MYYEARBOOK.COM

As I roam around the office, I noticed few people are so busy with a new social networking online.
Especially in the evening , one of them is even campaigning for a vote or something..
I haven't checked the site yet but I got so curious who did this interesting site.
I am only accustomed to Friendsters, multiply, facebook and hi-5, so this is really new to me.
Even my daughter has a friendster account and I 'm sure if she'll find out about MYYEARBOOK.COM, I'm pretty sure she'll sign up right away.
I know it's a dinosaur issue, but as I told you before I am not that techy person and I am still learning and exploring the web for myself.
Well, below are interesting facts about MYYEARBOOK.COM

GEOFF COOK
DAVE COOK
CATHERINE COOK
owners of -
MYYEARBOOK.COM


Ages: 29 (Geoff), 19 (Dave), and 17 (Catherine)
Location: New Hope, Pa.
2006 Revenue: undisclosed
Employees: 25
Year founded: 2005


A social networking site for teens, myYearbook.com was hatched around the family dinner table by siblings Catherine and Dave two years ago. With older brother Geoff now on board, the site has since grown from a single high school to more than 3 million members and more than 4.5 million visitors a month, ranking it third among all social networking sites in the United States, behind MySpace and Facebook.

myYearbook was initially created by two high school students, David and Catherine Cook, and their older brother Geoff, during Spring Break of 2005. Catherine persuaded Geoff, who founded EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com from a Harvard dorm in 1997, to invest $100,000,000 for their project. At the launch of the site in April 2005, Dave was a junior and Catherine was a sophomore at Georgetown University; the project was only activated for their school in suburban New Jersey, Montgomery High School. The site was inspired by the typical yearbooks sold in high schools, but was intended to not only keep records of students but also allow them to keep in contact with one another. The site slowly grew to have a user base numbering in the thousands. As with other social-networking sites, it is free to register and there are no fees for users.

In November 2005, the forum Mystery of the Zenhex merged with myYearbook, adding several thousand members and more than doubling the traffic it received. Zen, the creator of Zenhex, was running low on funds and could not support Zenhex's rapidly growing member base. The increasing jump in members caused the site's servers to overload and create a series of notifications known as Database Connection Errors, or DBCEs. In order to keep Zenhex alive, Zen merged with myYearbook. After the merge, myYearbook experienced a very rapid growth rate; it grew 44% from November 2005 to December 2005 according to a Media Metrix report.[6] Zenhex has remained as the forum pool for MyYearbookers & "hexxors," original members of the Mystery of the Zenhex, with varying topics and forum areas. Zenhex, though, still regards itself as its own site, and prefers to be associated separately from myYearbook. Despite this, access to the forum can only be attained by passing though many myYearbook pages, with hopes to draw people to the myyearbook part of the site.