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craigslist
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This web site is a forum-type, which allows users to post, and browse, a large array of categories, which are narrowed down to their local location. Items for sale, job postings, real estate renting and purchasing, services, and other categories are just a few, out of the large selection found here.
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http://www.craigslist.org
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Delicious
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This web site allows users to store, and share, their bookmarks, or web sites which they feel are valuable. Other users can then browse these sites, and can find useful content on the World Wide Web.
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http://del.icio.us
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Digg
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This is a place for users to share their opinions on news, web sites, content, and media. Other users can then rate that content, and help the community determine whether the content is worthwhile or not. Users can also create profiles, and save content that they want to return to later.
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http://www.digg.com
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Facebook
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This is a social networking site, which allows users to create a profile, and browse other users' profiles, as well as join networks by location, school, or company. Users can then connect to, and make friends with, other users on this site.
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http://www.facebook.com
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FARK
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A web site geared towards strange news stories, as well as contests, which are mostly consistant of photo manipulation. Users can share news, strange stories, and other online content they find interesting.
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http://www.fark.com
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Hi5
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At this social community, users can create their own pages, listen to music, share with friends around the world, express themselves, and use the applications offered, among other things.
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http://hi5.com
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LinkedIn
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An online professional community, which allows the users to communicate with other professionals, share ideas, create their own professional profile, and keep contacts with others in their field, making it a social network for professionals with similar studies.
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http://www.linkedin.com
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Meebo
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This web site is a web-based instant messenger, which allows users to access the most popular IM clients, such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and more, all from one convenient location, and on one web site.
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http://www.meebo.com
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MySpace
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The users of this web site can browse the profiles of other users, make friends with other users, and share content, such as music, photos, videos, and more.
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http://www.myspace.com
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PPCGeeks
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This is a web site, largely a forum, which allows users to ask questions and discuss topics related to mobile devices, such as smartphones, PDAs, etc., including Windows Mobile, iPhone, and all other popular mobile operating systems.
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http://www.ppcgeeks.com
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Slashdot
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This is a forum, almost entirely centered around technology. Users can look for advice, post new comments, start new threads, and interact with other users of this community.
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http://slashdot.org
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StumbleUpon
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Share web sites, bookmarks, and other online content with other users, by simply clicking a button. This web site allows users to inform their friends, as well as other members of the online community, about informative, humorous, or otherwise interesting content on the web.
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http://www.stumbleupon.com
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Twitter
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This site allows users to follow other users, which will give them access to updates posted by those users. The updates are limited to 15 characters, which makes it almost like an RSS feed of news about the users that a person is following.
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http://www.twitter.com
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Yahoo! Answers
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This is a forum-type web site, which allows users to ask questions, and answer questions asked by other users. There are points given for answering other questions, and also for answers which were voted best answer by the community, or by the author of the question. Advancing levels allows for more interaction within the web site, as well as increasing the number of questions a user can ask at any given time.
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http://answers.yahoo.com
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Yammer
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A corporate social network, which allows companies to share, have discussion boards, archive information, post information about the employees, post status updates, and more, all while remaining secure with SSL encryption.
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https://www.yammer.com
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