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Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 7:39pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
I have gathered some nice informations about some common Social apps we use everyday, i believe many will learn something from this, Let's start with 1. Whatsapp Messenger WhatsApp Inc., was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum , both former employees of Yahoo! As of February 2016, WhatsApp had a user base of one billion, making it the most popular messaging application https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp Additional information: WhatsApp, was incorporated in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of Yahoo! . After Koum and Acton left Yahoo! in September 2007, the duo traveled to South America as a break from work. At one point they applied for jobs at Facebook but were rejected. For the rest of the following years Koum relied on his $400,000 savings from Yahoo!. In January 2009, after purchasing an iPhone and realizing that the App Store would soon create an industry of apps, Koum started visiting his friend Alex Fishman in West San Jose where the three would discuss ".... having statuses next to individual names of the people", but this was not possible without an iPhone developer. Fishman found a Russian developer on RentACoder.com, Igor Solomennikov, and introduced him to Koum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp Fynestboi , Richiez , olawalebabs Cc: Lalasticlala
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 7:40pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
2. Facebook Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook Additional Information: Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University . A keen computer programmer, Mr Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students, including Coursematch, which allowed users to view people taking their degree, and Facemash, where you could rate people's attractiveness. In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg launched "The facebook", as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. The network was promptly extended to other Boston universities, the Ivy League and eventually all US universities. It became Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was purchased for $200,000. US high schools could sign up from September 2005, then it began to spread worldwide, reaching UK universities the following month. As of September 2006, the network was extended beyond educational institutions to anyone with a registered email address.
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 7:40pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
3. Twitter Founded March 21, 2006; 11 years ago, Twitter came about out as a result of both a perceived need and timing. Smart phones were relatively new when Twitter was first conceived of by inventor Jack Dorsey, who wanted to use his cellphone to send text messages to a service and have the message distributed to all his friends. At the time, most of Dorsey's friend's didn't have text-enabled cellphones and spent a lot of time on their home computers. Twitter was born of a need to enable text messaging to have a cross platform capacity, work on phone, computers, and other devices. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter Jack Dorsey brought his new ideas to Noah Glass and convinced Glass of its do-ability. In February 2006, Glass and Dorsey (along with developer Florian Weber) presented the project to the company. The project, initially called Twttr (named by Noah Glass), was "a system where you could send a text to one number and it would be broadcasted out to all your desired contacts". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 7:40pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
4. Instagram Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app exclusively for the iOS operating system. A version for Android devices was released two years later, in April 2012, followed by a feature-limited website interface in November 2012, and apps for Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 in April 2016 and October 2016 respectively. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 7:41pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
5. 2go 2go is a free mobile social networking application developed by 2go Interactive (Pty) Ltd in Cape Town, South Africa. 2go supports over 1,500 different devices, including feature phones, in addition to Android, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 smartphones. 2go has over 50 million registered users across Africa with 13 million active users based within Nigeria. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2go 2go is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, but originated in Johannesburg. 2go was created in 2007 by a couple of University of Witwatersrand students as a communication tool. 2go started as a mobile website and was used to upload and share the students' timetables and lectures with each other. In 2008, two of the founders left, leaving Alan Wolff and Ashley Peter behind. Under their management, 2go moved away from the students-only model by targeting developing markets in Africa. 2go continued to grow, despite a lack of external investment, due to its focus on feature phones, which most African mobile markets consist out of. Over 7 billion messages are sent across the service each month, most of which within paid-for chat rooms using the platform's currency, GoCredits. In June 2013, 2go for Android was released on the Google Play Store and has, as of December 2014, reached over 2 million monthly active users on Android. The Android version brought forth many design changes and additions that other platforms received in the v3.5 release. 2go for BlackBerry 10 was released in April 2014 The latest release was version 3.8.
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 7:41pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
6. Snapchat Founded, 2011, Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia mobile application created by Evan Spiegel , Bobby Murphy , and Reggie Brown, former students at Stanford University , and developed by Snap Inc. , originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal concepts of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are only available for a short time before they become inaccessible. The prototype for Snapchat was started by Brown and Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford, where Spiegel was a product design major. Beginning as "Picaboo", the idea was to create a selfie app (application) which allowed users to share images that were explicitly short-lived and self-deleting. The temporary nature of the pictures would therefore encourage frivolity and emphasize a more natural flow of interaction. When, in April 2011, Spiegel floated the product idea in front of his class as a final project, the classmates focused on the impermanent aspect of the potential product, and balked at the thought of temporary photos. Murphy was eventually brought into the project to write the source code for the application, and Picaboo first launched as an iOS -only app in July 2011. The application was relaunched in September under the name Snapchat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by Tolexander: 7:43pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
Ok |
Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by CAPSLOCKED: 8:06pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
Tolexander: LOL, BRO WHY YOU COMMENT WHEN OGA OP WAS STILL TRYING TO BOOK THE TOP SPACES IN OTHER TO PREVENT ANY BREAKS IN HIS THREAD??
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 8:15pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
CAPSLOCKED:he's an enemy of progress |
Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by CAPSLOCKED: 8:17pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by kunlealao(m): 8:27pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
#Noted |
Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by Tolexander: 8:37pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
CAPSLOCKED:lol! Smart guy! You self quote me to secure the space |
Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by CAPSLOCKED: 8:39pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
Tolexander: INSTANTLY. WE DON BLOCK EVERYWHERE! |
Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 8:48pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
7. Viber Founded : December, 2010, Viber is a free, cross-platform instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP) application that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Viber Media that was bought by the Japanese multinational company Rakuten . In addition to instant messaging, users can exchange images, video and audio media messages by sending files to each other. As of December 2016, Viber had 800 million registered users. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber
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Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ADEWUMIMichael(m): 9:07pm On Jul 23, 2017 |
ADEWUMIMichael: Lalasticlala |
Re: Social Network Apps, Their Date Of Invention And Who Evented Them (photos) by ODJ124(m): 7:45pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
Kudos op... 2go that year.... how time flies.. |
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