Freewebs

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company_name = FreeWebs.com
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foundation = 2001
founder = Mokhtarzada brothers
location_city = Silver Spring, Maryland
location_country = USA
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url = [http://www.freewebs.com freewebs.com]


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Freewebs is a free web hosting company founded in 2001. The company hosts more than 20 million personal and business websites over a variety of topics. The chief executive officer is Haroon Mokhtarzada.

History

Freewebs began in 2001, just after the dot-com bubble, as a start-up launched by Haroon and Zeki Mokhtarzada after their last year at the University of Maryland, College Park.cite news | first=Kim | last=Hart | title=Venture Capital Drawn to Freewebs | date=April 9, 2007 | publisher=The Washington Post | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800909.html | accessdate = 2008-03-05] Their goal was to make the Internet accessible to anyone and to protect user's rights to free speech.cite news | first=Greg | last=Sandoval | title=The free-speech fundamentals of Freewebs | date=April 26, 2007 | publisher=CNET News | url = http://www.news.com/The-free-speech-fundamentals-of-Freewebs/2100-1030_3-6179465.html | accessdate = 2008-03-05] Since then, the success of Freewebs has been growing, as of April 2007, the site counts 18 million unique visitors a month. The company is self-defined as a social media company, and created "social publishing" properties such as Pagii.

Hosting policy

According to the Freewebs, anybody is allowed to create a page using anybody elses email address. This feature is unfortunately abused, resulting in sites created using other peoples email addresses. The unlucky email address owner gets an email after the creation of the site, but cannot prevent it from going live. The freewebs policy, according to their abuse team, is that the abused email owner has to remove such sites themselves.

Features

In the beginning of 2008, Freewebs released a new application platform upon which they launched several new pagetype applications including: Photo Gallery, Webstore, Video Gallery, and Calendar. A Wiki and Link application have been recently added.

In 2007, Freewebs developed a widget bank, which made the site more dynamic and contributed to the success of the site. They also integrated with Picnik for photo editing and GetClicky for webstats.

Freewebs services are free and ad-supported; however, users also have the option of upgrading to premium website hosting and domain names.

Pagii

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name = Pagii
url = [http://www.pagii.com/ pagii.com]
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author = Freewebs.com
type = Social networking
launch date = 2007

Pagii is a "social publishing network" owned by Freewebs. Pagii provides users with a simple method of creating web content, slide shows, and very simple one page website, all are hosted on Freewebs. Users can use a drag and drop interface various modules to create a dynamic website.

References

External links

* [http://www.freewebs.com/ Freewebs Main Website]
* [http://www.pagii.com/ Freeweb's Project Pagii]