"Yahoo! 360° Yahoo! 360° was a social networking and personal communication portal operated by Yahoo! made available in 2005. It enabled users to create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs and lists, create and share a public profile and see which friends are currently online. 360° also featured a 'friends updates' section, under which each friend's latest update was summarized (e.g. blog posts, updated lists or newly shared photos). This service was never officially launched; Yahoo! prematurely stopped developing this service in 2008. Yahoo! 360° Plus Vietnam was a similar service that was launched in 2008"
"360. On January 10, 2018, the site was closed and its contents accumulated during the years of its operation were transferred to the Makor Rishon website. NRG360 nrg360 (previously ""nrg"") was an Israeli news site, which at the end was owned by the Israel Hayom group and operated in cooperation with the newspaper Makor Rishon. The site was founded by Maariv Holdings, the parent company of Maariv, and until 2014 was called ""NRG Maariv"". The site operated in cooperation with the newspaper ""Maariv"" until 2014, when the site was sold to the Israel Hayom group and changed its name to"
"launch of Mumbrella Asia. The publication now hosts Asian versions of its successful Mumbrella Awards and Mumbrella360 industry conference. The business was sold to US-based events company Diversified Communications for a reported AU$8 million at the end of 2017, with a view to expanding the events side of the Mumbrella brand. The name ""Mumbrella"" was suggested by a friend after Burrowes described his idea for the site as being about things under the 'media and marketing umbrella', a phrase that the name ultimately became derived from. Mumbrella runs a number of industry events to in addition to its website. Mumbrella360,"
"they could encourage each other then it could go a long way to help them,” said Dr. Ansong to Deutsche Welle. The pre-launch ceremony of the social network website was done at the Pentecost Convention Centre at the Pentecost Students Association (PENSA) conference on the 9 January 2016. At the pre-launch ceremony founders got the feedback from randomly selected users before opening up to the world. After initial target of few hundred test users, the website crashed due to the huge interest. Later the issue was fixed by adding space for 2000 more initial users. On 30 August 2016, the"
"NRG360 nrg360 (previously ""nrg"") was an Israeli news site, which at the end was owned by the Israel Hayom group and operated in cooperation with the newspaper Makor Rishon. The site was founded by Maariv Holdings, the parent company of Maariv, and until 2014 was called ""NRG Maariv"". The site operated in cooperation with the newspaper ""Maariv"" until 2014, when the site was sold to the Israel Hayom group and changed its name to nrg. In 2017, the site was changed to nrg360 due to the launch of the ""360 full picture"" application and the mobile version that redirected to"
"Wf360 Wf360 is a marketing company founded in 1999 as WomenFuture.com by Susan Bird. In 2000 the company received incorporated status and it originally focused its work on helping leading corporations improve communications with, and interactions among, their female employees and customers. Wf360’s first MainEvent was held in 2000 and, via satellite broadcast, engaged live audiences in more than 150 locations throughout the world where attendees interacted with Wf360’s Global Conversationalists (including Hillary Clinton, General James Jones (then Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps), Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) and many others business and thought leaders). MainEvent provides means for"
"and shutdown on 10 April 2014. In 2017, the domain WISER.org became the website for the Workie Institute for Social and Educational Research, a non-profit focusing on social exclusion, including bullying and systematic barriers to society, based on the work of the late Dr. Abaineh Workie. As of September 15, 2012, Wiser.org provided a directory of more than 114,000 organizations worldwide, over 71,900 registered members, and more than 2,800 groups. It featured resources and information on various social issues ranging from women's rights to climate change. These resources and information are organized into 47 distinct issue areas and 381 sub-issue"
"said that their site crashed due to attacks from Scientologists. In a statement issued to Wikinews, a Church of Scientology employee confirmed that actions of Anonymous had been reported to law enforcement: ""Activities of Anonymous have been reported to the Authorities and actions are being taken. Their activities are illegal and we do not approve of them. At the same time, our main work is to improve the environment, make people more able and spiritually aware. ... yes, we are taking action."" The Church of Scientology issued a statement explaining the website move to Prolexic Technologies: ""The attacks have defaced"
"4 December 2012. The announcement was made by a post by Microsoft Research's FuSE Lab on their website. The release came with a completely redesigned interface. So.cl So.cl (pronounced ""social"") was a social networking service and social search engine operated by Microsoft FUSE Labs. Microsoft FUSE Labs announced on March 7, 2017 that it would be closing down So.cl on March 15, 2017. So.cl appeared similar to Google+ and borrows concepts from Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. It occupied a niche role and was intended to augment rather than replace those services. Users were able to post a collage of pictures"
"Simplify360 Simplify360 is a Social Business Intelligence platform which has a suite of software for marketing and customer service departments. Simplify360 allows businesses to carry out social media monitoring, social media engagement, social CRM, social media analytics and social media marketing. It is a Saas based platform with a monthly subscription model. Simplify360 was started in 2009 by a team of six co-founders, namely - Bhupendra Khanal, Sweta Sharma, Rohit Gupta, Deep Sherchan, Laxmi Khatiwada and Binit Thapa. The product was officially launched in 2011 during a technology event at Chicago and Bangalore. The core technology of Simplify360 is its"
"the first-ever left-handed pack of OREO cookies. 360i 360i is a New York City-based digital agency founded in 1998. It is a business unit of Dentsu. 360i was founded in 1998 in Atlanta as a regional search agency. It was later acquired by Innovation Interactive. At the time, 360i had 35 people and revenue of close to $5 million. 360i was acquired as a digitally-led communications agency. Innovation Interactive was acquired by Dentsu in 2010 for $275mm and remains a unit of Dentsu, Inc. Bryan Wiener remained CEO of 360i until February 2014 and was succeeded by Sarah Hofstetter, a"
"Kong, Paris, London, Tokyo and elsewhere. Wf360 Wf360 is a marketing company founded in 1999 as WomenFuture.com by Susan Bird. In 2000 the company received incorporated status and it originally focused its work on helping leading corporations improve communications with, and interactions among, their female employees and customers. Wf360’s first MainEvent was held in 2000 and, via satellite broadcast, engaged live audiences in more than 150 locations throughout the world where attendees interacted with Wf360’s Global Conversationalists (including Hillary Clinton, General James Jones (then Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps), Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) and many others business and"
"it then bought a French military website, Armees.com for an undisclosed fee, then transferred the site to its Affinity Labs social networking vertical. Affinity Labs still successfully operate across North America but in March 2012 it shut down its European operations. Despite HMForces.co.uk being its most successful vertical, and having shared resources with Military.com, the global recession did not assist its longevity. HMForces.co.uk still has a strong presence on social networking sites to this day, evidence of its popularity. Further references to this military vertical can be found on UK e-commerce sites, and there is also a HMForces blog still"
"Pulse 360 Pulse 360, Inc is now defunct online advertising and marketing network which was based in Getzville, New York. The company was founded in October 1999 under the name Kanoodle. The company reached over 65% of online users monthly and also reaches 141 million unique visitors across over 1000 websites. The ad distribution is centered on highly visited national and local news sites across the United States. Sites include NBCNews.com, Comcast, Weather.com, and ABCNews.com. Pulse 360 was originally launched under the name Kanoodle.com in October 1999 and was founded by Kent Keating. Kanoodle specialized in search targeted sponsored links"
"process Brandversation. Wf360’s work now includes the creation of customized on-line social networks for major organizations, the largest of which is MyVetwork, an on-line community for U.S. military personnel and their families. In 2000, Wf360 and the New York Stock Exchange created the 360 Summit, an invitation-only event held at the New York Stock Exchange for 200 Board Directors and Officers of publicly listed companies. The 360 Summit engages participants in discussions over topics of particular interest to business leaders globally. Since 2004, the 360 Summit has included presentation of the ""360 Leadership Award"" to recognize extraordinary “360” style leadership."
"million. In October 2008, the online community at ITtoolbox was renamed to ""Toolbox for IT"". The new name for the company that operates this online community was established at this time: Toolbox.com. In January 2012, Toolbox.com was acquired by Ziff Davis. In December 2017, Ziff Davis started to roll out a migration to a new world , to quote """"[sic] The way groups work on the new Toolbox platform is more like LinkedIn groups, [sic] but it’ll be more of a social space of like-minded IT professionals.""."" The email newsgroup style feed, which was the main input channel disappeared along"
"Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, had hundreds of personal photos and his events calendar exposed in the transition. Facebook has since re-included an option to hide friends lists from being viewable; however, this preference is no longer listed with other privacy settings, and the former ability to hide the friends list from selected people among one's own friends is no longer possible. Journalist Dan Gillmor deleted his Facebook account over the changes, stating he ""can't entirely trust Facebook"" and Heidi Moore at Slate's Big Money temporarily deactivated her account as a ""conscientious objection"". Other"
"of the acquisition. In a press response, OkCupid's CEO explained that the removal was voluntary. In November 2012, OkCupid launched the social discovery service Tallygram, but retired the service in April 2013. On March 31, 2014 any user accessing OkCupid from Firefox was presented with a message asking users to boycott the internet browser due to Mozilla Corporation's new CEO Brendan Eich's support of Proposition 8. Users were asked instead to consider other browsers. On April 2, 2014, the dating site revoked the Firefox ban. The website added a bevy of nontraditional profile options for users to express their gender"
"and Qihoo 360) for an amount of $600 million USD. The transaction for sale of Opera's consumer business was approved on 31 October 2016 by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. On 4 November 2016, Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I L.P. completed the acquisition. After divesting itself off the Opera browser and brand, Opera Software ASA changed its name to Otello Corporation ASA. In January 2017, the company introduced Opera Neon, a new concept browser that is intended as an exploration of browser design alternatives. The browser is built on top of Blink engine and"
"Life360 Life360 is a family networking app released in 2008. It is a location-based service designed to allow friends or family members to share their location with each other and communicate with each other. Life360 was founded by Chris Hulls and Alex Haro and has received a total of $90 million in funding since its launch, including funding from both Facebook and Google. The app was initially released in 2008 in the Android marketplace. The first funding for Life360 came in the form of a $275,000 grant as a winner of Google's 2008 Android Developer Challenge. Additional funding included $5.5"
"their list of advertising services in July 2011. Pulse360 maintains relationships with hundreds of online publishers primarily in the news space. MSNBC.com, CNN.com, Abcnews.com, Cox Media and USAToday inventory are included in its publisher network. Pulse360 advertisers can customize campaigns using various options offered by the company. Geotargeting to country, state, zip or DMA along with audience targeting towards user demo, interest or intent are available. The company is approved to serve third party ads on both the Google Doubleclick Ad Exchange and Yahoo. Pulse 360 Pulse 360, Inc is now defunct online advertising and marketing network which was based"
"a Kolkata based IT investor Simplify360 was angel funded by Texas based Amvensys Capital Group, LLC Simplify360 Simplify360 is a Social Business Intelligence platform which has a suite of software for marketing and customer service departments. Simplify360 allows businesses to carry out social media monitoring, social media engagement, social CRM, social media analytics and social media marketing. It is a Saas based platform with a monthly subscription model. Simplify360 was started in 2009 by a team of six co-founders, namely - Bhupendra Khanal, Sweta Sharma, Rohit Gupta, Deep Sherchan, Laxmi Khatiwada and Binit Thapa. The product was officially launched in"
"date was later set as December 29, 2011. Popular websites that moved domains included imgur, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Cheezburger — which stated it would remove over 1,000 domains from GoDaddy if they continued their support of SOPA. On December 23, GoDaddy withdrew its support for SOPA, releasing a statement saying ""GoDaddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."" CEO Warren Adelman stated when asked, that he couldn't commit to changing GoDaddy's position on the record in Congress, but said ""I'll take that back to our legislative guys, but I agree that's an important step""; when"
"its front page being replaced with a message from Sobczak stating that ""our mission of changing the social landscape for the benefit of the content has passed"" and that users would have until August 31 to download their content. Further statements included: “…We have permanently taken the tsu product offline due to the cost associated with running it and our inability to complete the last funding round,” writes Tsu’s founder Sebastian Sobczak. “We are now focused on retooling in order to launch alternative apps for our community and others.” Tsū (social network) Tsū was an online social networking service launched"
"online. Owens blamed, without evidence, the doxing on progressives involved in the Gamergate controversy. After this, she earned the support of conservatives involved in the Gamergate controversy, including right-wing political commentators and Trump supporters Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich. After this, Owens became a conservative, saying in 2017, ""I became a conservative overnight ... I realized that liberals were actually the racists. Liberals were actually the trolls ... Social Autopsy is why I'm conservative"". Kickstarter suspended funding for Social Autopsy, and the website was never created. In 2015, Owens founded the website Degree180. The website frequently posted anti-conservative and anti-Trump"
"she'd said what many people were already thinking, or had thought at some point as they posted another selfie or edited picture that made their life seem more perfect and glamorous than it actually was."" O’Neill said that when she quit social media she had several projects planned, after having performed sponsored posts and received payments from YouTube. In the first few days following her announcement, O'Neill's decision became viral. O'Neill received praise while also being criticised for eliciting ""confusion"" amongst her following. After her announcement, she decided to launch a website called ""Let’s Be Game Changers,"" meant to ""inform"
"Joseph Communications. As a result the site was not affected by the shutdown in 2017. In a similar fashion, in 2010 Londonist was transferred to the London-based startup LDN Creative. An estimate by income.com in 2015 quoted the monthly revenue from Gothamist at $110,000. In 2017, Gothamist and all related blogs were sold to Joe Ricketts, owner of DNAinfo.com. After the acquisition, Gothamist expunged from its archives a number of stories that had covered Ricketts critically. Regarding the removal of Ricketts related content from the site, Dobkin told Jezebel, “Just as Bloomberg doesn’t cover Bloomberg, we don’t plan to cover"
"CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in May 2017 that the company would hire 3,000 people to review content and invest in tools to remove videos faster. In 2008, Facebook was criticized for hosting groups dedicated to promoting anorexia. The groups promoted dramatic weight loss programs, shared extreme diet tips, and posted pictures of emaciated girls under ""Thinspiration"" headlines. Members reported having switched to Facebook from Myspace, another social networking service, due to a perceived higher level of safety and intimacy at Facebook. In a statement to ""BBC News"", a Facebook spokesperson stated that ""Many Facebook groups relate to controversial topics; this"
"would no longer be able to post new content or access their accounts. The site was officially suspended on April 21, 2016. As of March 2018 all links to the website now redirect to http://www.experienceproject.com/goodbye This page contains only a short message on a blank white background informing that the website is ""taking a break"" and thanking the community of the site. The nodes of the network were ""life experiences"", such as starting a new job, battling depression or surviving a divorce. Members who had listed experiences in common were automatically connected. Reversing the ""f.r.i.e.n.d.s."" concept of traditional social networks,"
"or using pseudonyms. Despite the ability to act anonymously, the site received some criticism, especially from users of 4chan, for at first offering Facebook Connect as the only signup mechanism. It subsequently moved away from that policy. On January 14, 2015, founder Christopher Poole announced that the company had been dissolved in December 2014 with the remaining funds being donated to charity. This was, in part, due to a series of security breaches that had occurred on the website. Canvas Networks Canvas Networks was a website centered on sharing and remixing media, particularly images. The website was established by the"
"humorous resignation letter to Brad Garlinghouse. On December 14, 2008, ""The Guardian"" reported that three employees had been laid off as Yahoo! continued to reduce its workforce, and on November 30, 2010, ""CNET"" reported Yahoo! was on the verge of a major layoff affecting 10% to 20% of its workforce. Flickr was specifically named as a target for these layoffs. On June 13, 2017, Verizon Communications acquired Yahoo!, including Flickr. In June 2017, Verizon reorganised Yahoo!, along with AOL, into a new umbrella company, Oath (Verizon Media Group). On April 20, 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr from Verizon's Oath. Flickr has"
"account, and the Tour blog), resigned from his affiliation with the organization, announced his support for same-sex marriage, and categorically apologized for and repudiated his past actions on behalf of the organization. He also shut down the Facebook page he had built up for NOM, which had 290,000 followers. The next day, NOM created a new official Facebook page (to replace Marinelli's), and released this statement: ""Louis Marinelli worked in a volunteer capacity as a bus driver during our summer marriage tour. Around this time, NOM began to pay him as a part-time consultant for helping us expand our internet"
"GoDaddy's support of the measure. Notable examples of the backlash against GoDaddy include Ben Huh, CEO of the Cheezburger Network, who threatened to transfer over one thousand domains away from GoDaddy, and Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit company behind many websites including Wikipedia, which decided to move all its domains away from GoDaddy. In response to the backlash, numerous domain registrars offered coupons for discounted domain transfers, while also offering to donate a portion of profits to the EFF. GoDaddy itself changed its stance on SOPA in the days prior to 29 December in an attempt to minimize damage. Reports up"