Facebook: Originally called the
Facebook, it was founded by former-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (while at
Harvard) who ran it as one of his hobby projects with some financial help from
Eduardo Saverin. Within months, Facebook and its core idea spread across the
dorm rooms of Harvard where it was very well received. Soon enough, it was
extended to Stanford and Yale where, like Harvard, it was widely endorsed.Before
he knew it, Mark Zuckerberg was joined by two other fellow Harvard-students –
Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes – to help him grow the site to the next level.
Only months later when it was officially a national student network phenomenon,
Zuckerberg and Moskovitz dropped out of Harvard to pursue their dreams and run
Facebook full time. In August 2005, it was officially called Facebook and the
domain Facebook.com was purchased for a reported $200,000.
YouTube: it was formed in the mid-February, 2005, by the 3 former PayPal
workers. YouTube uses the Abode Flash technology to present a large variety of
the user-generated video content that includes the movie clips, music videos, TV
clips and the amateur substance like the video blogging and the short unique
videos. The unregistered users of the YouTube can surf this website and watch
mostly all the videos on this site, whereas the registered members are allowed
to upload an unrestricted number of videos. Several videos are offered only to
the users of 18 years or above.
My space: The website is for adults as well as teenagers. It has its
headquarters in Beverly Hills, California, USA where it shares an office
building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media. This fifth most
popular website in English language and one of the top brands in the world,
traces a history filled with public disputes along with deals on mergers which
zeroed down to nothing and allegations.
Thomas “Tom” Anderson is the President of this social networking website
MySpace. Anderson is the man who is recognized as the founder of this site along
with CEO Chris De Wolfe, but Brad Greenspan, the former Chairman, CEO and
largest individual shareholder of Intermix Media, claims to be the true “founder
of MySpace”.