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Facebook In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded The Facebook while still a student at Harvard University. Facebook membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League and later to include any university student, then high school students, and finally to anyone age 13 and older. “The” was removed from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000. >>More than 90 million active users >>Most-trafficked Web site in the world and the No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web, according to comScore >>More than 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate and high school networks LinkedIn Aimed at career-minded, white-collar workers, LinkedIn is for people looking more for networking than the social aspects. It connects people in the workplace helping them search for new jobs and make professional contacts. In June 2008, it announced that it had raised $53 million in capital primarily from Bain Capital Ventures, a Boston-based private equity firm. Mostly for professional development, LinkedIn doesn’t have the broader applications of Twitter or Facebook. >>More than 24 million registered users spanning 150 industries >>Attracts 1.2 million new members every month Twitter With just 140 characters, Twitter allows users to post text-based updates, or tweets. Twitter started as a research and development project inside San Francisco startup company Obvious LLC in March 2006. It was initially used internally by the company and officially launched in October 2006. In March 2007, the service won the South by Southwest Web Award in the blog category. Jack Dorsey, widely acknowledged as the man behind the concept of Twitter, gave the following playful acceptance speech at SXSW: “We’d like to thank you in 140 characters or less. And we just did!” In April 2007, Obvious LLC spun off the service as a separate entity under the name Twitter Inc. Information from Facebook.com, LinkedIn.com, Wikipedia. 22 launch spring 09 http://www.facebook.com http://www.Facebook.com http://www.LinkedIn.com

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