Handwritten Text Recognition for manuscripts and early printed texts
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2. Rachid Ben hoummada
Pavel Orlov
Annita Tatiane T D
Stefanie Triebelnig
Jennifer Wimmer
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3. What is all the buzz about the Social
Networking? (Video)
Price of Social Networking Sites
Facebook – behind the scenes
StudiVz
Vkontakte
MySpace
Conclusion
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8. Founded: 2004 in Massachusettes
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg
Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA
Revenue: 300 million USD (2008)
Employees: 700
Users: > 200 million
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9. 2004: USD 500 000 from Peter Thiel
2005: USD 40.2 million from Accel and
Greylock
2006: Yahoo purchase?
2007: Microsoft ,1.6 % share for USD 240
Investment of USD 60 million
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10. • 2008: USD 100 million Triple Point value
between USD 3.75 and 5 billion
• Today: USD 440 million in total debt and
equity financing
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15. 2007: Code to generate FB page was made
public
Students downloaded 70.000 profiles
Sell users data
Difficulties deleting the account
Pro-mafia Group case
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16. Recent Issues:
Changes to site
Phishing Attack
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18. Based in Berlin, Germany
One of the biggest Social Networks in
Europe
10 million members
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19. View of the full profile
Linking permission
People visiting your site
Groups, videos, audio data …..
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20. 60.000 to 100.000 Euros a month
Spreadshirt
Samwer
Holtzbrinck
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21. Google Ads
Traffic sharing
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30. Advertising (with the MySpace, myAds tool)
Stock market
Parents company the News corp. (.03 cents
per monthly page view)
MySpace users (Points 3.fees and 8.18 of
the policy)
MySpace credit card in partnership with the
CITI Bank
31. MySpace MyAds accepts only Visa, MasterCard and
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American Express cards
1st user get a limit of $25, $25 to check the
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validity of the card used
the credit limit is raised in increments each time
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the account costs hits your credit limit, and the
user makes a successful payment at that level
The initial credit limit of $25 is first raised to
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$50, then to $100, then to $250, then to $500, and
then to the final amount of $1,000
The customer is billed after he/she accrued costs
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for his/her advertising activity.
Credit card billed after 30days and the cycle restart
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32. quot;word of mouth advertising”
media
(TV, Radio, Newspaper, Journals, buses, trai
n...)
33. 2006: PERP problem
2005: big problem within its organization
members (News Corp./Myspace transaction
bilked shareholders out of tens of billions
of dollars)
Other social networking coming up
Partnership with Google for the “Friend
connect”: contract ending in year 2009