Jimdo
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Jimdo is a WYSIWYG web hosting service.[1] Jimdo offers JimdoFree, a free web hosting service, JimdoPro and JimdoBusiness, both premium services. Jimdo is operated by Jimdo GmbH, a Hamburg, Germany-based company.[2] It competes with Weebly, Yola (formerly Synthasite), Webs, uCoz, Wix, Webnode and other web hosting and creation sites.[3]
History
Jimdo was founded in February 2007 by Fridtjof Detzner, Matthias Henze, and Christian Springub.[4]
In July 2008, United Internet AG purchased a 30 percent stake in Jimdo GmbH.[2]
In 2009, Jimdo attempted to lure users of Google and Yahoo! In April 2009, after Yahoo! announced that GeoCities was closing, Jimdo announced that former GeoCities users were welcome on Jimdo.[5] Jimdo started the "Lifeboat for GeoCities" promotion to help users transition to Jimdo.[6] Jimdo offered 10 percent discounts to users who moved from Geocities and Google Page Creator to the JimdoPro service.[7]
In 2010, Jimdo added a "store" service that allows Jimdo website owners to conduct electronic commerce services.[8] Also in 2010, United Internet withdrew from the company's board.[9]
Service
The basic Jimdo service is free; users of the basic service have their website names as the site name and .jimdo.com. The two premium services, Jimdo Pro and Jimdo Business, allow users to have their own domain names. They also receive additional storage space and no advertisements. Jimdo Pro costs 5 euros per month, and Jimdo Business costs 15 euros per month.[10] As of 2011, the languages available on Jimdo are Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish.[11] The English-language service uses British English.[10]
Reception
Two months after the service launch in 2007, Rafe Needleman of CNet gave a positive review to Jimdo. Needleman described Jimdo as a "good service for creating a quick site to document a trip or other event, or to prototype a simple personal or business site." He also said that Jimdo was not "mature enough yet" for use by a United States-based small business, "but it's worth keeping track of."[10] More recently, VentureBeat reported on the opening of the US office in San Francisco and the launch of an online store feature, concluding "US readers will probably hear more about the company in the coming months".[12].
See also
References
External links
- ↑ Jason Kincaid: Weebly Adds AdSense Support For Drag And Drop Cash. TechCrunch.com at The Washington Post, 10. Juni 2008, abgerufen am 30. April 2009.
- ↑ a b "United Internet AG acquires a minority stake in Jimdo GmbH." Thomson Reuters. July 8, 2008. Retrieved on May 1, 2009.
- ↑ Kincaid, Jason. (June 10, 2008). "Weebly Adds AdSense Support For Drag And Drop Cash." TechCrunch. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
- ↑ "JimdoPro Launches ‘Professional Websites Made Easy’." MyHostNews. July 8, 2009. Retrieved on April 5, 2010.
- ↑ Marshall, Rosalie. "Yahoo closing Geocities web hosting service." vnunet. April 24, 2009. Retrieved on April 30, 2009.
- ↑ "Jimdo's Lifeboat for GeoCities." Jimdo. Retrieved on April 30, 2009.
- ↑ "Geocities." Jimdo. Retrieved on May 1, 2009.
- ↑ Wauters, Robin. "Jimdo Makes Running Your Own Online Store A Breeze, Loses Investor." TechCrunch.com at The Washington Post. Sunday February 28, 2010. Retrieved on April 2, 2010.
- ↑ Jimdo Buys Out United Internet
- ↑ a b c Needleman, Rafe. "Jimdo: Another super-simple site builder." CNet. April 3, 2007. Retrieved on April 30, 2009.
- ↑ "Create a Free Website." (Go to the upper right hand corner and select "English" - other languages are visible from here) Jimdo. Retrieved on April 3, 2010.
- ↑ Anthony Ha: Jimdo upgrades its tools for online shopkeepers. 22. September 2010, abgerufen am 12. Mai 2011.