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Tagged
File:Tagged Logo NEW 2014.png
網站類型
社交網路服務
語言英語、西班牙語、葡萄牙語、荷蘭語、法語、德語和馬來語
持有者if(we)（英語：if(we)）
員工150（2011年10月）[1]
網址www.tagged.com
註冊必須註冊
推出時間2004年10月，​20年前​（2004-10）

Tagged是一個於2004年10月成立的社群發現網站，總部位於美國舊金山。它允許使用者瀏覽其他用戶的個人資料[3]、與他們分享標籤和虛擬禮物。根據Tagged的數據，全站共有300萬名用戶。[4]Quantcast（英語：Quantcast）曾估算稱截至2011年9月，Tagged在全世界共有1860萬名月獨立用戶。[5]麥可·阿靈頓（英語：Michael Arrington）曾在2011年4月表示「在這個屬於Facebook的時代，Tagged在盈利性增長方面的能力最為引人注目。」[6]

2009年，Tagged因大量的詐騙性垃圾電郵遭到了批評[7][8][9]並為此賠償了140萬美元。[10]網站因此改進了用戶的隱私，並改變了其邀請流程。[11][12]

Tagged目前歸Ifwe所有。2010年，Inc. 500（英語：Inc. 500）在成長速度最快且獨立的美國私營公司榜單上將它列為第476名；[13]次年，福布斯在美國最具潛力公司的榜單上將它列為第80名。[14]

歷史

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Tagged公司是由創業者格雷格·茨奧和約翰·施萊爾-史密斯於2004年中共同創立的，他們希望建立一個「青年的雅虎」或「下一代音樂電視網」。[15]兩人以前共同創立了網際網路企業孵化器的推動技術。[16]但後被指控違反CAN-SPAM Act（英語：CAN-SPAM Act of 2003）並處以90萬美元的罰款，本次處罰是垃圾郵件的相關案例中最為嚴重的一次。[17]

2005年9月，在天使投資者的幫助下，公司募集到了150萬美元並成立 and three months later raised an additional $7 million from Mayfield Fund（英語：Mayfield Fund）, a venture capital firm.[18]

創立之初，Tagged只允許18歲以下的用戶使用。2006年10月，Tagged取消了此限制。[18]

2008年3月，微軟宣布與Tagged、Facebook、領英、Bebo和hi5五個社交網站建立商業夥伴關係並開放了應用程式接口，[19][20]次年正式實行。[21]Slide（英語：Slide.com）、RockYou、PhotoBucket、Meebo、[22]Razz、[23]和Jangl也與Tagged是合作夥伴。[24]2009年2月，following complaints from the public Tagged was blocked in Qatar by the only ISP, Qtel, due to inappropriate content that Qtel could not selectively filter.[25] Tagged.com had been one of the top ten most visited sites in Qatar.[26]

2010年1月，Tagged announced that it was donating $50,000 to the Yéle Haiti Earthquake Fund, partly stemming from user donations.[27]同月，Tagged won a $200,000 judgment against Erik Voegler, who was spamming other Tagged users.[28]

In May 2010, Tagged was named in Lead411's "2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies", a list of the fastest-growing companies in the software, wireless, internet, and media industries,[29] and in October 2010, Tagged ranked #100 on Deloitte's list of the top 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology（英語：clean technology） companies in North America.[30]

2011年4月，Tagged收購了一款Windows的多協議即時通訊和社交網站的通知客戶端——Digsby，擁有300萬註冊用戶。[6][31]

2011年初時，Tagged僅有55名員工，但在此後短短數月的時間內其員工數發生了激增。截至同年10月，Tagged的員工數變為了150名。CEO Greg Tseng continues to interview employees, cater lunch and dinner, and hold office-wide meetings every Friday.[1] Tagged is a member of the Social Media Advertising Consortium, a trade industry association that aims to increase advertising revenue and to facilitate collaboration among social networking sites, advertisers, and marketing researchers.[32]

2011年9月，Tagged made a second acquisition, the gaming application WeGame.[33]

2011年11月，福布斯在美國最具潛力公司的榜單上將Tagged列為了第80名。[14]

2011年12月，Tagged收購hi5，它曾是全球第三大社交網站，僅次於Facebook和MySpace。[34]這項未公布條款的交易[34]讓hi5的2.3億會員加入到了Tagged的1億註冊用戶。[35]

Also in December 2011, Tagged acquired Topicmarks, a natural language processing and machine learning company.[36]

詐騙性垃圾電郵

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File:Misleading spam from Tagged.png
Between April and June 2009, Tagged sent tens of millions of misleading spam emails like this one, which falsely stated that a contact sent photographs to the recipient.[37][38]

2009年6月，時代周刊的專欄作家肖恩·格雷戈里將Tagged稱為「世界上最煩人的網站」。[9] Tagged asked users for their email username and password, retrieved email addresses from their address books, and repeatedly sent email invitations to people who were not registered on Tagged, falsely stating that they have been "added as a friend" or that the inviter had sent them photos on Tagged. This process has been labelled an "e-mail scam" by consumer anti-fraud advocates[39] and drawn criticism in the technology press[7][40][41] and from users.[42] The emails were discussed as possible spam by Black Web 2.0[43] and the resemblance to a virus was noted by urban legend site Snopes.com.[38] The New York Times referred to the practice as "contact scraping（英語：contact scraping）".[8]

In July 2009 New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to sue Tagged for "deceptive email marketing and invasion of privacy".[37] Tagged reached a settlement in which it agreed to pay $500,000 and to modify its promotional practices.[44] Simultaneously, Tagged settled an enforcement action by the state of Texas, agreeing to pay $250,000 in penalties and fees. Conditions of the settlement included "clear and conspicuous" disclosure of the use of information in the user's email address book, providing a clear method to skip the step and display to users the specific emails to be sent.[45] Tagged has adopted these reforms and changed its invitation processes.[46]

In February 2010, Tagged settled a class action（英語：class action） lawsuit about its former registration process with California residents Miriam Slater and Sara Golden and awarded them $10,000 each.[47] Tagged also agreed to destroy email addresses that were collected from users between April and June 2009, if those users did not mean to invite their contacts to the site.[47]

In April 2010, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced that Tagged agreed to pay $650,000 to settle claims of deceptive emails.[48] This settlement related to emails sent from April 2009 through June 2009.

Aborted IPO, shift in focus

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2014年10月，Tagged aborted plans to perform an initial public offering, citing decreased revenue due to the proliferation of mobile devices. On October 16, 2014, Tagged performed a number of changes at the corporate level, including acquiring the social messaging startup Tinode and naming its co-founders, Dash Gopinath and Gene Sokolov, to the positions of chief product officer and senior vice president of engineering respectively. Tagged also announced that its parent company would be re-named Ifwe, Inc. (stylized If(we), and that the company overall would focus on becoming an incubator for new mobile software, although it will continue to run Tagged and Hi5.[49]

網站

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用戶數量和網站流量

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參考來源

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  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 Wang, Jennifer. How Tagged Made a Turnaround for Growth. Entrepreneur（英語：Entrepreneur (magazine)）. October 2011 [October 22, 2011]. 
  2. ^ Tagged.com Site Info. Alexa Internet. [2015-05-02]. 
  3. ^ ourWorld Integrated Into Tagged.com. Virtual Worlds News. March 1, 2010 [2010-06-14]. 
  4. ^ Forrest, Conner. How Tagged sidestepped Facebook and stayed alive. TechRepublic. 19 June 2014. 
  5. ^ tagged.com: Quantcast Audience Profile. Quantcast（英語：Quantcast）. [2011-09-28]. 
  6. ^ 6.0 6.1 Arrington, Michael. Tagged Buys Popular Social/Instant Messaging Client Digsby. TechCrunch. April 19, 2011 [2011-06-16]. 
  7. ^ 7.0 7.1 Christopher Covert. Spam Meets Web 2.0. Symantec Connect. Symantec. April 8, 2007 [2010-01-14].  引用錯誤：帶有name屬性「Symantec」的<ref>標籤用不同內容定義了多次
  8. ^ 8.0 8.1 Alina Tugend（英語：Alina Tugend）. Typing in an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ Too. New York Times. June 19, 2009 [2009-12-05].  引用錯誤：帶有name屬性「NYT」的<ref>標籤用不同內容定義了多次
  9. ^ 9.0 9.1 Gregory, Sean. Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website. Time. June 11, 2009 [June 11, 2009].  引用錯誤：帶有name屬性「Time」的<ref>標籤用不同內容定義了多次
  10. ^ Wendy Davis. Fined Again, Tagged Pays $650K To San Fran Authorities. MediaPost Publications. April 13, 2010 [2011-04-10]. 
  11. ^ Tagged.com Settles with N.Y., Texas over Privacy. San Francisco Chronicle. November 10, 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  12. ^ Case Study: Battling a Media (and Legal) Firestorm. Inc.（英語：Inc. (magazine)）. [2013-06-14]. 
  13. ^ Tagged. Inc.（英語：Inc._(magazine)）. 2011 [2011-04-10]. 
  14. ^ 14.0 14.1 America's Most Promising Companies. 福布斯. 2011 [2012-02-25]. 
  15. ^ Who Says Money Can't Buy Hipness?. 彭博商業周刊. [2009-11-23]. 
  16. ^ Greg Tseng's speaker bio at the Authentication and Online Trust Summit 2007. （原始內容存檔於July 4, 2008）. 
  17. ^ FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook. 聯邦貿易委員會. 2007-06-25. （原始內容存檔於2011-04-12）. 
  18. ^ 18.0 18.1 引用錯誤：沒有為名為profitable的參考文獻提供內容
  19. ^ John Richards. Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks to Put Users at the Center of their Data. Live Services Blog. March 25, 2008 [2010-01-08]. 
  20. ^ Erick Schonfeld. Microsoft Embracing Data Portability? Partnerships With Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, LinkedIn and Tagged. TechCrunch. March 25, 2008 [2009-12-13]. 
  21. ^ Michael Arrington（英語：Michael Arrington）. Windows Live To Add More Social Network Partners (Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm and More). TechCrunch. April 21, 2009 [2009-12-13]. 
  22. ^ Erick Schonfeld. Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service. TechCrunch. January 31, 2008 [2009-12-13]. 
  23. ^ Press Release: Razz, Inc. Partners With Major Social Networking Site, Tagged. FierceWireless. July 26, 2007 [2009-12-13]. 
  24. ^ Jangl launches service with Tagged. San Francisco Business Times（英語：San Francisco Business Times）. April 25, 2007 [2009-12-13]. （原始內容存檔於October 7, 2008）. 
  25. ^ Joanna Hartley. Qtel blocks popular social networking site. Arabian Business. 9 February 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  26. ^ Complaints forced Qtel to block top-rated site. The Peninsula（英語：The Peninsula (newspaper)） at Gulf Base. February 9, 2009 [2009-06-11]. 
  27. ^ Tagged Donates $50,000 to Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. Tagged press release. January 21, 2010 [2010-01-21]. 
  28. ^ Tagged.com Awarded $200,000 Judgment Against Spammer. Marketwire. January 29, 2010 [2010-02-13]. 
  29. ^ Hottest Companies in San Francisco. Lead411. May 18, 2010 [2010-10-02]. 
  30. ^ 2010 Technology Fast 500 Rankings (PDF). Deloitte. 2010 [2010-12-10]. 
  31. ^ Gannes, Liz. Tagged Buys Digsby IM Client. AllThingsD. April 19, 2011 [2011-06-16]. 
  32. ^ About the Social Media Advertising Consortium. Social Media Advertising Consortium, Inc. 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  33. ^ M. G. Siegler. Social Discovery Meets Gaming Discovery: Tagged Buys WeGame. TechCrunch. September 21, 2011 [September 28, 2011]. 
  34. ^ 34.0 34.1 Shayndi Raice, Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5, Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2011 
  35. ^ Chris Marlowe. Tagged Acquires Social Network Competitor hi5. Digital Media Wire. December 15, 2011. 
  36. ^ Constine, Josh "Tagged Acquires Topicmarks", TechCrunch, December 9, 2011.
  37. ^ 37.0 37.1 Attorney General Cuomo Announces Legal Action Against Social Networking Site That Raided Email Address Books, Stole Identities, and Spammed Millions of Americans. Office of the Attorney General（英語：Attorney General）, State of New York. July 9, 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  38. ^ 38.0 38.1 Barbara and David P. Mikkelson. Tagged. Snopes.com. November 14, 2009 [2009-12-13]. 
  39. ^ Tagged.com Email Scam - "Your Friend Tagged You" - Phishing for Your Identity. Consumerfraudreporting.org. [2009-06-09]. 
  40. ^ Larry Seltzer. Harvesting Teenagers. eWeek（英語：eWeek）. April 10, 2007 [2009-12-05]. 
  41. ^ Allison Bruce. Tagged e-mails grab your address book. Ventura County Star（英語：Ventura County Star）. June 14, 2009 [2010-10-11]. 
  42. ^ User comments at McAfee Site Advisor
  43. ^ Did You Get Tagged Yet?. Black Web 2.0. [2009-06-10]. 
  44. ^ Bray, Chad. NY Attorney General: Tagged.com To Pay $500,000 Penalty. Wall Street Journal. November 9, 2009. （原始內容存檔於January 22, 2010）. 
  45. ^ Jonathan Stempel. Texas Settle with Tagged.com over e-mails. Reuters. November 9, 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  46. ^ Tagged.com settles with N.Y., Texas over privacy. San Francisco Chronicle. November 10, 2009 [2010-01-26]. 
  47. ^ 47.0 47.1 Wendy Davis. Publications Social Net Tagged Agrees To Destroy Allegedly Ill-Begotten Email Addresses. MediaPost Publications. February 8, 2010 [2010-02-13]. 
  48. ^ Tagged.com gets slapped by San Francisco DA. LegalNewsline.com. April 13, 2010. 
  49. ^ Dipping revenue leads Tagged to abort IPO plans, aim to develop new apps. San Francisco Business Times. 16 October 2014 [17 October 2014]. 

外部連結

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