43things, Couchsurfing, Ning, Meetup, Posterous, WAYN

Presented by: Group 17

Roshini Viswanathan www.roshinivishy.comIshani Sircar www.ishanisircar.comVaibhav Dixit (FT13383)Jayashree Ramamoorthy (FT13427)Kalicharan Kumar

Social Travel Network

Founded in 2002 in London by Jérome Touze (Co-CEO), Peter Ward (Co-CEO) and Mike Lines (CTO)

Discover where to go and what to do

Enables its users to create a profile and upload photos

Averages over 8 million unique users a month

Global Traffic Rank – 2453 , Indian Traffic Rank – 1246

Help its members fulfil their dreams by meeting like-minded people to do cool stuff with and by sharing their

intentions and experiences with others

WAYN Founders have also launched a new dating site under the WAYN umbrella. WAYN Dating helps people

find their match based on doing what they love.

Few considers it as malicious spam website

one of the few premium social networking communities that managed to become profitable

WAYN - Android Apps on Google Play

An online social networking portal

Facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world

13.26 million members in 196 countries

123, 298 meetup groups and 381,743 monthly meetups

Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common

interest, such as books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies

Connects you into a network of other nearby users whom you’ve never

met and you can instantaneously initiate a chat with them.

Meetup Helps you meet up with new

people, common interests Meetup – more singularly

focused, less distractions and advertising

Easy to organize repeated events

Meetup users are local, easier to connect with people nearby

Many features and tools - group promotions such as new group announcements, suggested meetups, events calendar and email functions

Better support staff, more safety and reachable

Other social networking sites -Facebook

Facebook connects you to your friends, already in your social circle

Constant security settings, more distractions and ads

Requires manual entry and tracking for repeated events

Facebook is generic, users can be from another country, inviting to events in their country

More time consuming to filter through groups, e.g. Facebook (anyone can create)

Relatively difficult to reach support staff at other social networking sites

Provides groups where members may seek travel partners or advice. Members organize activities such as camping trips, bar crawls, meetings, and sporting events.

Non-monetary means of exchange

Project started by Casey Fenton in 1999.

Mission to create inspiring experiences

Alexa Global Rank – 2700

Security measures ◦ References

◦ Credit Card Verification

◦ Vouching

5 million users as of January, 2013. 97,000 unique towns in 250 states and territories.

Login Process

Problematic Policies – Loss of data protection

Protests over conversion from a non-profit organization to profit org.

Is a social networking website but with a difference. It targets the online

goal setting community.

It works on ‘tagging’ rather than explicit interpersonal connections

Users setup logins and make a list of goals or hopes that they wish to do.

Once the list is made, the text is being parsed and linked to the goals of

other users.

The connection established between goals of multiple people help in

cheering each other up and encouraging them towards achieving their

goals

Location based sharing is allowed enabling users to share their goals with

people of their own locality alone

Deadlines can be set for each of your goals thereby urging you to work

under a timed scenario

A family can be formed for similar minded users and they can cheer you

and tag you encouraging you to achieve your goal

You can add things you have bought on your ‘consumption page’ and you

shall receive tips about other similar related items.

Can be integrated to Flickr, your own personal blog, etc