Chikka, short for Chikka Text Messenger, is an Internet-based instant messaging

application that supports free SMS or text messaging between online users and offline
mobile subscribers. Chikka was released by Chikka Philippines, Inc. in the early 2000
and eventually established its connection with the country's network operators Smart
Communications (2001), Globe Telecom (2002) and Sun Cellular (2004). With up to
billions of messages being exchanged between online and mobile communities
worldwide through Chikka, it is probably the world's first commercially successful
integration of web and mobile utilities.
Headquartered in Manila, Chikka Philippines powers other services for mobile instant
messaging and email accessible via SMS, mobile payment systems utilizing airtime
credits, Free-Reply SMS as an option for prepaid mobile subscribers in need of top-up,
mobile-enabled auctions, matchmaking and social networking as well as text, voice and
visual mobile content.
The companys services are currently available to over 45 mobile carriers in fourteen
countries including the Philippines, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Multiply was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share
media such as photos, videos and blog entries with their "real-world" network. The
website was launched in March 2004 and is privately held with backing by VantagePoint
Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors.[2] Multiply
has over 11 million registered users.[3] The company was headquarterd in Boca Raton,
Florida but moved to Jakarta, Indonesia early in 2012 and recently announced intentions
to switch to e-commerce, dropping the social networking aspect entirely. Quantcast
estimates Multiply had 2.47 million monthly U.S. unique visitors at their peak on July 30,
2012.[4]
On Multiply, a user's network was made up of their direct contacts, as well as others who
are closely connected to them through their first-degree relationships. Additionally, users
were encouraged to specify the nature of their relationship with one another, making it
possible to share content with their entire network of closely related people, or subsets
thereof including friends, family, professional contacts, and so on.
On May 31, 2013 officially marked the closing of their operations.

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Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with timestamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.
Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May
1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs
had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than
blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs.[3] Unlike Wordpress, Blogger cannot be
installed in a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a blogspot domain to a
custom URL. [4]

History
On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated
blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003,
Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed
premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. In October 2004, Pyra
Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it
integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post
photos to their blogs.

On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web
standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting
by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed
"Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and had
some new features, including interface language in French, Italian, German and Spanish.
[5] In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007,
Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers. Blogger was ranked 16
on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007