Posts Tagged ‘hi5

Hi5 isn’t Facebook.  For that matter, it’s not MySpace, or even LinkedIn.  But Compete indicates that Hi5 saw about 2.3 million unique visitors in May, which means that the social network is of a respectable size and the new Hi5 Developer Portal is probably worth a look. Before going much further, we’d like to note [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on what could be a major scandal brewing for Facebook, MySpace and other social networks: despite assurances to the contrary, the sites have apparently been sending personal and identifiable information about users to their advertisers without consent. Large advertising companies including Google’s DoubleClick and Yahoo’s Right Media were identified [...]

Even if Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter have the benefit of being household names, hi5 is also a pretty big social network, and today, it made a move to please developers.  hi5 announced its new Game Developer Program “to accelerate user adoption and revenue generation of social and online games.” Select game developers are supposed to [...]

Popular photo sharing social network Flickr has been launched back in February 2004 by a Vancouver-based company Ludicorp. It took one year for Yahoo to acquire Flickr, and among the company’s many acquisitions, Flickr definitely stands as one of the most successful. Being 6 years old (nearly the same age as Facebook) makes Flickr almost [...]

Mark Zuckerberg’s note about Facebook’s latest privacy changes also contained an announcement about another important milestone for Facebook: 350 million users. It’s a flabbergasting number, but even more amazing is the speed with which Facebook has managed to achieve it, trouncing its competitors, including the once mighty MySpace, in the process. Back in August 2008 [...]


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