RockYou provides customized widgets and applications for online social networks like MySpace, Facebook, hi5, Bebo, and Friendster. Popular RockYou widgets and applications allow users to create slideshows, share photos, add graphics, and more to their social network profiles. On November 3, 2008, RockYou announced that it had received $17 million from Softbank and SK Telecom Ventures, which it will use to expand into the Asia-Pacific market.GigaOM: RockYou Gets Another $17 Million in Funding (November 3, 2008)
Popular RockYou Applications
- Superpets: adopt adorable pets and take care of them.
- Likeness: compare yourself with friends and movie stars
- Truth Box: find out what friends really think about you
- Pieces of Flair: describe yourself with buttons
- Emote: show the world how you feel
Popular RockYou Widgets
- Slideshows
- Glitter Text
- Games
- Horoscopes
- Corkboard
- Scratcher
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Founded
2006
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RockYou founders
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Serves over 150 million widgets viewed per day to over 200 countries on social networks
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Widgets include photo slideshows, glitter text and voicemail accessories
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Widgets are customizable
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Funded by Sequoia Capital, Partech International, Lightspeed Venture Partners, DCM, and SK Telecom
