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Sunday, June 10, 2012

history of facebook in the world

Facebook is a social networking recently pioneered in 2006 by a Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg was born or born on May 14, 1984 in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York, United States (U.S.).The idea began when he attended Exeter High School, New HampshireSaat that he became acquainted with Adam D'Angelo. Zuckerberg graduated, and entered Harvard University, originally made Coursematch program which enables students in the same class can view a list of classmates. The next project to make facemash.com. Through this site visitors can stamp "cool" or "bad" picture of a student, and make Zuckerberg called by the Administrative Board of Harvard University because it is breaking into the campus computer security systems, break the rules on Internet privacy, and copyright infringement.
Therefore he mebuat up and launch in 2004. In a short time two-thirds of Harvard students to be Facebook users. Roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hugh, dberhasil develop wings to Stanford University, Columbia, Yale, Ivy College, and several other schools in the Boston area. In a short time, they launched Facebook for 30 schools.Moskovitz and Zuckerberg along with some other friends moved to Palo Alto, California, summer 2004 rented a small house for the office. Therefore want to work up a serious they leave Harvard. In his office's Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, which give a fresh fund of U.S. $ 500,000, is the first investor so they can move to larger offices at the University Avenue is named as the office "Urban Campus"On August 23, 2005 from the facebook.com domain buy Zuckerberg Aboutface Corporation worth U.S. $ 200,000, or about USD 1.86 billion. On 2 September 2005, Zuckerberg launched Facebook site specifically for children of high school. In just 15 days since its release, most schools in the U.S. already a member. at the end of 2005, Facebook has covered about 2,000 college and 25,000 high schools in the U.S., Canada, England, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.On February 27, 2006, he began to allow the students to become users of the site is to add high school students as friends. BusinessWeek, launched the news that Zuckerberg is negotiating with potential buyers Facebook. But, finally, he declined the offer so-called value of U.S. $ 750 million or around Rp 6.97 trillion. The reason, Zuckerberg thought the price was too low. At that time, he estimated the value of U.S. $ 2 billion Facebook.On April 2006, the first investor of this site, that is Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners, and Meritech Capital Partners, increase investment in Facebook by depositing the funds of U.S. $ 25 million. Facebook also entered India through the Indian Institute of Technology and Management Institute of India.He also provides facilities Facebook Notes. This new feature is a blogging feature that allows users to tag, insert images, and other features. In addition, users can import a blog from the site Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger and other blogging sites. Thanks to new features, readers can provide comments on the paper posted a Facebook user. September 2006, Zuckerberg opened the Facebook service for all internet users. However, these steps are precisely drawn protests from its users and loyal customers. As a result, two weeks later was forced to fix up the new service by opening registration for Internet users who have a mailing address or e-mail is clear.Peter Thiel, predicting revenues this site later in 2015 could reach U.S. $ 1 billion. Well, at that time, the company was going to come rocketing to around U.S. $ 8 billion. There are also free classified ads in Facebook. Feature called Facebook Marketplace was launched on May 14, 2007. This new service was immediately become rivals other online companies. Craigslist who had already been placing classified ads on its site. Zuckerberg also becoming a business to flow smoothly. In fact, Apple is willing to extend cooperation with Facebook to display the iTunes music samples.Facebook Parakey Inc. bought the company., From Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, in July 2007. Parakey is a manufacturer of computer applications that facilitate the transfer of data in the form of text, images, and video to a site on the internet. Bill Gates, in October 2007 bought 1.6% stake in Facebook for U.S. $ 240 million. The reason, Zuckerberg did not intend to sell all the shares up as well. The reason is quite simple and noble, he wanted to remain independent Facebook.On 7 November 2007, the site launched a new advertising system called Facebook Beacon. Hong Kong billionaire, Li Ka-shing, is interested to invest money worth U.S. $ 60 million in Facebook on 30 November 2007.Now the number of employees alone has reached 400 people. However, Facebook is a unique company. executives and top brass are young, between 24 years-37 years. Facebook's headquarters looks more like a student dormitory. The employees, who each day gets a free meal rations, work while doing her favorite activity. There are playing guitar, biking, playing the control plane, or swaying accompanied by music blends a disc jockey (DJ). They also do not have to dress neatly. Shorts and flip-flops is their favorite costumes in the office. Zuckerberg claimed to be averse to an office setting that is too formal.Though it was able to accumulate assets to U.S. $ 3 billion or about Rp 27.9 trillion, Zuckerberg still look as it is, like most young men who enjoyed casual wear.Sources: http://id.shvoong.com/humanities/history/1946922-sejarah-facebook/ # ixzz19p5aL1M2

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