US Blogs Comb social media for 5 years

Introduction: Mashable, an American science and technology blogger, today wrote a brief review of social media development in the past 5 years.

The following is an overview of the article:

5 years ago, YouTube had just started, and MySpace was the most popular site in the United States, and Facebook's users were limited to college and high school students. Since the iphone and app Store have to wait more than a year to launch, moving is almost an unreachable idea. Widgets has just begun to emerge as a way to integrate Third-party applications into the web. In an article in late 2006, Newsweek said 2007 would be the "widget year".

Now, the use of the site has undergone great changes. Facebook's traffic has been very close to Google and has become one of the most visited sites in the world. Users use tens of thousands of mobile apps through a variety of smartphones, and social media is booming. The "Like" button is a new "social currency" (Social Currency) of the world's largest publishers of content.

How did we do all this? The following is a brief review of the development of social media over the past 5 years:

News feeds Integrate everything

Facebook's news Feed feature, launched at the end of 2006, was a major controversy. But then it became the most important function of social networking and sparked other businesses to emulate.

For Facebook, this innovation is the cornerstone of its usefulness and is at the heart of its future expansion. Because users need only one glance, they can know the activities of their friends on Facebook and the Internet. The market leader, MySpace, did not launch the feature in time.

Today, the user experience of Twitter, Foursquare, Flickr, and MySpace is centered around viewing recent updates from friends and presenting them in reverse chronological order.

Video rise

YouTube was officially launched in February 2005 and has entered the mainstream with unprecedented speed. By December 2005, YouTube had reached 100 million video broadcasts a day (now more than 2 billion times). Google then bought YouTube for 1.6 billion dollars in October 2006, just 18 months after it was born.

At the end of last year, Mashable called YouTube the greatest social media innovation in a decade, because it integrates many of the things we know into social media, from highly shared content to civic news, and anyone can use video cameras to build personal reputations.

Fly

In the 2008, social media launched a universal logon service war. Although OpenID has long been expected to become a common account for third-party Web sites, Facebook, MySpace and Google are beginning to realise that users ' social networking information is expected to become an identity card for the entire Internet, and content publishers can also use it to improve their social networking.

Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect and MySpace IDs all started to flourish. Eventually, Twitter joined the war. Today, Facebook Connect has evolved into Facebook Open Graph, adopted by Google Friend Connect and compatible with 900多万个 sites.

Mobility makes socializing essential

The term "moving year" has been popular for nearly 10 years, but until recent years, smartphone growth has begun to explode. And let social media break through the shackles of computers.

According to data released earlier this year by the US Internet traffic Monitoring agency Comsocre, 30% of smartphone users have access to social networks through their mobile browsers, which has not yet taken into account the use of iphone, Android, BlackBerry and other devices to access social networking users.

Thanks to a rise in wireless broadband, video has also moved into the Mobile world, with YouTube videos played 100 million times a day on mobile devices. And as more and more mobile phones have video recording capabilities, mobile phones will also become an important content creation platform.

Today, the ecological environment of the social network has broken through the scope of the site, and extended to mobile devices and third-party applications. (PEI)