eBuddy Logo — eBuddy is an instant messaging application for web and mobile devices that supports various instant messaging services including Windows Live Messenger , Yahoo! , AIM , Google Talk , MySpace IM and Facebook .eBuddy is a service of browser-based instant messaging, originally began as e-Messenger in 2003. Combines AOL, Google Talk, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger on a single web based interface. Also available via mobile phone, independent of operator or device through the internal browser. And eBuddy mobile IM application, which became the most popular.

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eBuddy is a privately held company backed by Prime Technology Ventures and Lowland Capital Partners. eBuddy is based in Amsterdam and has a second, local offices in London. The company launched a third U.S. office in San Francisco in April 2008. Paul Taylor is the inventor of eBuddy. The idea came when he made a bet with a friend, get MSN will work on a mobile phone. He worked full time at an internet company, Paulo spent hours working on a mobile application for MSN. After several weeks, won the bet and went to a server application. It was here where visitors asked if he could develop a web version. By stimulation of the users, Paulo decided to take the idea to the next level. More

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Yelp Logo — Yelp is a social networking platform for online evaluation of local shops and services by consumers. According to the company’s website is more than 38 million users a month and visited houses more than 13 million individual evaluations.

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Yelp was founded in October 2004 in San Francisco. Since then, in large cities in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands created further Yelp communities. As a local online city guide, it offers users the ability to shops, restaurants, boutiques, shops, doctors and a host of other facilities of a city to be evaluated by contributions. Other tools include file sharing, forums and discussion groups. The starting point is a personal assessment profile. Currently, in addition to the English version, there are also language versions in German, French and Dutch. Also, any business owner can set up a free account to post offers, photos and messages to customers. Yelp takes money through selling ads to local businesses.These advertisers paying their contributions can not change or rearrange. More

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Groupon Logo — The Groupon, Inc. is a U.S. company, which publishes several websites with discount offers runs. According to the company’s Groupon in 35 countries and has more than seventy million registered users. The company name is a portmanteau word from Group and coupon, and indicates the operation of the service: Groupon offers every day to a certain discount if enough people come together. The company receives a commission in this case. For this business model has become the term Groupon naturalized.

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The offers are valid for one city or region. At the start of Groupon in November 2008, Chicago , the first market, followed by Boston , New York City and Toronto . Groupon is in Germany in more than 40 cities and regions of active (January 2011) and competes with the portal Daily Deal for market leadership. Worldwide, the company serves over 1,000 markets. More

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Joomla! Logo — Joomla is a content management system that can be used independently. Its main virtue is to allow integration, add or edit the contents of a web site easily. It is an open source set mostly in PHP licensed under GPL. This content management system can work on local networks say to yourself, intranet or Internet and requires a database created with a manager MySQL and an Apache HTTP server.

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Joomla comes as the result of a fork of Mambo, Miro corporation of Australia, who kept the Mambo brand name at the time and the main group of developers. Joomla comes with this division on August 17, 2005. Miro Corporation formed a nonprofit organization with the initial purpose of establishing the project and protect it from lawsuits. The development team claimed that many of the clauses of the structure of the foundation were previous agreements made ​​by the steering committee of Mambo, which has no necessary consultancy who maintain the project and includes provisions that violate the core values ​​of open source. The development team created a Web site called OpenSourceMatters to distribute information to users, developers, Web designers and the community at large. At that time the leader Andrew Eddie, aka “MasterChief” wrote an open letter to the community, which appeared in the classified section mamboserver.com public forum. More

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Ning Logo — Ning is an online platform for users to create websites social and social networks, released in October 2005. Ning was founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. Ning is the third startup company Andreessen (after Netscape and Opsware), and drew much of its notoriety from Andreessen’s successes with these companies. The word “Ning” is the term in Chinese for “peace” (traditional Chinese :宁, Simplified Chinese :宁, pinyin : ‘Ning’), as explained by Gina Bianchini on the company blog, and is also a Chinese surname.

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Ning hopes to compete with large social sites like MySpace or Facebook, appealing to users who want to create networks around specific interests or have limited technical skills. The unique feature of Ning is that anyone can create their own custom social network for a topic or special need, targeting specific audiences. At the time of its launch, Ning offered several simple websites developed internally or by members of a closed beta. In late September 2006, Ning was focused on providing a web site for groups, a website of photos and a video site for people who wish to copy and use them for any purpose. Later these three templates were overcome by a single template in order to custom make it more manageable by programmers who were not so simple that they out the copy of social website. More

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Dogpile Logo — Dogpile is a metasearch engine of Internet searches from returning engines About , Ask.com , FinWhat , Google , LookSmart , MSN Search , Teoma , Yahoo! , Bing and other popular search engines, including audio and video. Dogpile began in November 1996 , being part of the network Go2Net in 1999 , which was acquired by InfoSpace , a company that also owned Metacrawler , Webcrawler and Excite .

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In 2005 , Dogpile released a study about each search engine returns results. The study showed that there is a 3% redundancy between Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. 85% of the results were unique to one of the search engines.

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