Xanga.com is a New York City-based blogging community that offers free creation of weblogs where users could share photos, videos and other types of contents.
Xanga was launched in October 1999 and has over 40 million users worldwide as of March 2009.
Xanga is currently in the top 500 most visited websites worldwide on Alexa.com site rankings.
Xanga was derived from CEO John's childhood nickname: "Xceptionally Awesome Ninja GangstA". [Wikipedia]
At createblog.com and ZangaCity.com, users could find professionally designed and user customizable free xanga layouts, music and icons.
In January 2006, Xanga was infected by a worm that compromises user accounts to replicate or redistribute itself and infect other xanga blogs.
In September 2006, Xanga.com will pay $1 million for violating Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and for collecting, using and disclosing of personal information from children aged 13 yrs old and below without any parental notification and consent.
Xanga is popular in asian countries such as India, Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
Other popular xanga like sites are Datingish and ManCouch.
