DailyBooth (Online Social Networking website Full Details)

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DailyBooth

URL	http://dailybooth.com
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Image hosting service, social networking, photoblog
Registration	Yes
Created by	Jon Wheatley
Launched	February 13, 2009[1]
Current status	Active

DailyBooth is a photoblogging website designed for users to take a photo of themselves every day with a caption, in order to document and share their life with others, thus the slogan "your life in pictures." It is similar to social-networking websites such as Twitter in that you can follow other users and allow them to follow you in turn and get real-time updates on what other people are doing. The user base is geared towards teens.
In August, 2009, the site was reported to have over 3 million unique visitors a month with a growth rate of about 35% a month.
Dailybooth is funded by the startup funding firm, Y Combinator

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History

DailyBooth was founded and opened in February 2009 by Jon Wheatley and lead developer Ryan Amos, gaining popularity after several YouTube stars and Internet celebrities , such as Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore joined and encouraged their viewers and readers to join.^{[citation needed]} The site recently^{[as of?]} passed the 1,000,000 photo mark and the user who posted the 1,000,000th photo won a Throwboy pillow.


In early 2010, the website reached 3,000,000 photos and 10,000,000 comments.
Rumors have been stated that many venture capital firms want to fund Dailybooth.
Y Combinator stated that they had once considered a name change for DailyBooth, but were afraid it would cause a revolt with the community.
Features




A typical DailyBooth user's photo
with text and image comments


The Live Feed is a feature which displays a real-time stream of recent photos and activity from all members on the site. The Live Map displays real-time updates on a map.


Dailybooth allows users to automatically post a link to their Twitter account when they take new photos^[7]. Dailybooth also offers short URLs for users to link to their photos.
Versions

There have been two versions of DailyBooth, the original and a complete re-write:

• 1.0 - This version was the original version from which the community grew its roots.
• 2.0 - This is the complete re-write. This version included live comment feeds, the ability to upload images for picture comments, and also made a use of @ replies. This version was well received by most of the community, but with it came various bugs and problems.^{[citation needed]} Not all of them have been fixed and troubles include problems saving photos and glitches that make it say users are following unrealistic numbers of people

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References

1. ^ ^{a b} The DailyBooth Story
2. ^ ^{a b c} MG Siegler (2009-08-18). "140 Characters? That’s A Lot Of Writing. Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth". http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/18...on-dailybooth/.
3. ^ ^{a b c} DailyBooth grabs VC attention
4. ^ "DailyBooth.com builds communities". http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,2224678.story.
5. ^ DailyBooth Throwboy Competition
6. ^ "DailyBooth Live Map". http://dailybooth.com/map.
7. ^ Pete Cashmore (2009-02-14). "DailyBooth: Microblogging Through Photos". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2009/02/14/dailybooth/.

External links

• Official website
• DailyBooth Blog
• DailyBooth on Twitter
• DailyBooth at CrunchBase