- Hyves
Infobox_Company
company_name = Hyves B.V.
company_
company_type = Public
foundation =Amsterdam ,the Netherlands
(October 10 2004 )
location =Amsterdam ,the Netherlands
industry = Internet
key_people =Raymond Spanjar , Founder
Koen Kam, Co-founder
Floris Rost van Tonningen, Co-founder
homepage = [http://www.hyves.net/ www.hyves.net]Hyves is a free Dutch social networking site which has been online since October 2004. The site was launched by
Raymond Spanjar ,Koen Kam andFloris Rost van Tonningen . The name Hyves comes from the EnglishBeehive - not fromHives , hereby comparing the users to bees in a hyve. Since the domain hives.nl was already registered, they chose to call their website Hyves.The focus of this website is on keeping in touch with existing friends and making new friends. There is no need to have knowledge of
HTML for creating a Hyve. It is comparable with other social networking sites. Users can create personalized pages of themselves with rich media content, such as photos, videos, flash content and custom layouts.In July 2008 Hyves announced that they had reached 7 million users, of which about 5 million were Dutch. [ [http://www.nu.nl/news/1341428/50/rss/Hyves_verwelkomt_donderdag_5_miljoenste_lid.html nl News article] on "Nu.nl"] This amounts to about a third of the entire population of
The Netherlands . In 2007, the website was voted "most popular website of the year" in the "Website of the year" competition. [ [http://onlineawards.nl/winners.php nl Online Awards] winners] In 2006 and 2007 Hyves also won another "Website of the year" competition in the category for blogs and communities. [ [http://www.websitevanhetjaar.nl/eregalerij nl Website van het jaar uitslagen] ]Because of the popularity among young people even politicians (among them Dutch prime minister
Jan Peter Balkenende [ [http://jpb.hyves.nl/ nl Balkenende's hyve] ] ) have their own Hyves. They see this as an opportunity to come closer to the people of a younger generation.As a result of the immense growth of users, the site is regularly subjected to performance problems since the 3 million users barrier has broken. This results in incorrect working links and the slow loading of pages.According to a study of WatchMouse published on the 11th of January 2008, Hyves now ranks among the faster social networking sites. [ [http://www.watchmouse.com/en/SPI/2008/performance_social_networking_sites.php en WatchMouse study] ] At that time the site had over 5.5 million registered users.As of August 2008, Hyves has over 7.1 million registered users.ee also
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List of social networking websites References
External links
* [http://www.hyves.nl/ Official website]
* [http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/071207-hyves Radio Netherlands news article, December 2007]
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