User:Postyourmedia/Flurb It
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| Flurb It | |
|---|---|
| Image:Flurbit logo.jpg | |
| Type | Public |
| Founded | Roseville, California (July 10, 2006) |
| Headquarters | Roseville, California, USA |
| Key people | Chad Priddle |
| Industry | Internet services |
| Website | www.flurbit.com |
Flurb It is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of media, user profiles, audio, flash, photos, and videos posted worldwide with comments, ratings and hit traffic. All media can be rated, and the average rating and the number of times the media has been viewed are both published. The company is based out of Roseville, California, USA, where it was originally started back in 2006.
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[edit] History
The current Flurb It service was founded in July 2006 by Chad Priddle (a High School graduate from Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, California) the current president and CEO of Flurb It. He was originally partnered with Mike Rodriguez, who was involved with the business model and design of the website and then stopped his involvement in the company and resigned from his partnership in December 2006. Since then, Flurb It, has expanded and employs a total of 3 staff. The company has not disclose revenues or profits and is currently owned by webPaR inc.
[edit] Contents of Flurb It
[edit] User Profiles
Each registered user has a profile page that contains some personal information that that user might want to make public (i.e. email address, city, state location, profile image, etc.) or private. Also shown on the profile page is the media that the user has posted.
[edit] Multimedia
The website allows users to post multimedia that they created to share with others such as: flash, images, videos and audio. Depending on how many unique hits the media gets, that number of hits is associated with the author of the media's user account called Flurb Points. The user can then go to the Flurb Store and redeem those points by buy merchandise. Unregistered users can view any media on the site; registered users have the ability to upload an unlimited number of flash, images, videos and audio. Related media, determined by the title and tags, appear to the right of the media.
- Videos Clips
- Images
- Audio Clips
- Flash Files
[edit] Ratings
Each piece of media that a user submits has a viewers rating that allows everyone to view the media and give it an appropriate rating.
[edit] Comments
Below the media, there is a "comments" section, where registered users may leave comments for all other viewers to read. Flurb It administrators and the user that posted the media can monitor the comments and can/may delete inappropriate comments at any time without notice. If a user's account is deleted for any reason, every comment left on other media pages by that user will automatically be deleted.
[edit] Flurb Store
The Flurb Store[1] is an online store with hundreds of electronic gadgets, mp3 players, Flurb It appeal items, and other merchandise that can be bought with the user's Flurb Points. This allows a user to add an item to the Flurb Cart, checkout and within a few days the merchandise will be delivered to their preferred shipping address.
[edit] Revenue Model
Flurb It's revenue comes from online advertising. Other forms of advertising which bring in revenue include display and contextual advertising.
[edit] Terms of Service
According to the site's terms of service[2], users may upload media only if they have the permission of the copyright holder and of the depicted persons. Pornography, defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material that encourages criminal conduct may not be uploaded. The uploader grants Flurb It a license to distribute and modify the uploaded media for any purpose; this license terminates when the uploader or the site's administrators deletes the media from the site. Users may view media on the site but may not download them in any way to re-distribute them.
[edit] See also
- List of social networking websites
- User-generated content
- Social network
- Business network
- List of Internet phenomena
- Web 2.0
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- FlurbIt.com Flurb It Homepage
- webPaRinc Company Homepage
Category:Internet properties established in 2006 Category:Blog hosting services Category:Community websites Category:Companies based in Placer County Category:Global internet community Category:Internet advertising and promotion Category:Online social networking Category:Virtual communities Category:Web 2.0
