Twitter
http://twitter.com/
A
microblogging service that lets users publish 140-character messages out to the
world.
Bebo
http://www.bebo.com
It allows you to keep in contact with your friends, school and favourite bands.
Blurb
http://www.blurb.com/
An online publishing service that lets you design books with text and
photos, then get them printed and sent out.
CoveritLive
http://www.coveritlive.com/
A
live blogging service that can be integrated on nearly every blog or Web site.
Information is updated live to all viewers as soon as the author or authors
publish it.
Digg
http://www.digg.com/
A
social news site. Users submit stories then vote on them to promote some to the
front page.
Docstoc
http://www.docstoc.com/
A Web document hosting service. Users can upload and manage their
documents, or view other people's documents right in their browser.
Drupal
http://drupal.org/
A
publishing and content management system. Users can add all sorts of content to
Web pages through a system of modules.
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/
A popular
social networking service. Originally offered to college students, it later
opened up its doors to anyone with an e-mail address.
Friendster
http://www.friendster.com/
A
popular social network and one of the first sites to offer user profiles and the
capability to network with others.
LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com/
A
social publishing community with just over 19 million different journals created
since launching in 1999.
Lulu
http://lulu.com/
A
marketplace for user created goods. Writers, artists, and photographers can sell
their creations through Lulu, which handles the storefront and
publishing.
Meebo
http://www.meebo.com/
A multi-network instant-message service that runs in your browser window
and on mobile phones.
Ning
http://www.ning.com/
Allows users to create and manage their own social network using a
modular design and toolset.
Plaxo
http://www.plaxo.com/
Aggregates activity from you and your friends everywhere they are on the
Web. It's also an online calendar and address book tool.
Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/
A social news site and community. Users vote stories up and down and
have rich discussions in each story's comment section.
Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/
An online documents host. Users can upload, search, and browse through
documents right in their browser.
Stardoll
http://www.stardoll.com/
Lets anyone
play dress-up with virtual dolls. New dolls based on celebrities or other famous
figures are being added constantly.
StumbleUpon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Half
content discovery, half social network. It lets users rate content they like,
and jump to new sites based on past ratings.
Tumblr
http://tumblr.com/
A
blogging tool that works with all sorts of media and is set up to let users
subscribe to, and re-share each other's entries.
Typepad (and the MovableType platform)
http://www.typepad.com/
Six Apart's
blog pushing tools. TypePad is a hosted blog service while MovableType must be
hosted on the user's servers.
Vox
http://www.vox.com/
Six
Apart's free blog service. Users can upload photos and push out posts to their
own private or public blog.
Wetpaint
http://www.wetpaint.com/
A free
reference tool with which multiple people can get together and create dynamic
wikis.
Wikia
http://www.wikia.com/
A white-paper wiki service that lets site owners add wiki elements to
their sites and brand them to match.
Wordpress (and the WordPress platform)
http://www.wordpress.com/
Automattic's two blogging services. WordPress.com is hosted, while
WordPress.org can be installed free of charge on a user's own servers.
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