Mark Zuckerberg made geek the “new black”. After toppling the unprofessional (and now almost distinct) MySpace network, Facebook gained widespread appeal and is now home to over 600 million users worldwide. Complete with a modern-day Shakespeare-esque founding storyline, the rise of Facebook was immortalised by the award-winning ‘The Social Network’ film. Facebook, beyond its ability to literally connect the world, has remained at the forefront of popularity and continues to evolve its business model, taking over nearly all aspects of the ‘social’ world including image-sharing, check-ins, questions, shopping and now gaming. For the moment, Facebook continues to be the top dog for connecting its users with businesses hungry to capture this vast and varied market.
YouTube
YouTube is one of those stories that makes you gasp. The video-sharing network was created in a garage by two university students as a method of relaying video footage to others over the Internet rather than lugging it on a CD or sharing the data by other methods of transmission. Google caught on quickly to the popularity and potential of video sharing, and YouTube has been explosive ever since Google bought it in 2005. Now, over 24 hours of footage is being uploaded every single minute. In fact, there is so much “YouTubing” going on globally, that there over two billion videos are served up daily. With viewerships of popular videos being counted in the hundreds of millions, it would take you nearly 1,000 years to watch everything on YouTube today.
WordPress
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And tech chops.)
Blogspot
Blogspot is the free Web hosting service available for the web developers. And there is bit of a puzzlement between Blogspot and Blogger. The authentic name of the service is Blogger, but when you create a Website or Blog on Blogger, so the blogs are hosted at a subdomain of Blogspot.com. And when you want to create a Website or blog so you have to go to Blogger.com.
Blogger was created by Pyra Labs and later it was bought by Google in 2003. and when it was under the ownership of Pyra Labs it has got the premium features for which Pyra Labs had Charged but when Google acquired Blogger so all the premium features became free also later Google purchased Picasa. It included Picasa and its photo sharing service Hello into Blogger. And Allowed users to share Photos to their Blogs. In 2004 Blogger Introduced some major features such as individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email.
Tumblr
Tumblr, stylized in its logo as tumblr., is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML.
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