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- Academici
Global networking platform linking academics, associations, societies, services, students, and related businesses
- Amity Zone
Social networking web site that helps people connect featuring personals, events, classifieds, forums, blogs, and more
- AnAmericanBand
Social networking site for unsigned bands and their fans to discover each other
- Animal Internet
Social networking site run totally by animals. No thumbs allowed
- AOL People Connection
Community for AOL users to interact in blogs, message boards, photo galleries, and more
- Baby Chums
Social networking site for expectant or new mothers and fathers to congregate for common welfare. Post pictures of your little ones and show them off to the community
- Backfence.com
Collaborative "hyperlocal" community hoping to see thousands of web sites bloom, created by neighbors, for neighbors, and supported by local advertising
- Badoo.com
Online social community connecting people worldwide through profiles, photos, opinion, and thoughts
- Beautiful People
Social networking site where members vote on who can join based mostly on physical attractiveness
- Bebo
Social network for people who want to stay in touch with their old friends and college pals. Search for current or past students of your college or school, or join clubs, exchange photos, and read blog entries from other users
- Bharat Student.com
Online social networking space for the Indian students. Hang out with buddies in various communities, share campus tit-bits and videos, and post messages
- bigadda.com
Social networking portal where users can interact with buddies, post messages, as well as share photos and videos. Also includes various forums and discussion blogs
- Biznik
Location-specific business networking community that helps independent business people build relationships
- Blue Dot
Social networking service that allows users to save and share bookmarks
- Bolt
News and features, email, chat, message boards, and more
- Bookfizz
Social network for book lovers, featuring news, reviews, a book forum, a calendar of literary events and a comprehensive archive of book awards
- BuddyPic.com
Rate and meet guys and girls
- Building an Online Community: Just Add Water
Advice from Matt Haughey in Digital Web
- Bumi-n City
Track the growth and suggest changes to this virtual Japanese city with the focus on proper ecological management
- Carster
Global community for car enthusiasts where members can meet others who share their passion for driving and collecting automobiles
- Catster
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Post and share your cat's photos and facts. Site enables viewing by breed, size, name, hometown, and more
- Ccube.com
Audio-focused social network allows you to find people, hear audio greetings, and be connected in secure conference calls without ever having to share your phone number
- CliqueBox
Allows members to set up unique profiles, view freinds' profiles, and share photographs, groups, and events
- Colonies.com
Online community where you can share your experiences and upload your photos, blog, movies, articles, short stories, and more
- Communities.com
Online community with chat rooms, instant messaging, detailed photo profiles and galleries, photo ratings, and more
- CommunityZero
Allows a group of people to communicate and exchange information over the Internet in their own private and secure area
- consumating
Meet hipsters, bloggers, freaks, and geeks in your area by showing off your quirky personality with zany answers to questions
- CouchSurfing
Helps users make connections worldwide. Meet people from other countries and offer your couch to your new friends when they visit
- CPixel.com
Online community and picture rating site. Hate or rate!
- Cybertown
The sci-fi community of the future
- Cyworld
Virtual community connects members with new or existing social networks through a "minihompy," which includes a guestbook, message boards, photos, and a personal bulletin board
- Dandelife.com
Combining personal biographies, graphic timelines, and social networking. Tell your story and explore the lives of others
- Desi Fellows
Online Indian community where you can stay in touch with old friends and find others who share the same interests
- Desi Rater
A photo rating site to rate Indian girls and guys online. Upload your picture and get it rated by others. Includes chats and forums
- Dogster
Post and share your dog's photos and facts. Site enables viewing by breed, size, name, hometown, and more
- domeus
Allows people to share passions, interests, and opinions by creating and subscribing to free email groups, discussion forums, and mailing lists. Previously eCircle
- DowneLink
Online forum for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community. Allows users to share pictures, comments, and testimonials. Also has a space for blogs and an online store
- eatlunch.at
"vote for lunch" application that allows you to share daily preferences with your lunchtime group
- Ebundant Sharing Network
Enables participants to easily find and share portable, occasional use items such as books, sports equipment, camping equipment, tools, and DVDs among friends, and friends of friends
- EdGateway Communities
Offer science, math and environmental educators and their organizations the ability to find, organize, and share events, discussions, information, and documents
- Edgeofeverything....
Offers chat and forum space for a subversive, alternative take on the world and all things in it. Zen and anarchy, psychedelia, conspiracy theories, and madness
- eSnips
Social sharing site where people share any digital content showcasing their talents, interests, and passions from one centralized place
- Essembly.com
Social networking site focused on politics. Express your political view or argument and find people who support or counter what you believe
- Everything2
User-created encyclopedia, web directory, and knowledge web. Everything2 offers definitions, articles, and writeups by readers about anything and everything
- eyebees
The base camp of swarming offers downloadable software for a collective surfing experience. Browse the Internet with your friends and communicate while you surf
- Facebook
An online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges and universities, high schools, or workplace. People with a valid email address from a supported college, high school, or company can register for Facebook and create a profile to share information, photos, and interests with their friends
- FaceParty
Build a personal web site, upload pictures, send messages, chat, and find people
- Family Routes
Customizable social network featuring free blogging and photo sharing for families, friends, and communities
- Findapix
Show pictures of yourself and send and receive messages with other members
- Flickr
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An online photo management tool where users can share photos, store, search, and sort photos
- Fork
Provides community profiles, cell phone wallpapers, and ringtones. Features the Mosquito Ringtone, a high-pitched ringtone which only teenagers can hear
- Friend of a Friend Project (FOAF)
Creating a web of machine-readable home pages describing people, the links between them, and the things they create and do
- Friendeavor
Allows users to connect with other people in the same area who share the same interests as them
- FriendsAbroad
Online community where users can meet and communicate with people from all over the world and learn new language skills
- Friendster
allows you to create a personal and private networking community where you can network through your friends, their friends, and so on.
- Full Moon Webs
Member driven online community that offers web hosting, blogs, newsfeeds, and email
- GabCity
Online community where users meet new people, connect with friends, share ideas, watch videos, play games, and enter contests
- Girls with Goals
Ecommerce community for business women. Provides business tools, online store, workshops, and information on startups and marketing
- Global Pau Hana
Worldwide grassroots community to connect people with an affinity to Hawaii
- Google Groups
Google Groups allows users to start their own email discussion groups and message boards, and browse archives of Usenet groups
- Google Groups 2 Beta
Offering a service where users can start their own email discussion groups and browse Usenet archives
- Got Kids Network
Parents' social network where club members share parenting advice, local event information, shopping deals, and other resources to help raise children
- Groups@AOL
Features message boards for communities based on common interests
- Hatebook
Anti-social utility that connects you with the people you don't like so much
- Helium.com
Helium.com is a community-created reference covering a diverse number of topics organized into 23 channels. Helium orders subjective content with a patented, peer-review ranking system
- hi5
Place to meet new people, connect with friends, and share ideas
- Hip-Hop.net
Hip-hop social networking community connecting people through hip-hop music and culture. Meet new people and grow your network
- Holla At US
Provides an online community for chatting, blogging, listening to live radio, exploring friends' pages, and designing your own page
- Huminity
Social networking and chat software
- i-neighbors
Meet and communicate with your neighbors
- ICERED
Online community of high-income professionals in Hong Kong, Singapore, and elsewhere in Asia engaging in discussions of school, work, and play
- Iliketotallyloveit.com
Share shopping finds and favorite products with a network of fellow lovers
- Imagini
An image-based social network. By clicking on images that closely match your interests, desires, habits, and feelings, the site determines your personality and matches you with people of similar tastes
- Imbee
Social network for kids aged 8 to 14, promoting security and parental controls
- Interracial Village
Online community for people all over the world from different cultures. Includes lifestyle, cottage shop, message board, and more
- Invite Share
Invite Share allows users to give or receive invitations to social networking and other community sites around the Web
- iPoste.org
Community building interactive web site dedicated to connecting visitors to their community of interest. Find and communicate with others, post classifieds and messages, and add events to a group calendar
- Kaneva
Free online social network and 3D virtual world allows users to create a profile and avatar and live a modern-day virtual life
- Laws of the Virtual Worlds, The
Paper discussing how the legal concepts of property and moral rights might apply in virtual worlds and online communities
- Lestout
News and social networking site with the expert advice and articles on health, entertainment, arts, relationships, spirituality, education, and more
- Life With Alacrity
A blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, and privacy, by Christopher Allen
- LifeHoo!
Discover things you want to do, meet people with similar goals, write entries and blogs, and upload photos. Live, share, and discover the things that make you happy
- Linked Musicians
Live music web community and directory in multiple languages. Linked Musicians is a community of musicians, bands, and those offering live music products or services
- LinkedIn
Online service helping professionals find and connect with one another through shared social contacts
- Local2Me
Location-based communities for neighbors, small businesses, job seekers, and others to share local advice and information. Groups personalized by distance and age range
- Lozt Paradise
Virtual community where users have a graphic identity. Features interactive games, live chats, forums, blogs, personal photo album, and more
- Lunch 2.0
Social network of people who roam around Silicon Valley corporations, grabbing lunch with the company's top tech talent
- Makeoutclub
Online independent music and subculture community
- Many 2 Many
A group blog on social networking software
- MapPlanet.com
Experimental community geographically organized on a high-resolution map of planet earth
- Marble2 Global Hotspot
Build, connect, post video, and blog your global life. Marble2 is an active social network where members blog, email, send instant messenges, and wiki articles together
- Mashable
Blog focusing exclusively on social networks
- Meatball Wiki
Community that deals with online culture, especially how people online come together naturally in groups
- Mediachest
Share books, CDs, DVDs, and video games with people in your social network
- Meet Up
Connects people around topics of interest locally
- Metails.com
Social networking space from the folks at Buy.com
- minglenow
Locate events and places before going out, stay in contact while you are out using your mobile phone, upload, share, and view images from the night out
- Minti
Provides an online community for parents to both share and rank advice about parenthood. You can create your own family page, keep a blog, and make friends with other members
- MocoSpace
Free mobile community. MocoSpace features chats, photos, profile pages, and more
- Mpora
Social networking and media site for extreme sports enthusiasts. Mpora offers videos, news, and forums about snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX, motocross, and mountain biking
- MSN Groups
Message boards and communities of people as unique as you
- MSN Member Directory
Allows MSN users to share profiles with their interests and pictures
- Multiply
Web community that allows friends and friends of friends to stay in touch by sharing photos, stories, group messages, and more
- Music Hawk
Online music community where fans can share their tastes, meet other fans, and participate in group discussions. Music Hawk features band profiles with links to tours, stores, and media
- My Happy Blog
Allows users to create free blogs as well as chat, play games, rate pics, post to forums, and more
- myGamma
Mobile phone social network offers members access to instant messaging, photo albums, and moblogs through their cell phones
- MySpace
A popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos
- myYearbook
Social playground originally built by two high school students. You've got friends!
- Nigeria Connected
Online Nigerian community allows users to connect with Nigerians around the world
- Ning
Online service where users can create, customize, and share their own social network for free in seconds
- Nowwwhere
Virtual world featuring 3D ray-traced graphics. Wander around, meet other netizens, and try to solve some puzzles. Features animation and sound clips
- Nuzizo
Online community offering music, chat, friends, networking as well as personals, and dating services
- OddPodz
Online place where you can meet others, express yourself, have fun, and exhibit your talents
- orkut
Online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends
- Others Online
Toolbar that helps like-minded people on the web find your site once you register with your web page
- OurChart
Social networking site from the creators of The L Word. Connect with friends, see unreleased content from the show, and access original editorial content from creative types everywhere
- OurStory.com
Collaborative stories told through timelines in words, pictures and voices. Can be shared online with various privacy settings, printed in books, archived on DVD, and more
- Outcasted
An online community with forums, chatrooms, free email accounts, and more. Also includes links to related web sites
- Paradise
The plans for a deserted metropolis, waiting to be filled in. Explore and write your own part
- PerfSpot.com
Post messages, share pictures, and upload your videos on PerfSpot.com, the online social networking destination
- Person.com
Virtual community allows users to rate profiles with photos, chat one-on-one, play online games, discuss relationships, and more
- Pet Watch Club
Social networking site for pets and their owners. Find fellow animal lovers in your area and connect with other owners at pet-friendly places outside the home
- Petsburg
Immersing online village for pet lovers, designed for people who love their dogs and cats as if they were their children
- Petster
Interactive community that connects pet owners and enthusiasts through a global network of animal lovers, pet friends, and breed and species organizations
- Picit.com
Dedicated to greeting cards, funny pictures, online dating services, pic ratings, and other free stuff
- Pinoy Exchange
Features message boards on variety of topics for Filipinos
- Pinoy Forum
Bulletin boards for Filipino community
- Playdo Community
Create a unique character by choosing its appearance, age, gender, origin, and interests, then enroll it as a citizen in Playdo City where it can interact with other users
- qmpeople
Meet new people, play games, send SMS messages, post and browse photos and discussion forums, and chat with new friends
- RateMyBody
Online community. Meet people, chat, and rate pictures of others
- ReachOutside
Free social networking site with emphasis on dating, relationships, people, and businesses
- RedBubble
Internet art gallery and creative community that makes artwork more accessible, rewarding, and fun for everyone
- Respectance
A place for people to share their memories and celebrate the value of life
- Rethos
Connect with others that share your passion for change
- Ryze
Business networking community for people in in the high-tech, finance, and digital media industries
- Savvy Miss
Articles and interviews on careers, colleges, and current issues confronting women. Features message boards, newsletters, and blogs
- Scott Common Sense Household Tips
Find household hints and solutions at the Scott Common Sense Community
- Singin.com
Online community where users can share their voices, pictures, and words. Prepare to meet new people, revive old friendships, and get your voice heard
- Skyrock
People's network connecting one another through shared social community. Offers blogs, profiles, chat rooms, and featured videos from users world wide
- SmartGroups.com
Helps to organize the different groups of people in your life using email and the Internet
- SMS.ac
Mobile community that enables users worldwide to flirt, chat, and share interests with other by sending SMS messages
- Sportsvite
Helps local and amateur sports teams stay organized, and helps players find teams and partners in their area
- Square, The
Online community for Ivy League students and graduates offering a range of services including job opportunities, local events, personals, chat, home pages, and networking
- StayingClose
Offers the chance to create communities and share files, images, and more
- Stickam.com
Broadcast yourself live. Add live feed, video chat, movies, photos, and audio to your web page, MySpace page, or blog
- Stuart
Social network for student artists hosted by the Saatchi Gallery in London. Artists can connect to friends, post messages, and display their work
- StumbleUpon
A browser add-on for finding and sharing great web sites
- Suicide Girls
Cult of sexy amateur punk, emo, and goth girls with online journals, pictures, and movies
- Tagged
Online community where users can share photos, keep journals, discover friends, and more
- TagWorld
Combines photos, blogging, tagging, and storage in a free online service
- TheDilly
Community featuring college, music, sports, and gaming forums, chat, journals, ratings, messaging, and more
- Things I Can Do
Community allows users to network skills and talents and to share common interests with others
- Tickle
Offers tests, matchmaking, and social networking. Tickle services include LoveHappens, an online introduction network with profiles that feature stories written by friends and family
- Top10db
The top ten database, where people can create their own top ten lists (or more than ten) of anything and share with others, such as top ten movies, TV shows, video games, books, songs, and web sites
- Trendmill
Social networking site gathering together fashion enthusiasts from around the world. Allows brands and individuals to upload their creations and get feedback from other users
- Tribe.net
Online social networking service that connects the people in your personal networks and community
- TruthBytes
Mechanism for finding out what people really think of you and other people
- Twitter
For staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing
- Unieros
Online community where people celebrate cultural diversity by writing about music, film, literature, and customs from their culture through personal country profiles. Web site offers profiles, picture gallery, calendar, and blog
- Urban Prestige
Online community that offers online dating, personal growth advice, and business networking. Urban Prestige features renowned authors, free blogs, and job ads
- Varsity World
Community that allows teens to network, make friends, create blogs, watch teen-created videos, and more
- Vidacool
Interactive entertainment community and online club for Spanish-speaking youth in Latin America, the U.S., and Europe
- VIRB
Store blogs, videos, pictures, and music on VIRB, share content with friends, and link out to other sites
- Virtual Communities and the Internet
Offers course description, syllabus, assignments, and more
- Wallop
Flash-based social networking site where users can share photos, blog, and interact with friends
- Webstock Whole Earth Festival
3D entertainment, information and technology showcase
- WeeWorld
Social network built for fun where you can meet and interact with WeeMees, invite friends, send messages, play games, and create your own online cartoon page
- Weishare
Connect with family and friends and share personal sites
- Well, The
Pioneering online community known for engaging conversation and intelligent debate. Features more than 260 conferences ranging from technical and specific to abstract and surreal
- Wikia
Provides a collection of communities with web sites that any user can edit, from movies and TV, to sports, gaming, health, and other topics
- Wikicities
Offers users free wiki hosting to build a community-created web site
- WireClub
Chat and dating site featuring clubs to connect like-minded users
- Women OC
Provides an online community for women to discuss books, relationships, politics, and dozens of other topics
- World Lounge
Offers users the opportunity to meet people of the same ethnic background through photos, chats, and other events
- Yafro Moblog
Create a free online picture journal using your camera phone or digital camera, and share them with friends or make new friends too
- Yahoo! 360
Bringing together popular Yahoo! communications, content, and community features, including blogs and other sharing tools for recommending favorite movies, restaurants, music, and more
- Yahoo! Groups
Yahoo! Groups allows you to create and manage online email communities in areas such as Recreation and Sports, Entertainment and Arts, Hobbies and Crafts, Computers and Internet, and Health and Wellness
- Yahoo! Mash
Yahoo! Mash is a social network that allows users to add a variety of modules to your profile pages, and also allows you to edit your friends' profiles as well
- Yahoo! Member Directory
Directory for finding profiles of Yahoo! members with similar interests and getting in touch with them
- YFly
Teen-only social networking site that empowers teens to connect to their friends, meet new friends, and express themselves through a variety of personalized features. Yfly also enables teens to take their online experience to their cell phone through group text messaging capabilities
- Zaadz
Social networking site focused on building communities around spirituality, ethical businesses, and personal growth
- Zamboozle
Internet community with a variety of headlines, Flash games, and active forums
- Zanpo
Create a constantly evolving virtual city online
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