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Hyves is a free Dutch social networking site and has been online since October 2004. The site was launched by Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam and Floris Rost van Tonningen. The name Hyves, comes from the English word “hive”. But because the domain hives.nl was taken they changed it to hyves.nl.
The focus of this website is on keeping in touch with existing friends and making new friends. There is no need to have knowledge of Html for creating a Hyve. Compared to other social networking sites as Facebook and MySpace, the audience of Hyves is younger. Hyves is very popular among students but not among adults like with MySpace. Hyves is also becoming popular in Peru.
On december 6 2007 Hyves reached 5 million users, from which about 4 million are Dutch.
Because of the popularity among young people even politicians (among them Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende) have their own Hyve. They see this as an opportunity to come closer to the people of a younger generation. As a result of the immense growth of users, the site is regularly subjected to performance problems since the 3 million users barrier has broken. This results in incorrect working links and the slow loading from pages.
The focus of this website is on keeping in touch with existing friends and making new friends. There is no need to have knowledge of Html for creating a Hyve. Compared to other social networking sites as Facebook and MySpace, the audience of Hyves is younger. Hyves is very popular among students but not among adults like with MySpace. Hyves is also becoming popular in Peru.
On december 6 2007 Hyves reached 5 million users, from which about 4 million are Dutch.
Because of the popularity among young people even politicians (among them Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende) have their own Hyve. They see this as an opportunity to come closer to the people of a younger generation. As a result of the immense growth of users, the site is regularly subjected to performance problems since the 3 million users barrier has broken. This results in incorrect working links and the slow loading from pages.
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