web 2.0 & social media

If you’re not already a member of one of the social networking sites listed below, I would be pretty surprised. There are plenty to choose from, with more cropping up every day.

The cool thing is that these sites present you with a new way to communicate, network, make friends, and even promote your online business. In a nutshell, consider them a viral marketing playground, where you can test all kinds of new techniques.

Here’s my list of social networking / Web 2.0 sites that I gathered it from other lists and stuff I “stumbled upon”, read about, etc.

I’ve checked them all out, but I haven’t personally used all of them. Of course, I’m continually conducting tests to see how they can be used to market your business. To see what’s good, what sucks, and marketing tricks you just can’t miss, check out the posts in my Web 2.o category.

social networking / web 2.0 sites

Networking & Communication

  • Friendster
  • Facebook
  • Consumating: Good way to find people that don’t suck.
  • MySpace: Focus on music.
  • Linked In: Network with colleagues and classmates.
  • Page Bites: Search for jobs.
  • Your Success Network: This is a new site launched by Young & Successful that’s aimed at the career-oriented, 20 t0 30-year old. Allows you to create an online portfolio, network with peers, recruiters and mentors, tools for self-assessment and much more.
  • ESnips: Social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type.
  • Wayfaring: Create, share and discover maps.
  • Frappr: Create, share and discover maps.
  • Housing Map: Search for a place to live.
  • Orkut: Google’s online community where you network via trusted friends.
  • Goowy: Simple and intuitive tools for communicating on the Web.
  • Friends 4 Days: Meet people first, then decide if you want to be their friend.
  • Traineo: For the fitness and weight loss community.
  • Yelp: Talk, reviews about what’s cool [or not] in your neighborhood.
  • Dogster & Catster: Networking sites for animal lovers.

Business Related Tools

  • Avvenu: Remote access and sharing software for your PC and mobile device.
  • You Send It: Web-based file delivery.
  • Craig’s List: Write, share and search classified ads.
  • HipCal: Personal organization tool; acquired by Plaxo.
  • Planzo: Online calendar and planning tool.
  • Voo2do: Personal organization tool; time management for busy people.
  • Think Free: Your online office; MS compatible.
  • Google Docs: Web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers.
  • Meebo: Consolidates instant messaging.
  • Camp Fire: Web-based chat for business groups.
  • SlawSome: Email for your voice.
  • Net Vibes: Cool personalized start pages.
  • DimeWise: Financial management tool you will actually use.
  • Library Thing: Catalog your books; search others collections, including Library of Congress and Amazon.

Audio / Videos / Photos

  • You Tube: Upload, search and share videos.
  • Live Plasma: Music & movies.
  • Rocket Boom: Daily vlog.
  • Break: Funny pictures, videos and online games.
  • Zoto: Photo sharing and hosting.
  • Slide: Upload images and creat a slideshow you can share with others or integrate into your Website, blog or profiles.
  • Daily Motion: Upload, search and share videos.
  • MetaCafe: Upload, search and share videos.
  • Flickr: Upload, share and search images.
  • Rock You: Image hosting, sharing, slideshows, and more.
  • PhotoBucket: Image sharing and hosting.
  • Odeo: Free mp3s, podcasts and more for download.
  • Podomatic: Create, find and share podcasts.
  • LastFM: Discover new artists, find out when their gigs are and invite friends; free tracks. Learns what you likes and gets better.
  • Up To 11: Discover and share music.
  • Music Strands: Discover and share music.

Content / Articles / Bookmarks

  • Stumble Upon: Downloadable toolbar for your browser that lets you surf pages that were stumbled upon by other users.
  • Newsvine: Create your own group publication or join another; news aggregator site.
  • Blink List: Social bookmarking site.
  • Digg: Share, discover and bookmark the news that’s important to you.
  • Delicious: Social bookmarking site.
  • Blummy: Bookmark toolbar that offers quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar [drop down menu consisting of widgets] that provide rich functionality.
  • Furl: Social bookmarking site by Looksmart.
  • Spurl: Social bookmarking service and search engine.
  • Technorati: Guide where you can discover, save and share blogs.
  • Blogniscient: Categorizes and ranks blog articles and blogs.
  • Bloglines: Discover, share and save blogs.
  • Gabbr: Social news site.
  • Reddit: Social news site.

Shopping & Search

  • Etsy: Buy and sell handmade items.
  • Kaboodle: Find what you love; share what you find.
  • Wists: Downloadable toolbar; search thru product submitted by other users, collect your own favorites; publish to your Web site.
  • Threadless: T-shirt designs; vote, submit, design or buy.
  • Search Video
  • Rollyo: Create your own search engine using sites you trust.
  • Swicki: Search engine that learns from your community’s behavior. Easily integrated into your Web site or blog.
  • Judy’s List: The place for smart shoppers; earn commissions and cash back.
  • Zoom Info: People search that aggregates online data and relationships; allows users to submit data.
  • Kayak: Travel meta search.

Web Design & Development

  • CSS Beauty: Project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.
  • Performancing: Ad network site that connects bloggers and advertisers. Simple to use: just cut / paste some code into your sidebar
  • Mint: Tracking & analytics application [PHP/MySQL] you run on your own server.
  • Loomia: Delivers personalized recommendations to your Web site.
  • Base Camp: Project collaboration tool.
  • Side Job Track: Web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for the part-time independent contractor.
  • Shopify: Easily create an online shop.
  • Ning: Create your own social Web site.

Blogs & Wikis:

  • Blogger: Blogging service acquired by Google.
  • WordPress: Blogging service.
  • Xanga: Blogging service.
  • TypePad: Blogging service.
  • Live Journal: You can use as a private journal, a blog, a social network and much more.
  • Jotspot: Wicki acquired by Google.
  • Wetpaint.com: Free click-n-type Web sites you can share with like-minded people.
  • PBWiki: Wiki service.

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