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Tagged
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语言英语、西班牙语、葡萄牙語、荷蘭語、法语、德语和马来语
持有者if(we)（英语：if(we)）
员工150（2011年10月）[1]
网址www.tagged.com
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推出时间2004年10月，​19年前​（2004-10）

Tagged是一个于2004年10月成立的社群发现网站，总部位于美国旧金山。它允许使用者浏览其他用户的个人资料[3]、与他们分享标签和虚拟礼物。根据Tagged的数据，全站共有300万名用户。[4]Quantcast（英语：Quantcast）曾估算称截至2011年9月，Tagged在全世界共有1860万名月独立用户。[5]迈克尔·阿灵顿（英语：Michael Arrington）曾在2011年4月表示“在这个属于Facebook的时代，Tagged在盈利性增长方面的能力最为引人注目。”[6]

2009年，Tagged因大量的诈骗性垃圾电邮遭到了批评[7][8][9]并为此赔偿了140万美元。[10]网站因此改进了用户的隐私，并改变了其邀请流程。[11][12]

Tagged目前归Ifwe所有。2010年，Inc. 500（英语：Inc. 500）在成长速度最快且独立的美国私营公司榜单上将它列为第476名；[13]次年，福布斯在美国最具潜力公司的榜单上将它列为第80名。[14]

历史

Tagged公司是由创业者格雷格·茨奥和约翰·施莱尔-史密斯于2004年中共同创立的，他们希望建立一个“青年的雅虎”或“下一代音樂電視網”。[15]两人以前共同创立了互联网企业孵化器的推动技术。[16]但后被指控违反CAN-SPAM Act（英语：CAN-SPAM Act of 2003）并处以90万美元的罚款，本次处罚是垃圾邮件的相关案例中最为严重的一次。[17]

2005年9月，在天使投资者的帮助下，公司募集到了150万美元并成立 and three months later raised an additional $7 million from Mayfield Fund（英语：Mayfield Fund）, a venture capital firm.[18]

创立之初，Tagged只允许18岁以下的用户使用。2006年10月，Tagged取消了此限制。[18]

2008年3月，微软宣布与Tagged、Facebook、领英、Bebo和hi5五个社交网站建立商业伙伴关系并开放了应用程序接口，[19][20]次年正式实行。[21]Slide（英语：Slide.com）、RockYou、PhotoBucket、Meebo、[22]Razz、[23]和Jangl也与Tagged是合作伙伴。[24]2009年2月，following complaints from the public Tagged was blocked in Qatar by the only ISP, Qtel, due to inappropriate content that Qtel could not selectively filter.[25] Tagged.com had been one of the top ten most visited sites in Qatar.[26]

2010年1月，Tagged announced that it was donating $50,000 to the Yéle Haiti Earthquake Fund, partly stemming from user donations.[27]同月，Tagged won a $200,000 judgment against Erik Voegler, who was spamming other Tagged users.[28]

In May 2010, Tagged was named in Lead411's "2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies", a list of the fastest-growing companies in the software, wireless, internet, and media industries,[29] and in October 2010, Tagged ranked #100 on Deloitte's list of the top 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology（英语：clean technology） companies in North America.[30]

2011年4月，Tagged收购了一款Windows的多协议即时通讯和社交网站的通知客户端——Digsby，拥有300万注册用户。[6][31]

2011年初时，Tagged仅有55名员工，但在此后短短数月的时间内其员工数发生了激增。截至同年10月，Tagged的员工数变为了150名。CEO Greg Tseng continues to interview employees, cater lunch and dinner, and hold office-wide meetings every Friday.[1] Tagged is a member of the Social Media Advertising Consortium, a trade industry association that aims to increase advertising revenue and to facilitate collaboration among social networking sites, advertisers, and marketing researchers.[32]

2011年9月，Tagged made a second acquisition, the gaming application WeGame.[33]

2011年11月，福布斯在美国最具潜力公司的榜单上将Tagged列为了第80名。[14]

2011年12月，Tagged收购hi5，它曾是全球第三大社交网站，仅次于Facebook和MySpace。[34]这项未公布条款的交易[34]让hi5的2.3亿会员加入到了Tagged的1亿注册用户。[35]

Also in December 2011, Tagged acquired Topicmarks, a natural language processing and machine learning company.[36]

诈骗性垃圾电邮

File:Misleading spam from Tagged.png
Between April and June 2009, Tagged sent tens of millions of misleading spam emails like this one, which falsely stated that a contact sent photographs to the recipient.[37][38]

2009年6月，时代周刊的专栏作家肖恩·格雷戈里将Tagged称为“世界上最烦人的网站”。[9] Tagged asked users for their email username and password, retrieved email addresses from their address books, and repeatedly sent email invitations to people who were not registered on Tagged, falsely stating that they have been "added as a friend" or that the inviter had sent them photos on Tagged. This process has been labelled an "e-mail scam" by consumer anti-fraud advocates[39] and drawn criticism in the technology press[7][40][41] and from users.[42] The emails were discussed as possible spam by Black Web 2.0[43] and the resemblance to a virus was noted by urban legend site Snopes.com（英语：Snopes.com）.[38] The New York Times referred to the practice as "contact scraping（英语：contact scraping）".[8]

In July 2009 New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to sue Tagged for "deceptive email marketing and invasion of privacy".[37] Tagged reached a settlement in which it agreed to pay $500,000 and to modify its promotional practices.[44] Simultaneously, Tagged settled an enforcement action by the state of Texas, agreeing to pay $250,000 in penalties and fees. Conditions of the settlement included "clear and conspicuous" disclosure of the use of information in the user's email address book, providing a clear method to skip the step and display to users the specific emails to be sent.[45] Tagged has adopted these reforms and changed its invitation processes.[46]

In February 2010, Tagged settled a class action（英语：class action） lawsuit about its former registration process with California residents Miriam Slater and Sara Golden and awarded them $10,000 each.[47] Tagged also agreed to destroy email addresses that were collected from users between April and June 2009, if those users did not mean to invite their contacts to the site.[47]

In April 2010, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris announced that Tagged agreed to pay $650,000 to settle claims of deceptive emails.[48] This settlement related to emails sent from April 2009 through June 2009.

Aborted IPO, shift in focus

2014年10月，Tagged aborted plans to perform an initial public offering, citing decreased revenue due to the proliferation of mobile devices. On October 16, 2014, Tagged performed a number of changes at the corporate level, including acquiring the social messaging startup Tinode and naming its co-founders, Dash Gopinath and Gene Sokolov, to the positions of chief product officer and senior vice president of engineering respectively. Tagged also announced that its parent company would be re-named Ifwe, Inc. (stylized If(we), and that the company overall would focus on becoming an incubator for new mobile software, although it will continue to run Tagged and Hi5.[49]

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参考来源

  1. ^ 1.0 1.1 Wang, Jennifer. How Tagged Made a Turnaround for Growth. Entrepreneur（英语：Entrepreneur (magazine)）. October 2011 [October 22, 2011]. 
  2. ^ Tagged.com Site Info. Alexa Internet. [2015-05-02]. 
  3. ^ ourWorld Integrated Into Tagged.com. Virtual Worlds News. March 1, 2010 [2010-06-14]. 
  4. ^ Forrest, Conner. How Tagged sidestepped Facebook and stayed alive. TechRepublic. 19 June 2014. 
  5. ^ tagged.com: Quantcast Audience Profile. Quantcast（英语：Quantcast）. [2011-09-28]. 
  6. ^ 6.0 6.1 Arrington, Michael. Tagged Buys Popular Social/Instant Messaging Client Digsby. TechCrunch. April 19, 2011 [2011-06-16]. 
  7. ^ 7.0 7.1 Christopher Covert. Spam Meets Web 2.0. Symantec Connect. Symantec. April 8, 2007 [2010-01-14].  引证错误：带有name属性“Symantec”的<ref>标签用不同内容定义了多次
  8. ^ 8.0 8.1 Alina Tugend（英语：Alina Tugend）. Typing in an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends’ Too. New York Times. June 19, 2009 [2009-12-05].  引证错误：带有name属性“NYT”的<ref>标签用不同内容定义了多次
  9. ^ 9.0 9.1 Gregory, Sean. Tagged: The World's Most Annoying Website. Time. June 11, 2009 [June 11, 2009].  引证错误：带有name属性“Time”的<ref>标签用不同内容定义了多次
  10. ^ Wendy Davis. Fined Again, Tagged Pays $650K To San Fran Authorities. MediaPost Publications. April 13, 2010 [2011-04-10]. 
  11. ^ Tagged.com Settles with N.Y., Texas over Privacy. San Francisco Chronicle. November 10, 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  12. ^ Case Study: Battling a Media (and Legal) Firestorm. Inc.（英语：Inc. (magazine)）. [2013-06-14]. 
  13. ^ Tagged. Inc.（英语：Inc._(magazine)）. 2011 [2011-04-10]. 
  14. ^ 14.0 14.1 America's Most Promising Companies. 福布斯. 2011 [2012-02-25]. 
  15. ^ Who Says Money Can't Buy Hipness?. 彭博商业周刊. [2009-11-23]. 
  16. ^ Greg Tseng's speaker bio at the Authentication and Online Trust Summit 2007. （原始内容存档于July 4, 2008）. 
  17. ^ FTC Slams Spammer in Pocketbook. 聯邦貿易委員會. 2007-06-25. （原始内容存档于2011-04-12）. 
  18. ^ 18.0 18.1 引证错误：没有为名为profitable的参考文献提供内容
  19. ^ John Richards. Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks to Put Users at the Center of their Data. Live Services Blog. March 25, 2008 [2010-01-08]. 
  20. ^ Erick Schonfeld. Microsoft Embracing Data Portability? Partnerships With Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, LinkedIn and Tagged. TechCrunch. March 25, 2008 [2009-12-13]. 
  21. ^ Michael Arrington（英语：Michael Arrington）. Windows Live To Add More Social Network Partners (Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm and More). TechCrunch. April 21, 2009 [2009-12-13]. 
  22. ^ Erick Schonfeld. Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service. TechCrunch. January 31, 2008 [2009-12-13]. 
  23. ^ Press Release: Razz, Inc. Partners With Major Social Networking Site, Tagged. FierceWireless. July 26, 2007 [2009-12-13]. 
  24. ^ Jangl launches service with Tagged. San Francisco Business Times（英语：San Francisco Business Times）. April 25, 2007 [2009-12-13]. （原始内容存档于October 7, 2008）. 
  25. ^ Joanna Hartley. Qtel blocks popular social networking site. Arabian Business. 9 February 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  26. ^ Complaints forced Qtel to block top-rated site. The Peninsula（英语：The Peninsula (newspaper)） at Gulf Base. February 9, 2009 [2009-06-11]. 
  27. ^ Tagged Donates $50,000 to Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. Tagged press release. January 21, 2010 [2010-01-21]. 
  28. ^ Tagged.com Awarded $200,000 Judgment Against Spammer. Marketwire. January 29, 2010 [2010-02-13]. 
  29. ^ Hottest Companies in San Francisco. Lead411. May 18, 2010 [2010-10-02]. 
  30. ^ 2010 Technology Fast 500 Rankings (PDF). Deloitte. 2010 [2010-12-10]. 
  31. ^ Gannes, Liz. Tagged Buys Digsby IM Client. AllThingsD. April 19, 2011 [2011-06-16]. 
  32. ^ About the Social Media Advertising Consortium. Social Media Advertising Consortium, Inc. 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  33. ^ M. G. Siegler. Social Discovery Meets Gaming Discovery: Tagged Buys WeGame. TechCrunch. September 21, 2011 [September 28, 2011]. 
  34. ^ 34.0 34.1 Shayndi Raice, Tagged Acquires Facebook Competitor Hi5, Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2011 
  35. ^ Chris Marlowe. Tagged Acquires Social Network Competitor hi5. Digital Media Wire. December 15, 2011. 
  36. ^ Constine, Josh "Tagged Acquires Topicmarks", TechCrunch, December 9, 2011.
  37. ^ 37.0 37.1 Attorney General Cuomo Announces Legal Action Against Social Networking Site That Raided Email Address Books, Stole Identities, and Spammed Millions of Americans. Office of the Attorney General（英语：Attorney General）, State of New York. July 9, 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  38. ^ 38.0 38.1 Barbara and David P. Mikkelson. Tagged. Snopes.com（英语：Snopes.com）. November 14, 2009 [2009-12-13]. 
  39. ^ Tagged.com Email Scam - "Your Friend Tagged You" - Phishing for Your Identity. Consumerfraudreporting.org. [2009-06-09]. 
  40. ^ Larry Seltzer. Harvesting Teenagers. eWeek（英语：eWeek）. April 10, 2007 [2009-12-05]. 
  41. ^ Allison Bruce. Tagged e-mails grab your address book. Ventura County Star（英语：Ventura County Star）. June 14, 2009 [2010-10-11]. 
  42. ^ User comments at McAfee Site Advisor
  43. ^ Did You Get Tagged Yet?. Black Web 2.0. [2009-06-10]. 
  44. ^ Bray, Chad. NY Attorney General: Tagged.com To Pay $500,000 Penalty. Wall Street Journal. November 9, 2009. （原始内容存档于January 22, 2010）. 
  45. ^ Jonathan Stempel. Texas Settle with Tagged.com over e-mails. Reuters. November 9, 2009 [2009-12-05]. 
  46. ^ Tagged.com settles with N.Y., Texas over privacy. San Francisco Chronicle. November 10, 2009 [2010-01-26]. 
  47. ^ 47.0 47.1 Wendy Davis. Publications Social Net Tagged Agrees To Destroy Allegedly Ill-Begotten Email Addresses. MediaPost Publications. February 8, 2010 [2010-02-13]. 
  48. ^ Tagged.com gets slapped by San Francisco DA. LegalNewsline.com. April 13, 2010. 
  49. ^ Dipping revenue leads Tagged to abort IPO plans, aim to develop new apps. San Francisco Business Times. 16 October 2014 [17 October 2014]. 

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