1. 43things, Couchsurfing, Ning, Meetup,
Posterous, WAYN
Presented by: Group 17
Roshini Viswanathan www.roshinivishy.com
Ishani Sircar www.ishanisircar.com
Vaibhav Dixit (FT13383)
Jayashree Ramamoorthy (FT13427)
Kalicharan Kumar

3.  Social Travel Network
 Founded in 2002 in London by Jérome Touze (Co-CEO), Peter Ward (Co-CEO) and Mike Lines (CTO)
 Discover where to go and what to do
 Enables its users to create a profile and upload photos
 Averages over 8 million unique users a month
 Global Traffic Rank – 2453 , Indian Traffic Rank – 1246
 Help its members fulfil their dreams by meeting like-minded people to do cool stuff with and by sharing their
intentions and experiences with others
 WAYN Founders have also launched a new dating site under the WAYN umbrella. WAYN Dating helps people
find their match based on doing what they love.
 Few considers it as malicious spam website
 one of the few premium social networking communities that managed to become profitable
 WAYN - Android Apps on Google Play

5.  An online social networking portal
 Facilitates offline group meetings in various localities around the world
 13.26 million members in 196 countries
 123, 298 meetup groups and 381,743 monthly meetups
 Meetup allows members to find and join groups unified by a common
interest, such as books, games, movies, health, pets, careers or hobbies
 Connects you into a network of other nearby users whom you’ve never
met and you can instantaneously initiate a chat with them.

6. Meetup Other social networking sites -
 Helps you meet up with new Facebook
people, common interests  Facebook connects you to your
 Meetup – more singularly friends, already in your social
focused, less distractions and circle
advertising  Constant security settings, more
 Easy to organize repeated events distractions and ads
 Requires manual entry and
 Meetup users are local, easier to tracking for repeated events
connect with people nearby  Facebook is generic, users can be
from another country, inviting to
events in their country
 Many features and tools - group
promotions such as new group  More time consuming to filter
announcements, suggested through groups, e.g. Facebook
meetups, events calendar and (anyone can create)
email functions
 Better support staff, more safety  Relatively difficult to reach
and reachable support staff at other social
networking sites

7.  Provides groups where members may seek travel partners or advice. Members
organize activities such as camping trips, bar crawls, meetings, and sporting
events.
 Non-monetary means of exchange
 Project started by Casey Fenton in 1999.
 Mission to create inspiring experiences
 Alexa Global Rank – 2700
 Security measures
◦ References
◦ Credit Card Verification
◦ Vouching
 5 million users as of January, 2013. 97,000 unique towns in 250 states and
territories.
 Login Process
 Problematic Policies – Loss of data protection
 Protests over conversion from a non-profit organization to profit org.

10.  Is a social networking website but with a difference. It targets the online
goal setting community.
 It works on ‘tagging’ rather than explicit interpersonal connections
 Users setup logins and make a list of goals or hopes that they wish to do.
 Once the list is made, the text is being parsed and linked to the goals of
other users.
 The connection established between goals of multiple people help in
cheering each other up and encouraging them towards achieving their
goals

11.  Location based sharing is allowed enabling users to share their goals with
people of their own locality alone
 Deadlines can be set for each of your goals thereby urging you to work
under a timed scenario
 A family can be formed for similar minded users and they can cheer you
and tag you encouraging you to achieve your goal
 You can add things you have bought on your ‘consumption page’ and you
shall receive tips about other similar related items.
 Can be integrated to Flickr, your own personal blog, etc