8 Successful Companies That Weren't The Same When They Started

By siliconindia | Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 12:57 Hrs

4. Facebook

Facebook is a social networking site where people make their personal profile. It has many facilities which include sending friend requests, adding some of your old friends and also updating your status. Previously, Facebook was “Facemash” in 2008 which was a website that had photos of two students of Harvard school and asked the voters to vote for the hottest person. Gradually Facebook grew as an interest websie among younsgers and today it had more tha 1 billion active users. It is also listed under Fortune 500 companies.

5. Flickr

Flickr is the latest image and video sharing websites which is a new trend in the market. It is mostly use by the bloggers and photo researchers. Earlier when Flickr was found in 2004, its main focus was on chat room which was known as FlickrLive which in addition had photo exchanging capability but as it evolved it was focusing mainly on uploading and filtering images.

Currently, Flickr has almost 87 million members who have registered and they have millions of their personal images uploaded every day.