then two years later, in October 2006, Digg got $2.5 million investment. And in September 2008, Digg and acquired 2870 million dollar investment. This was the initial investment site with formed sharp contrast. Digg's success will be brought to fame and fortune started the peak.

From the establishment so far, Digg has been committed to improve the user experience. In January 2005, Digg added mining and the burial function, let the user can use the mouse to information to speak their minds. In 2006, Digg spy 2.0 conference, this tool can make you implement track other users on the web trends. Also in 2006, Digg added most our common some socialized the functionality of the site, including collection, podcasts, video, and the most popular column edge information and friends page, etc. By 2010, Digg have 40 million users, this number is still growing. 2010, Digg4.0 release, also provide Iphone and Android client applications, all have indicated this website stable position and the ability to deal with future challenges.

02, has Upon
November 2001, Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and the Eric Boyd 4 software engineer has jointly established Upon. Almost from birth date, Upon quickly pop and has attracted the attention of some Internet giants, which includes the Mozilla foundation, Mitch Kapor, first round capital, Google's Ram Shriram, Ron Conway, etc, and also officially these Internet guies attention, let the status Upon has climbed to rapidly 1.2 million us dollars, an amazing much struck with the Numbers, but Ebay in May 2007 paid $75 million compared, this is just a small change. While Ebay has only two years, has Upon in April 2009, founder of Camp, Garrett Geoff Smith joint some investors and back Upon together has.

About a service has large Upon upgrade, is in the December 2006 Stumblevideo online. User can now "accidental browsing" to those other user submitted the video, and it can go up of very convenient for its allocation. In April 2007, has launched StumbleThru Upon and function, this one function let those using the toolbar users can random browsing some popular sites, including YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. According to statistics, Upon with 1,500 million users has, and the number is increasing.

03, Delicious
Del icio. J, a web bookmarks atus service to provide online preservation, share and found collection etc. Function. By Joshua Schachter created in 2003, just two years later, the rapid development of Delicious caught the attention of the Internet giant Yahoo, with more than $20 million price be takeover. And Digg icio. Same, Del. The us is a programmer road to fame and fortune of myth. In 2008, Delicious announced that its users has reached 53 million, at present, the Delicious 180 million total collection independent pages.

Delicious Schachter once before in the Muxway created a name from the link text file, this Muxway blog is also Delicious precursor version. In March 2005, Schachter resigned from his job will all his energies to the Delicious of. In April 2005, wide from close Delicious investment and amazon gained the $2 million investment.

Domain name's story: a friend of Schachter had told him, finding a good web link, like eat cherry general delicious. September 6, 2007, del. Icio. Us renamed Delicious and enable new domain Delicious. Com..

04, Twitter
One day, a man named Jack Dorsey's people sitting in the park beside the child's slide eat chicken book in Mexico. Perhaps is Mexico forms of spicy gave him inspiration, let him go to create an SMS services, so that people can communicate with the way; group And perhaps when park inside the bird chatter calls spawned "Twitter (have a bird mean)" such a name. Dorsey later oneself also explained, Twitter in some places like birds, because they are always very sudden issued some unimportant gossip!

In march of 2006, Twitter formally birth (details see: Twitter 5 years history). At first only at Odeo employees internal use, to April 2007, Twitter from Odeo, became an independent operating companies. Also officially since then, Twitter with amazing speed development be a 1.9 million users, large 65m news every day. Social networking site In order to keep up with the BaoFaShi growth data, establish Russia Twitter recently released new version and function.

05, Facebook
Harvard University's Mark Zuckerburg in 2004 when creating Facebook is reading a sophomore. Website was born after a week, three senior times says is they invented Facebook. The story to replay to 2003, but Mark to create a named Facemash website, on the site, Mark also put on two pieces of harvard student photos then let everybody comment out a popularity higher.

This website for Mark encounter much trouble, but according to its own account, it is also the site appearance, make three senior to consulting him about the Harvardconnection site about building a suggestion. Three senior think Mark violated the agreement, steal their creative created Facebook. Finally, in February 2008, both sides reached settlement!

Let us put aside these pull not clear disputes continue to tell the story, in the summer of 2004 Mark in Palo Alto, had moved to full-time operation Facebook. The founder Peter Thiel soon Paypal Mark provides for $500,000 in investment. Today, and in just six years, Facbook user has reached 6 billion, every month online time reaching the 70,000 million minutes. Today all people know that Mark created the most popular online social networking sites, with only a few months time to beat Myspace, Twitter users active surpassing the degree.

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