The Behind Story for the U.s. Top 10 Web 2.0 Companies (2)

06, LinkedIn
A by professionals create for professional services and social networking site. Reid Hoffman and Paypal and Socialnet team jointly established in 2002 and 2003, site Linkedin May 5th official line. The birth of Linkedin rapidly putting business customers and some professionals gathered together, and have developed rapidly. To the end of 2003, already has carried 81000 LinkedIn users, 14 employees next. Linkedin to online resume and business CARDS of the way from up a beginning to attract the attention of the world. In fact, it carried 81000 a member inside, almost half of them are from outside the United States to the user. Now, every month of Linkedin has reached an American flow, and the global flow is a million 4760 million.

2009, Yahoo CEO Jeff former executives Weiner, this would certainly make for himself Jeff took office, to dig into a gold mine in December 2010, when valuations of Linkedin has reached 1.575 billion dollars. In January 2011, Linkedin users reached 90 million.

07, Mixx
See clear this is Mixx Mixi, rather than Japan. Mixx DIGG concept, which is the web site, its content sources include various news sites and video and pictures publishers. Mixx so popular because they issue a simple, users can almost on the network is very convenient release yourself from the information you discover. This site was born from a call Chris McGill, while he was still Yahoo news director. Chris found YanHai from Korea as the network looking for some interest in terms of really too difficult, so he decided to build a web site to help those who have Shared interests are easier to find appropriate information. Then in 2007 Mixx born!

Beta version released in its way, Chris immediately after a strong management team, including AOL original content vice President Kerry Parkins Pearce – MIXX products and, become the vice President. Joe Dzikiewicz and Ph. D., former AOL first engineer, become the MIXX CTO. Thus, the development of MIXX began to get rapid, and soon with some large site established cooperative relations, including CNN, Weather any etc media.

08, MySpace
In a social networking site Myspace became the first, before Friendster website and a name, but because the incredible server causes to be user abandoned. In early 2003, when the birth of Myspace is just a simple online storage type service. Until 2004, Myspace to change as we well known social networking site. Unfortunately, today\’s Myspace have entered into the old, decadent overwhelm.

Back to 2006, Myspace has become before America\’s most popular social networking sites. However, Facebook in the late in 2008 on Myspace rapidly beyond. During this period, Myspace successively in the functionality of the site and styles and modify the upgrade. The summer of 2010, Myspace changed the whole site color scheme; In September 2010, Myspace increased photo district and joined the Fotoflexer 3rd party application, also began to allow users to link their Twitter and Facebook account. Then these changes can\’t change its recession trends, January 2011, Myspace announced layoffs 47%.

09, Ning
The creation of Ning is to let all the brand idea can be creating your own social networking site. By Marc Andreessen Ning is in 2004 in Palo Alto city in October, belong to private companies to create. In February 2007, Ning official CPT user to create social web group has reached 17,000 to October 2008, with more than 30 for third-party developers OpenSocial jointly issued the APP interface, the increase in one week, more than 80 different applications. By the end of 2008, the social networking site group Ning has reached 70 million.

In March 2010, CEO Jason Rosenthal, for the development of Ning has brought new opportunities. CafePress and HeyZap have become Ning partner, this also for Ning created more profitable way. In July 2010, Pearson Publishing sponsored by Ning has released the education workers in South Africa, as well as Ning Mini version of WEGO be sponsored by hair Health related social networking site.

10, Bebo
Another innovative Bebo social networking websites, by a pair of young couples, Michael and Xochi Birch Friendster\’s experience in the clothes. The function of this website looks more stereotypical, some users to share information, some users review information. And websites is \”blog Bebo, blog can care is the abbreviation of\”. Built in 2005 Bebo website, then by AOL to the price of $850 million takeover, 2010, in an extremely low price (rumors less than $1m) sold to the United States on private investment firm Criterion partneryou.

In July, 2007, Bebo added group function, similar to the Facebook group. When Bebo announced and issued to join OpenSocial a apis interface to develop APP, but another used most of the users with most of the APP vote address application. May 2008, Bebo, then repair any security problems. After the 2010 Bebo easy advocate released the new design interface, and continue to add new functions to compete with other social networking sites.

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