Which social media platform that weRead has expanded to is named after a Google employee?
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WeRead weRead, formerly iRead, is an online community of book enthusiasts. weRead started out as a social cataloging application on Facebook in June 2007 and has since expanded to over 3.1 million active members across Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and Bebo.
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Orkut Orkut was a social networking website owned and operated by Google. The service was designed to help users meet new and old friends and maintain existing relationships. The website was named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten.
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Posterous Posterous was a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, funded by Y Combinator. It supported integrated and automatic posting to other social media tools such as Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook, a built-in Google Analytics package, and custom themes. It was based in San Francisco. Posterous agreed to be shut down in March 12, 2012 after much of the team was acquired by Twitter on March 12, 2012. In February 2013, Posterous announced that they would be shutting down the service on 30 April 2013. Following the shutdown, Posterous URLs displayed a "bye" page showing an image of an astronaut with a spanner and a satellite.
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Bunmi Banjo Bunmi Banjo (born August 1977) is a business leader, as well as a marketing and strategy professional, with a career spanning several industries. These include social services, oil and gas, financial services and technology. Bunmi is currently responsible for Google's Brand and Reputation in Africa. She leads the company's effort to provide digital skills to millions of youth across the continent.
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OrderAhead OrderAhead was an on-demand logistics company that enabled people to order pickup and delivery take-out food from local merchants. OrderAhead was a Y Combinator Alum with a list of investors that include Adam D'Angelo (Founder of Quora, former CTO Facebook), Eric Schmidt (Chairman of Google, former CEO of Google), August Capital, Matrix Partners, and Menlo Ventures.
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Firebase Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Firebase, Inc. in 2011, then acquired by Google in 2014.
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Listar Listar is a social commerce platform where users are empowered to share and discover products through photos and other types of social media. In addition, the site allows users to find and compare prices on millions of products. Listar is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
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PeerIndex PeerIndex is a London-based company providing social media analytics based on footprints from use of major social media services (currently Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora, and Twitter). Part of an emerging group of Social Media Analytics providers, PeerIndex helps social media contributors assess and score their influence and benefit from the social capital they have built up. PeerIndex currently tracks approximately 45 million Twitter profiles, making the company one of the leaders in its sector.
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Solaborate Solaborate "/ˈsōˈlabəˌrāte/" is a social and collaboration platform dedicated to professionals and companies to connect, collaborate, discover opportunities, and create an ecosystem around products and services. Solaborate is a combination of the words “social” and “collaboration”. The site is available in English. Solaborate offers a detailed report of real-time insights, and has a Trending Tech News feature which is updated in real time and shows trending tech news from tech media and blogs worldwide, and other common social community features such as professional profiles, user groups, events, questions and answers. Solaborate main feature is Jobs and Opportunities which allows individuals or companies to hire experts from the tech industry. Registered users can collaborate in real time using chat, audio or video feature. Solaborate doesn't charge users for any of its services.
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I'm Feeling Lucky (book) I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 is a 2011 book by Douglas Edwards, who was Google's first director of marketing and brand management. The book tells his story of what it was to be on the inside during the rise of one of the most powerful internet companies from its start-up beginnings.
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Rohit Bansal Rohit Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur, cofounder and COO of e-commerce platform Snapdeal.
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Hearsay Systems Hearsay Systems (formerly Hearsay Social) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) digital marketing platform for financial services that uses predictive analytics to help financial advisors automate marketing tasks. The service operates by using social networking services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, as well as advisor websites, compliance-friendly text messaging, and email as ways for clients to market to various customer bases. Clients include large companies such as Allstate as well as smaller local companies.
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Orkut Büyükkökten Orkut Büyükkökten (born February 6, 1975) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking services Club Nexus, inCircle and Orkut. Orkut Büyükkökten is a former product manager at Google.
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SGAG SGAG is a Singaporean social media website and news media company based in Singapore. The company was founded by Karl Mak and Adrian Ang in February 2012, as a Singaporean spin-off of the popular social media website, 9GAG. Since the website's incorporation on April 10, 2013, it has 637 thousand likes on Facebook, 397 thousand followers on Twitter and 325 thousand followers on Instagram.
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Finday Finday is a social web directory and search engine based on Google's technology. It provides users a website ranking system that isn't based on statistics but on human criteria ("see below:" FindayScore), and a directory of websites commented and evaluated on by users.
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Marques Brownlee Marques Brownlee, also known by his YouTube username, MKBHD, is an American vlogger, best known for his technology-focussed YouTube channel. The channel, whose name is a concatenation of MKB (Brownlee's initials) and HD (for High Definition), has over 5 million subscribers and over 619 million total video views. In August 2013, Vic Gundotra, former Senior Vice President, Social for Google, called Brownlee "the best technology reviewer on the planet right now". During one of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary debates that was cosponsored by YouTube, Brownlee asked the candidates, by video, whether tech companies and the government can find a middle ground over encryption while considering rights to privacy and national security.
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Social journalism Social journalism is a media model consisting of a hybrid of professional journalism, contributor and reader content. It is similar to open publishing platforms, like Twitter and WordPress.com, except that some or most content is also created and/or screened by professional journalists. Examples include Forbes.com, Medium, BuzzFeed, and Gawker. The model, which in some instances has generated monthly audiences in the tens of millions, has been discussed as one way for professional journalism to thrive despite a marked decline in the audience for traditional journalism.
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NUVI NUVI is a social media mining company, creating a SaaS (Software as a Service) tool that enables businesses and organizations to view or hear the things that people write, say, believe or feel about a subject or topic. The term "software as a service" (SaaS) is considered to be part of the nomenclature of cloud computing. There are very large numbers of conversations that take place daily in the social sphere; NUVI retrieves the conversations to enable businesses and organizations to listen, view, respond or engage.
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Jonah Peretti Jonah Peretti (born January 1, 1974) is an American Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder of BuzzFeed and "The Huffington Post", and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".
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Openbook (website) Openbook was a Facebook-specific search engine, built upon Facebook's publicly available API, which enabled one to search for specific texts on the walls of Facebook subscribers "en masse" which they had denoted, knowingly or unknowingly, as being available to "Everyone," i.e. to the Internet at large. Both an avowed parody of Facebook and an Internet privacy advocacy website, it was built by San Francisco website developers Will Moffat, Peter Burns and James Home within a few hours on May 12, 2010, and received nearly six million page views in its first two weeks on-line from over a million people in over two hundred countries. The website received extensive media attention from, among others, the Wall Street Journal, NPR and ABC News, including international coverage.
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Daniel Hadad Daniel Hadad (born November 28, 1961) is an Argentine businessman involved in telecommunications and media.
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OfficeArrow OfficeArrow is a business-to-business social media platform that is localized to the United States, providing a deal-of-the-day product, discount purchasing club, professionally sourced educational content, community discussion forums, and social functionality targeted towards entrepreneurs, small business executives, and other professionals.