History of Facebook with Mark Zuckerburg

History of Facebook with Mark Zuckerburg

The early history of the founding of Facebook began when Mark Zuckerberg (one of Harvard University's second semester students, at the time) set up a dating site for colleagues on his campus. Zuckerberg who was inspired from the Hot or Not website named his site Facemash.com. This site's method of displaying two photo pairs (male and female), where the next two pairs will be selected by the members of the site where the most "hot" couple. Well, to display photos of couples on this site, Zuckerberg seeks by all means look for photos of his colleagues in a way around door to door to ask.

Zuckerberg broke into his campus computer network to get additional photos. But this action was known to the campus and they further blocked the site Facemash.com followed by sanctions to Zuckerberg with the threat of dismissing him from campus (although this threat did not materialize). For his actions, Zuckerberg defended himself by saying the campus action blocking the site facemash.com site is true reason, but unfortunately they do not realize the potential that could be a means of boosting popularity for the campus itself.It continues Sooner or later, there will also be others who create similar sites.

2004

Undoubtedly, in the following semester on February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg created a new site called "The Facebook" with URL address: www.thefacebook.comForthis new site, Zuckerberg commented sarcastically: "I think the effort of the campus who wants to make media information exchange between civitasakademik which takes years is a silly thing. With this site, I can do it in just a week. "When first launched The Facebook is only limited to Harvard campus only. And it's amazing! Within a month its users already covered more than half the number of Harvard studentsat the time. Subsequently, a number of Zuckerberg's colleagues joined in strengthening thefacebook.com team. They are Eduardo Saverin (business analyst), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic designer), and Chris Hughes. In March 2004, thefacebook.com began to expand into other campuses in the city ofBoston, USA and also to a number of renowned campuses such as Stanford, Columbia, Yale, and Ivy League. It did nottake long, the site has spread its use in almost all campuses in the US and Canada. In June 2004, Zuckerberg, McCollum and Moskovitz moved the headquarters to Palo Alto, California. Here they also helped by Adam D'Angelo.

Mid 2004, thefacebook.com got his first investment dalah a founder of paypal, Pieter Thiel.

2005

In May 2005 thefacebook.com got a fresh cash injection from the jointventure with Accel Partners. On August 23, 2005, thefacebook officially purchased their domain name from Aboutface.com for USD 200,000 and from then on the phrase phrase "the" is no longer used so that their name is officially facebook.com. In this year 2005 also, facebook has expanded the range of users to high school students. Still in the same year, a number of universities in Mexico, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand also can enjoy the Facebook network.

2006

In early 2006, Facebook was rumored to be acquired by a company with a price of USD 750 million, even its bid jumped to $ 2 billion. But this news is not proven. In April 2006, Facebook got a fresh cash injection of USD 25 million on investment from Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners. In May of the same year Facebook started spreading the Asian continent through India.In the middle of the year, the turn of Israel and Germany. Finally on September 11, 2006, Facebook changed its registration status to "free to join" to all owners of valid email addresses around the world.

2007

In September 2007, Microsoft announcedit had purchased 1.6% of Facebook shares worth USD 15 billion. In taking this stock is also covered agreement thatMicrosoft has the right to put their ads onFacebook. Seeing this move a number of other giant players like Google, Viacom, Friendster also expressed their interest toinvest in Facebook. Earlier in 2006, Yahoo! has offered a $ 1 billion acquisition offer. November 2007, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invested USD60 million in Facebook.

2008

In August 2008, Business Week magazine reported a number of other parties have come to instill shares on Facebook so it is estimated that the valueof Facebook ranged from USD 3.75 billion to USD 5 billion.

Facebook users can now freely join manynetworks organized by city, work location, school or country. These networks will then connect their members. Fellow users can connect with their friends and can see each other the contents of personal profile. Facebook site gets the main income from the ads attached to it. The users are free to create their own profiles in which they can contain photos and other personal info. In addition it can also send each other messages, join a group or more. Bydefault, Facebook manages user profiles only accessible to fellow users who have been friends. But this arrangement can be changed later if desired. Microsoft is the exclusive partner of Facebook in serving banner ads. This is why Facebook only publish ads contained in Microsoft's network. According to comScore (internet marketing research site) Facebook currently collects user data as much as collected by Google andMicrosoft. In terms of appearance, Facebook is often compared to MySpace and Friendster. But the main difference between them is MySpace and Friendsterallow users to decorate their profile viewswith HTML and CSS features, while Facebook only allows text features only so that all user profile views look uniform.

Facebook has a number of interaction features among users, among them the"Wall / Wall" feature, the space where fellow users send open messages, "Poke / Colek", the means to virtualize each other virtually, "Photos / Photos" space to install photos and "Status" that show the user's current condition / idea. Starting in July 2007, Facebook allows users to post attachments (links, apps, etc.) directly to Wall / Wall, where previously only allowed text only. Over time, Facebook added some new features to its site. In September 2006, Facebook announced the launch of NewsFeed / News Series with a glimpse of information from each user. At first this feature is open and visible to anyone. Butafter getting complaints from some users, the Facebook to change the settings of this feature so that users can now manage that can be displayed in News Feed / News Series and which are not. Note / Notes feature added on August 22, 2006. In this feature users canimport other blog posts (Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, etc.) to be displayed on Facebook. On April 7, 2008, Facebook launched one of the favorite features of "Chat / Chat", a place where users can instantly send personal messages directly and in real time. The"Gifts / Prizes" feature begins on February8, 2007. This feature is a feature to instantly send gifts. Prizes can be purchased for USD 1 and added a personal message. On May 14, 2007, Facebook introduced a "Marketplace" that allowed users to advertise for free. This free advertising feature was created to compete with similar features introduced by Craiglist. July 2008, Facebook tidied up the look of the site so that each category (wall, info, photo, etc.) has separate tabs. Starting March 2009, Facebook tidy up the "Home / Home" look.

On May 24, 2007, Facebook promoted the Facebook Platform. This is a tool for software developers to create applications that can be used on Facebook. This step was immediately welcomed by software developers so that until March 25, 2009 there were 52,000 applications with the number of developers as much as 660,000 parties.

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