RESEARCH OF 5 WEBSITES BUILT IN PHP
In fulfillment of the no class research requirements in
Advance database & management system of BSCS-A71
Presented to Mr. Arman Adina
By:
Andy D. Magtangob
Jonathan G. Mahait
Reymer V. Magistrado
August 24, 2019
FRIENDSTER
Creator/Founder:
Jonathan Abrams
DESCRIPTION:
Social networking website that connects individuals across the world with the
hopes of helping them develop friendships. The Friendster network was launched in
2002 and is considered the predecessor to similar sites Myspace and Facebook.
Friendster's popularity has decreased since its inception as more and more social
networks with a similar platform are developed.
It was originally a social networking service website. Before Friendster was
redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those
contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was
also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies.
FEATURE:
Started in 2002 by U.S. businessman Jonathan Abrams Friendster.com was
designed as a place to connect with friends, family, colleagues and new friends over the
Internet. But it went beyond just a one-way communication like Evite, which connects
the social lives of people who already know each other. Friendster is set up like a
community geared at the following activities:
• Connecting with friends and family
• Meeting new people through the connections
you already have
• Finding people with similar interests,
backgrounds or geographical locations.
• Joining groups by activity, school or interest.
Interacting via message posts, games,blogs
and application sharing.
• Representing yourself, your interests or your
business to the Internet community.
REFERENCE:
Caroline McCarthy, August 5, 2008. "Friendster gets $20 million, ex-Googler as CEO."
CNET News. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
Itzkoff, Dave (March 22, 2010). "Fake Area Newspaper Gets Real Television Show".
Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
Liz Gannes, August 4, 2010. "Facebook Buys Friendster Patents for $40M." GIGAOM.
Retrieved June 23, 2011.
Champion, Milo (August 7, 2019). "INQUIRER Lifestyle Series: Fitness Fashion with
Samsung: Friendster: Demise and fate".
Chafkin, Max. "How to Kill a Great Idea!". inc.com. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
Ling Woo Liu, January 29, 2008. "Friendster Moves to Asia Archived May 26, 2009, at
the Wayback Machine", TIME. Retrieved October 27, 2008.
YAHOO
CREATOR/FOUNDER
JERRY YANG & DAVID FILO
DESCRIPTION:
Is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of World
Wide Web sites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories. As a directory, it provides
both new and seasoned Web users the reassurance of a structured view of hundreds
of thousands of Web sites and millions of Web pages.
An American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and
owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry
Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo
was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
FEATURE:
Web hosting for small businesses is among the many services offered by digital-
media company Yahoo. The company targets small businesses that need easy-to-use
tools to build and maintain an online presence. Yahoo offers different levels of hosting
packages to help your business quickly get its website online. You can take advantage
of 24-hour email and toll-free support if you need help setting up your website.
REFERENCES:
Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Inc.
Yahoo Small Business: Web Hosting
Pitta, Julie (April 13, 1996). "Yipee for Yahoo! IPO Spurs Trading Frenzy as Shares More
Than Double". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013.
Retrieved July 18, 2017.
Flickr!
Creator/Founder:
Stewart Butterfield & Caterina Fake
DESCRIPTION:
Flickr is an image hosting service and video hosting service. It was created
by Ludicorp in 2004. It has changed ownership several times and has been owned
by SmugMug since April 20, 2018.
Early versions of Flickr focused on a chat room called FlickrLive, with real-time
photo exchange capabilities. The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading
and filing back-end for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map. It
was eventually dropped as Flickr's back-end systems evolved away from Game
Neverending's codebase Key features of Flickr not initially present are tags, marking
photos as favorites, group photo pools and interestingness, for which a patent is
pending.
FEATURES:
Flickr provides both private and public image storage. A user uploading an image can
set privacy controls that determine who can view the image. A photo can be flagged as
either public or private.
The images a photographer uploads to Flickr go into their sequential "photostream", the
basis of a Flickr account. All photostreams can be displayed as a justified view, a slide
show, a "detail" view or a datestamped archive. Clicking on a photostream image opens
it in the interactive "photopage" alongside data, comments and facilities for embedding
images on external sites.
Users may label their uploaded images with titles and descriptions, and images may
be tagged, either by the uploader or by other users, if the uploader permits it. These text
components enable computer searching of Flickr.
Flickr has always offered two types of accounts: Free and Pro. Until January 7, 2019,
free accounts had up to 1 TB of storage. On January 8, 2019, the account offerings
changed.
REFERENCE:
Guynn, Jessica (April 20, 2018). "Exclusive: Flickr Bought by SmugMug, Which Vows to
Revitalize the Photo Service". USA Today. Gannett Company.
"Flickr.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com.
Retrieved June 27, 2019.
"The man behind Flickr on making the service 'awesome again'". The Verge. March 20,
2013. Retrieved August 29,2013
https://help.flickr.com/en_us/reasons-to-upgrade-to-flickr-pro-SypFn7skm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr
SeatGeek
Creator/Founder:
Russell D'Souza & Jack Groetzinger
DESCRIPTION:
SeatGeek is a mobile-focused ticket platform that enables users to buy and sell
tickets for live sports, concerts and theater events. SeatGeek allows both mobile
app and desktop users to browse events, view interactive color-coded seatmaps,
complete purchases, and receive electronic or print tickets. SeatGeek is the Web's
largest event ticket search engine. Discover events you love, search all ticket sites, see
seat locations and get the best deals on tickets.
SeatGeek was founded by Russell D'Souza and Jack Groetzinger from DreamIT
Ventures, an early stage startup accelerator program in Philadelphia and launched in
September 2009 at TechCrunch50 where it was named by VentureBeat and CNET as
one of the top 5 companies from the conference. In May, the company had received
$20k in seed funding from DreamIT Ventures.
FEATURES:
Mobile first
Whether it’s entering the venue, sending tickets to friends, or selling a ticket on our
marketplace, fans can do everything in a few taps in our mobile app or yours.
Intuitive ticket management
Accessing and using tickets doesn’t have to be a headache. With a single sign-in from
any device, fans will never need a paper ticket again.
Gorgeous, interactive maps
Our maps are hand-drawn to intricately capture every nook and cranny and make the
search process a breeze.
SeatGeek Pano
Our proprietary panoramic photography is the most advanced view-from-seat product
around.
REFERENCE:
Ha, Anthony (September 15, 2009). "TC50: The five companies to watch". VentureBeat.
Retrieved 2016-08-08.
Wauters, Robin (2010-07-21). "TC50 Finalist SeatGeek Closes $1 Million Series A
Round, Partners With Nielsen". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
"We Built Interactive Seating Maps, Launched Today – Please Give Us Feedback".
2010-09-10. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
https://seatgeek.com/
ISTOCKPHOTO
CREATOR/FOUNDER
Bruce Livingstone
DESCRIPTION:
The major characteristic of iStock is the wide variety of high-quality royalty free
stock photos and illustrations created by talented authors for the service's clients only.
iStockphoto offers its customers large volumes of totally unique and exclusive
content, which was generated by authors carefully selected by iStockphoto team. Only
the most highly skilled photographers and illustrators get the chance of cooperating with
iStockphoto as exclusive authors, which guarantees a very high quality of exclusive
content..
FEATURE:
Every file on iStock falls into one of two collections. Our Essentials collection
gives you the everyday content you need, while the Signature collection features
millions of premium handpicked stock files that you can only get from us. The credit cost
of our files is:
Essentials photo, vector or illustration – 1 credit
Signature photo, vector or illustration – 3 credits
Essentials video clip – 6 credits
Signature video clip – 18 credits
REFERENCES:
Kim Peterson, "Microstock photography represents a new business model", Seattle
Times, May 28, 2007
iStockphoto Joins Getty Images". Marketwire. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
