1. Facebook
With over 400 million registered users since its launch in February 2004, Facebook is currently crowned as the world’s most popular social networking website, beating fellow rival MySpace. The social giant is co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz who were roommates and fellow computer science students at Harvard University.
Designed by the folks at Studio O+A, the engineers at Facebook have now a new and really cool office located at Palo Alto, California, USA. Before the redesign and construction of the 150,000-square-foot office, each of every Facebook employees were consulted to find out what they wanted and what would their work experience better and more productive.
2. YouTube
Acquired by search-engine giant Google in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube is currently the world’s most popular video sharing website. It enables users to upload and share videos of different genres be it comedy, news broadcasts, music, etc. Currently, YouTube headquarters is situated at San Bruno, CA, USA.
3. MySpace
Headquartered at Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media (owned by News Corporation), MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors, according to comScore.
