Netlog
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| Community portal or online contact network (see social software ) | |
| languages | 40 language versions |
| operator | Massive Media NV |
| user | 100 million members |
| http://www.netlog.com/ | |
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Netlog was a multilingual ad-supported social network that enabled its users to set up free user profiles with photos , videos , blogs , groups, etc. It ceased operations in spring 2014. If you go to Netlog's internet address , you will be redirected to Twoo . However, old, not deleted profiles could still be accessed through detours until 2018. On August 4, 2018, the operator informed users who had registered before 2012 that there was security-relevant access to user data in 2012.
Internet platform Netlog
Netlog was operated in fifteen European languages, was used by over 100 million members, including 3 million from German-speaking countries, and had over four billion website views. It was mainly used by 13- to 24-year-old members who could create a profile and socialize with one another, use new applications, create groups and send messages to other members. In 2012, Netlog was ranked 645th among the sites with the highest traffic according to Alexa.com . 2008 won Netlog the Open Web Award from Mashable in category "Mainstream and large Social Networks".
operator
Netlog was founded by Lorenz Bogaert and his partner Toon Coppens. The website " ASL.TO ", which was founded in 1999 and aimed at Belgian young people and was later renamed Redbox and Facebox , was merged with other -box websites in 2007 on the Netlog Internet platform . In 2007 Index Ventures and Atomico Ventures invested five million euros in Netlog. The Company Netlog NV , which was largely financed by advertising, had its headquarters in the Belgian Ghent and employed 2008 about 35 employees. In January 2011 Netlog merged into the Belgian stock corporation Massive Media NV , which was also founded in 2000 by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens.
privacy
Netlog was criticized for the fact that there were hardly any opportunities for members to protect their privacy and that the so-called Friendfinder function automatically sent out invitations repeatedly and collected extensive data.
In June 2009, the Belgian copyright management company SABAM brought an action for an injunction against Netlog and requested, among other things, that Netlog be relieved of any inadmissible provision of musical or audiovisual works from SABAM's repertoire under threat of a fine of 1000 euros per day of default. Netlog countered this by stating that the issuance of this injunction order would impose on it a general monitoring obligation for all customers in general and preventively and the establishment of a filter system. In response to a request for a preliminary ruling on this question, the ECJ ruled in February 2012 that the operator of a social network on the Internet cannot be forced to set up a general filter system covering all users of this network in order to prevent the inadmissible use of musical and audiovisual works.
2012 data leak
In July 2018, Netlog sent an email informing users registered before December 2012 about a security vulnerability in their user database.
Web links
- German language edition from netlog.com
- Netlog - data collector and mail-slinging report of the c't from June 16, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ imprint ( memento of the original from September 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. de.netlog.com, accessed September 5, 2012
- ↑ http://www.robertlender.info/blog/archives/3762-Sperr-Netlog-zu
- ↑ http://de.netlog.com/data.php
- ↑ corporate.netlog.com: Statistics ( memento of the original from April 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 16, 2011)
- ↑ a b itnewsbyte.com: Netlog wins the Open Web Award in San Francisco (accessed March 10, 2009)
- ↑ a b c d How Netlog Leaps Language Barriers By Leila Abboud, The Wall Street Journal , November 1, 2007 (accessed March 2, 2008)
- ↑ alexa.com: "Netlog.com has a traffic rank of: 645" (accessed October 30, 2012)
- ↑ corporate.netlog.com: Netlog wins Open Web Award ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed March 2, 2008)
- ↑ Open Web Awards: Final Winners Announced! mashable.com December 21, 2007
- ↑ Facebox - Insane Growth? Pete Cashmore, mashable.com, September 25, 2006
- ↑ a b Netlog creates, becomes part of Massive Media; expands to New York and Dubai Robin Wauters, TechCrunch , January 14th, 2011
- ↑ Van Redbox via Facebox naar Netlog ( memento of April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) propaganda-online.nl, April 25, 2007
- ↑ handelsblatt.com: We are switching - to advertising ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed March 2, 2008)
- ↑ Netlog creates online media group Massive Media MassiveMedia, accessed on September 5, 2012
- ↑ Netlog - data collector and mail sling report of the c't from June 16, 2011 (accessed on September 4, 2011)
- ↑ ECJ judgment of February 16, 2012 (C-360/10)
- ↑ ECJ: Social Internet network does not have to protect intellectual property with a filter system that covers all users Beck-Online zu ECJ, judgment of February 16, 2012 - C-360/10.
- ↑ Communication to users. July 27, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 .
