Expansion. Growth. Visitors. Traffic. Your start-up can go from unknown to worldwide in a matter of minutes, so make sure you’re got the right IaaS company in place to help you scale when you get there.
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bit.ly
bitly helps you collect, organize, shorten and share links. The company is currently reinventing how people discover and share content on the web. bitly is available via its website, browser extensions, mobile web, and numerous third-party tools integrated with its open public API. All links shared via bitly allow users to view complete, real-time traffic and analytics data. bitly also powers more than 10,000 custom short URLs and offers an enterprise analytics service that helps web publishers and brands grow their social media traffic.
Indeed
Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide, with over 50 million unique visitors and 1 billion job searches per month. Indeed is available in more than 50 countries and 26 languages, covering 94% of global GDP. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards. As the leading pay-for-performance recruitment advertising network, Indeed drives millions of targeted applicants to jobs in every field and is the most cost-effective source of candidates for thousands of companies.
OMGPOP
OMGPOP (formerly known as iminlikewithyou) is a free online multiplayer game site that specializes in social games. The Company started in 2006 as iminlikewithyou, a place for people to play games to meet each other and in 2009 changed its name to the shorter OMGPOP where people meet each other to play games. The site has generated over 50 million plays for popular games like blockles, draw my thing and balloono.
Playdom
Playdom wants to entertain everyone everywhere through the world’s best social games. With more than 15 games available for free on Facebook, MySpace, and social networks around the globe, they’ve got something for everyone and even more coming soon. From the cute, fluffy carnage of Wild Ones to the hidden objects in Gardens of Time, Playdom produces a diverse portfolio of casual games. As part of the Walt Disney Company, Playdom is bringing the tradition of high-quality entertainment, to the rapidly growing world of social games.
Quora
Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The goal of Quora is for each question page to become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question. By using Quora to document the world around them, our users are creating a database of knowledge that should grow and improve until almost everything that anyone wants to know is easily available in the system. When knowledge is put into Quora, it is there forever to be shared with anyone in the future who is interested.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. They deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of over 15 million other web surfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.
Spil Games
At its core, Spil Games is a games publisher, scouting the best content from the world of online game developers to entertain the 180 million visitors to its sites each month. But not all players are alike and Spil recognizes that by selecting content tailored to the different interests of its three channels of gamers: girls, teens and family. Spil Games invests a lot of energy in staying up on these diverse audiences’ interests, keeping its finger on the pulse of consumer desire by developing content itself, too, through its three in-house game studios.
Twitpic
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter in real-time. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, through TwitPic’s API, or through the site itself. Also, some Twitter clients have built-in support for TwitPic. TwitPic was launched in 2008 by Noah Everett.
Twitter has become one of the most important and most-used social media and communication devices on the Internet. They describe themselves as a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. “Tweets” are 140 character-long messages that users can publish to air their views, connect with others and jump in on Trending Topics. Twitter has been one of Dyn’s largest clients for years.
Wikia
Wikia is a collaborative publishing platform that enables people to discover, create and share content on any topic in any language. Wikia’s 200,000 community sites are written by community members that are passionate about subjects ranging from video games, TV shows and movies to food, fashion, and environmental sustainability. Some of the biggest online communities on Wikia are in gaming and entertainment, such as World of Warcraft and the Marvel Database Project, but comprehensive sites on genealogy, ice hockey, and children’s books keep a diverse number of people interested and engaged.
Zoosk
Zoosk is the world’s largest social dating community with millions of singles from around the globe using the service each month. Zoosk provides a safe and fun online dating experience that users can easily access from Zoosk’s website, social networking applications, mobile services, and downloadable desktop application.