by michaelht | Mar 23, 2025 | Trendscape
Founded by three ex-PayPal colleagues, including Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who reportedly developed the idea for YouTube after trying to share a video that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen’s San Francisco apartment in February 2005. That dinner conversation...
by michaelht | Mar 23, 2025 | Trendscape
It was extraordinary, even by Hollywood’s colossal standards. The downfall of one of Tinseltown’s most powerful figures was a confluence of raging sexual misconduct events unified by a revealing social media hashtag: #MeToo. This movement, which gained momentum in...
by michaelht | Mar 23, 2025 | Trendscape
Often described as the “SMS of the Internet,” Twitter burst onto the scene in 2009, when Oprah and Ashton Kutcher encouraged more than 60 million people to become “tweeps.” Twitter, rebranded as X, has long been considered a vital barometer for gauging public...
by michaelht | Mar 23, 2025 | Trendscape
In March 2002, Jonathan Abrams, a 33-year-old Canadian software coder who had been laid off by Netscape, founded Friendster, an invitation-only social network. Abrams made no secret of his intention to play the dating game against Yahoo! and Match.com. Within months...
by michaelht | Mar 23, 2025 | Trendscape
Everything is going electronic. Mail went first, banking was next, then books, commerce, dance music, gift cards and even vehicles. Electronic payments preceded them all. Electronic fund transfers were technically invented by Western Union way back in 1871. In those...
