Web Innovations Review

MySpace is a social network site who started out as an idea taken from the popularity of Friendster. August 2003 saw the first version of the site ready for launch. Now, it has evolved into a highly complex interactive social network site which offers personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. One remarkable feature of MySpace was its ability to allow users to customize and personalize their profile, site, blogs, etc. by use of HTML and CSS. MySpace has generated over many late teenagers and early 20s earning hundreds of thousands of dollars making personalized profiles for commercial use.

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Friendster is an Internet social network site which is a key example of the small world phenomenon. Founded in California, United States in 2002, it has already becoming arguably the most popular social network. The website has already featured a number of additional features over the time of its development. Adding widgets and other interesting features aids in its popularity among teenagers. Also, MediaBox allows people to post videos from YouTube or other video hosting sites.

Already, the website has a number of alternative language sites in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Bahasa (currently a beta site).

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Social networks are now the thing. With over a hundred sites offering services, Friendster, MySpace, and Facebook to give a few, a person can have difficulty choosing the best site for him. A basic breakdown of a general social network service reveals that the most standard sites offer ways to communicate, connect, and discuss. More complex sites allow blogging, file sharing, chat, e-mail, video posting, etc.

Social networks first began as an idea in 1993. The idea was turned into a project and finally, a site was born. At that time however, the idea was simply too far ahead into the future and therefore did not click in the real world.

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Facebook is a social network website founded by Harvard graduate Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004. Its ease of use and multiple features make it a hit in UK as well as some other users across the globe. Standard features include photo-posting, message-posting, editing profiles, uploading the latest news concerning the profile, etc.

Facebook is unfortunately limited when it comes to editing profiles. While Myspace allows HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in editing, Facebook only allows plain text. This has been hacked into by a number of users by exploiting a cross-site scripting. Sadly, this has caused to create a worm which destroys and spreads across the net, acting like an innocent MySpace profile.

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