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Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia launched in 2001 by its two founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. The English edition of Wikipedia has grown to 4,975,056 articles, equivalent to over 2,000 print volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica. -
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Evolution of Social Media in the 2000's
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Myspace
Social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. -
Facebook
First it was a social network in Harvard University created by Mark Zuckerberg. Now it is the most popular of the social media websites reaching a market capacity of $250 billion. -
Flickr
An image hosting and video hosting website, and web services. The service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. -
Youtube
Video-sharing website created by three former PayPal employees. -
Twitter
An online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". -
Tumblr
A microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. -
Snapchat
A video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. Using the application, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients. -
Vine
Vine is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six second-long looping video clips.
