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Hyves!
Jul 3, 2008 14:32:09 GMT -7
Post by pieter on Jul 3, 2008 14:32:09 GMT -7
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Hyves!
Jul 3, 2008 14:39:32 GMT -7
Post by pieter on Jul 3, 2008 14:39:32 GMT -7
I just started to work on my Hyves page, by using a picture of myself as Avatar! Folks, Before that my friends were anoyed with me, because I ignored Hyves. I have a problem though downloading images to Hyves due to a slow internet-connection. Is this the start of my social on-line life? ha ha ;D   Pieter |
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Hyves!
Jul 3, 2008 18:42:53 GMT -7
Post by hollister on Jul 3, 2008 18:42:53 GMT -7
Pieter,
What is a Hyves? Is it like facebook? I couldn't get the link to open up so I am in the dark.
Sounds good though!
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Hyves!
Jul 4, 2008 5:42:53 GMT -7
Post by rdywenur on Jul 4, 2008 5:42:53 GMT -7
Pieter.....this looks exactly like Facebook. I like the foto of you. Nice pix. I don't think that your friends should be upset with you if you didn't register. The young crowd think nothing of entering too much info of themselves on the Internet. I rather like to choose who I give info out to but this is a comfort zone that I still struggle with.
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Hyves!
Jul 4, 2008 12:05:01 GMT -7
Post by pieter on Jul 4, 2008 12:05:01 GMT -7
Hyves
Hyves is a free Dutch social networking site and has been online since October 2004. The site was launched by Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam and Floris Rost van Tonningen. The name Hyves comes from the English Beehive - not from Hives. Since the domain hives.nl was taken, they chose to call their website Hyves. It is not known whether the creators were familiar with the skin condition.
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.
In May 2008 Hyves announced that they had reached 7 million users, of which about 5 million are Dutch. This amounts to about a quarter 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. In 2006 and 2007 Hyves also won another "Website of the year" competition in the category for blogs and communities.
Because of the popularity among young people even politicians (among them Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende) 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. At that time the site had over 5.5 million registered users. On the 30th of March 2008, Hyves has over 6.2 million registered users.
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