VICE - Piczo was a website builder and social networking site that launched in San Fransisco in 2005, around the same peak years as Myspace. Users could create their web pages and add photos, "blinkies" (flashing graphics), text, guestbooks, music, and other content using plain text and HTML. By 2006, the website builder and social network had become the largest teen site in the UK. Then it disappeared without a trace.
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Piczo: the Internet's Influential but Forgotten Social Network
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Stardoll Merges With Piczo
PR WEB -- Mar 9 -- Stardoll, the online entertainment destination for young women, announced a merger with Piczo, a social network for teens. Stardoll also launched Paperdollheaven.com, targeting a younger, female demographic. The three sites will form the foundation of the Stardoll Network, which will reach a the tween and teen age groups (between 5 - 20 years old). FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
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Piczo Hits Milestones Using Keibi
PR WEB -- Aug 25 -- Since Piczo implemented the Keibi Moderation Suite, Piczo now reviews more than 200 times the images it used to while spending 70% less on related overhead. "We have also experienced a 50% decrease in the amount of member abuse emails received since implementing the Keibi solution, which has allowed us to significantly reduce support costs", said Keith Crowell, Piczo's director of member safety." FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
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T-Mobile adds Bebo, Pizco
POCKET LINT -- June 19 -- T-Mobile in UK has added Bebo and Piczo to its My Social Sites service. My Social Sites is a mobile application that allows users to stay in touch with their friends and upload pictures from their mobile phone direct to the sites. Charges are 5p to post a comment, send a message or accept a friend request or 20p to add a photo. Users can also search for friends, browse profiles and check out photos for 20p for 24 hour access. FULL ARTICLE @ POCKET LINT
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Piczo Users Creating 3,000 Chat Rooms Daily
MASHABLE -- May 28 -- So far, more than 65,000 rooms have been created since Piczo implemented the
feature to allow their users to create rooms. The Meebo Rooms feature
went live on May 8th, with approximately 3,000 new ones being added
every day. Chat rooms can be embedded directly into user profiles, and
copied into other pages on Piczo from there. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE
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Social Slowdown Hitting Piczo Hard
CNET NEWS -- Feb 22 -- At the same time Facebook's traffic appears to
have reached a plateau, Piczo, a networking site that caters to teenage
girls, has seen layoffs, executive departures, high employee turnover,
and a shrinking audience in the past five months. Back in 2006, Piczo
was a high flyer in social networking. The company was adding 35,000
new registered users per day, and had attracted $18 million in venture
funding. Since then, the company's traffic has continued to slide.
According to Comscore, Piczo saw 1.1 million U.S. unique users in
August 2006, but last month had 810,000 users. FULL ARTICLE @ C NET NEWS
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Piczo Opens In Russia
PRESS RELEASE -- Nov 15 -- Piczo, a social network for teens, launched in Russia. The launch into the Russian market is part of Piczo's international growth strategy which has already seen exponential growth in Germany. Piczo is already well established across Eastern Europe, where it now has over 850,000 unique users accessing the site with more than 65 million page views a month. FULL ARTICLE @ BUSINESS WIRE
Mark Brooks: I have an interview with the CEO of Piczo lined up to go live on Saturday 24th November.
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14.8 Million Germans Use Social Networking Sites
BLOGNATION -- Sep 19 -- According to comScore, 45% of Germany 's online population – 14.8 million out of 32.9 million – visited social networking sites in July 2007. The leading sites were MySpace (3.6 million unique visitors), studiVZ (3.1 million), jux (2.6 million), Piczo (2 million), StayFriends (1.3 million), Netlog ( 1.2 million), Sevenload (1.1 million), Xing (685,000), Skyrock Network (507,000), MSN (440,000), and Facebook (177,000). FULL ARTICLE @ BLOGNATION
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Social Networking Conference Agenda
SNW -- July 2 -- Check it out. THE USPTO is going to tell us if Friendster has a hope with its patents. I'm going to show you what dating and SNS apps are on deck with the majors. MySpace's VP of Customer Insight is up. Bebo, Mychurch, a smattering of international players. China's SinoFriends CEO, and Estonia's Rate.ee's CEO are there to add some international flavor. Piczo, Video Egg, Jangl, Sonopia, Trilibis. The CEO of Visible Path was just added. Looking good. - Mark Brooks
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LinkedIn and Imeem Tap Gomez
PR NEWSWIRE -- Feb 26 -- LinkedIn and imeem will leverage the Gomez ExperienceFirst(TM) network to test, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of their web sites worldwide. They join care2, JibJab, Piczo, Snapvine, Tagged and others. The Gomez ExperienceFirst network has 12,000 performance testing locations worldwide. FULL ARTICLE @ YAHOO NEWS
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MySpace Goes Mobile in Europe
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About Social Networking
CHIBUS -- Jan 25 -- Wikipedia says the first social networking site was Classmates.com, started in 1995. Merill Lynch forecasts social networking sites will receive $1.1 billion this year ($2.8 billion by 2010). Yelp and MingleNow are centered around bars and restaurants. Meetup extends the idea to everything from movies to politics. Meetro connects you with those nearby. Mobile social networking is supposed to take off (it's been supposed to take off for like two years now) with companies like Dodgeball. This month Piczo raised $11m. MomJunction raised $1.5 m. Meebo, the web-based IM tool, raised $9m in a Series B funding. Yahoo picked up MyBlogLog for ~$10m, and Wetpaint is ~$9m richer. FULL ARTICLE @ CHIBUS
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Hi5 Traffic Surges
TECH CRUNCH -- Jan 19 -- Some of the best data on the growth of social networks is coming out of the widget startups. People put widgets on their various social network user pages, and traffic is referred back to the widget companies. I'm hearing from some of those widget companies is that Hi5, already a big network and rumored to be quite profitable, is surging. "Traffic is up 15% month over month, and Hi5 looks like it's second only to MySpace at this point" said one widget executive. They are clearly bigger than all the second tier social networks - Piczo, Bebo, Tagged, etc. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
Mark Brooks: hi5 is fairly even with Bebo and Friendster. See Quantcast graph. Add in Facebook and Friendster and they pale - Quantcast graph. It's a similar picture with free dating sites. See Quantcast graph.
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MySpace and Facebook Rivals are Growing
DAILY NEWS -- Oct 2 -- Piczo (teenage focus) is one of a raft of second-tier social-networking sites. XuQa is run by San Francisco startup iVentster, which lets users play games against their online friends and offers awards to the top scorers. Hi5 comes with a built-in music player. Last month, Piczo attracted 10.2 million uniques, compared with Facebook's 15.5 million (comScore). Instead of trying to get people to ditch their MySpace and Facebook accounts, they're persuading kids to sign up for a third or fourth social-networking site, along with the ones they already use. Funtigo shutting down in February 2004 and created a new page at funtigo.com/switch, which led to Piczo. The founder wrote back to ~100 of the teenagers who had emailed him earlier, telling them they could keep using the service if they switched to Piczo. It was Piczo's first and only marketing push. FULL ARTICLE @ DAILY NEWS
Mark Brooks: Friendster started similarly, with a small group of avid core users. Bebo (BirthdayAlarm.com users) and MySpace (eUniverse) had more of a marketing push, and faster growth rates.
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