Blogger is a free blogging service that was launched in August 1999 by a company named Pyra Labs. The website was created to give people a place where they can blog post their thoughts, feeling and ideas. It is owned by Google and is available in over 20 different languages. User registration is free. History [...]
Written on 28 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryWith social media and social networking web sites now being a mainstay of the Internet, one of the first and largest such sites is still going strong. Since it was started in 2003 by a group of programmers who worked for another social site, MySpace.com has firmly established itself as one of the most visited [...]
Written on 27 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryTumblr is a microblogging website. The site allows its users to post a variety of content, ranging from photos to videos, and allows the users to reblog other users’ content as well. The site continues to grow in popularity, as numerous celebrities and politicians use the website for their blogging needs. Tumblr was founded in [...]
Written on 23 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryWindows Live Hotmail is a Microsoft product that was formerly known as MSN Hotmail. Hotmail operations are based in California. It is currently the number one email hosting service on the internet. An estimated 364 million users have Hotmail accounts. Features include some of the best security that free email sites can offer, unlimited storage [...]
Written on 22 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryUnless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely heard of the Netflix company. What many people don’t know however, is that the company was founded in 1997 in the town of Los Gatos, California by Reed Hastings. It originally started out as a DVD distribution service, similar to Blockbusters. The company quickly grew, and [...]
Written on 13 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryThe Huffington Post was created in the year 2005 by Greek-American author and political columnist, Arianna Huffington, along with two co-founding partners, Jonah Peretti and Kenneth Lerer. It began as a website the featured blog posts with a satiric, comedic interpretation of current events. Now in addition to conservative commentary and dark humor, it provides [...]
Written on 11 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryeHow is an online directory that contains over one million how-to styles articles and videos. The website was founded in 1999 by Courtney Rosen. Originally, the company was able to secure $25 million in financing from investors. A 50 person computer engineering team and a staff of 200 writers began writing and publishing content under [...]
Written on 10 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryFlick is the premier online image management application on the Internet. The images captured in photo and videos contain the most precious of memories. Enabling people to easily organize and share these memories is the goal of Flickr.com. History Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake founded their start-up cimpany, Ludicorp, with the hope of developing an exciting [...]
Written on 08 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryBadoo is an Exciting Social Networking Site that is headquartered in Soho, London. Badoo is available in many parts of the world, but is more active in Italy, Spain, Latin American, and France. It’s the world’s largest and fastest growing social network for meeting new people, for playing fun games, and enjoying newly developed features. History [...]
Written on 17 Oct 2011 by Vincent AbryApple incorporated was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976. Since then, as Apple products have become more and more popular, and the company has grown into the largest technology firm in the world. Apple Inc. offers a wide range of electronics, computer software, applications, and commercial business servers. The companies latest successes [...]
Written on 11 May 2011 by Vincent AbryIn today’s world it is easy to take the Internet for granted. America Online was one of the first Internet providers on the scene, and shaped our Internet today. Before AOL was founded it was called Control Video Corporation, or CVC, and provided a service called Gameline which was used primarily for video game downloads. [...]
Written on 05 May 2011 by Vincent AbryA website containing the most popular software in multimedia, adobe.com is an easy site to navigate through. Adobe was founded in 1982. Starting out with special font programs and Post-Script, in the mid-80′s the company created and marketed the first Illustrator, a vector based drawing program for Mac users. Since then, the Adobe Systems Incorporated [...]
Written on 26 April 2011 by Vincent AbryAbout.com is a website that was founded in 1997. There was a huge need for information on everything that was not being met on the internet, therefore, the creators of About.com decided that it needed to be remedied. They started recruiting writers to provide up-to-date and current information on over eight hundred sites. Although these [...]
Written on 21 April 2011 by Vincent AbryMSN.com is the web portal of the Internet service provider MSN, originally known as the Microsoft Network. The domain name MSN.com debuted in 1995, and today it encompasses numerous international sites in multiple languages. It has added and revamped services over time, and it currently features one of the top three Internet search engines. The [...]
Written on 18 March 2011 by Vincent AbryEbay is the largest marketplace on the Internet, with over 90 million users worldwide. It began in 1995 as an online auction site selling everything form grape gum to guns. Guns were eventually banned and now you can buy cars, real estate, jewelry, precious coins, musical instruments, clothing, furniture and other household goods. You can [...]
Written on 17 March 2011 by Vincent AbryCraigslist.org is an online community that first began as an email list of San Francisco events in 1995. What started as a hobby for Craig Newmark has been operated by CEO Jim Buckmaster since 2000 and is now a for-profit organization that specializes in self-published ads from people all over the world. Craigslist averages more [...]
Written on 17 March 2011 by Vincent AbryAmazon.com was created in 1994 by the founder, Jeff Bezos. Originally named Cadabra, Amazon is the now the largest online retailer in the US. It was named after the Amazon River, which is the largest river in the world. By 2008, Amazon had twice the number of visitors as walmart.com. Every month, Amazon.com sees about [...]
Written on 17 March 2011 by Vincent AbryTwitter.com was launched in July of 2006 by Jack Dorsey, whose idea was to make it possible for individuals to use SMS messages to send communication to a group. Partnering with board members from Odeo, a podcasting company, Dorsey began working on the project. Twitter users post what are known as “tweets”, messages that contain [...]
Written on 17 March 2011 by Vincent AbryYouTube was the brainchild of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The site started out with hundreds of videos that fell into no particular category. In many forms of business there is a negative impact that comes with having no target market in mind. Somehow Hurley and Chen made this work to their advantage. People that [...]
Written on 16 March 2011 by Vincent AbryLogin Facebook is the Facebook.com log in page to connect to the Social Network Website. This social networking site has surpassed 500 million users worldwide in 2011. LOGIN if you are already a MEMBER : Sign in here : facebook.com/login.php SIGN UP for Facebook if you are a NEW USER : Sign up and register here [...]
Written on 15 March 2011 by Vincent Abry