Famous People and websites

The following people are all famous (and usually rich!) because they started different websites.


a) Pierre Omidyar
b) Jimmy Wales
c) Mark Zuckerberg
d) Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim
e) Larry Page, Sergey Brin
f) Zaryn Dentzel
g) Biz Stone, Evan Williams
h) David Filo and Jerry Yang
i) Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson


1 Match the website to the people who founded them:

1 Facebook
2 Google
3 You Tube
4 Twitter
5 Tuenti
6 Myspace
7 Wikipedia
8 Ebay
9 Yahoo

2 Which year was each site started in?

1994
1995
1998
2001
2003
2004
2004
2005
2006


3 Which of the above websites are:

a) social networking sites: ……………………………. , ……………………………. , ……………………………. , …………………………….
b) auction and shopping site …………………………….
c) collaborative reference site …………………………….
d) search engines and email account providers ……………………………. , …………………………….
e) video-sharing website …………………………….


Key
1 and 2

a) Pierre Omidyar ebay 1995
b) Jimmy Wales Wikipedia 2001
c) Mark Zuckerberg Facebook 2004
d) Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim Youtube 2005
e) Larry Page, Sergey Brin Google 1998
f) Zaryn Dentzel Tuenti 2004
g) Biz Stone, Evan Williams Twitter 2006
h) David Filo and Jerry Yang Yahoo 1994
i) Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson Myspace 2003

3
a) social networking sites: Facebook, Tuenti, Twitter, Myspace
b) auction and shopping site ebay
c) collaborative reference site wikipedia
d) search engines and email account providers google, yahoo
e) video-sharing website youtube

What do the following people and companies have in common?

Michael Jackson
Barack Obama
Lady Gaga
Starbucks
Dr House
Coca Cola
Cristiano Ronaldo
YouTube

(Answer: They are all in the top 30 Facebook Fan pages.)

http://www.famecount.com/
This website gives a nice graphic portrayal of the most pop. Films, companies, etc.

This is the Spanish ranking
http://www.famecount.com/facebook-rank/Spain

Appeal for the Digital Death campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWd22s