History
Social Strata, Inc. was originally known as Madrona Park, an internet software firm, founded in 1996. Its first software internet programs included the widely popular UBB Message board (now known as UBB.classic ). Madrona Park became Infopop in 1999, while moving its headquarters to Seattle, where many other software and internet companies had relocated to, including Microsoft. In 2001, the company acquired WWWThreads, and renamed the product UBB.threads. In 2005, the firm became known as Groupee, Inc. In December 2009, the firm became known as Social Strata, Inc. On January 1, 2010, UBB.threads was spun off and sold to Mindraven, Inc., with developer Rick Baker assuming full management of the product.
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