Hyves

Hyves is a so-called Social network by the company Hyves BV is operated on the Internet. Hyves was founded by the Dutch, Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam and Floris Rost van Tonningen and has been in operation since October 2004. Hyves is roughly comparable to the American or the German StudiVZ Facebook. The service is offered free of charge.

The name " Hyves " comes from the English Beehive ( " beehive " ) so that a comparison of the user is drawn with bees in a hive. The main focus of the site is to maintain friendships and make new ones.

Registered users can create their own profile on Hyves.nl and equip them with a variety of elements, including photos, videos and flash animations. In July 2008, announced Hyves, already to have seven million users, of which five million Dutch. This corresponds to about a quarter of the Dutch population. Hyves 2007 was elected to the Dutch Online Awards for " most popular website of the year". Likewise, Hyves won as "Website of the Year" in 2006 and 2007 in the category Blogs and communities.

Due to the great popularity among young people, many Dutch politicians have their own user profile. As a result of the large growth of the page to occur since the crossing of the three-million - user - border regularly presents issues related to operating speed. According to a study of the company WatchMouse of 11 January 2008 Hyves is the fastest growing social network on the internet. In March 2010 Hyves.nl counted 9.9 million registered users.

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