Which website was founded by Steve and Julie Pankhurst in 1999?
"by Virgin Books, and a song about (and named after) the site was released by The Hussys in 2006. Following ITV's sale of the site to DC Thomson's Brightsolid subsidiary in 2009, the company relaunched Friends Reunited in March 2012 with a new emphasis on nostalgia and memories. On 18 January 2016, Friends Reunited revealed that it would be closing down the website after 16 years of operation. On 26 February 2016 the site closed down. The website was conceived by Steve and Julie Pankhurst of Barnet, Hertfordshire and friend Jason Porter in 1999. Julie Pankhurst's curiosity about the current"
"1 Q&A website resource. The company predominantly focused on the UK and US markets until 2013, when the company expanded its operations to Japan. The website was launched in 2004 to offer a Q&A web solution. Tim O’Shea and Christopher Lee, who also founded Blurtit, created Qhub. After founding the company Lee wrote, “We believe the Q&A format is at its most useful when built around a niche with owners and members who are really passionate about their subject.” After the foundation, a number of large websites began to implement the Q&A solution into their sites. In 2010, ""Inspired Magazine"""
"on Business Insider’s 2012 Silicon Alley 100. Minshew and Cavoulacos made the list again as number 85 in 2015. As of June 2016, the startup has over 50 million unique visitors annually. In 2016, the company was ranked #16 on the Deloitte Fast 500 North America list. The Muse (website) The Muse (formerly known as The Daily Muse) is a New York City-based online career source founded in 2011 by Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery. The company aims to build the ""most beloved, trusted career destination in the world"" for the millennial age group and older professionals by"
"website's owners, David Sundan and Ted Persson. Thorstensson's primary project was Njuice.com, which utilizes advanced parsers to scan other networking websites for trending stories, then create an expanded network in itself. According to Alexa, Njuice was Thorstensson's most-popular website, bringing in more than one million hits monthly, which is a greater number than SK Gaming's. Alongside Sofie Lundström, Thorstensson founded a marketplace lending platform service intended to connect consumers with small businesses in need of loans called Toborrow, alongside Sofie Lundström in 2013. After two years of developing Toborrow, Thorstensson joined the Swedish private equity group EQT Partners as a"
"Shustir Shustir.com is a website that connects small businesses with consumers who prefer to buy locally, and from independent retailers and professionals. It enables small businesses to set up virtual storefronts to sell their goods and services, improve visibility in search engines, and communicate with prospective customers and clients through community building and social networking. Co-founders Shulammite Kim and Khanh Pham launched Shustir.com on May 28, 2009. Prior to starting Shustir.com, Kim and Pham were former colleagues in the Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate Group and worked as senior investment professionals for over eight years prior to the firm's collapse"
"Stack Overflow Stack Overflow is a privately held website, the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. It was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question and answer sites such as Experts-Exchange. The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of ""Coding Horror"", Atwood's popular programming blog. The website serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote"
"BuzzFeed have covered Hukkster. Headquartered in New York City, Hukkster was founded in December 2011 by Katie Finnegan and Erica Bell. Finnegan and Bell met as merchandisers at J.Crew and later worked together in retail consulting at A.T. Kearney. As avid online shoppers with industry experience, Finnegan and Bell built Hukkster with a dual perspective, creating a technology that provides value for both consumers and retailers by revolutionizing the purchase cycle. The company launched in private beta by invitation only in May 2012 before launching publicly in September 2013. In November, 2012 Hukkster closed $1 MM in seed financing led"
"in 2008. Kim and Pham developed Shustir.com to meet the need of small businesses to have a web presence. Only a reported 44% of small businesses have website even though 92% of all online consumers tend to shop locally (source: WebVisible/Nielsen Online) 1. Despite the recession's onset, online sales increased in 2008. Shustir.com is a Web 2.0 marketplace that combines e-commerce functionality with social media and social networking tools to form a platform for small businesses to not only sell their goods and services online to increase their revenues, but also to connect with more consumers beyond their geographic locales"
"spinoff from Polycot Consulting. Jon Lebkowsky Jon Lebkowsky (born April 20, 1949) is a web consultant/developer, author, and activist who was the co-founder of FringeWare, Inc. (along with Paco Nathan). FringeWare, an early attempt at ecommerce and online community, published a popular ""magalog"" called FringeWare Review, and a literary zine edited by Lebkowsky called Unshaved Truths. FringeWare's email list, called the FringeWare News Network, established an international following for the organization, which also opened a store in Austin, Texas. Along with Nancy White, he co-hosts the ongoing Virtual Communities Conference, the Blog Conference, and the public Inkwell Conference at the"
"controllers and the controlled. Legal commentary Scholarly analysis Fucking Machines Fucking Machines (also known as fuckingmachines.com and fuckingmachines) is a pornographic website founded in 2000 that features video and photographs of women engaged in autoerotic sexual stimulation with penetrative sex-machines and sex toys. Based in San Francisco, California, the site is operated by Kink.com. Web entrepreneur Peter Acworth launched Fucking Machines on September 25, 2000, as his company's second website after Kink.com. Devices shown on the site were created with the intent to bring women authentic orgasms. Performers were instructed to allow themselves to be recorded experiencing pleasure. After the"
"Stephanie Pakrul Stephanie Pakrul (born September 9, 1982), also known as StephTheGeek, is an internet personality. Pakrul is from Mississauga, Ontario. She studied as an information technology student at Ryerson University in Toronto and earned a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Pakrul began developing webpages at around the age of 15 and started her personal site a few years later, in 2001, as a small personal website. The site has since become a blog and personal playground, sharing many personal details of her life, including music, relationships, gadgetry, and sexuality. In 2003, Pakrul self-published a crowdfunded album,"
"and Sarah Evershed in 2011. Jarret Myer Jarret Myer (born February 6, 1973) is an American media entrepreneur who co-founded the record label Rawkus Records, the YouTube talent company Big Frame, and the digital media brand Uproxx. Since the sale of Uproxx to Woven Digital in 2014, Myer has served as Woven Digital's general manager of publishing. Myer founded independent hip hop label Rawkus Records with partners Brian Brater and James Murdoch in 1996. Myer met his cofounders while attending Horace Mann School. The label's high-volume model of 12-inch releases was based on the strategy of punk rock music labels"
"Jeff Fluhr Jeff Fluhr is an American business executive, currently a general partner of Craft. He co-founded StubHub and served as its CEO from 2000 until 2007, when it was acquired by eBay. He also established social video platform Spreecast in 2012, which has since ceased operations. As an angel investor he has invested in technology companies such as Houzz, Twilio, Warby Parker and Zocdoc. Fluhr was born into a business-oriented family; his grandfather, Michael Kosof, owned a women's clothing store in Manhattan which he passed on to Fluhr's mother. His father was an engineering executive at AT&T. Fluhr caught"
"The Muse (website) The Muse (formerly known as The Daily Muse) is a New York City-based online career source founded in 2011 by Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery. The company aims to build the ""most beloved, trusted career destination in the world"" for the millennial age group and older professionals by offering job listings, company profiles, expert advice, skills-building resources, and coaching services to the millions of candidates using the platform. Over 500 companies across industries have job listings and corporate profiles on ""The Muse"", including: Facebook, Wells Fargo, Marriott, Target, HBO, AT&T, and Aflac. The site was"
"StubHub StubHub is an online ticket exchange company owned by eBay, which provides services for buyers and sellers of tickets for sports, concerts, theater and other live entertainment events. It has grown from the largest secondary-market ticket marketplace in the United States into the world's largest ticket marketplace. While the company does not currently disclose its financials, in 2015 it had over 16 million unique visitors and nearly 10 million live events per month. The San Francisco-located company was founded in 2000 by Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr, both former Stanford Business School students and investment bankers. The president of"
"'s Forty Under 40 list and ""Entrepreneur Magazine"" 's 24 Best and Brightest Young Entrepreneurs. Jeff Fluhr Jeff Fluhr is an American business executive, currently a general partner of Craft. He co-founded StubHub and served as its CEO from 2000 until 2007, when it was acquired by eBay. He also established social video platform Spreecast in 2012, which has since ceased operations. As an angel investor he has invested in technology companies such as Houzz, Twilio, Warby Parker and Zocdoc. Fluhr was born into a business-oriented family; his grandfather, Michael Kosof, owned a women's clothing store in Manhattan which he"
"etc. and the social recommendation engine then looked to see which car models were most preferred by other people with the same characteristics. The Honk database featured anonymous data from several hundred thousand automobile shoppers and buyers in the United States. Honk.com was acquired by TrueCar in May 2011. Honk (website) Honk was a social automotive website developer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company was co-founded by Tom Taira and Stephanie LaCrosse in 2009 to develop web and mobile solutions that enabled consumers to choose a car. Honk operated Honk.com, a website that featured user-generated car reviews, new car"
"Uproxx Uproxx is an entertainment and popular culture news website. It was founded in 2008 by Jarret Myer and Brian Brater, and acquired by Woven Digital (later renamed Uproxx Media Group) in 2014. The site's target audience is males aged 18–34. It was acquired by Warner Music Group in August 2018, but Myer and CEO Benjamin Blank will remain in control of the company's operations. Uproxx was founded in 2008 by Jarret Myer and Brian Brater. The two also founded hip hop label Rawkus Records in 1996 and YouTube media company Big Frame in 2011. Uproxx was initially a network"
"six consumer-focused tech sites intended to attract parents (""FamilyPC""), music listeners (""ZDNet Music""), gadget enthusiasts (""ZDNet Equip""), gamers (""ZDNet GameSpot"") and basic users (""Internet Life"" with Yahoo). It also launched ""Computer Stew,"" a web-based comedy show about technology that featured John Hargrave and Jay Stevens, as well as the first ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide. On December 30, 1999, ZDNet launched a $25 million branding campaign in response to a $100 million advertising campaign launched by rival CNET. ZDNet's lead over the competition narrowed by 2000. Despite a record 10.7 million unique users in January, it managed only a 13 percent"
"co-founded the website Hunch with entrepreneur Chris Dixon. Hunch was acquired by eBay for a reported $80 million in November 2011. eBay shut it down in March 2014. Fake's most recent venture is Findery, which was originally called Pinwheel, and launched in a limited beta in February 2012. It was renamed to Findery in July 2012. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Fake was married to Stewart Butterfield, her Flickr co-founder, from 2001 to 2007. They had one daughter together, in 2007. As of 2015, Fake is in a relationship with Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engeström, and the couple have"
"on the Internet."" The organization has often been challenged by supporters and practitioners of the various forms of alternative medicine that are criticized on the website. Quackwatch Quackwatch is a United States-based network of people founded by Stephen Barrett, which aims to ""combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct"" and to focus on ""quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere"". Since 1996 it has operated the alternative medicine watchdog website quackwatch.org, which advises the public on unproven or ineffective alternative medicine remedies. The site contains articles and other information criticizing many forms of alternative medicine. Quackwatch"
"J.W. Graham Medal for Computing and Innovation by the University of Waterloo. Jeromy Carriere Steven Jeromy Carrière is a Canadian computer software engineer. Carrière is a graduate of the University of Waterloo in Canada. He was technical staff member at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute working on practical software architectural reconstruction and analysis. In 1998 Carrière co-founded Pittsburgh-based voice portal infrastructure company Quackware with Steven Woods and Alex Quilici. In 1999 Quackware became Quack.com and moved to Silicon Valley. In September 2000, Quack was acquired for an estimated $200 million by America Online. Carrière left America Online in 2002"
"Punkcast Punkcast.com was an online video site that covered the NYC underground music scene. The site, though not active, remains with an archive of videos from 1997 to 2011. Newer videos are now on the Punkcast YouTube channel. Punkcast's founder Joly MacFie was born in England and during the punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s sold badges and pins through his company Better Badges, before in 1983 selling the business to his staff and moving to New York. Punkcast was started in September 1997 to cover the visit to NYC of punk band One Way System, in"
"the JREF forum. Robert S. Lancaster Robert Starrett Lancaster (born February 11, 1958) is an American computer programmer and skeptic who created the websites Stop Kaz and Stop Sylvia Browne. Lancaster's first web presence was The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards, a site devoted to displaying some of his large collection of decks of playing cards. The site existed from 1996 until 2008 when AOL shut down member websites. Lancaster also created several shareware DOS computer games known collectively as The MicroLink Games. His first skeptical web site, Stop Kaz went online in September 2004. It is devoted"
"a generic dating database. It's wrong to have such an obtuse and unfriendly unsubscription process."". After these claims, the site publicly published its 'Customer Charter' which refuted all of these claims by PCGamesN. Tom Thurlow Thomas Michael Thurlow (born 11 December 1989) is a British entrepreneur, best known for epi-culture, a children's book company which specialises in signed first editions. He studied at Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre and started his business after his sister asked him to go to Chepstow for a JK Rowling book signing as she could not make it. In 2006 Thurlow was listed"
"in financing from Accel Partners and other investors. It subsequently raised another $10 million in 2015. The company became profitable in 2017, and in February 2018 reported $60 million a year in revenue. 99designs 99designs is a Melbourne, Australia based company that operates a freelancer platform for connecting graphic designers and clients. The company was founded in 2008, and has a United States office in San Francisco, California. 99designs was founded by Matt Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle as a spin-off of Sitepoint, a website started in 1998 as a forum for web developers and designers. Designers on the site's forums"
"a new entity, LargeNetwork. The online magazine retained its original name. Grosjean and Sigrist were previously involved in the creation of the daily newspaper ""Le Temps"" and both worked for ""Le Nouveau Quotidien"". Largeur.com Largeur.com is an online magazine. published by the Swiss media agency LargeNetwork. On April 19, 1999, two Swiss journalists, Pierre Grosjean and Gabriel Sigrist, created Largeur.com, an online magazine which publishes investigations, columns and news reports on a daily basis. Organized under five headings (Glocal, Kapital, Pop Culture, Technophile and Latitudes), the articles focus on new trends, original viewpoints and exclusive information Largeur.com soon expanded into"
"Stack Exchange Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer (Q&A) websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The reputation system allows the sites to be self-moderating. As of September 2018, the three most actively-viewed sites in the network are: Stack Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. All sites in the network are modelled after the initial site Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for computer programming questions created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. Further Q&A sites in the network are established, defined and"
"'Best Uploader of Geek Culture and Music', one of many specialized awards in their Best of NYC 2010 issue. Punkcast Punkcast.com was an online video site that covered the NYC underground music scene. The site, though not active, remains with an archive of videos from 1997 to 2011. Newer videos are now on the Punkcast YouTube channel. Punkcast's founder Joly MacFie was born in England and during the punk scene in the late 70s and early 80s sold badges and pins through his company Better Badges, before in 1983 selling the business to his staff and moving to New York."
"and Anna Crilly as its co-presenter. It was, according to O'Farrell, an opportunity for new writers and actors to show their talent. Also in 2008 a book featuring many of the stories featured on the website was produced, called ""Isle of Wight to Get Ceefax: And Other Groundbreaking Stories from Newsbiscuit"". NewsBiscuit NewsBiscuit is a British satirical news website. It was founded in September 2006 to create a new outlet for British humour on the internet by a group consisting mainly of comedy writers including John O'Farrell. Each day the site publishes one main 'front page' article and two shorter"
"Ana Marie Cox, Heather Havrilesky, and Tim Cavanaugh appeared at XOXO, their first appearance on stage together. In an interview with Engadget, Anuff said Suck couldn't exist today, citing the reduced value of opinions and shorter attention spans. In the fall of 2015, software developer Mark MacDonald began serializing the website's archive in an email newsletter, which is sent on a daily basis 20 years-to-the-day after original publication on Suck.com. Suck.com Suck.com was one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. It featured daily editorial content on a wide variety of topics, including politics and pop-culture and was"
"Francisco Bay Area"" and ""The Chowhound's Guide to the New York Tristate Area"". Chowhound Chowhound or chowhound.com is a food website brand maintained by CBS Interactive. Chowhound is a popular online food discussion board founded by food writer Jim Leff and Bob Okumura in 1997, known for its user base of food fanatics. In 2006, Leff and Okumura sold the site to CNET Networks, which redesigned it and merged it with CHOW magazine, keeping its busy forums, grouped by locale. After CNET was merged into CBS Interactive in 2008, the original chowhound.com domain was restored and CHOW was eliminated. Penguin"
"site unveiled a dedicated iOS app in 2012. Early the next year, ""TouchArcade"" began a promotion called Free Play, wherein the website promoted a game that was made free to download for the promotion's duration. ""TouchArcade"" launched a crowdfunding campaign in June 2015. Journalists have recognized ""TouchArcade"" as among the best mobile game news websites. Games journalists also described ""TouchArcade"" Hodapp as influential within the mobile game community. MacRumors MacRumors.com is a website that aggregates Mac and Apple related news, rumors, and reports. The site was launched February 24, 2000, in Richmond, Virginia, and is owned by Arnold Kim. By"