Skyrock Blog
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| Skyrock.com | |
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| URL | Skyrock.com |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Social network service |
| Registration | Required for most services |
| Available language(s) | Multilingual |
| Owner | Téléfun |
| Created by | Téléfun |
| Launched | December 2002 |
| Current status | active |
Skyrock is an online social network and was launched in December 2002 by Skyrock (a French youth-oriented radio station). With over 21 million members,[1] 5 million profiles and 14 million blogs,[2] it can be considered the French version of MySpace, LiveJournal or Xanga. The old name Skyblog was progressively abandoned from 2007 to 2008 in favor of Skyrock after a lawsuit from British Sky Broadcasting.[3]
The service evolved into an online social network at the beginning of 2007, adding friends and personal profiles. Since then, it became far more popular than any other website in French-speaking countries. It reached the 17th place in the Alexa Internet Top 500 in January 2008, outranking eBay and Amazon.com,[4] though 90% of its audience is still French. It is the first French-speaking social network[5]. Skyrock president Pierre Bellanger described it as the first blogging platform in Europe.[1]
Skyrock Blog is also very popular in Quebec, Switzerland, Belgium, Morocco and other French-speaking communities.[citation needed]
Since March 2007, the website is available in French, English, German, Dutch and Spanish. Since January 2008, it is also available in Norwegian, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish.
Due to Skyrock Blog's reach to the young society in France, it was utilized as a common source of online rallying and communication during the Paris Riots of 2005.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b According to Téléfun CEO Pierre Bellanger in [1] (in French)
- ^ According to Skyrock in [2]
- ^ By decision of June 1st, 2005, the Paris Court of Appeal hold, in particular, that the prohibition of use by the Complainant of the term SKY alone or together with other terms, excepting SKYROCK and SKYZIN, shall take effect three months from notification of this ruling and thereafter, be subject to a penalty of €2,500 per recorded infringement. [3]
- ^ Alexa Top 500 Sites
- ^ According to French journal Libération and comScore
- ^ International Herald Tribune, November 9, 2005 Blogs and text messages spread call to violence by Thomas Crampton. Retrieved on April 2, 2008.
