A social network is characterized by a social structure based on individuals or institutions called “nodes,” operated by some specialized forms of interdependency, for example, kinship, friendship, financial transactions, aversion, sexual relationships, or commonality of beliefs, knowledge or esteem. Exploring a brief history of social network – an analysis Pioneers of social networks during the [...]

A social networking website, Facebook is privately operated and owned by Facebook, Inc. The site has been functional since September 2006; anyone over 13 having a valid e-mail address can be registered as a Facebook user. The members with Login rights can add friends to the site and correspond with them via text messages, and [...]

YouTube was collectively founded by early employees of PayPal, namely Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim were students of computer science and class-fellows at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. YouTube started functioning as a small enterprise to be funded for [...]

It was unbelievable to see that two young graduate students from Stanford University became famous for developing the world’s most fastest and reliable search engine. Those two students were Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They had initially disagreed with each other on most things during their first meeting. However their friendship did not end because [...]

The history of Email is much older than the Internet. It was actually never invented but evolved from very simple beginnings. Email messages were not sent but left behind a lot like leaving a note in someone’s desk, the message would be left behind in a location that would be easily seen by the user [...]