Pixnet is a
Taiwanese
Taiwanese may refer to:
* Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien
* Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa)
* Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan
* Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan
* Taiwanese people, ...
mobile
Mobile may refer to:
Places
* Mobile, Alabama, a U.S. port city
* Mobile County, Alabama
* Mobile, Arizona, a small town near Phoenix, U.S.
* Mobile, Newfoundland and Labrador
Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels
* Mobile ( ...
photo sharing
Image sharing, or photo sharing, is the publishing or transfer of digital photos online. Image sharing websites offer services such as uploading, hosting, managing and sharing of photos (publicly or privately). This function is provided through ...
,
blogging
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...
, and
social networking service
A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, act ...
, started in 2003, that enables its users to store pictures or create blogs and share them either publicly or privately on its website. The service is also available as an
application
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a c ...
, PIXNET is available at the
App Store
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and the
Google Play Store
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. The service has a large user following in Taiwan, but access to it is blocked in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
History
PIXNET was started in 2003 as an online
photo hosting
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An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that i ...
service for students, and over time evolved into a social network.
In 2007 it received financial backing from the Hong Kong-based
TOM Group
TOM Group Limited () is a Chinese-language media company in the Greater China region, with business interests across markets in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Its business covers four media sectors, Internet (TOM Online), Outdoor (TOM Outd ...
. This backing supported the site's hosting by
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...
in order for it to grow; AWS processes over 10 million pictures every day.
AWS Case Study: PIXNET
Retrieved 2 March 2016.
See also
* Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can ...
* Flickr
Flickr ( ; ) is an American image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was a popular way for amateur and professional ...
* Spaces Spaces may refer to:
* Google Spaces (app), a cross-platform application for group messaging and sharing
* Windows Live Spaces, the next generation of MSN Spaces
* Spaces (software), a virtual desktop manager implemented in Mac OS X Leopard
* Spac ...
* ImageShack
ImageShack is a subscription-based image hosting website headquartered at Los Gatos, California.
Although ImageShack always had a subscription service, the majority of its revenue was originally produced from advertising related to its free ima ...
References
External links
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2003 establishments in Taiwan
Internet properties established in 2003
Android (operating system) software
IOS software
Image-sharing websites
Mobile software
Taiwanese social networking websites
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