2. summary
• Facebook
•Picasa
• Wikipèdia
• Twitter •Youtube
• Blogger •Google
• Pb.works •Google plus +
• Wordpress
• Second life
3. facebook
• Facebook is a social networking service and Web
site launched in February 2004, operated and
privately owned by Facebook, Inc.
• Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the
predecessor to Facebook, on October
28, 2003, while attending hardvareas a
sophomore. According to the harvare, the site
was comparable hot or not, and "used photos
compiled from the online facebooks of nine
houses, placing two next to each other at a time
and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".
4. wikipedia
• is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual
encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles (over 3.78
million in English) have been written collaboratively by
volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can
be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has
about 90,000 regularly active contributors. As of July 2011,
there are editions of Wikipedia in 282 languages. It has
become the largest and most popular general reference
work on the Internet, ranking sixth globally among all
websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million
readers worldwide. It is estimated that Wikipedia receives
2.7 billion monthly pageviews from the United States alone.
5. twitter
• Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging
service that enables its users to send and read text-based
posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as
"tweets".
• Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and
launched that July. Twitter rapidly gained worldwide
popularity, with 200 million users as of 2011, generating
over 200 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search
queries per day. It is sometimes described as "the SMS of
the Internet."
• Twitter Inc., the company that operates the service and
associated website, is based in San Francisco, with
additional servers and offices in San Antonio, Boston, and
New York City.
6. • Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or
multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created
by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.
Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at
a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010
Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via
FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to
Google's own servers, with domains other than
blogspot.com allowed via Custom URLs. In July of 2011 a
news outlet announced that Google intends to change the
name of the service from "Blogger" to "Google Blogs," as
part of a larger plan to re-brand or retire all non-Google
brands in its portfolio of products and services.
7. • PBworks (formerly PBwiki) is a commercial real-time collaborative
editing (RTCE) system created by David Weekly, with Ramit Sethiand
Nathan Schmidt joining shortly thereafter as co-founders. Based
in San Mateo, California, the company's original name stems from
their belief that "making a wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter
sandwich". The company operates on a freemium basis, with basic
features being offered for free and more advanced features for a
fee.
• PBworks' investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures and the Seraph
Group, as well as angel investors Ron Conway and Chris Yeh.
• In June 2008 the company hired Jim Groff, a former employee
of Oracle Corporation and Apple Inc., for its new CEO. David
Weekly, the former CEO, remains its Chief Product Officer and
Chairman.
8. wordpress
• WordPress is an open source blogging tool and
publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is
often customized into a content management
system (CMS). It has many features including a plug-in
architecture and a template system. WordPress is used
by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million"
websites and as of August 2011 powers 22% of all new
websites.WordPress is currently the most popular CMS
in use on the Internet.
• It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt
Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of February
2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 32.5
million times.
9. Second file
• Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was
launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs, or Viewers,
enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each other
through avatars. Residents can explore the world (known as the grid),
meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group
activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one
another. Second Life is intended for people aged 16 and over,and as of
2011 has about one million active users.
• Built into the software is a three-dimensional modeling tool based around
simple geometric shapes that allows residents to build virtual objects.
There is also a procedural scripting language, Linden Scripting Language,
which can be used to add interactivity to objects. Sculpted prims
(sculpties), mesh, textures for clothing or other objects, and animations
and gestures can be created using external software and imported. The
Second Life Terms of Service provide that users retain copyright for any
content they create, and the server and client provide simple digital rights
management functions.
10. picasa
• Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and
editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally
created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is
a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi
casa for "my house", and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). In July 2004,
Google acquired Picasa and began offering it as a free download.
• Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac
OS X (Intel only) are available through Google Labs. For Linux, Google has
bundled Wine with the Windows version to create an installation package
rather than write a native Linux version, but this version is severely out of
date (the latest Windows version, however, can be run with Wine, see
Linux section). There is also an iPhoto plugin or a standalone program for
uploading photos available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
• It was reported in July 2011 that Google would be rebranding Picasa as
Google Photos.
11. • YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in
February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.
• The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash
Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video
content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur
content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on
YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations
including CBS, BBC,VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their
material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
• The longest video I’ve ever seen in youtube is nyan cat that it’s 100 hours long
this is nyan cat
12. Google
• Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested
in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google
hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products,and
generates profit primarily from advertising through
itsAdWords program.The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys",while the two were
attending Stanford University as PhD candidates.
• It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September
4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that
time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at
Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. The company's mission
statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial
slogan – coined by Google engineer Amit Patel and supported by Paul
Buchheit – is "Don't be evil“. In 2006, the company moved to its current
headquarters in Mountain View, California.
13. Google plus+
• Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes
abbreviated as G+) is a social networking and identity service,operated by Google
Inc.
• The service was launched on June 28, 2011, in an invite-only "field testing"
phase. The following day, existing users were allowed to invite friends who were
over 18 years of age to the service to create their own accounts. This was
suspended the next day due to an "insane demand" for accounts.On August 6,
each Google+ member had 150 invitations to give out,but on September 20, 2011,
Google+ was opened to everyone 18 years of age or older without the need for an
invitation. After Google+ went public, users registered to Google+, but those under
18 years of age were unable to sign up for Google+.
• Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and
introduces new services identified as Circles, Hangouts and Sparks. Google+ is
available as a web site, and will be available as a desktop application,[citation
needed] and is already available as a mobile application, but only on
the Android and iOS operating systems. Google has launched an API platform for
developers.Sources such as The New York Times have declared it Google's biggest
attempt to rival the social network Facebook,which had over 800 million users in
2011.