2. 3 Up and Coming
Sites to Watch:
iStumbleUpon
cGoogle.org
sPing
3.
4. What is
• Free social networking site
• Create a profile
• Username, categories, add friends
• Click
• Stumbleupon takes you to a website based
on what categories you select and what
your friends like as well as what you’ve
liked in the past
• S or
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5. History
• Founded in 2001
– Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance and Eric
Boyd
• Bought by eBay in 2007 for $75 million
– Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith (with some investors)
bought it back in 2009
• Has grown to over 10 million users
• Exponential growth
– In May 2010, an average of 6,500 new profiles were
being created each day
• 118% growth since 2009
• Has started to be used as a marketing and
political tool
14. What is ?
Google.org uses Google's strengths in
information and technology to build
products and advocate for policies that
address global challenges.
15. “We hope someday [Google.org] may eclipse
Google itself in terms of overall world impact
by ambitiously applying innovation and
significant resources to the largest of the
world's problems.“
-Larry Page
Google Founder (2004)
16. History
• Early on, Google wanted to help those in
need
• Have donate over $100 million to non-
profit organizations and companies with
breakthrough technologies
• Google.org is the philanthropic part of
Google that more fully utilizes the
technological and engineering aspects of it
20. What does it do?
• Follow musical artists
• Like artists and songs
• Add friends
• Post messages and comments to
pages
• Listen to recommended music for you
based on what your friends like and artists
you like
