If you use Twitter since the beginning of time, you must have heard of Yfrog. It started out as a photo-sharing service, which quickly became one of the most popular ways to share photos on Twitter — back in the day, you may remember, the only way you could share photos on Twitter was through third-party applications such as Yfrog and TwitPic. But in mid-2011, Twitter decided to get into the photo-sharing game after all and in August it rolled out its own internal photo-sharing service through a partnership with Photobucket — which, of course, immediately caused significant damage to the Yfrogs and TwitPics of the world.
Well that hasn’t stopped Yfrog from thinking about their next move, as Twitter literally wiped out the need for them to exist. So they did the next best thing (as some might dub it), they made a social network out of it! They just flat out started to directly compete with Twitter and the rest of the social networks.
They just launched Yfrog Social, a full-service social networking platform for the web and the iPhone. In short, it looks like a mix of Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn, with the high-resolution photo-sharing qualities. What makes it different its that it has an ad-free business model with an opn API, making it easier for developers to come up with great apps for the network without the fear of getting charged later on.
I believe it is a very big leap for the company especially with the increase of social networks lately, it will have to bring something totally new to the table in order to rise and be recognized by many as a enjoyable social network among all the big players. I personally used it it has a nice flow to it, but I cant really find a reason to be part of a new network that doesn’t really offer me personally something new.
WE SAID THIS: The Age of countries is coming to an end, social networks are getting an identity of their own!