Personal profile and shameless self-promotion

• www.facebook.com  
• www.bebo.com
• www.myspace.com
• www.jaiku.com
• www.imeem.com - online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their tastes, and discover new blogs, photos, music and video.
• www.perfspot.com - PerfSpot was created to provide the perfect web portal for people of any age, gender, or background to share their interests and favorite things on the web
• www.friendster.com - Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them.

current status and activity tracking

• www.twitter.com  
• www.quotably.com - track twitter conversations in one place
• www.tumblr.com - sort of freeform blogs. If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.
• www.pownce.com - send stuff to your friends

Aggregation - pulling multiple accounts and profiles together in one place

• www.onaswarm.com - gathers your content from your weblogs and social networks to bookmarking, video and photo sharing sites - into a single place
• www.friendfeed.com - pull your own content and that of your friends together in one place
• www.mego.com - interactive portable profilethat makes looking good and sharingphotos, videos, wishlists, preferences and RSS feeds easy

Chat and Instant Messaging 

• www.imvu.com - 3D instant messaging with your own avatar

Photo and Video

• www.flickr.com - share your photos online
• www.youtube.com - share your videos online 

Mobile phone integration

• www.mobyko.com - Save your names and numbers anytime, anywhere
• www.nowthen.com - send your mobile phone snaps to all your friends and all your blogs
• www.spinvox.com - update your status and blogs by voice (speech recognition)

Business and Professional Networking

• www.linkedin.com
• www.plaxo.com

Social network tools, management, administration, widgets 

• www.ning.com create your own social networking site
• www.snappyville.com - create your own social networking site and earn revenue
• www.feedburner.com take your rss feed and publish it, track it, make money from it
• www.buddymap.com - map the members of your social network
• del.icio.us - online bookmarking
• www.addthis.com - free bookmarking and feed subscription tools for all the major bookmarking sites

internet buzz

• www.edopter.com social trendcasting and tracking
• www.digg.com you make the news newsworthy

Specialist networks

• www.tripit.com - share travel itineries
• www.btpodshow.com - create your own music and video channels
• www.tunecore.com - get your own album on itunes and amazon
• www.jewtube.com - errr... Jewish video sharing site
• www.fuzzster.com - where our fuzzy pets can meet other fuzzy pets and owners!
• www.diigo.com - Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community

blogging and blogging tools

• www.blogger.com
• www.technorati.com - publish and build credibility for your existing blog

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