Netlog (Online Social Networking website Full Details)

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Netlog

URL	http://www.netlog.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Social network service
Registration	Required
Owner	Netlog NV/SA
Created by	Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens
Alexa rank	230[1]

Netlog (formerly known as Facebox and Bingbox) is a Belgian social networking website specifically targeted at the European youth demographic.


The site was founded in July 2003 in Ghent, Belgium, by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens, and as of June 2010^[update] has 65 million registered users across 25 languages.^[2]


On Netlog, members can create their own web page, extend their social network, publish their music playlists, share videos, post blogs and join group

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Localization

Netlog has a localization technology ensuring that all content is geotargeted and personalized to each member’s profile. This enables a member to have localized searches and overviews on the community, displaying only those member profiles of his or her own age range and region.



Available languages

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Arabic
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Chinese
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian (Bokmål)
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Slovene
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

See also

• List of social networking websites
• Social network
• Social software

References

1. ^ "netlog.com - Traffic Details from Alexa". Alexa Internet, Inc. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/netlog.com. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
2. ^ "How Netlog Leaps Language Barriers". The Wall Street Journal. November 1, 2007. http://online.wsj.com/public/article...f_main_tff_top.

External links

• Netlog Homepage (English)
• Netlog Corporate pages
• Incrowd site - news page
• Mashable's Social Networking Awards 2006
• Facebox - Insane growth?
• Facebox - Alarm:Clock
• Red Herring Top 100 Europe Awards (winner), April, 2007
• Birkalem's review on Netlog