web 2.0 audit
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2012Digital Research
Web 2.0 Sites Audit
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BeBo
BasicBebo is a social networking site where members can stay in touch with their friends, connectwith friends and share photoSimilar in format to MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, and Yahoo! 360Users are able to personalise their own profiles and choose their own modules, similar toFacebook.
Integration with MSN and Skype allowing users to quickly chat or add that user in thatprogram
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Company profileThe site was founded in January 2005Bebo was acquired by AOL on March 13, 2008 for 417m 1
Bebo, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California.
Bebo, Inc.795 Folsom Street6th FloorSan Francisco CA 94107USA
StatisticsUSERS
4,089,953 unique users globally (Nielsen Online)
Each user averages 78 page visits a day2
PAGE RANK3
Bebo.com has a traffic rank of: 117 Speed: Very Slow (83% of sites are faster), Avg load time: 5.1 seconds
Other sites that link to this site: 884
Online Since: 15-Jul-2003
Unique Users: 12,957,0004, (February 08)
DEMOGRAPHICS
News
On 13 October 2007, Bebo launched a mobile service5: allows users to receive text alerts
and update their profile via their mobile phone (available to Orange UK and O2 Irelandcustomers). Consists of a mobile site, text alerts for new comments and photo onlyuploads via mms. On 19 March 2008, Bebo launched a new mobile site which can be
accessed by mobile Successful pioneers in content creation, Kate Modern & Sophias Diary
The safest and most user-friendly social networking site
Etsy
BasicEtsy is a website which focuses primarily on providing the general public with a way to buyand sell handmade items. The site follows in the tradition of open craft fairs, giving sellers
personal storefronts where they list their goods for a fee. It has been compared to "a craftycross between Amazon and eBay"
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Etsy makes money by charging a listing fee of 20 cents for each item and getting 3.5 percentof every sale
The company also hosts craft workshops at its Brooklyn headquarters, dubbed Etsy Labs, aswell as a collection of online `virtual labs'' for people to learn at home
Company profileLaunched on June 18, 2005Investors include Union Square Ventures ($27 million) and founders of Flickr and del.icio.us6
Propter Media99 S Elliot PlBrooklyn, NY11217US
Phone: +1 718 403 9358Fax: +1 571 434 4620web [at] propter.com
StatisticsUSERS
About 650,000 registered users7
In November 2007, buyers spent $4.3 million purchasing 300,000 items
Since launch in June, 2005, over 100,000 sellers from around the world have opened up
Etsy shops
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Etsy.com has a traffic rank of: 1,904Speed: Fast (70% of sites are slower) Avg Load Time: 1.5 SecondsOther sites that link to this site: 1,522
Online Since: 05-Feb-2004
DEMOGRAPHICS
News Etsy in collaboration with NASA are sending winning designs of the NASA logo into
space9
Facebook
BasicA social networking site allowing members to share messages, pictures and more
Company profile
Launched on February 4, 2004The website is owned and operated by Facebook, Inc., the parent company of the websiteand a privately held company
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Microsoft Corp purchased a 1.6 percent stake for $240 million (October, 24 2008)
471 Emerson StPalo Alto, CA94301
US
Phone: +1 650 853 1300domain [at] thefacebook.com
StatisticsUSERS More than 68 million active users
Facebook is the 5th most-trafficked website in the world (comScore)
Facebook is the 2nd most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore)
More than 65 billion page views per month
45 percent of users return to the site each day
People spend an average of 25 minutes on the site daily (comScore) No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web (comScore)
More than 14 million photos uploaded daily
The U.K. has the most users outside of the United States, with more than 8 million activeusers
Over 20,000 applications have been built on Facebook Platform
PAGE RANKFacebook.com has a traffic rank of: 6Speed: Average (59% of sites are faster) Avg Load Time: 2.9 SecondsOther sites that link to this site: 4,713Online Since: 29-Mar-1997
DEMOGRAPHICS10
Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks
More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
News
Facebook Updates Privacy Controls11
Flickr
BasicA photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform. It was
one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users toshare personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its
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popularity has been fuelled by its organization tools that allow photos to be tagged andbrowsed
The site hosts more than 2 billion photos12
Company profileLaunched in February 2004
Acquired on March 1, 2005 by Yahoo! for $35 million
Stewart Butterfield56-1386 Nicola StVancouver, BCV6G 2G2Canada
domainadmin [at] yahoo-inc.comStatistics
USERS
PAGE RANKFlickr.com has a traffic rank of: 39Speed: Slow (71% of sites are faster) Avg Load Time: 3.8 SecondsOther sites that link to this site: 62,504Online Since: 22-Nov-2003
DEMOGRAPHICSSlight male orientation, 18 24 (quantcast)
News
Members are protesting over possible Microsoft takeover1415
FotoLog
BasicA community of interconnected photo diaries and blogs.
Company profileFotolog is a registered trademark of Fotolog, Inc., which was acquired by Hi-Media in August2007. Since the acquisition was announced in August 2007, Fotolog's membership has grownfrom 10 to 15 million ($90 million, or $9 for each of the network's 10 million members).
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John Borthwick, CEO101 Fifth Avenue, 9R10003
Phone: (212) 620-6001
alexa [at] fotolog.com
StatisticsUSERS16
15 million registered users446,997,211 photos
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Fotolog.net has a traffic rank of: 13Speed: Very Slow (89% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 6.5 SecondsOther sites that link to this site: 7,000Online Since: 23-Apr-2002
DEMOGRAPHICSSlightly male orientated, 18 24 year oldsFotolog's users are primarily in South America and southern Europe
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News(nothing of interest since its acquisition)19
Google Maps
BasicGoogle Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a free web mapping service application andtechnology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including the GoogleMaps website and embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API
Company profile
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Larry Page
Phone: +1 650 318 0200Fax: +1 650 618 1499dns-admin [at] google.com
Employees: 10,674Revenue: $13.40B
StatisticsUSERSMaps.google.com is a top 50 destination that reaches over 30 million U.S. monthly uniques.
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Google.com has a traffic rank of: 4Speed: Fast (71270% of sites are slower), Avg Load Time: 1.5 SecondsOther sites that link to this site: 3339,345718Online Since: 15-Sep-1997
*Maps.google.com gets nearly 1% of all google traffic
DEMOGRAPHICSThe destination caters to a more affluent, more educated audience.
News
On November 28th, 2007, Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 was released. It introduced a
GPS-like location service that does not require a GPS receiver. As of April 20, 2008, thisservice is available for Windows Mobile21
Habbo
BasicHabbo, formerly Habbo Hotel, is a social networking website owned and operated by Sulake
Corporation. Aimed at teenagers, Habbo features chat rooms rendered by isometric projectionin the form of virtual hotel rooms. User pages on the website are linked to these rooms andallow users to share content and create groups with discussion forums. Each user, called a
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Habbo, has a customizable avatar to represent him or herself. The service gains revenuefrom credits bought with real-life currency. Credits are used to buy products such as virtualfurniture for the virtual hotel rooms and stickers for user pages
Company profileOwned by Sulake Corporation, multimedia company based in Helsinki, Finland
StatisticsUSERS (global)As of March 2008, over 92 million avatars have been created worldwide and there are over8.6 million unique visitors to the Habbo websites around the world every month22 with 75,000avatars being created every day23
32 local communities
Page impressions: 990,000,000 / month
Average visit: 36 minutes / session
PAGE RANKHabbo.co.uk has a traffic rank of: 14,548Speed: Very Slow (91% of sites are faster) Avg Load Time: 7.0 Seconds
DEMOGRAPHICS90% of its users are between the age of 13 and 1824
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NewsRecently partnered with professional wrestling WWE to include wrestling avatars26
LiveJournal
BasicLiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep ablog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the open source server software thatwas designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. LiveJournal's differences from other
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blogging sites include its WELL-like features of a self-contained community and some socialnetworking features similar to, but pre-dating, Friendster and MySpace
Each user has a friends page, which collects the most recent journal entries of the people onhis or her friends list.
Company profileIn January 2005, blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, thecompany that operated LiveJournal
On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP, a Russianmedia company that had been licensing the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia.Six Apart would continue to handle advertising in America, under the terms of this deal, butfuture development of the LiveJournal software would be handled by SUP and the newlyformed American-based company LiveJournal, Inc
Danga Interactive, Inc.Pmb 133, 17675 SW Farmington RdAloha, OR
97007US
Phone: +1 503 345 9575pairnic [at] sixapart.com
StatisticsUSERS Total accounts: 15263630
o active in some way: 1757294; that have ever updated: 9191104; updating in last
30 days: 963982; updating in last 7 days: 552765; updating in past 24 hours:195340
PAGE RANKLivejournal.com has a traffic rank of: 68Speed: Slow (72% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 3.9 SecondsOther sites that link to this site: 45,228Online Since: 15-Apr-1999
DEMOGRAPHICSGender: Male: 33.7%, Female: 66.3%Age demographic: mostly 18 22
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MySpace
BasicMySpace.com is an online service that allows members to set up unique personal profiles thatcan be linked together through networks of friends. MySpace members can view each others'profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new friends on the service, share photos,post journals and comments, and describe their interests
Company profileLaunched in 1998, and re-launched in 2003
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Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building withits immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which hasits headquarters in New York City. Parent company eUniverse (now renamed Intermix Media),were bought in July 2005 for US$580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
Chris DeWolfe1223 Wilshire Blvd. #40290403-5400
Phone: 1-888-8MYSPACEStatistics
USERS28
More than 110 million monthly active users around the globe
85% of MySpace users are of voting age (18 or older)
1 in 4 Americans is on MySpace, in the UK its as common to have a MySpace as it is to
own a dog
On average 300,000 new people sign up to MySpace every day, January saw a record
with 4.5 billion page views to the site in one day
PAGE RANKToday its traffic is similar to that of Facebook29
Myspace.com has a traffic rank of: 5 (up1)Speed: Slow (65% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 3.0 SecondsOnline Since: 22-Feb-1996
DEMOGRAPHICSThe site attracts a youthful, rather female audience
News
In early 2007, MySpace introduced MySpaceTV, a service similar to the YouTube videosharing website. MySpaceTV is now in beta mode, and will be probably be launched as aseparate site in either 2008 or early 2009
MySpace profiles for musicians are different from normal profiles in that artists are allowed to
upload up to six MP3 songs. The uploader must have rights to use the songs (e.g their ownwork, permission granted, etc). Unsigned musicians can use MySpace to post and sell music,which has proven popular among MySpace users.
Shozu
BasicLeading provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their
online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties fromthe handset
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Partnered with Youtube, Facebook. Flickr, Warner Bros., Orange, Three, Motorola, Samsung,Vox, and LiveJournal
Each feed is delivered in the background with no download downtime or other interruption tophone activities using ShoZus patented technology, and is announced with a popup messageon the phone idle screen
Users can send photos, videos and text from the handset to their favourite social media siteswith a single click, eliminating the complex navigation and limitations of other methods. Othercapabilities unique to ShoZu include the ability to send video clips up to 10 minutes in length,transmit high-res photos at full resolution to yield print-quality images, add descriptions andtags to individual images from the phone before or after uploading, and exchange two-waycommenting and messages between the mobile and the Web.
The ShoZu Mobile Advertising Platform is the first solution that can deliver ads to the handsetwithout random push advertising or unwanted disruption of phone activities. Ads andsponsorship material are interwoven with ZuCasts sent to the phone at the users request.Ads can be presented in diverse formats; include calls to action such as click to call and clickto order; and be targeted to user interests and other variables. Content is downloaded in the
background without waiting for pages to load or interrupting phone calls using ShoZusproprietary technology
Company profileShoZu was founded in 2001 in London and is rapidly expanding, with offices in SanFrancisco, France, Spain, and Italy. The company is funded by investors, which include AtlasVenture, Crescendo Ventures, TLcom Capital partners and TTP Ventures
UK Office
The Space57-61 Mortimer StreetLondon
W1W 8HSTel: +44 (0)20 7101 7400
StatisticsUSERS
PAGE RANKShozu.com has a traffic rank of: 93,785Online Since: 02-Sep-2005
DEMOGRAPHICS
News
ShoZu Brings Social Media Services to BlackBerry Smartphones30Mass-Publish Photos to Any Mix of 30 Sites from Any Mobile Phone; New ShoZu ServiceReaches Flickr, Facebook & More with One Upload31
Tumblr
BasicA tumblelog (or tlog) is a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts overthe longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found ontumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, tumblelogs arefrequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences while providinglittle or no commentary
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For the time being, the free service doesn't sell ads or anything elseCompany profile
Statistics
USERS32
Tumblr has 180,000 registered users, a 59% increase since the beginning of November.
At that rate, he's adding about 17,000 users per month
Tumblelogs are getting 503,000 pageviews per day, or about 15 million views per month,
up 88% from November. Including hits to Tumblr.com, the company is getting 719,000pageviews per day, or about 22 million per month
Visitors spend 11 minutes, 42 seconds on the site per day, up 46% since November.
Tumblr averages 43,000 new posts per day across the 180,000 tumblelogs. To put that incontext: consider that wildly popular Wordpress generates about 106k posts per dayacross 2.3M Wordpress blogs.
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Tumblr.com has a traffic rank of: 2,732Speed: Slow (69% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 3.6 Seconds
DEMOGRAPHICS
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News
Twitter
BasicTwitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send"updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via
sms, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Thwirl or Facebook
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Due to Twitter's success, there have emerged a number of sites that imitate its concept butadd country-specific services (e.g., frazr) or combining the micro-blogging facilities with otherservices, such as filesharing (e.g., Pownce)
Company profileOfficially launched in October 2006, (pre-launched July 2006)
Twitter began as a research and development project inside San Francisco start-up companyObvious, who continue to own it
Obvious Corp164 South ParkSan Francisco, CA94107US
Phone: 4158962008twitter [at] obvious.com
Statistics
USERS1 Million Twitter accounts36
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Twitter.com has a traffic rank of: 580Speed: Average (53% of sites are slower), Avg Load Time: 2.3 SecondsOnline Since: 21-Jan-2000
DEMOGRAPHICSAverage Age on Twitter: 3738
News
News ranges on the popularity of twitter to apps and widgets. Twitter.com hasnt changedmuch over the last 18months or so.
Vox
BasicA personal blogging service where people share thoughts, photos, videos with friends andfamily
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Company profileOwned by Six Apart Ltd. who also own MovableType, TypeKey, SplashBlog and TypePad,and the former owner of LiveJournal
Vox Editions2727 Moraga St
San Francisco, CA94122US
Phone: +1 415 661 1920Fax: +1 415 661 8549pairnic [at] sixapart.com
StatisticsUSERS?
PAGE RANK
Vox.com has a traffic rank of: 2,826334Speed: Slow (74% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 4.0 SecondsOnline Since: 30-Sep-1994
DEMOGRAPHICS
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News
Six Apart Frees Photobloggers on TypePad, Movable Type, and Vox:- Eye-Fi Allows Six Apart Bloggers to Send Photos Wirelessly to their Blog with theEye-Fi Card
Weglu
BasicA mobile version of twitter which keeps users up-to-date about what their friends are doing.
Company profileThe company seems to be in very early stages and very new40
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StatisticsUSERS?
PAGE RANK
n/a
DEMOGRAPHICS
News
CASE STUDYSkins is a cult hit in the UK reaching two million viewers aged 18 - 24. Skins has a website butit wanted to communicate with their audience between episodes on the device of choice foryoung people - their mobile.
Weglu enabled Skins to engage their audience in different ways by, for example:- delivering unseen footage- building anticipation for the next episode- asking for feedback/comments and running contests
YouTube
BasicAn online entertainment destination for people to watch and share original videos through aweb experience
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Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted toupload an unlimited number of videos. Some videos are available only to users of age 18 orolder
Company profileCreated in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees
In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the companyfor US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006
71 E Third AvenueSan Mateo, CA94401US
StatisticsUSERSFew statistics are publicly available regarding the number of videos on YouTubeIn January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users watched over 3 billion videos on YouTube 41
As of March 31, 2008, a YouTube search returns about 77.4 million videos and 2.9 million
user channels
YouTube consumes roughly 1 terabyte of bandwidth a second costing approximately $1million a day42
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Youtube.com has a traffic rank of: 2Speed: Slow (69% of sites are faster), Avg Load Time: 3.6 SecondsOnline Since: 15-Feb-2005
DEMOGRAPHICS
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News
YouTube introduces ads45
The government of Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic state, says YouTube hastwo days to take down a Dutch lawmaker's provocative film on the Koran or it will blockaccess to the popular video-sharing Web site
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