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Youmeo
URL	www.youmeo.com
Type of site	Social network service
Registration	Yes
Available language(s)	English
Owner	youmeo.com ltd
Launched	April 2005 (as pplparty) (relaunched April 2008)
Current status	Active

Youmeo is a social networking website that, in addition to standard social networking features (such as the ability to communicate with other members, upload media, etc.), allows its users to import data from other popular community-based websites such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter^[1].

Youmeo was originally founded in April 2005 under the name pplparty by then 15 year-old young entrepreneur Calum Brannan. Currently the website's offices are based in Coventry, United Kingdom ^[2]

Since it's inception, the site now claims a userbase of over 400,000 and aims to expand that to 1,000,000 by the end of 2008.^[3]

1 Unique features
2 Press Attention
3 Youmeo team
4 References
5 External links

Unique features

Ultimate Privacy Control

youmeo allows users to have multiple profiles. This enables the user to have a different profile for different friendship groups such as friends, family & place of study.

Social aggregation

The site gives users to aggregate their existing social networking services within the youmeo platform. This includes sites such as:

Brand Profiles

Founder Calum Brannan believes consumers should be able to interact freely with brands as they do in the real world. ^[4]

Other features

Synchronize your youmeo profile with other social websites and the other way
The ability for users to be able to like content and share with friends
Content deals with publications such as Student Times, Gay Times, Canvass Magazine and more..
Advanced social searching
Widescreen YouTube video player with Like functionality
Mobile site for updates on the go

Press Attention

Because of the site's aim to be the biggest social network in the United Kingdom (currently Bebo) and the young age that its founder started the website, it has gained notable attention from a variety of well-known websites and press outlets such as The Guardian^[5], Financial Times^[6] and The Sunday Times^[7].