The Greatest Business Ideas Online

When social media websites became popular, some rose to prominence and remained at the top of the search results. Others plowed steadily down the middle of the road, remaining in the peripheral vision of interested online parties. And still others fizzled out quickly due to keeping their focus too limited. In the case of LiveJournal, a social media outlet designed specifically for blogging, it has remained important depending on the geographical location. Founded in 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick, a programmer that was born in Iowa and raised in Oregon, the site grew in popularity over the next few years. It wasn’t until the company operating LiveJournal for Fitzpatrick, Danga Interactive, was sold that real controversy and major demographic changes began. Originally pieced together by Fitzpatrick as a way to keep in touch with friends from high school, the site began signing up a steady stream of users. Communities within the site arose and LiveJournal became an attractive alternative to current blogging websites. It’s simple design, ease of use, and embedding capability made it a regular staple of more serious bloggers that appreciated its abilities. In 2005, Danga Interactive was sold to Six Apart (also known as 6A). Kirkpatrick joined 6A as their chief architect as part of the deal. Kirkpatrick had entertained many different offers from companies to purchase the site, which he considered personal and a pet project of his, but refused to sell until maintenance and other obligations got the better of him. After supposedly confirming... Read more

The History of Myspace Oh, how the mighty have fallen. What was once the proving ground for social media has since become the punch line of many jokes. The history of MySpace is a tale of energetic innovation, risk, and ultimately, failure to capitalize. While some people believe that MySpace was the original social networking site, it is actually based off of an existing model that was functionally success for its time. In August of 2003, several employees of eUniverse, now called Intermix Media, Inc, recognized the growing potential of a social networking site where they all had accounts (Friendster). Copying the model and losing the less popular features, the employees created a working prototype design for what they coined as MySpace. This... Read more

Baidu is a company which provides public web services. It was established in January of 2000 and its headquarters are currently house in the Haidian District of Bejing in China, on the Baidu Campus. The company offers a huge range of internet-related services, including a search engine which uses Chinese as its main language, for images, videos and websites. It also provides a discussion forum for keywords, and an extensive online encyclopaedia, likened to Wikipedia for the Chinese-speaking world.        

Baidu Inc. was created by two guys, named Eric Xu and Robin Li. Robin is the current chief executive and chairman of Baidu, and overseas the business operations and strategies of the company. Both of the men who... Read more

What Is WordPress? A simple, powerful and an elegant solution for writing online – this was the main idea that gave birth to the most popular free blogging platform today – WordPress. It is an open-source content management system (CMS), making the creation of professional websites a kid’s game. Based on the PHP programming language and the MySQL database engine, WordPress is a very powerful tool in the hands of the webmaster. With tens of thousands of different plugins (addons) and themes, you can easily create whatever site you may like with this free platform. And this can be done literally for minutes. Its simplicity and functionality has made it the best choice not only for starting webmasters, but also for the professional... Read more