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LDPR Digital Directory Categories:
★ Steadfast
Social Site
★ Mobile Mover
★ Newbie Network
★ Surprising Standouts
★ Facebook
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps
people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.
The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information
through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social
connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they
know in a trusted environment. Facebook has over 800 million active users
(users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days).
★ Foursquare (stylized as foursquare)
Foursquare is a location-based social networking website
for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users "check-in" at
venues using a mobile website, text messaging or
a device-specific application by
selecting from a list of venues the application locates nearby. Location is
based on GPS hardware in
the mobile device or network location provided by the
application. Each check-in awards the user points and sometimes "badges". Whether
you’re setting off on a trip around the world, coordinating a night out with
friends, or trying to pick out the best dish at your local restaurant,
foursquare considers itself to be “the perfect companion.” As of January 2012, Foursquare has about
15 million users worldwide and over 600,000 were using the Merchant Platform
(more information at foursquare.com/business).
Foursquare co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai met in 2007 while
working in the same office space (at different companies) in New York City.
Working from Dennis' kitchen table in New York's East Village, they began
building the first version of foursquare in fall 2008, and launched it at South
by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas in March 2009. Learn more by
following Dennis' A brief
history of foursquare list!
★ Google+
Google+
makes connecting on the web more like connecting in the real world. Share your
thoughts, links and photos with the right circles. Use easy, spontaneous video
chat to strike up conversations with as many as nine people at once. Get
everyone on the same page with fast, simple group chat. We’re very excited
about the new approach to sharing we’ve created through Google+, but this is
really just the beginning.
★ Instagram
From the folks at Instagram: “When we were kids we loved playing
around with cameras -- we loved how all the old Polaroid cameras marketed
themselves as “instant” (something we take for granted today). We also felt
that the snapshots people were taking were kind of like telegrams in that they
got sent over the wire to others -- so we figured why not combine the two?”
Instagram came from that
inspiration - could we make sharing your life as instant and magic as those
first Polaroid pictures must have felt? Our first product is Instagram for
iPhone, and we're just getting started.
★ LinkedIn
LinkedIn started out in the living room of
co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002. The site officially launched on May 5, 2003.
At the end of the first month in operation, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500
members in the network. As of September 30, 2011 (the end of the third
quarter), professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate that is
faster than two new members per second. As of November 3, 2011, LinkedIn
operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more
than 135 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
★ Myspace (previously styled as MySpace or
My____)
Myspace is a social networking
service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake.
Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills,
California. In August
2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors. Myspace was founded in
2003 and was acquired by News Corporation in
July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 until early 2008, Myspace was the most
visited social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited
website in the United
States. In April 2008, Myspace was overtaken by Facebook in the number of
unique worldwide visitors, and was surpassed in the number of unique U.S.
visitors in May 2009. Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined
steadily in spite of several redesigns. As of December 2011, Myspace was ranked
138th by total web traffic. On June 29, 2011, Myspace was sold to Specific
Media and Justin Timberlake for approximately $35 million. If he can bring sexy back, maybe he can do the same for
Myspace? More to come…
★ myYearbook
myYearbook is a social site where you can
connect with friends and make new friends while playing social games, earning
Lunch Money, supporting your favorite causes, and much more.
★ Pinterest
Pinterest
is a virtual pinboard that lets you organize and share all the beautiful things
you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate
their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Best of all, you can browse
pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover
new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. The goal of Pinterest is to connect everyone
in the world through the 'things' they find interesting. With millions of new
pins added every week, Pinterest is connecting people all over the world based
on shared tastes and interests…including travel!
★ SoundCloud
SoundCloud
is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and
share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people
easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and
social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr,
Facebook and Foursquare. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official
iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built
on the SoundCloud platform. For more about what SoundCloud can do, visit the tour page.
★ Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging
platform and social networking website that allows
users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog,
a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, and 'reblog' their posts, or
choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use. As
of January 5, 2012, Tumblr had over 39.5 million blogs. According to
comScore, Tumblr scored 13.4 million unique visitors in the U.S. in July
2011 — up 218% from July 2010.
★ Tagged
Tagged considers itself to be “a different
kind of social network.” Other social networks are for staying in touch with
people you already know. Tagged makes it easy to meet new people through social games,friend suggestions, browsing profiles, group interests and much
more. Tagged members can express themselves by creating custom profiles to
match their individual tastes. With over 100 million members and 25 million
monthly visitors, Tagged is the place where people can discover hundreds of new
friends or just meet that
special someone.
★★
Twitter
Twitter
is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information
about what you find interesting.
Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the
conversations. At the heart of Twitter are small bursts of information
called Tweets.
Each Tweet is 140 characters in length, but don’t let the small size fool
you—you can share a lot with a little space. Connected to each Tweet is a rich
details pane that provides additional information, deeper context and embedded
media. You can tell your story within your Tweet, or you can think of a Tweet
as the headline, and use the details pane to tell the rest with photos, videos
and other media content. Businesses use Twitter to quickly share information
with people interested in their products and services, gather real-time market
intelligence and feedback, and build relationships with customers, partners and
influential people. From brand lift, to CRM, to direct sales, Twitter offers
businesses a chance to reach an engaged audience. For more information, check
out Twitter 101 for Businesses,
Twitter’s guide to doing business on Twitter.
★ Yahoo! Answers
Find out everything there is to
know about Yahoo! Answers. If you are
just getting
started or are a seasoned veteran looking for the
latest on Yahoo! Answers here is the place to find it.
★ YouTube
Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of
people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides
a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and
acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers
large and small.
★ ★
Yelp
Yelp was founded in 2004 with the purpose of
connecting people with great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics. Yelp had an
average of approximately 61 million monthly unique visitors in Q3 2011. Yelpers
have written over 22 million local
reviews. In addition to reviews, you can use Yelp to find events, lists and
to talk with other
Yelpers. Every business owner (or manager) can setup a free account to post photos and message
customers. Yelp makes money by selling
ads to local businesses - you'll see these clearly labeled "Yelp Ads"
around the site. The Weekly Yelp brings
locals updates on the latest and greatest business openings & other
happenings.
About
the LDPR Digital Directory
At the close of 2011, CNET
News reported on the impressive growth of Pinterest, a new, invitation-only
site that’s growing at a phenomenal pace. The article inspired us to take
inventory of existing and emerging social sites/forums to create the LDPR
Digital Directory. As technology evolves and new platforms and channels come
and go, we’re keeping this Directory curated and relevant.
Source: Each site’s “About” section
served as the primary source for content. Wiki pages were referenced as
secondary sources.
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