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The Social Web - Directory of Social Networking Sites

Finding Friends

www.myspace.com
www.orkut.com
www.facebook.com
www.spaces.live.com
www.batchmates.com
www.yaari.com
www.minglebox.com
www.ning.com
www.meetup.com
www.bebo.com
www.fropper.com
www.bigadda.com

Media Sharing

www.youtube.com
www.flickr.com
www.panoramio.com
www.fotothing.com
www.yuntaa.com
www.dailymotion.com
www.blogTV.com
www.Cylive.com
www.twango.com
ishare.rediff.com

Hobbies, Tastes and Special Interests

Photo Sharing-Zooomr.com
Collaborative Wiki-WetPaint.com
Social Action-India.takingitglobal.org.
Book Lovers- shelfari.com
Music sharing-Ezmo.com
Music personalization-Last.fm
Video sharing-Broadcaster.com
Car Enthusiasts-Cardomain.com
Green Living-Care2.com
Low Budget Travel & Hospitality – Couchsurfing.com
Genealogy-Geni.com
Professional IT Community – ITToolbox.com
Developers Networking – Dzone.com
Go crazy over cars, Bikes, Boats and planes!-Motortopia.com
India Travel-Oktatabyebye.com
Dog Lovers get together – dogster.com
Movie Ratings-flixster.com
Party Planning-Mypunchbowl.com

Business Networking

Biznik.com
Networking By numbers – Linkedin.com
Relationship Networking-Ryze.com
Matchmaking Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur – People ThatClick.com
Sharing Business Travel Plans-PairUp.com
Stock Market Investing-Socialpicks.com
Asian and Far East Business Networking-Xing.com

Education

General
Yahoo Answers - http://answers.yahoo.com
Free Knowledge Exchange - http://www.3form.org
Lycos IQ - http://iq.lycos.co.uk
Live QnA - http://qna.live.com
AnswerBag - http://www.answerbag.com

Specific Courses

WhyVille - virtual, 3D education site - http://www.whyville.net
Google Groups - http://groups.google.com
Experts Exchange - http://www.experts-exchange.com - primarily for the geeks
Donation Coder - computer programming - http://www.donationcoder.com
UClue - from Google - http://www.uclue.com

Bookmarking Sites

General Bookmarking - see a complete list here
A few more:
Diigo - http://www.diigo.com

Special Interest Bookmarking

ULinkX - http://www.ulinkx.com - for video and music
CiteULike - http://www.citeulike.org - academic material
Blogg Buzz - http://www.blogg-buzz.com - for blogs & bloggers
Library Thing - cataloging service for books - http://www.librarything.com
ClipMarks - http://www.clipmarks.com - save bits of info instead of the whole page


Going Mobile

Tezaa - www.tezaa.com/)
Wadja - http://in.wadja.com
Frenzo - www.frenzo.in/)
Yahoo! mobile - http://in.wap.yahoo.com)

Social voice chat

SociaLight - http://socialight.com)
Mocospace - http://mocospace.com/wap2)
Mob5 - http://mob5.com)
Twitter - http://m.twittwe.com)
MobLeo - http://mobile.mobleo.net/)

Weird Networking sites

Global village - http://smallworld.columbia.edu
Dream Merchants - www.matchadream.com
Picturespeak - www.imagini.net
It’s the money, honey - http://www.kiva.org/
Barbie Girls - http://www.stardoll.com
Meet Up - www.43people.com
Man’s Best Friends - http://www.gopets.net
Dark desires - www.gothpassions.com

There is also a good list of social networking and related social sites @ this Ventureblogalist post

Connect with People Who Like Books You Like

Shelfari - Interesting site that connects book lovers with similar tastes...

Discover New Books

Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading, what others with similar tastes have enjoyed, and even get and give book recommendations.

Talk It Up
With Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about. Join a group devoted to your favorite author or bring your book club online.

Show Off Your Shelf
Shelfari empowers you to show off the books you are passionate about. Build your shelf in Shelfari and then embed your shelf in your blog, website, or social networking site of choice.

Shelfari

Too busy for books? Read them by email (or RSS) - from DailyLit

Interesting idea - sending nuggets of classic books to you by e-mail. Here is the story behind DailyLit and how it works:

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About DailyLit

We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.

The Idea

We got the idea for DailyLit after the New York Times serialized a few classic works in special supplements a few summers ago. We wound up reading books that we had always meant to simply by virtue of making them part of our daily routine of reading the newspaper. The only thing we do more consistenly than read the paper is read email. Bingo! We put together a first version and began reading "War of the Worlds" and "Pride and Prejudice". We showed it to friends, added more books and features at their request, and presto, DailyLit was born.

How It Works

DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail. DailyLit currently offers over 400 classic public domain titles that can be subscribed to and read in their entirety for free. Popular titles include "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu and "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen Readers can choose how often and at what time they want the e-mails sent to them (e.g. every weekday at 6:30am). Books on DailyLit can be read any place that a reader receives e-mail, including on a PDA, Blackberry, Trio, etc. Each installment of a book can be read in under 5 minutes, and if a reader is done with a particular installment, a reader can receive the next installment immediately in his/her e-mail Inbox. DailyLit has recently added forums where readers can discuss their favorite books and authors.

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DailyLit

Mind Mapping with MindMeister, an Online, Collaborative Tool

MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions.

Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map - and see each other's changes as they happen. Using integrated Skype calls, they can throw around new ideas and put them down on "paper" at the same time.

MindMeister

My Private Hire

This interesting website offers a new concept to offer individuals the ability to hire out their personal items for cash and to make money. Owned and operated from the United Kingdom, the Website acts as a classifieds advertising portal, providing details about items that individuals have for hire… not for sale –

My Private Hite is always adding new items for "hire".

Via: Col Web Site Ideas

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