1. Facebook
With over 250 million registered users since its launch in February 2004, Facebook is currently crowned as the world’s most popular social networking website, beating fellow rival MySpace. The social giant is co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz who were roommates and fellow computer science students at Harvard University.
Designed by the folks at Studio O+A, the engineers at Facebook have now a new and really cool office located at Palo Alto, California, USA. Before the redesign and construction of the 150,000-square-foot office, each of every Facebook employees were consulted to find out what they wanted and what would their work experience better and more productive. Based from the photos taken below, the new office is indeed much more cozy and colorful. I personally love the DJ set and the bender on the wall!
2. YouTube
Acquired by search-engine giant Google in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube is currently the world’s most popular video sharing website. It enables users to upload and share videos of different genres be it comedy, news broadcasts, music, etc. Currently, YouTube headquarters is situated at San Bruno, CA, USA.
3. MySpace
Headquartered at Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media (owned by News Corporation), MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors, according to comScore.
4. Twitter
Twitter is the world’s leading micro-blogging platform, beating rivals Plurk and Google’s Jaiku by a huge percentage in terms of traffic. According to Compete, Twitter has attracted over 22 million unqiue visitors from the United States for the month of July. Currently, Twitter’s San Franciso headquarters is located on the 4th floor of 539 Bryant Street. If you happened to past by the place, probably you can go up and say ‘Hi’ to the Biz Stone and Evan Williams, co-founders of Twitter.
5. Flickr
Acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005 for an undisclosed fee, Flickr is one of the world’s largest and most popular image and video hosting website with over 3.6 billion images as of June 2009. Flickr is situated at 470 Sansome Street, San Francisco, USA.
6. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of July 2009, it had more than 43 million registered users, spanning 170 industries. Its really cool office is located at Mountain View, CA, USA which is where the Googleplex (Google headquarters) is situated at.
I wonder what people are doing in there.
Makes me wonder what Seth's digs look like over @ Squiddo and if the guys at Photobucket are as hip as Flickr?
Cool
Hire me. AH! Also, Twitter & FB have the same rocking chairs. Key to a cool office possibly?
This will be a very interesting movie that will keep me interested from the very beginning..
Any chance you would be polite enough as to not hotlink our images? Thanks
Offices of the Top 6 Most Popular Social Websites (PICS) amazing!!!
omg so coool! i wanna work in one of them!
FB office is none less then a 5-star hotel…dying to go there…
This is really awesome! Really fun places to work in.
Thanks for sharing.
No better word to describe these offices than FUN! Thanks for sharing these photos.
How appropriate that LinkedIn has the most “business-like” environment.
How appropriate that LinkedIn has the most “business-like” environment.