Welcome
to Facebook generation, but lots are other beside and before it, learn more
about the 18 year of Social media evolution.
When you are online and not touching social
networking, you are not online actually. Today almost 90% of businesses have
their customer and strategy that include social networking. Wherever you go on
web, you’ll find the sharing option, but first is social sharing after that
Email and all. Well I am not going to tell you how the thing is now, let’s discuss
the timeline of 18 year. I hope you love this slight but informative timeline.
1995 Classmates.com
Appreciable! Classmate.com is created by
Randy Conrad in 1995. At that moment when internet was gaining its momentum,
classmate.com could manage to boost with over 40 million users in USA and
Canada only. However it was not so successful to gain the audience from
anywhere else in the world. Currently this site have Alexa ranking of around 1,395.
2002 Friendshter.com
Started as social networking and dating site,
but in May 2011 website dumped its 8.2 million users to re-create their profile
as Social gaming. According to report from Alexa.com 19% of current users are
from India thus having Alexa ranking as 400 and worldwide ranking is 1000
almost.
2002 LinkedIN.com
LinkedIN first launched as Business
networking site. Do you know, when this site was launched it had its Alexa
ranking 15. LinkedIN is listed as
8th social networking site in world. Its current Alexa ranking is 12. The website acquired Mspoke in 2010
and extended its features to allow its user to log in with paid service and
having professional features and said to have 161 million members in 200
countries worldwide.
2003 MySpace.com
A social network specially launched to target
the musician and music/songs love people across the world. At the time of
writing this post, sorry, at the time of posting the post to Intelligent
Computing, Alexa Ranking of the site is 220.
This Social network has suffered a lot of serious
and continues decline in fame after launching the Facebook.
2004 Orkut.com
Created by one of employee Orkut Büyükkökten,
Google had its first attempt of Social networking with this. Orkut really
boomed and enjoyed lots of popularity among the Brazil USA and India. It was
overlapped with Facebook. Current Alexa ranking of Orkut is 862.
2004 Facebook.com
After merely 10 days after the launch of
Orkut.com Mark Zukerberg and his friend Havard launched Facebook.com with over
750 million registered user and counting per minute. Facebook is having more
than 1000 million user and Alexa Ranking 2 after Google. This is one ruling
Name in the space of social networking.
2006 Twitter.com
Twitter launched in 2006 as the popular Micro
blogging Social networking site. This has become the viral for tweeting the
views of celebrities. This Social networking website have currently 000 Million
user. According to Alexa ranking of this site is 10.
2007 Jaiku.com
Launched in 2006 and acquired by Google who
made attempt to break into Micro blogging site. In 2008 this service was
available to open source community to public their products. Alexa Ranking of
Jaiku.com is currently 105,659.
2009 Google Friend Connect
Google’s Third attempt in social networking
is Google Friend Connect. Similar to Facebook, Google friend connect let the
people upload and share the content from personal and third party website across
the web. Google estimated More than 5 Million websites uses Google friend
connect.
2009 Google Buzz
Next attempt of Google in social networking
and 2nd attempt in micro-blogging Google launched Google buzz. This
was integrated with Gmail and feeds from websites like Picasa, flicker, Google
latitude, Google reader, YouTube, Blogger, Twitter etc.
2010 Google Wave
Google Re-tried to recreate the Social
networking structure with real time collaborative editing services, called
Google Wave. In 2010 Google suspends its stand alone development but project
was added to Apache foundation’s new program called Apache wave the service
continues to be in existence.
2011 Google+
Google in its sixth attempt seems to be ahead
with more enthusiasm with it’s around and invitation only Social networking
site called Google+. At this time Google+ is taken in center of the Google
world, search, videos, sharing, Calendar, Gmail, and all. One single integrated
program where people can rely on everything as one single but broader Google
world. People are following on Google plus Adding them in circle and bookmark
using +1.
Social Media at 2013
There gone 2012 where Facebook were able to
have more than 1000 billion user, twitter were at 6th position in
population if it was a country, and LinkedIn the most preferred business
networking site and we are having many option to tweet out thought, post our
photo, or make our resume on LinkedIN or even get lots of Traffic on Blog via
Facebook Page. Social media is forever.
Have nice time
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