| 词条 | Bix (website) |
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| name = Bix, Inc. | logo = | fate = Discontinued | successor = | foundation = {{start date and age|2006|2}} | location = Sunnyvale, California, U.S. | industry = Internet, Software, & Music | key_people = Stewart Bonn Echeyde Cubillo Jeff Cordova Leonard Speiser Mike Speiser (co-founders) | products = Online video karaoke recorder and contest website | num_employees = 12 | parent = Yahoo | subsid = | website = }} Bix was a web service that was best known for its online competitions.[1] The site provided self-service tools for the creation of contests. After a user created the contest, other members could enter and vote on the outcome of those contests. The company was founded in February 2006 and received venture funding from Trinity Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures. The website officially launched in July 2006[2] with a web-based video recorder that merged a user's karaoke performance to create a contest entry. The site received strong praise from industry experts including Walt Mossberg of the WSJ.[3] Within a few months the site opened up contests for audio karaoke, videos, photos and text. In November 2006 the site switched to a faceoff style voting system, increasing votes from 5000 a day to 150,000 a day. Site votes reached as much as 1,000,000 in a day in 2007. Users voted 25 times per visit on average. Bix's competitors included Singshot (discontinued) and Worth1000. HistoryBix was also a BBS and website sponsored by Byte Magazine (BIX = "Byte Information Exchange"), rather like a social media site before such became popular. The website survived for a short time after the magazine ceased publication in 2001 (there was a July issue, but no August issue that year). The site had forums for virtually every known computer language, most major computing topics of interest, and each forum was run by relatively well-known people in the industry. The site was rather like a bulletin board system, and by current standards was rather crude, but it was very popular at the time. Yahoo! acquisitionYahoo! acquired Bix on November 16, 2006.[4][5] The company moved from downtown Palo Alto to Yahoo's main campus in March 2007. Bix generated revenue by running contests for corporate clients. Customers included Extra (TV series), Black Entertainment Television, The Game,[6] Capitol Records and Electronic Arts. Bix was shut down by Yahoo June 30, 2009.[7] Patents for Bix
References1. ^{{cite web | last=Buechner | first=Maryanne Murray | title=50 Best Websites 2007: Bix | website=Time | date=July 8, 2007 | url=http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1633488,00.html | accessdate=November 7, 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Techcrunch covers Bix launch|url=https://techcrunch.com/2006/07/17/bix-sees-green-in-online-contests/|publisher=Techcrunch|accessdate=2006-07-17}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=WSJ Walt Mossberg reviews product|url=https://techcrunch.com/2006/11/16/yahoo-acquires-contest-site-bix/|publisher=WSJ|accessdate=2006-11-16}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/timeline.cfm |title=Yahoo! Inc. - Company Timeline |work=Wayback Machine |date=2008-07-13 |accessdate=2016-07-19 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080713214826/http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/timeline.cfm |archivedate=2008-07-13 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Techcrunch covers Yahoo acquisition of Bix|url=https://techcrunch.com/2006/11/16/yahoo-acquires-contest-site-bix/|publisher=Techcrunch|accessdate=2006-07-17}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Rapper The Game partners with Bix|url=http://www.hiphoppress.com/2006/10/hiphop_star_the.html|publisher=HipHopPress|accessdate=2006-10-17}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Yahoo Shuts Bix Down. Did Anyone Notice?|url=https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/04/yahoo-shut-bix-down-did-anyone-notice-when/|publisher=TechCrunch|accessdate=2010-01-29}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Automated Reward Management for Network-Based Contests|url=http://www.google.com/patents?id=MhulAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4|publisher=Google|accessdate=2006-04-17}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=Network Based Content Creation|url=http://www.google.com/patents?id=ixilAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4|publisher=Google|accessdate=2006-04-17}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=Automated Administration of Networked-Based Contests|url=http://www.google.com/patents?id=mhilAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4|publisher=Google|accessdate=2006-04-17}} Further reading
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