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Social Networking on YouTube
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/lange.html Social Networking on YouTube Based on a one-year ethnographic project, this article analyzes how YouTube participants developed and maintained social networks by manipulating physical and interpretive access to their videos. The analysis reveals how circulating and sharing videos reflects different social relationships among youth. It also identifies varying degrees of "publicness" in video sharing. |
 
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, Scholarship
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research. |
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Social networking: Overprotection or ...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/link/story/0,,2277968,00.html Alternative social networking: Overprotection or necessary control? Social networking sites, where users post personal profiles, upload favourite music and video, chat and blog, are just the latest technological innovation to send shivers down parental spines, as the Byron review reflects. In the UK 49% of eight- to 17-year-olds are believed to have a profile on a social networking site, according to Ofcom. Besides the risk of making "online friends" with strangers who turn out to be adults and anything but friendly, social networking sites may offer a platform for cyber-bullying and intense exposure to advertising. But the review also cites evidence that social networking sites like MySpace and Bebo may play a useful role in offering teenagers a place to "test various adolescent behaviours or to take 'safe' risks". |
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Studeous : connecting your classroom
http://www.studeous.com/ Studeous : connecting your classroom We created Studeous because we belive that education is priceless. The Learning Management Systems (LMS) currently available are poorly designed and too expensive. The open source systems are too confusing and difficult to maintain. Finally, an easy to use, intuitive, and safe LMS is available to the academic world for free. Studeous is completely free. We don't care if your entire school runs on it, we will never charge you The only information people can see is your name and email address, and you can even make your email address private if you want. As a teacher, you have total control over who has access to your class page and any content you post. You can remove your account at any time. |
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Insoshi social networking platform
http://insoshi.com/ Insoshi social networking platform Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product! Since Insoshi is open source, you can download the code from our GitHub repository and make your own social network. Then stay in touch by joining the Insoshi developer sitewhich is powered by Insoshi! |
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Review of Social Aggregators / LIfestreaming Services
http://www.fabricoffolly.com/2008/03/review-of-social-aggregators.html Review of Social Aggregators / LIfestreaming Services The difficulty in keeping track of one's activity on an increasing number of social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) has, somewhat ironically, spawned a whole new breed of site - the social aggregator (a.k.a. lifestreaming services). Here is a review of 15 products currently in this space. I've tried to keep the focus on aggregators, rather than services which have more of an emphasis on inputting new content (e.g. microblogging platforms such as Tumblr or Jaiku) although the lines are clearly blurred. |
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Social media aggregators
http://tinyurl.com/66hol6 Social media aggregators are web sites which amass what you do on social networks or websites and centralize it all in one location. These aggregators enable lifestreaming, which is a simply the publication and sharing of your daily activities in continuous sessions. These social lifestreams allow you to keep track of what your friends or other people are doing online. In other words, they are tools you can use to observe the activity of others on various social sites or allow others to follow what youre doing all around the web. One of the most popular social aggregators is called Friendfeed and it appears to be the most widely used service amongst many other lifestreaming services. www.doshdosh.com/benefits-of-social-lifestreaming-and-friendfeed |
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Ofcom research identifies social networking profiles
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2008/04/nr_20080402 Ofcom research identifies social networking profiles Nearly half of all children who have access to the internet have their own personal profile on a social networking site, according to extensive qualitative and quantitative Ofcom research published today. The report reveals just how quickly social networking sites have become a part of Britons' lives. As well as widespread use amongst 8-17 year olds (49 per cent of internet users in that age group), the report also reveals that over a fifth (22 per cent) of adult internet users aged 16+ have their own online profile. |
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Testing Horace Mann
http://nymag.com/news/features/45592/ Testing Horace Mann When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the schools board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private, like a diary? Is big money distorting private-school education? And what values is a school supposed to teach? |
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Friend Project
http://www.friendproject.com/ Friend Project is an online social networking website very similar to MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, and many other social networks but takes some of the features from many of these sites to combine into 1 site. It is popular to mostly kids 15 years of age to young adults in the higher twenties but is open to membership for any ages. Friend Project allows users to create online profiles and interact with each other using profile comments, chatrooms, discussion forums, and messaging (interface similar to Email) and so much more, |
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KickApps
http://www.kickapps.com/ The KickApps hosted, white-label platform puts social media and online video functionality directly into the hands of every web publisher who aspires to be a media mogul and turns every web designer and developer into a social media rockstar! With KickApps, it's now easier than ever for web publishers to leverage the power of social and rich media experiences on their websites to drive audience growth and engagement. Our platform features a broad range of applications, including social networking, user-generated content, online video players and viral Widgets, that are tightly integrated with media and community management Additionally, KickApps is highly customizable and flexible for seamless integration with any website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and APIs. |
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CafeMom
http://www.cafemom.com/ Launched in late 2006, CafeMom is already the largest social-networking/community site for moms AND the leading women's/parenting site on the internet - passing mainstream sites like ivillage, babycenter, and Marthastewart on the engagement metrics that matter most. With more than 120MM pageviews / month and 6MM visits / month, CafeMom was ranked the #8 fastest-growing site in 2007 by compete.com and has recently won awards from Mashable and AlwaysOn as one of the leading social networking sites. |
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Twine
http://www.twine.com Who is Twine For? Friends. Colleagues. Groups. Teams. Anyone who needs help dealing with the growing array of information and relationships on the Web today. Whether you just need to organize and share with friends, or you need to collaborate better with teams, Twine provides the smartest way to tie it all together. Twine provides one place to tie everything together: emails, bookmarks, documents, contacts, photos, videos, product info, data records, and more. And, because Twine actually understands the meaning of any information you add in, it helps you organize all your stuff automatically. Finally, you can search and browse everything and everyone you know, about anything, in one convenient place. |
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47 Social News Networks
http://www.doshdosh.com/list-of-social-media-news-websites/ 47 Social News Networks There are a great deal of social news sites on the internet, sometimes too many. Most of them are dormant and are no longer active, largely because they were poorly marketed and hence, never had an active community of users in the first place. You dont have a lot of time on your hands. You want a community that gives you fresh news on topics you care about. You want something that sends prospects and traffic while branding your website or business. You want a social news site with a long term returns on investment. Heres a list of some of them. Some of the sites on this list have a broad topical focus while others are created to cater to a specific niche. Ive divided the list into two portions: General Social News or websites which cover a wide variety of news and Niche Social News which refers to specialized sites that only focus on a limited range of niche topics. |
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Townkings
http://www.townkings.com TownKings is a social network that lets you connect with others based on geographical location, and interest. This type of geotagging lets you put yourself on a map, suggest other locations and events on a map, and search for things to do and people to meet. Events and people are represented by a plethora of map icons. |
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Badoo
http://badoo.com/ Badoo is a truly worldwide online community that provides its members with the ability to communicate and share their lives with people both locally and around the globe. Its many features include the next generation in photo/video sharing and social networking. More importantly, though, Badoo allows its users to gain an instant mass audience for themselves and their work. One of Badoo's greatest strengths lies in giving the user direct control over the size of their audience. With our patented system, members can activate features that instantly gain more exposure for their profile. We've added to that the ability for instant messaging, lightning quick uploads of photos/videos, and the transparency of being able to see who views your and other people's profiles. Badoo was brought to life in London in 2006 by a small group of young, forward thinking programmers and tech entrepreneurs. The idea was to create a social website that would transcend all national boundaries, but at the same time, save the local unique culture of its users. |
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Netlog
http://www.netlog.com/ Netlog is an online platform where users can keep in touch with and enlarge their social network. Language being offered at the time of writing this were (are) Deutsch Français English Nederlands Español Português Italiano Română Русский Türkçe Polski Norsk (bokmċl) Suomeksi Dansk Svenska On Netlog, you can create your own account with pictures, blogs, a guestbook, and much more. You can find people from your area, expand your friends network, or find people having the same interests as you. Register for free! Netlog is the social network for more than 20 million youth throughout Europe. Every month, Netlog receives more than 3 billion page views. According to ComScore (2007), Netlog is pageview market leader in Belgium, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Romania and Turkey. In the Netherlands, Germany, France and Portugal, Netlog covers the second place. Pan European, Netlog is market leader. |
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Shelfari .. social network with books in mind.
http://www.shelfari.com/ 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. 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. 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. |
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Do Something
http://www.dosomething.org You have a lot of ideas about how you'd like to change the world or at least you have a lot of questions and concerns and you're looking for specific things you can do. We're giving you a place to connect, a place to be inspired, be supported, be celebrated. The only question is, "What's your something?" |
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Orkut : Googles Social Network
www.orkut.com Orkut : Googles Social Network |
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Letting Social Networking into Schools
http://21centuryconnections.com/node/330 Letting Social Networking into Schools Creating & Connecting Research and Guidelines on Online Social - and Educational - Networking National School Boards Association September, 2007 Both district leaders and parents, says the report, believe that social networking could play a positive role in students' lives and they recognize opportunities for using it in education - at a time when teachers now routinely assign homework that requires Internet use to complete. |
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Positive Use of Social Networking
http://www.leonline.com/yalsa/positive_uses.pdf Positive Use of Social Networking Social Networking and DOPA (USA) |
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Cyworld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyworld Cyworld (Hangul:is a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications (Hangul), a subsidiary of SK Telecom (Hangul): . Literally translated, "Cy" can mean "cyber", but is also a play on the Korean word for relationship (Hangul: 사이 'between'), so it could also mean "relationship." It pioneered the concept of personal virtual space in 1999, launched years later to Western consumers through services such as MySpace (US) and Bebo (UK). |
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Report: Guidelines on Online Social and Educ. Networking, (USA)
http://www.nsba.org/site/doc.asp?TRACKID=&VID=2&CID=90&DID=41336 Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social and Educational Networking, is based on three surveys: an online survey of nearly 1,300 9- to 17-year-olds, an online survey of more than 1,000 parents, and telephone interviews with 250 school districts leaders who make decisions on Internet policy. The study was carried out with support from Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon, and does not necessarily represent the views of the underwriters. More Teens and 'Tweens Are Creating Content and Connecting Online for Educational Benefits, Offering Schools New Opportunities to Use Technology Reports New National School Boards Association Study Shows that 96 percent of students with online access use social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging, and visiting online communities such as Facebook, MySpace, and Webkinz. Further, students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education. Nearly 60 percent of online students report discussing education-related topics such as college or college planning, learning outside of school, and careers. And 50 percent of online students say they talk specifically about schoolwork. The complete NSBA report, is available on NSBAs Web site at www.nasba.org |
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Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-one/ Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians Librarians are experimenting with a wide range of Facebook Apps ranging from the productive such as the 30 Boxes Calendar, Meebo, Twitter, and Zoho Online Office to the silly with Zombies, Likeness, My Aquarium, and SuperPoke. |
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Beginners Guide to Social Media
http://blog.sitemost.com.au/2007/07/30/beginners-guide-to-social-media/ Beginners Guide to Social Media I have attempted to break-down the Social Media sites into what I consider to be appropriate categories - Social News, Social Bookmarking / Tagging, Professional Networking, Social Networks, Question / Answer Networks, Photo Sharing, and Video Sharing. There are many other Social Media sites out there, but this should at least give you a fairly solid introduction to the Web 2.0 world. |
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Timeline of Facebook.com
http://xtimeline.com/business/Timeline-of-Facebook-com Timeline of Facebook.com Facebook is a social networking website. It was originally developed for college and university students but has since been made available to anyone with an email address. People can select to join on ... |
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Wamily is Social Collaboration
http://my.wamily.com/ Wamily is Social Collaboration ... and looks like a web 2.0 start page |
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Nexo
http://www.nexo.com/ Nexo ... Nexo was created to simplify your life by providing an online service that lets you coordinate communications and collaborations with all your different groups of friends, colleagues, neighbors, teammates and community. Nexo provides a website, email communications, real-time updates and social networking all in one. Nexo makes it easy to keep everyone up-to-date and makes it fun and easy to participate. Nexo founders use Nexo for all the public, private and semi-private parts of their life. Family. Sports teams. Reunions and trips. Parties. Projects. School and community groups. Even a personal start page. All in one place, accessible from anywhere. Secure. So set up your own home page to get started. Then create Nexo groups for each of your communities. Invite your group members. Let Nexo simplify your life. |
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Change
http://www.change.org/ Change ... Aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects like-minded people, whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to address the issues they care about. Change.org is a social network for social activism, incorporating nonprofits, politicians, and people across the globe. |
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Socialstream
http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2006/SocialstreamProject/index.php Socialstream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other: Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking Refined Focus: Discover the user needs related to social networking and explore how a unified social network service can enhance their experience. Prototype Goal: Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks. |
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Pownce
http://pownce.com/ Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You'll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast. You can access all of your Pownce notes just on our website or you can download a small program for your computer |
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YourMembership (Social Network for Organisations)
http://www.yourmembership.com/ YourMembership.com's fully customizable online community products will help connect your organization's entire member base -- all community sites include: custom design, all features, hosting, future upgrades and customer service at one low monthly fee. And we can have you up and running in 72-hours! Take the online self-guided tour! Our clients span six continents and include: alumni associations, non-profits, government organizations, social and professional networks, international programs, corporations, congregations, secondary schools, universities, foundations and fraternal organizations. YourMembership (Social Network for Organisations) |
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Springshare
http://www.springshare.com/ Springshare! We develop cool (and very useful) web 2.0 applications for libraries and educational institutions. Why should others have all the fun? Springshare tools enable you to publish useful information, share knowledge, and discover new resources. You can create online communities and social networks centered around the resources at your library, school, or academic department. Whatever your needs, we've got you covered! |
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Weber's World News (on myspace.com)
http://tinyurl.com/25vuxu Weber's World News An example of a MySpace webpage set up to support an aspect of teaching and learning. A place were teens can get informed about world news such as weather, politics, sports, cars, etc. This is a group were people can put down any point of views or links about any type of news out there. |
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Sconex
http://www.sconex.com/ Sconex is a school-friendly version of MySpace where high school students can "read about your classmates, share stuff with your friends, and communicate with people from your school and nearby ones." Sconex is the unofficial website for your high school - a place where you can read about your classmates, share stuff with your friends, and communicate with people from your school and nearby ones. Here are some of the things you can do once you're a member of Sconex ... |
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Imbee
https://www.imbee.com/ Secure social networking and blogging destination for kids. Imbee launched in 2006 to "provide a secure, dynamic environment where children can safely explore online social networking." It's specifically geared to 8-14 year olds. |
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Virtual Environments and Virtual Worlds
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/virtual/ There is an area on Shambles dedicated to Virtual Environments and Virtual Worlds. There is considerably overlap with the theme of 'Social Networks' and 'Virtual Worlds' so you are advised to visit this other area for more resources. |
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Social Networks : Videos and PowerPoints
http://socialnetworksvideos.blogspot.com/ Social Networks : Videos and PowerPoints The link above goes to one of the Shambles "Forest of Theme Blogs" pages that provides videos and other multimedia resources to support the topic here. If you would like to see all of the Theme Blogs then go to the full list at http://www.shambles.net/blogforest or click where you see this button 
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Club Penguin
http://www.clubpenguin.com/ Club Penguin is a safe, fun online environment for elementary kids to play games, chat with other kids, and take care of your own virtual pet. Dangerously addictive for 6-9 year olds! Chatting and gaming are the two most popular online activities for kids, yet most virtual worlds are focused on an older audience. We wanted to create a fun, online world that we'd be comfortable letting our own kids visit |
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Bringing Learning into Facebook via Wikipedia
http://www.unreasonableman.net/2007/05/bringing_learni.html Bringing Learning into Facebook via Wikipedia I'm pushing Facebook as a tool for our students. It provides them with pretty much everything they want: connectivity, e-mail, blogging, photos and media linking. The real challenge is to then bring learning and creative endeavour into Facebook. |
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Ozmozr
http://www.ozmozr.com/ In addition to its functionality as an aggregator, OsmoseRSS encourages social interaction to help users find others with similar interests. Users tag RSS feeds as they add them to OsmoseRSS. When the RSS feeds are pulled into OsmoseRSS, the system processes the incoming data for tags embedded in the data and includes those tags as part of the description of each entry. Just like del.icio.us and flickr, those tags are exposed to the entire community. Users can then find other resources that have been tagged with keywords that are of interest. In addition, the source of each feed is tracked so that users can find and connect with people with similar interests. This exposes users to content that is being added by other individuals and to the individuals who are producing data. This results in a relatively high likelihood of discovery of other data or people who are of interest. OsmoseRSS encourages the formation of groups where users with similar ideas or interests can gather to share open resources. Groups inside OsmoseRSS can share resources, collaboratively filter and rank resources, review one another's work, create a shared folksonomy, and discover new people and resources. |
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Bebo
http://www.bebo.com Bebo is a social networking site where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out. |
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Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview (Pew Report) A social networking site is an online place where a user can create a profile and build a personal network that connects him or her to other users. Between 2002-2207 , these sites have rocketed from a niche activity into a phenomenon that engages tens of millions of internet users. More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites, according to a new national survey of teenagers conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. |
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The Social Networking Awards 2006
http://mashable.com/2006/12/24/top-social-networks-2006/ The Social Networking Awards 2006 |
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Ning : Create Your Own Social Network for Anything
http://www.ning.com Ning : Create Your Own Social Network for Anything Ning is an online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds. RECOMMENDED |
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Virb
http://www.virb.com/ Virb Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It's a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations... then share what you find with your friends. Virb is ... Blogs | Fashion | Photography | Design | Comedy | Art | Sports | Compassion | Customization | |
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Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/ Facebook ... social network Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a workplace, region, high school or college. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. See Wikipedia for more details http://www.facebook.com/ |
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MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/ MySpace MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. Create a private community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends! There is a very comprehensive page about MySpace at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace |
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Orkut
http://www.orkut.com/ Orkut Orkut is a social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Similar to Friendster and MySpace, Orkut permits the creation of easy-to-setup simple forums (called "communities") of users. Committed to providing an online meeting place for people to socialize, make new acquaintances and find others who share their interests ... create and connect with your own social circle. |
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