| Website | rockyou.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 650-344-4016 |
| Employees | |
| Description | Creates self-expression widgets |
| Total | $68.5M |
| Series A, 1/07 First Round Capital Lightspeed Venture Partners Sequoia Capital | $1.5M |
| Series B, 3/07 Lightspeed Venture Partners Partech International Sequoia Capital | $15M |
| Series C, 6/08 Doll Capital Management | $35M |
| Series C, 11/08 SoftBank SK Telecom Ventures | $17M |
Netpickle maker of RockYou (originally named RockMySpace) creates and distributes self-expression widgets. The widgets can be used to enhance the look and feel of blogs, personal websites and personal pages on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. RockYou has over 10 million registered users and gets over 150 million widget views from over 200 countries per day.
Co-Founders Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen were sued by their former employer Iconix in 2006. Iconix claimed Tokuda and Shen were working on a slideshow application for them at the same time the pair created RockYou. A preliminary injunction favored Iconix before the intellectual property theft case was settled out of court.
RockYou’s main competitor is Slide.
Robert Scoble interviews RockYou
Added: 2/9/08FaceReviews - CEO Lance Toduka - Part 1
Added: 4/3/08FaceReviews - CEO Lance Toduka - Part 2
Added: 4/3/08| Website | rockyou.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 11, 2007 |
| Tags | widgets, avatars, countdown, slideshow, photos, wiki |
RockYou offers users a number of widgets to spice up their blogs, personal websites and social network pages. RockYou is very easy to use. There is no registration needed or application to download and importing images is a breeze.
Widgets offered are as followed… -Slideshows (your photos with music, captions and a theme) -PhotoFX (stylize your photos) -Glitter FXtext (add glitter and more to your text) -FunNotes (choose a theme, caption and effects for your note) -Countdown Timer (countdown to important events) -Group Corkboard (you and your friends can add pictures, text and more to the corkboard) -MySpace Layouts (make your myspace page aesthetically pleasing) -ShoutOuts (record your voice and send it to a friend) -Scratcher (scratch your picture like a lottery ticket and see what’s hidden behind) -VoiceMail (allows your friends to leave voice comments on your page) -Games (make your profile or blog more fun by adding games to it) -Horoscope (get daily horoscopes and find out your compatibility with friends) -Movies (let your friends know what your favorite movies are) -Avatars (create an animated version of yourself to put on your profile)
