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HYVES
Hyves, hyver, hyves.nl, hyves.net, hyve, kwekker, pimpen, photos, videos
Always in dutch, eh.. touch.. with your friends
Free dutch profile site
Hyves is a free Dutch social networking site which has been online since October 2004. The name Hyves comes from the English Beehive, hereby comparing the users to bees in a hyve. It is comparable with other social networking sites. Users can create personalized pages of themselves with rich media content, such as photos, videos, flash content and custom layouts.
In July 2008 Hyves announced that they had reached 7 million users, of which about 5 million were Dutch. This amounts to about a third of the entire population of The Netherlands. In 2007, the website was voted "most popular website of the year" in the "Website of the year" competition. In 2006 and 2007 Hyves also won another "Website of the year" competition in the category for blogs and communities.
Because of the popularity among young people, even politicians (among them Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende) have their own Hyves. 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 of pages.
Hyves now ranks among the faster social networking sites. At that time the site had over 5.5 million registered users. As of August 2008, Hyves has over 7.1 million registered users.
As ever so often keep in mind though that those figures are accounts not unique people, many people have/use several accounts and many accounts are once created but never used (lost login info, or just gave it a try and never returned).
MORE HYPE:
"Hyves is orange" - Hyves is the official communitypartner of the Dutch team en de KNVB
"Pay your bills via Hyves" - Hyves is going to work together with de Rabobank (MiniTix) so you can pay in webshops and for its Gold Membership
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