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My Space and Linkedin were developed
LInkedin: an employment online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. -
Wikipedia was started
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world. -
Friendster was started
Friendster allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. -
My Space was started
My Space is an American social networking service that became popular around 2003. -
Flickr and Digg began
Flickr: American image hosting and video hosting service and an online community. It was founded in Canada
Digg: an American news site for internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues -
YouTube was developed
YouTube is an American video sharing and social media platform that was started by Google. -
Twitter and Facebook became popular
Twitter and Facebook are both online communication sites that are used to share pictures and information. -
Tumblr and friendfeed started
Tumblr: an American microblogging and social networking website.
Friendfeed: a real-time feed aggregator that consolidated updates from social media and social networking websites. -
Spotify, Ping and Groupon began
Spotify is a music site.
Ping measures the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer that are echoed back to the source.
Groupon provide discounts for local business. -
Foursquare
A location based social networking site -
Pinterest and Instagram were started
Pinterest: an image sharing service designed to allow saving and discovery of information on the internet using images.
Instagram: American photo and video sharing social networking service. -
Google +
Google+: is a social network owned and operated by Google. -
pheed
Pheed: a mobile pay-per-view technology and social networking service that was in competition with Facebook and Twitter. -
Vine
Vine: American social networking video hosting service where users could share six-second-long, looping video clips.