A blog is a website consisting of entries which are called posts appearing in reverse chronological order with the most recent entry appearing first, similar in format to a daily journal. Blogs typically include features such as comments as well as links in order to increase user activity.
GIRL WITH CURVES
Started by Tanesha Awasthi in 2011 on
the encouragement of her husband, this blog has quickly risen to success and is
said to be one of the most leading
fashion and beauty sites for plus size women at present. This blogger
challenges conventional body image issues by setting no rules for her dressing.
Just three weeks after the launch of her street-style blog,
Glamour magazine tapped her for a fashion feature. She has also featured in
Vogue India and has won numerous awards. Her most recent endeavour has been the
launch of her clothing collection which she has designed herself.
WORLD OF WANDERLUST
World of Wanderlust is an established
travel blog which was founded by Brooke Saward in December 2012 in order to
document her travels. Currently, there is a small team of 8 writers behind the
site whose aim is to keep readers up-to-date with current travel trends,
emerging destinations, and new products on the market. The mission of this blog
is to inspire, intrigue, urge and inform readers to travel to more places, more
often.
SOCIAL MEDIA
WEBSITES are instruments of communication through the medium of the internet.
Pinterest is a free website that
requires registration to use. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images
which are known as pins as well as other media content like videos or images, through
collections known as pinboards. Pinterest acts as a personalized media
platform. Users can leaf through the content of others on the main page. This website is particularly a hit among
women.
This was started by Ben Silbermann, Paul
Sciarra and Evan Sharp in March, 2015. At present this social media website is
being managed by Cold Brew Lab. Pinterest has broadened its horizons by
launching its mobile application as well. The most popular categories on Pinterest
are food & drink, DIY & crafts, women's apparel, home decor, and
travel.
TUMBLR
Founded in February, 2007 Tumblr is one
of the oldest micro blogging platform and social networking website which was
founded by David Karp and was sold later to Yahoo! Inc. As of September 1,
2015, it hosts over 252 million blogs.
The service allows users to post
multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other
users' blogs, or make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are
accessed from the "dashboard" interface, which provides the option to
post content and posts of followed blogs. Features like customised domain name
as well as blog, tags which makes it easier for users to find posts, queue and
dashboard have all contributed to the website’s phenomenal success.
Available in 25 languages, Instagram is
an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service
that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety
of social networking platforms, including its own.
Created by Kevin Systrom and Mike
Krieger, it was launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. This service
rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012
and over 300 million as of December 2014. The service was acquired by Facebook
in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. In 2013,
Instagram grew by 23%, while Facebook, as the parent company, only grew by 3%.
In January 2011, Instagram added the
feature of hashtags in order to assist users to discover both photographs and
each other. Instagram encourages users to make tags both specific and relevant,
rather than tagging generic words like "photo," to make photographs
stand out as well as to attract like-minded Instagram users.
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