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Big Bang
It all began in 1995 … Classmates.com
MySpace,Orkut, Facebook … atleast 100 popular ones
Secondlife.com: 3D online digital world
Circle of Trust
Circle of Friends
Friendster
Yahoo 3600
Bebo
Tribe.net
Tagged
Linked-In
Why Social networks ?
It’s fun It’s free It’s the best thing to do when you are getting
bored in class
Conditions were conducive …
The earth hasn’t cooled down further !!– Broadband Internet– Many super cool and super fast web application
development platforms– Lots of free web space
Challenges
(www.myspace.com/tom) – Multimedia Heavy (Audio / Video)– DNS heavy
http://www.myspace.com/– What do I cache ? (Cool New Videos 36,262
uploaded today! )– So many users…User count : 168,112,249
And More challenges
http://www.secondlife.com/– Total Residents:5,786,458– Logged In Last 60 Days:1,769,831– Online Now:31,321
Quality of service Privacy concerns And many more !!!!
But there are always solutions
Increase bandwidth Increase DNS Caching Companies like Akamai, dedicated to solve
caching problems.
Social Networks are here to stay
Getting Bigger and better Joining Hands for global community Huge untapped potential Center point for online commerce Leading the web 2.0 revolution
Still some skeptics not accepting them