Social network list
This section will provide you links of the most famous “online social networks.
This will show you how many online social networks are available and what there base-ideas are.
“online social network list” – witch ones are available on the web today.
“Organic list” of online social networks on the web – please feel free to send me new links of networks you can find or maybe you think one is missing here. Thanks
Reddit: Popular social news website with a large user base. Covers a wide range of news. Includes several topical sections called subreddits, which focus on specific topics like programming, science, politics and business
Digg: The largest and most popular social news website on the internet. Covers all topics including politics, entertainment, technology and general news. Includes a separate video and image section.
Propeller: A social news site that covers all topics from technology to politics and entertainment. Operates in a similar fashion to Digg.
Fark: A community news site which allows users to comment on news articles. User submitted links will be posted on the main page once they are approved by the administrators.
Slashdot: Primarily a tech news site, Slashdot also covers topics like books, games, politics and entertainment. Users can submit stories and they may be published after editors approve it. A popular site that can send a large amount of traffic.
Metafilter: A community weblog which allows users to share links and discuss interesting websites/topics. Moderation is done through editors as well as peer pressure in order to prevent gaming.
I am bored: Covers general topics with a strong focus on weird and offbeat news. You can submit a link which may be posted after the editors approve it.
Mixx: A general social news sites which has a category for all types of news. Topics covered include business, entertainment, sports, health and tech. Includes the ability to create groups to share news with other users.
Shoutwire: General news site that is well populated with a loyal group of users. Topics covered include technology, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and sports.
Newsvine: A website consisting of community-driven news stories and opinions. Users have their own blogs and can write articles, save links to external content and vote/comment on other user stories.
IndianPad: A general social news site that with a large indian userbase. Topics covered include entertainment, sports, videos and tamil news.
Linkfilter: Covers all sorts of news. All links are posted and moderated by users. Links can be ranked on several levels: clicks, votes, age, or a combination of all three called points.
NewsCloud: A general social site with a focus on news in all topics. Similar to Newsvine, each user has their own blogs and can publish content to be voted up by other users.
Hugg: Hugg is a social news site with a strong focus on environmental issues. Also includes other categories like politics, science, fashion and technology.
Plime: A general news site which features a wide variety of topics ranging from religion and sports to technology or business. Odd news performs best in this community.
C2NN: An active social news site with a variety of topics including environment issues, business, politics, animals and offbeat. Similar to Hugg in focus but much more populated and active.
Kirsty: A general news site with a focus on fashion, entertainment and design on top of other topics like technology and food. Has a strong female user base.
Nowpublic: A participatory news network which focuses on citizen journalism. Each user has their own individual profile blog/page and can upload videos, images and news stories.
Stirrdup: General social news site with four broad categories: politics, technology, news and entertainment.
Searchles: A hybrid social news sites which covers all topics. Includes a video section and offers personalized filtering features and the option of joining groups made up of other users with similar interests.
Linkinn: A social news site that specializes in pictures and video. Covers a broad range of topics, particular offbeat and weird content.
Earthfrisk: Covers topics like humor, politics, entertainment and business. Combines a social network and group features with digg-style news voting.
Truemors: A social rumor news site which focuses on the publication of “true rumors that are relevant, informative, and interesting.” Users can post links anonymously via text, voicemail, web or email. Editors moderate content.
StumbleUpon: A social network and browser toolbar which allows users to channel surf the internet. Technically not 100% a social news site, although users can submit webpages to be rated by other users. Here is a guide to StumbleUpon.
Sphinn: Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It’s designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others.
Dzone: DZone is a free link-sharing community for developers. Other topics commonly featured include web design and programming.
Tweako: A user-powered site and social network with a focus on guides and tutorials in all categories like computing, technology, and the Internet.
Autospies: A social site that focuses on automotive news, car reviews, auto show photos and videos.
Design Float: A social news site for design-related content. Topics covered include business, freelancing, advertising, digital art and branding.
Ball Hype: A site that aggregates content from thousands of sports blogs. Users can submit stories and votes will determine if they make it to home page.
YCombinator Hacker News: A news site that focuses on technology, startups, business and entrepreneurship.
SWiK: A community driven resource for people who use open source software.
Buzzflash: A user driven progressive political news website that allows you to submit political stories.
DNHour: DNHour.com is a user-powered news portal built specially for the domain name industry. Most members are generally from the domain name industry, which includes domain name owners, companies or professionals.
PlugIM: PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Topics covered include search engine optimization, products, business and marketing.
Showhype: Operates in a similar way to Ballhype. Stories come from two sources — users and aggregated content. Users can also submit a link to a story that they’ve found or write their own article on ShowHype.
Small Business Brief: A niche social site which focuses on small business news. Topics covered include marketing and sales, website development, management and entrepreneurship.
Hypediss: Social news site with a focus on design, fashion, urban culture and art.
Chictini: Product-oriented social site which a focus on new trends and styles. It’s possible to submit news stories although most of the submissions feature products from online retailers.
DotNetKicks: DotNetKicks.com is a community based news site that focuses on topics like NET development techniques, technologies and tools including ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, C++ and Visual Studio.
Lipstick: Reddit-style social news site for celebrity gossip.
Hubspot: Social news site for marketers, entrepreneurs and business professionals.
Winelifetoday: A niche social site for wine lovers. Topics covered included news and opinion articles to do with wine.
iliketotallyloveit.com: Allows users to publish and share products with the broader public which they find cool, innovative, exceptionally beautiful, or just weird. Included with every item is a link to an online shop where it can be purchased.
Wordsy: A niche social news site for people who love reading and books. Topics covered include small presses, fiction writing, authors, book awards and poetry.
Value Investing News: A niche social news site that covers stocks and investment news. A small but active community.
Teenwag: Focus on celebrity gossip. A hybrid social network with digg-style voting. Users can submit links to be voted up by other users.
Muti: Muti is a social bookmarking site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans or those interested in Africa.
1zone: 1zone is a site where gay blogs and news areticles are agrigated both automatically and by user submission.
AmPmInsure: It is a community committed in helping people understand Insurance using a step-by-step guide with shared customer discussions. It is providing a platform for the community to discuss, debate and document the information available.
B-Boys: B-Boys.com is a site for appreciators of Hip-hop music, rap, breakin’, deejaying, emceeing, freestyling, graffiti art, texceeing, text battling, topicals, scrypt, beats, audios and all aspects of Hip-hop and rap music culture.
Betamarker: Beta Marker is about keeping track of software you like and about discovering new software. It revolutionizes software rating by shifting the power to the community of software lovers. So now, in the sea of new software, the screening is done for you. You get only the best of the best. These are the principles guiding us
Bloodee: Bloodee is a user-driven web 2.0 site devoted to the horror genre – horror 2.0. Built by its community, it offers a means to aggregate the best horror stories, clips, fiction, sites, pictures and art on the web under the same banner.
bookrevyoo: BookRevyoo is a social book review community where you can add books to be reviewed, post your own reviews, and rate reviews by others. BookRevyoo gives you an easy and fun way to share your opinions on books you read!
Boxxnet: Founded in 2005, Box.net is a leading web-based content storage and collaboration solution adopted by small businesses and Fortune 1000 companies globally
bytemycode: byteMyCode is a project designed to make the task of sharing source code easier. We have modeled a community around making it easy to find, share, revise, comment on, and rate code snippets. byteMyCode serves as a good organizational tool for those little code snippets that you never know when you will need. It also comes in handy when you need to send a code snippet to a friend or coworker, but don’t have the means to do so
Canadaka: CKA is a site to promote Canadian patriotism and nationalism. A Canadian portal offering news, content and large forums. CKA News is a community driven social news system, your one stop shop for Canada related news. Each day members submit news from around the web, the most popular stories stay on the front-page.
Care2 News Network: Care2 provides powerful tools to make a difference in your life, community, country and world. It’s driven by passionate people (just like you) who want to restore the world’s balance.
Catster: Our goal is to allow for the purest online reflection of people’s love and enjoyment of their dogs and cats.
CrowdStorm: We help you find “what” to buy through aggregating expert reviews, user reviews, buyers’ guides, thoughts, videos and questions and answers from a crowd of trusted people and sites.
Daytipper: Every one of us is an expert on something. Chances are, through trial and error, hard work, or blind luck, you have learned something practical. Something that has helped make your life a little easier. It saved you time. It saved you money. Maybe it saved your marriage; maybe your life.
Deal Comet: Deal Comet is the hub for all us Deal Lovers out there! It is for the people out there who won’t pay 49 cents more for the fancy bread at the sandwich shop, but will quickly splurge on a brand new plasma with a phat discount! Deal Comet is also a place where people say phat!
dealspl.us: DealsPlus is an online social shopping website that offers a unique setting for users to share deals, coupons, shopping tips, and organize their shopping lists. DealsPlus is socially-driven, which means the best deals are hand-picked by our users.
Dig a List: DigaList is a global personal lists website. We all love lists, we all have kinds of lists, about life, work, dreams etc. Have you ever wished to dig out all these treasure and share them with others? In DigaList, you can create your lists, co-create a list with others, or dig out a list you like.
DigStock: This site provides investors easy access to financial news. Users can submit news stories, rank stocks, and have them saved in bookmarks and portfolios.
Dogster: We are dog freaks and computer geeks who wanted a canine sharing application that’s truly gone to the dogs. Such a site didn’t exist, so we built it ourselves. The fluffy love is backed with serious technology and years of coding experience under our collars. Dogster has since become more contagious than kennel cough.
Edtags: Edtags.org is a website for educators (e.g., teachers, education graduate students, professors, librarians, etc.) to connect with people sharing similar interests, discover relevant materials that may have “eluded” the traditional card catalogue search, and store and categorize your favorite bookmarks.
eurogoal NEWS: urogoalnews is a socializing community with the latest live stream, football news and stream links submitted by true football fans. At Eurogoalnews the members can publish, vote and comment on articles, live stream, videos, stream links and match streams they find interesting, cool and entertaining
FLURL: Video search engine
FWDiton: FWDitOn.com is a repository for all of the funny emails circulating the Internet. We call these emails “FWD’s” (pronounced as “forwards”) due to the long list of “FWD: FWD: FW: FWD:” which these emails have in their subject lines. FWDitON.com enables you to read, rate and share these email forwards.
I use This: iusethis.com is a new way for you to track your applications as well as discover new ones. You can also use it to check if your apps are up-to-date
iJigg.com: iJigg is the place for you to find those rare addictive tunes from musicians worldwide. As an iJigg member, you can submit music, rate music and chime in on conversations.
Law Favorites: Save your favorite law news items and vote for the top legal news of the day
Linkfilter: inkfilter.net is just what the name implies, a link filter. All links are posted and moderated by users. Links can be ranked on several levels: clicks, votes, age, or a combination of all three called points. Questions or comments about linkfilter.net can be directed to darkstar or beaglebot.
LiveVideo.com: LiveVideo is where you want to be to find original and exclusive content, weekly video contests, and great videos. Essentially, LiveVideo is your ultimate video destination on the web. We are a customizable video streaming community that allows users to watch, upload, search and share videos, allowing you to have a completely interactive video sharing experience!
MetaFilter Projects: It’s a new section of the site devoted to self-linking, that is, letting members announce their projects to other members of the site.
MOG: Welcome to MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.
motorpulse: motorpulse is a collaborative-filtering automotive news site. Every user (including you!) has the ability to submit news stories, determine which ones are most relevant, and benefit from the results.
Newsgrad: Information sharing online
Newsvine: Updated continuously by citizens like you, Newsvine is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.
newsgarbage: rimarily, newsgarbage is a technology-based news site, moderated and controlled by you, the users. In this sense users can post news on the site, and then by ‘bagging’ or ‘binning’ specific news articles users have the power to change which news articles fellow users will see first and which articles go in the trash.
OOZM: OZM (beta) – “OOZOOM” – “Awesome!” is an innovative social search engine and open directory listing that combines few of the latest technologies to provide users with an easy-to-use interactive search results page that will revolutionize the way we search for information. Using various interactive features, users can collaborate to rate a link up or bury a link, add comments to a link, add a link to the results page of a search query, store a favorite link in the my tags list and many more features. These functionalities will allow users to collaborate and access more relevant information efficiently by making it more transparent to the users who use it everyday.
picli: Picli is the best way to share your photos and creative work online.
Users can vote on every single photo.The most popular are continuously promoted to the showcase gallery for thousands of people to view and comment on.
Pikapet: ikapet™ is an online playground for pet owners who want to have fun with their cute pets. Pet owners upload cute pictures of their pets and they get to participate in online contests, attracting users to browse and vote for the cutest ones. This interaction makes Pikapet a fun place to hang out, participate and explore hundreds of pets of all kinds and from all over the world.
Pixelmo: Pixelmo was created to allow video game enthusiasts to get under the wire news from other gamers. Also, it is a great way to vent or share your thoughts on all things gaming related.
Plime: Plime is an editable wiki community where users can add and edit weird and interesting links. Users earn karma when other users vote on their actions. The more karma you have, the more power you have at Plime.
PodcastAlley: Welcome to the best place to find all information relating to podcasts and podcasting. We are striving to develop the biggest and best directory of podcasts (podcast directory) available on the Internet. Podcasting is a great way for professionals and individuals alike to create audio news files (podcasts) that people can download to their iPods or other portable media devices and listen to when they are away from their computers. Heck, some people even listen to these podcasts directly from their computers, no mp3 player needed!
Quadriot: It’s simple. Students submit funny, strange, worthy-of-sharing links. The community votes (aka riots) on what bits are good enough to make it out of the queue and enter immortality on this front page. Presto! The best of the Interweb for your procrastination perusal.
Questionville: Welcome to QuestionVille, we’re proud to bring to you the next generation of a social Question and Answers website.QuestionVille was inspired by the popular website Digg.com however it has been taken to the next level.
RealEstateVoices: RealEstateVoices is a social real estate news site. Social news what? Think about it like this: Instead of a team of newspaper editors dictating what are the most interesting stories you should read, you and your fellow users submit and vote upon stories – whether from newspapers, blogs or elsewhere – to form a sort-of frontpage of real estate reading for that particular day. The best way to demonstrate the concept is to show you two pioneers of the practice, Digg and Reddit, who do a similar thing for technology related stories and nerds (we say nerds in an affectionate, loving way of course).
Riffs: Expressing your likes and dislikes feels good, but getting personalized recommendations can feel even better. As you use Riffs more and more, you can get great recommendations in many different ways. First, you’ll discover other users who have great taste, and you’ll be able to keep track of their reviews. We’ll also make recommendations to you based purely on the things you’ve rated, based on what other people who have similar tastes also rated.
SlideShare: SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. Individuals & organizations upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs & websites. SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment – start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking!
SpinSpy: Welcome to a new idea in social bookmarking. Based heavily off sites like Digg.com and del.icio.us, SpinSpy, however, goes one step further by seeking to expose media bias. The fact is that you all, the community, will submit the stories and also decide, by your votes, which ones will be promoted to the front page. Along with the promotion of stories, you will also be able to see how others have rated the amount of “Spin” or bias they feel exist in a particular story. Remember, this site is what you make it. It will only be as popular and informational as you all would like it to be
SportsBlink: Our mission is to provide athletes, coaches, trainers, competitive specialists, sports federations and associations with an effective central resource for locating information on all aspects of competitive athletics in virtually every recognized athletic category.
TalkSoccer: TalkSoccer is the premier online soccer forum serving the worldwide football fans network. With the greatest group of admins, moderators and active members you can find at any football forum, TalkSoccer is the place to be. The soccer forum includes football news, articles and discussions with special sections for English Premier League football, Champions League football, calcio Italiano, Portuguese futbol, Spanish Liga as well as Scottish, French and German football and a growing section dedicated to North American and Mexican soccer.
The Best Stuff In The World: BeStuff! is an open, organic, polymorphous site which, depending on the user, could take on diverse forms and meanings. The site simply asks you to input your ‘best stuff’ in the world: whether it be a song that inspires you, your favourite little Indian restaurant, or the best explication of Kantian aesthetics. You’ll be able to discover what people from around the world think is the best and share your best stuff.
Tendango: A top ten List community
Travelscoop: Founded in July 2007 by TravelCafe, Travelscoop is devoted to the latest deals and news on travel – to, from and around New Zealand.Travelscoop is as relevant to the traveller as to the travel agent, it’s the one place where all the news appears and remains in archive.TravelCafe’s travel consultants pick through and find the best stuff, the gems – the deals that will really make a difference – and quickly push these out to our ever-expanding community of email subscribers.The service is free, the pace is fast and we await the next gem of a deal with baited breath.
UmmYeah.com: UmmYeah.com leverages bored@work arbitrage and nihilistic synergies to create an enhanced time-killing web platform. It’s for people who’d rather watch the best videos from all the different video sites than, well, whatever else it is you’re supposed to be doing.
UrbanDictionary: Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote. Define your world
Uvouch.com: vouch.com gives you one easy web site where users can search for the best in online videos and websites, collect the videos and links to sites, create playlists of their favorites and organize their collection. With a single click of the mouse, Uvouch.com’s easy-to-use browser tool allows users to add videos, selected text and links to their account–just surf and click! And, unlike browser favorites, your Uvouch.com favorites are accessible anywhere.
Wizag: Discover and recommend topics that match the interest of users, groups and businesses Wizag’s proprietary technologies and services help individual users discover information from huge amount of unstructured data; help groups and businesses harvest the wisdom of their members, employees and customers to discover opportunities; and help business portals increase sales or user satisfaction by recommending the contents, products or services that best match a user’s intention. Wizag has developed technologies in fast natural language processing, personalized topic discovery engine, attention learning engine, knowledge based concept extraction and ranking, and search results recommendation.
Wikio: Wikio is a personalizable news page featuring a news search engine that searches media sites, blogs and the contributions of Wikio members.
Wobblog: Wobblog is… a collective-intelligence social tool designed to rescue the best stories from the endless amount of blogs that appear every day.
YouPickTheNews: YouPickTheNews.com allows users to submit news stories, and other users to rate those stories based on four categories: “Overall”, “Funny”, “Unbelievable”, and “World Changing”. Stories with enough ratings are displayed on the main pages, with the highest rating stories at the top.
Virb: Virb is a community and a place for you to contribute the stuff that interests you. Virb is your social network, your photography portfolio and your band’s website. Virb is the collection of all that you share online, from what you find to what you create. What you do with Virb is completely up to you, so make yourself at home and show the world what makes you, you.
Trig: trig.com. A community for creative people with images, blogs, music, trends, etc. Yeah, we could say all that. But what we really imagine is a place where people like their music loud, their opinions edgy and their life brave.
PureVolume: The site is purely music-oriented and the profiles are divided between artists and listeners. The actual profiles, while beautiful, have the problem of looking all pretty much the same; we like the black/white/gray look, but more customization options wouldn’t hurt.
Chawlk: Is interesting content and great people.
Shelfari: Shelfari is the premier social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books, see what your friends are reading and discover new books – all for free!
Beautifulsociety: When you share your favorite things with the world, the things you love, the things you’re passionate about… the world shares them back with you.
Humblevoice: Humble Voice is a community of artists and those who appreciate them.
