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As Facebook slowly rolls out its updated News Feed design, featuring content-sorted feeds dedicated to photos and music, a popular social networking alternative has emerged. Pheed, a small start-up out of Los Angeles, is not only capitalizing on dedicated photo and audio streams, but it also offers feeds for text, video and live broadcasts, not to mention an in-your-face homepage tattooed hands interlaced behind a young man's head boldly announce this is not your grandma's social network.
In February, Pheed became the No. 1 free social networking app in Apple's App Store, ruling the charts ahead of competitors like Twitter and Facebook for more than a week. The audience driving Pheed's spike in downloads? Young adults in their late teens, a demographic often said to be losing interest in Facebook. Eighty-four percent of Pheed's users are ranking in at between the ages of 15 and 24.
Pheed's self-funded website and iOS app launched in late 2012, claiming a few notable celebrities as early adopters. ABCNews.com spoke to Pheed's team CEO (and seed-round funder of $2.5 million) O.D. Kobo, who chalked up the involvement of stars like Miley Cyrus, The Game and Nas to a few lucky meetings with music industry managers who were interested in supporting a "little underdog trying to give it a shot against the big giants" of social media. Kobo said that celebrity participants were not paid to promote the service.
RELATED: Facebook News Feed Redesigned with Larger Images and Different Feeds
Copyright Features Part of the celebrity draw has been Pheed's copyright system, which allows content creators to watermark the photos and videos they share on the social network. Watermarks create a line of gray text with the username on the photo itself. If someone were to download the photo, the text would remain. Pheed also offers copyright disclaimers around audio and text updates and allows users to set prices for access to content and live-streams on Pheed pages. The copyright feature serves as a declaration or 'stamp' of ownership from the content creator, Pheed says.
In December 2012, Pheed's copyright features attracted a number of photographers to the service. As Pheed's initial audience grew, the network's founders decided to enact a 30-day "lock down" on registration and app downloads. The service was unavailable through all of January and on Feb. 1, pent-up demand for the app was released. Without any advertising and completely through word-of-mouth, Pheed grew by 450%. The company, however, will not release exact download numbers.
Kobo credits timing, product and community for the network's early success, as well as Pheed's image as the "bad boy of social media," a vibe that emerged from the network's "modern, contemporary" look, which includes the photo of a man covered in tattoos that users see when logging in. The type of content you'll see posted to Pheed is similar in nature to Tumblr, with artsy photography and quotes being "heart-ed" and "remixed" ("liked" and "shared") more often than personal photos.
New Features on the Way Pheed is still in need of some critical updates to compete directly with Facebook, but Kobo says the updates are coming fast, with plans to release photo, video and even audio filters over the next few weeks. Those are all a part of the effort to compete with and surpass the content modification tools of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Pheed's upcoming audio filters may serve to filter out background noise or even add light jazz to the background of voice recordings.
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Everyone is familiar with Facebook and Twitter, but here are five social networks you might not know about that offer a twist on the usual social networking options.
Classmates
Classmates.com has been established for well over a decade, having been set up in 1995 by Randy Conrads, but has recently escaped the attention of mainstream social network users. The site is intended to provide nostalgic content, as users are given the opportunity to seek out people that they attended school, college or university with. This site provides a great way to look up that classmate whose name you can't quite remember, as the software allows you to search by educational institution and the year you attended. Figures indicate that Classmates had 50 million subscribers in 2008, and 3.8 million premium subscribers.
Flixster
Flixster is a social networking site that is aimed at movie buffs and fanatics. The site enables people who are passionate about motion pictures to befriend, contact and chat with other movie fans, as well as providing a wealth of information about the huge database of films that has been uploaded to the site. Flixster and its sister site Rotten Tomatoes were acquired by Warner Brothers in May, 2011, giving the site a huge boost. The site proved very popular when it first came online, reaching a peak of over 8 million daily page views during January, 2008. Recent figures indicate the site has 3 million active users.
My Heritage
My Heritage is a site aimed at anyone interested in genealogy and family trees, and will appeal to anyone who's ever wanted to delve into their familial history. My Heritage allows users to create their own family websites; a typical feature of which are customisable family trees. The site also has resources available to enable users to search for their ancestors, in order to help build their family tree. The site has proven very popular, and the owners have continually improved the site's resources by the acquisition of various genealogy companies around the world. The site has over 64 million users, and over 1 billion online profiles.
Gaia Online
Gaia Online is very much a cult social networking site, aimed squarely as it is at fans of Japanese anime. The whole theme of the site is anime-based, but Gaia Online is an English language site that is aimed at English fans of the Japanese cartoon genre. The site is a very fun one for fans of anime to participate in, with opportunity for users to create their own customisable anime avatar to represent them in cyberspace. Gaia Online has proved very popular with anime fans, garnering over 26 million registered users and 7 million website visits per month, and the site won the Mashable Best User experience Award for 2010.
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As Facebook slowly rolls out its updated News Feed design, featuring content-sorted feeds dedicated to photos and music, a popular social networking alternative has emerged. Pheed, a small start-up out of Los Angeles, is not only capitalizing on dedicated photo and audio streams, but it also offers feeds for text, video and live broadcasts, not to mention an in-your-face homepage tattooed hands interlaced behind a young man's head boldly announce this is not your grandma's social network.
In February, Pheed became the No. 1 free social networking app in Apple's App Store, ruling the charts ahead of competitors like Twitter and Facebook for more than a week. The audience driving Pheed's spike in downloads? Young adults in their late teens, a demographic often said to be losing interest in Facebook. Eighty-four percent of Pheed's users are ranking in at between the ages of 15 and 24.
Pheed's self-funded website and iOS app launched in late 2012, claiming a few notable celebrities as early adopters. ABCNews.com spoke to Pheed's team CEO (and seed-round funder of $2.5 million) O.D. Kobo, who chalked up the involvement of stars like Miley Cyrus, The Game and Nas to a few lucky meetings with music industry managers who were interested in supporting a "little underdog trying to give it a shot against the big giants" of social media. Kobo said that celebrity participants were not paid to promote the service.
RELATED: Facebook News Feed Redesigned with Larger Images and Different Feeds
Copyright Features Part of the celebrity draw has been Pheed's copyright system, which allows content creators to watermark the photos and videos they share on the social network. Watermarks create a line of gray text with the username on the photo itself. If someone were to download the photo, the text would remain. Pheed also offers copyright disclaimers around audio and text updates and allows users to set prices for access to content and live-streams on Pheed pages. The copyright feature serves as a declaration or 'stamp' of ownership from the content creator, Pheed says.
In December 2012, Pheed's copyright features attracted a number of photographers to the service. As Pheed's initial audience grew, the network's founders decided to enact a 30-day "lock down" on registration and app downloads. The service was unavailable through all of January and on Feb. 1, pent-up demand for the app was released. Without any advertising and completely through word-of-mouth, Pheed grew by 450%. The company, however, will not release exact download numbers.
Kobo credits timing, product and community for the network's early success, as well as Pheed's image as the "bad boy of social media," a vibe that emerged from the network's "modern, contemporary" look, which includes the photo of a man covered in tattoos that users see when logging in. The type of content you'll see posted to Pheed is similar in nature to Tumblr, with artsy photography and quotes being "heart-ed" and "remixed" ("liked" and "shared") more often than personal photos.
New Features on the Way Pheed is still in need of some critical updates to compete directly with Facebook, but Kobo says the updates are coming fast, with plans to release photo, video and even audio filters over the next few weeks. Those are all a part of the effort to compete with and surpass the content modification tools of Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Pheed's upcoming audio filters may serve to filter out background noise or even add light jazz to the background of voice recordings.
Updates are also on the way this month to offer link previews, improve user interface for searches (searching content will be made available) and add privacy settings for posts (current posts are by default public and searchable by Google). Pheed is also in the final stages of development for their Android app.
While live-streaming video, filtered photos and text updates are all currently split into a number of popular apps and services, Kobo's goal is to have one app that rolls together all types of social media content. While that could become confusing, his plan is to slowly introduce more and more ways for Pheeders to express themselves and let the existing audience educate new users on the tool's intricacies rather than strip the app of features.
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Pheed: The Social Network That's Winning Over Teens from Facebook and Twitter
Confession time: I'm an inveterate social media junkie. From Facebook to Instagram to Diaspora, whenever a newcommunication platform rolls aroundor comes back aroundI'm ready to leap aboard.
But social networks are amazing and terrifying in equal measure. You can reach thousands of people worldwide with a single Twitter update, but cybercriminals can use the same tools to pick the perfect victim.
It's impossible to remain completely anonymous while you're using social mediaanonymity would defeat the pointbut every network has a few key,commonly overlooked privacy settingsthat take only minutes to set up and drastically improve the security of your shared data.
For this article, I rounded up the three most important privacy settings you should be using, but probably aren't, on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram. Five minutes of setup now could avert hours of social embarrassment and identity recovery down the road.
Facebook not only revolutionized the way we communicate but also spawned the Facebook Fret: that uncomfortable moment before every blind date, extended-family gathering, and job interview when you worry about whether anyone has noticed the embarrassing Christmas-party video your friend tagged you in on Facebook a few years back.
Limit who can find you:Stop worrying and make sure your Facebook profile stays private by clicking the blue gear in the top-right corner of the Facebook website and selecting Privacy Settings. From there, the best thing you can do is make it harder for strangers to find your Facebook profile in the first place by blocking search engines from linking to your profile and limiting who can look up your profile using the email address and phone number you gave to Facebook.
Limiting access to Friends ensures that only people with whom youve already made a connection will be able to search for you using your email address and phone number. But since someone isnt likely to search Facebook in that manner unless theyre specifically seeking to get in touch with someone, its probably a good idea to grant lookup access to Friends of Friends. That way, you can get some mileage out of Facebook's social network by connecting with people your friends trust.
Stop posting in public:Your next stop on the Facebook Privacy Settings to-do list is the 'Who can see my stuff?' section of the Privacy Settings menu. Make sure the 'Who can see your future posts?' option is set to Friends.
Facebook allows you to change content visibility on a post-by-post basis. You can, for example, create status updates that are publicly available or visible only to two or three specific people. But the smartest option is making post visibility friends-only by default, mitigating the damage of any potentially humiliating photos you might upload after a late-night escapade.
Retroactively, you can privatize your Facebook profile by visiting the Limit Past Posts link and clicking the Limit Old Posts button to ensure that all the content youve already shared becomes private to your friends only. One caveat, though: If you ever tag anyone in a Facebook update, your tagged content will show up on that person's Timeline, and thus will be exposed according to their personal privacy settings.
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12 simple steps to safer social networking