Skyrock (social network site)
Skyrock.com is a social network (Web 2.0), can create on the registered users free own microsite based on a content management system. The main functions are the blog and the user profile and the mailbox can exchange messages on the logged persons. A portion of the offering is dedicated to those who self-recorded music tracks. You can download their songs as MP3 files to a separate music blog and imagine.
History
Skyrock.com was established in December 2002 under the name Skyblog.com of Pierre Bellanger. This is equally founder of the French radio station Skyrock. Skyblog.com was a blog platform that could create the registered user free blogs. In May 2007, had the Skyblog brand to be abandoned and the platform was merged under the domain Skyrock.com a real social network. From this point, the functions " friends", "Mailbox ", " chat ", and profiles were available (see Functions ).
Since March 2007 Skyrock.com is offered in 11 languages and country versions. According to the World Metrix report of Internet market research firm ComScore Skyrock.com is world's 7th place of the social networks with over 21 million visitors in the month of June 2008. Skyrock.com Alexa Internet classified among the 10 most visited sites of France and Switzerland: . rank 3 in France in September 2008 and Rank 8 in Switzerland in September 2008 Thanks to the user -friendly operation has intensified found the website from the beginning in adolescents and in the french-speaking world appeal. Unlike other suppliers all blogs and user profiles are publicly available, however, articles and parts of the profile can be hidden.
By 1 March 2012, this Skyrock network has grown to 32.904 million blogs and 338,000 secret blogs. These contain a total of more than 679 million articles, which were additionally commented 4 billion 565 million times.
Functions
The system belongs to the so-called social software.
To use the offer in full and to create content (user generated content ), a user account must be opened.
The blog is the core offering of the website. Each week, selected by the editors 10 blogs that are presented on the homepage. All surfers have the opportunity to blog entries (articles) to comment without being logged.
A registered user can add other members as friends. This means that they are linked via a.
The public user profile serves to introduce yourself and make new friends.
It is a German-speaking IRC channel available for all countries are separate channels set up.
Sources Music
Skyrock offers singers and musicians the opportunity to upload their compositions in MP3 format on a music blog. Some international stars such as 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson perform their French-speaking blogs on Skyrock. The songs published can be partly downloaded (if the artist permits).
In France, brought to success by Skyrock some users. Particularly noteworthy is Kenza Farah, who created her blog in 2006 and shortly thereafter was discovered by a record company and contracted.
Criticism
Although the social network, according to ComScore is in 7th place worldwide, the popularity is still mainly limited to the French-speaking world. In Alexa Internet Skyrock does not appear in the top 100.
In France, the platform is used in rare cases of some young people to spread forbidden content such as insults teachers and the like. These cases hold, however, limited.
During the riots in the Parisian suburbs in 2005 Skyrock.com has been criticized by the media, whether they are distributed through the platform messages, which called for violence. A blog came particularly into focus: bouns93.skyrock.com. This, however, was locked.
For the presidential election campaign of 2007, the two candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal own blogs on Skyrock created.
Features: Easy handling of all functions also brings disadvantages: To HTML code is not allowed. It can be set to photos no tags. On the Music blog is also the number of songs that can be uploaded, limited to 10.