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I was so reckless, Zuckerberg breaking into the campus computer network access to gain additional photographs. However, this action is known campus and they subsequently blocking sites Facemash.com followed by action by the threat of sanctions to Zuckerberg would have fired on campus (although this threat be realized). For his actions, Zuckerberg defended himself by saying "The actions of the campus were blocked sites facemash.com true reason, but unfortunately they do not realize the potential that could be a tool for campus popularity booster itself". He continued "Sooner or later, there will also be others who make similar sites".
2004Undeterred, in the next half, precisely on February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg created a new website called "The Facebook" the addressable URL: ..http: //www.thefacebook.com .. For this new site, Zuckerberg commented sarcastically: "I think the efforts of the college who want to create a medium of information exchange between the academic community that took many years is ridiculous. With this my sites, I can do it in just a week's time only ".2
When first launched "The Facebook" only limited among Harvard campus only. And it's amazing! Within a month of its users already covers more than half of Harvard students at the time. Furthermore, a number of colleagues Zuckerberg joined thefacebook.com strengthen the team. They are Eduardo Saverin (business analysts), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic designer), and Chris Hughes.
In March 2004, thefacebook.com began to spread to several other campuses in Boston, US, and also to a number of renowned campuses such as Stanford, Columbia, Yale, and the Ivy League. Did not take 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 served well by Adam D'Angelo and Sean Parker.
Mid-2004, thefacebook.com got the first investment fromcofounder of PayPal, Pieter Thiel.
2005In May 2005, thefacebook.com received an injection of fresh funds results of a join venture with Accel Partners. August 23, 2005, Thefacebook officially buy their domain names from Aboutface.com for USD 200,000 and since then a fragment of the phrase "the" no longer in use so that their name officially became facebook.com.
In 2005 also, facebook user has extended its range to the high school students. Still in the same year, a number of universities in Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand also was able to enjoy the network Facebook.
2006Early in 2006, Facebook was rumored to be acquired by a company at a price of USD 750 million, and even bid jumped to USD 2 billion. But this news is not proven. In April 2006, Facebook received an injection of fresh funds of USD 25 million on investment from Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners, and Meritech Capital Partners. In May of the same year Facebook began reaching Asia through the Indian subcontinent. At mid-year, gilliran Israel and Germany. Finally, on 11 September 2006, Facebook changed the registration status to "free to join" for all owners of valid email addresses worldwide.
2007In September 2007, Microsoft announced it had purchased a 1.6% stake in Facebook worth $ 15 billion. In taking stock also included an agreement that Microsoft has the right to place their ads on Facebook. Seeing this step a number of giant players such as Google, Viacom, Friendster also expressed their interest in investing in Facebook. Earlier in 2006, Yahoo! has to offer acquisition deals worth $ 1 billion. November 2007, a Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invested USD 60 million in Facebook.
2008In August 2008, Business Week magazine reported a number of other parties have participated in the Facebook stock embed it is estimated that Facebook's value ranged between USD 3.75 billion and USD 5 billion
situation siteFacebook users can now free to join the many networks set up by city, location of work, school and country. These networks will then connect its members. Fellow users can connect with their friends and can see each personal profile contents.
Facebook main sites get revenue from ads attached to it. The user is free to create a profile of each is in it can contain pictures and other personal info, info. Moreover, it can also send messages, join a group or more. By default, Facebook set up a user profile can only be accessed by other users who have been friends. However, these settings can be changed later if desired.
Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner to serve banner ads. This is why Facebook simply Menayang advertisements contained within the Microsoft network. According to comScore (website internet marketing researcher) is currently gathering Facebook user data as collected by Google and Microsoft.
In this view, Facebook is often compared with MySpace and Friendster. But the main difference between them is that MySpace and Friendster allow users to decorate their profile appearance with HTML and CSS features, while Facebook only allows text-only feature so that all user profiles display a uniform look.
featuresFacebook has a number of features of interaction among users who among them is the feature 'Wall / Wall', the room where fellow users send messages open, 'Poke / Flick', a means for mutual pinch virtually, 'Photos / Photos' space to install photos, and 'Status' featuring state / user's current ideas. Starting in July 2007, Facebook allows users to send various attachments (link, application, etc.) directly to the Wall / Wall, where previously allowed only the text.
Over time, Facebook adds several new features to its website. In September 2006, Facebook announced the launch of News Feed / Networks News Feed that contains glimpses information of each user. At first, this feature is open and can be seen by anyone. But after receiving complaints from some users, the Facebook change the setting for this feature so that users can now set which can be displayed in News Feed / Networks News Feed and which are not.
Feature Notes / Notes written on August 22, 2006. In this feature the user can import his writing on other blogs (Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, etc.) to be displayed on Facebook. April 7, 2008, Facebook launched one of the favorite features of 'Chat / Chat', where users can send private messages to each other directly and in real time.
Features 'Gifts / Gifts' began on February 8, 2007. This feature is a feature for exchanging gifts. 'Gift' can be purchased for $ 1 and add a personal message. May 14, 2007, Facebook introduced the 'Marketplace' which allows users to advertise for free. Features free advertising is designed to compete with similar features introduced by Craiglist.
July 2008, Facebook smoothed look of the site so that each category (wall, info, photos, etc.) have separate tabs. Starting in March 2009, Facebook spruce up the look "Home / Home".
platformOn May 24, 2007, Facebook promoting the Facebook Platform. It is the means for software developers to create applications that can be used on Facebook. This move immediately welcomed by the developers of the software so that until March 25, 2009, there were 52,000 applications with a number of developers 660.000 parties.
