The tradition started at Obama's first inauguration four years ago, when he asked Americans to spend time on King's birthday doing service work in communities across the country.
Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch started their social network Bebo with a simple birthday reminder service.
Prior to Bebo the Birch couple launched the birthday reminder/ecard service BirthdayAlarm (since sold) with Michael's brother Paul, who remains based in the UK and recently launched Yabb.
A former accountant-turned-programmer, Birch 'lived the dream' as he says at the start of the Internet boom as the co-founder of the Internet based birthday reminder/ecard service BirthdayAlarm.com with his San Francisco-based brother and sister-in-law.
Earlier Luo was CEO of Jiyiri.com, an online birthday-related service provider, in 2007-09, and a co-founder of dipian.com, an online social platform for college students, in 2006-07.
The company also focuses on meeting the local community need for child play care and birthday party services within the 10-mile radius of Big City.
For example, Facebook is efficient at dispensing virtual empathy — the good feelings that people get when all their friends wish them happy birthday through the service — as well as teaching people how to be more compassionate and share those feelings offline.
And to do it, he's turning to Birthday Wish, a service powered by Causes that makes it easy to ask your friends for charity donations in honor of your big day.
But more and more, users are looking to channel this goodwill into something a little more special using Birthday Wish, a service from the philanthropic startup Causes that makes it easy to ask your friends to donate to charity in honor of your big day.
Also impressive is just how successful these wishes can be: Green says that if a Wish Creator (i.e., the person having the birthday) follows the service's recommendations, the majority of the time they will generate an average of $100 in donations.
