Tagged Social Network

An online social network, ranked third in the USA with over 80 million users registered. Was founded in 2004 and are its headquarters are based in San Francisco, California USA.

  

Tagged is the third largest online social network in the USA, that's after facebook and twitter, and its owned by Tagged Inc. Launched on October 2004 in San Francisco, California by entrepreneurs Greg Tseng and Johann-Scheller-Smith, both from Harvard University,  tagged has seen over 80 million user since and still adding.

To use the services on tagged, one must have a valid email address which will be used in the sign up process that gives users free accounts. After a successful sign up, the user can then customize his or her tagged profile in order to be easily recognized by others who might know him or her. Strictness is however done in terms of age. Over 16 aged users can not see profile of 13 and 14 year olds, while those of 15 and 16 years are kept private. Adding a friend on tagged requires one to know the email address or surname of the other user who will have to accept the friend request before the two start interacting.

Registered tagged users enjoy very many services offered, these service include photo sharing, messaging which can be very diverse from 'winks' to 'hugs and kisses', playing online games, watching videos, post their biographies to the public, share their hobbies with others, and many others. Users will be required to be giving updates to the public about their whereabouts or what is happening to them that day in form in form of updates. Users can trace who has been frequently visiting their profiles, and their intentions. Chat and chat rooms are also available. The services are many and keep coming in each to make the lives of the Tagged community more fun.

NBA (National Basketball Association)

This is a North American Basketball League, composed of 30 teams, 29 from USA and one from Canada. Basically most of the teams represent certain states and it can therefore be said to be an inter-state Basketball League.

Composed of thirty teams of North America, founded in 1946 in New York as the Basket Association of America and headed by David Stern, The National Basket Ball is a professional Basketball League in North America. The name Basket Association of America changed to National Basketball Association after merging with their major rivals National Basket League. By then the NBA only had eight teams on board. Signing of new teams to expand the Association continued into the bigger cities. From the start, the league was African-American oriented, but in 1947, a Japanese team Wataru Misaka broke the color record by joining NBA.

The first team to dominate the NBA league was Minneapolis Lakers under their coach, George Mikan by winning five NBA championships in a row. Delays of play game were noted, and to avoid this, a 24-second shot clock was introduced. It stated that if a team does not attempt to score or make the ball contact the rim within 24 seconds, then the ball was to be given over to the opponent team. This made the NBA matches very dynamic and intense. After the Minneapolis Dynasty, came the Celtics era and then to the Jordan era, as teams kept exchanging their dominancy. Michael Jordan joined NBA in 1984 with The Chicago bulls, and led his team to a six straight NBA championship titles.

Since then, legends of NBA are being born each day from Iverson to Kobe Bryant. Court rivalry is being noted each day, while NBA-based film based on true life stories from NBA being made each day including BowWow’s like Michael.

Kelley Blue Book

It’s the largest car dealership company and deals with providing relevant and precise information about new cars and their real price and values.

Talk about the United State’s largest automotive vehicle valuation company, then the answer will definitely be Kelley Blue Book. The initial name for Kelley Blue Book was Kelley Kar Company, which was based in 1918 in Los Angeles as a car dealership. Kelly Blue Book started as a small business, with only an initial car count of three by its founder Les Kelley and his brother Buster. His desire to grow made him publish his first Kelley Blue Book manual, giving guideline on the values and costs of vehicle his company was willing to deal with.

Because of the shortage of cars that came with the World War 2, the prices of used cars increased and to control extortion from sellers, the government opted to use the Kelley Blue Book in selling of cars. It therefore made a big boost for the company as dealers had to subscribe to it. Advances have been made within the company since, and the launch of the Kelley Blue Book website in 1995 was another historical moment. It used to at first charge customers $3.95 for pricing reports, but with complaints that was done away with in the next three weeks.

Kelley Blue Book is entirely focused on connecting, a car buyer and the sellers in terms of providing the necessary details in the transactions. It is said to give actual details and prices of new cars and that is what their customers want to make good choices.

Kijiji

Kijiji are free advertisement websites owned by EBay. They are meant to provide users all that they need from jobs to selling at one point.

Kijiji is a Swahili word for village, and in the business world, this is a centralized online urban network for advertisements. Launched in March 2005, the Kijiji websites are availed in Germany for each and every city. Others Kijiji websites can be located in Italy, Canada, china, France, Switzerland’s and many other countries. Kijiji slogan states that ‘life is too busy’ so to make it a little bit easier to find everything you are looking for, in whichever place then Kijiji plays it all. It provides a secure platform that members can use to exchange goods, services and ideas.

In terms of services provided on Kijiji websites, they all provide free placement of adverts, and this has seen user loyalty of many of their competitors who charge fees go down. Other services include job hunting and Kijiji can hold your resume for you and contact you if a job in your line is posted, selling your old properties form bike to cars and everything that there is to do in life. Kijiji an ‘online village’

Kijiji has stated that, by June 2009, it had attracted more than 7 million guest monthly visitors and more than 400,000 registered live listings. It has generated over one billion page views since its launch. What you expect to find on Kijiji when you next time visit is; over 75,000 cats on adoption list, over 80,000 items on sale and over 90,000 cars on auction.

The Pirates Bay

This is one of the largest and mostly used websites in file sharing. It has many of the software and applications that are currently crucial in running computers plus others digital products like music albums and videos.

It calls its self ‘The World's most resilient bit torrent site’ The Pirates Bay or abbreviated as TPB, is a Swedish website that hosts and indexes torrent. Alexa ranks TPB number 105 among the most popular website's in the current world. Founded in November 2003 under Swedish Anti-copyright organization Pirate Bryan, TPB runs now on its own and depends on the adverts to finance its operation. Recent reviews revealed that, it receives more than US$150,000 per year from adverts only. The Pirate Bay is organized in a way that, those who will want to download torrents that they current have no access to can still find them with other users by searching the pirate bay.

TPB can be said to be a library of both legally available and illegal data online. it has groups like; Audio, Video, Applications, Games, Other and Porn ( that is only visible to registered users only). To register at TPB, one will need a valid email address to confirm his or her membership with TPB, and to even be getting the latest updates from the TPB crew. A browser feature is availed to enable users to browse through the available contents. To be more precise, each group is further subdivided into sub-categories. The TPB website from page features a Pirate ship with the 80s anti-copy right embedment ' Home Taping is Killing Music'.

The Pirates Bay has rose with so many controversies and cases of which many claim that, it was making available copy right protected data available for downloading on its website, with most recent case trial seen the four its operators convicted to one year imprisonment, on17th April 2009, however appeals are under way.

Television Quatre Saisons

TQS or currently known as The V channel is a Canadian privately owned French TV network.

TQS or Television Quatre Saisons was launched in 1986 in Canada as an advertising platform and was know as so up to august 31^st 2009, when is its current owners Remstar Corporation renamed it to channel V. TQS can be seen on owned-and –operated plus all affiliates stations of Quebec. Some parts of Canada also receive it via cable or satellite. Its affiliate stations include RNC Media’s gatineau and Val-d’Or  plusTele Inter-Rives’s Rimouski and Riviere. However its launch in 1986 was met will severe financial constrains which almost brought it down. 

December 2007 saw them file for bankruptcy to protect itself from its creditors and was a given 30 days to put its house in order. January 2008 saw the grace period extended for 45 more days and on March 10^th 2008, Quebec Supreme Court approved the sale of TQS to Remstar Corporation, which is a Montreal-based TV and filming production house and distributor. Remstar renamed TQS as V, with V meaning; Vedettes, Vitesse, Voyage and Vice ou Verite French words that mean stars, speed, trips, vices and truths respectively.

Since 2008 with new management, V’s news programming is at a low form comparing it with previous eras and is produced by ADN-5 an independent producer. Summaries of not more than three minutes get inserted in morning and afternoon programming. In sporting, V has live coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championships and are said to be part of those who won broadcasts for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 summer Olympics. Its programming involves many movies, TV series, Erotic programs the most famous being Bleu Nuit.

TSN (The Sports Network)

It has been said to be the most reliable, fast deliver and correct news updates in Toronto, Canada. It’s massively owned by CTVglobe at 80% and ESPN at 20%

The Sport Network, also abbreviated as TSN, is the fastest and most reliable source of sports news in Toronto, Canada. TSN obtained it license into telecommunication on April 1st 1984 and was officially launched on the 1st of September that same year. Its launch in 1984 was mainly to act as a marketing platform for Toronto Blue Jays, a baseball team. It is currently owned by CTV specialty television, and its headquarters are in Toronto, Canada.  TSN owners that make up the CTV are CTVglobe media which massively owns up to 80% of the company and ESPN that owns only 20%.

Other product that have emerged from TSN is the TSN2 feed, which that carries over 800 hours a year of live coverage of sporting that are not carried on TSN.  Other ESPN copy-righted programs eg Sunday NFL Countdown, Monday night football and pardon the interruption also get aired on TSN. Coverage also extends to cover many major sporting activities like National Hockey League, Formulae one, National Football League, and Canadian Football League. Other shared rights will include NBA-which Marjory feature the Toronto raptors-, NASCAR and the PGA tour.

Except on Saturday night rights that were awarded to CBC, TSN holds the national rights to air NHL, hence said to be the 'home for hockey' in Canada. Other deals that will see TSN get more rights are underway and include broadcasts of IIHF world Junior Championship, the men's and the women's world hockey championship, Allan Cup, Royal Bank Cup, Telus cup, Spangler cup and many others. TSN also features live wrestling WWE.