Books
Americabookshelf.com
- One of the
largest book exchange clubs across the US.
BooksConnect -
A book sharing community
site connecting readers, authors, publishers, librarians and
booksellers.
BookCrossing.com
- A community of users
from over 130 countries who exchange books with each other at public
places
like cafes, parks etc.
Bookhopper.co.uk
- Free community for
UK residents to share used books with each other.
Bookins.com - Book
sharing website that
enables members to exchange used books with each other in real time.
BookMooch.com -
An interesting concept
where users can exchange books with others through points. Users gain
points
when they give books to others.
Booksalescout.com
- Online community
of users allowing them to sell books in the US.
Bookswim.com -
Book borrowing service with
free shipping for registered website.
ConnectViaBooks
- A social networking
site connecting book lovers and enabling them to discover other similar
interests.
GoodReads -
GoodReads is a book reader’s
community enabling members to review, share books they have been
reading.
PaperBackSwap.com
- Users can share
books amongst each other and only pay for the delivery charges.
Pazap.com - A book trade
engine for students to
buy and sell old books.
Read It
Swap It - A
free service that allows users to exchange books with others.
Revish - Revish is
another community for book
lovers, letting them review their favorite books, group up, or simply
tell the
world what they’re currently reading.
Shelfari
- Shelfari is a popular
social networking service for book lovers.
Socialbib
- Book swapping network
between students.
Business
Networking &
Professionals
AdvisorGarage
- It is an online
directory of advisers who are willing to assist budding entrepreneurs.
ArtBreak
- ArtBreak is an artist
community for sharing and selling artwork.
Blogtronix
- Blogtronix promotes
corporate social networking, enterprise 2.0 and wikis.
Commutal
- Commutal is an online
sharing platform for businesses to create media rooms, participate in
domestic
groups and share event happenings with each other.
CompanyLoop
- An online co-working
community for global businesses.
ConnectBeam
- Connectbeam offers
social networking specially designed for corporate users.
Decorati
- An interior designer
community enabling users to post items for sale and for exchange.
DoMyStuff
- A good site for working
professionals looking to find online assistants.
Doostang
- An invite only career
community for professionals.
Fast
Pitch - It is a quickly
growing business networking community in corporate world. Its online
provides
users with a one-stop shop network to market their business.
iKarma Inc.
- iKarma is a specialist in
providing customer feedback for organizations and professionals.
ImageKind
- ImageKind is a community
and marketplace for professional artists.
Jambo -
Jambo lets you connect with your
neighborhood friends.
Jigsaw
- An online business card
networking directory for users to establish contacts with each other.
Each
business card is listed with an email id and a contact number.
Konnects
- Konnects enables members
to create their own professional networking communities.
Lawyrs
- A professional social
networking community for lawyers.
Linkedin
- LinkedIn is a professional
social networking website for business users, one of the most popular
such
sites out there. Some aspects of it are free, but many are paid.
mediabistro.com
- mediabistro.com
is for professionals in content or creative industry.
Pairup.com
- Pairup connects business
travelers assisting them to travel together.
Ryze.com - A
site for establishing new
connections and growing networks. Connections for jobs, building career
and
making sales.
Spoke.com -
Spoke offers access to business
network of over 40 million people worldwide.
Visible
Path - Visible Path helps
organizations to integrate social networking into their existing tools.
WebCrossing
Neighbors - It provides a private label social network with
personal spaces
and user groups.
XING -
XING is a networking directory of
business contacts powering relationships between business professionals
allowing users to connect with each other.
Family
Amiglia
- A family networking service
enabling users to connect to family members by publishing and sharing
family
trees, photos etc.
CafeMom
- CafeMom is a social
networking site for mothers to connect and share thoughts with each
other.
Cingo -
Cingo users connect with each
other to organize their family life.
CommonGate
- A social networking
platform that enables users to create their own social network for
their
friends, family or organization.
Family
2.0 - Family 2.0 helps
you create your own family social network, you can add family members,
send
personalized emails and create event alerts.
Famiva - A
premier social network to
connect with family members and relatives in a secure environment.
Famster
- A private secure social
network for family members.
Geni.com
- An exciting social networking
site enabling members to create their family tree. Although it’s a
relatively
new site, it has grown tremendously fast, and has hundreds of thousands
of
users.
Genoom
- Genoom creates a meeting place
for its site users. They can create a family network by inviting their
relatives and discover their past memories.
Kincafe -
An ideal social network for
families to connect with their beloved ones.
Kinzin -
Kinzin is an online meeting place
for families to share family events, photos, stories and recipes.
MayasMoM
- A family networking site
for parents.
Minti -
A collaborative parenting site.
MomJunction
- MomJunction allows
mothers to find reliable answers to questions, create private spaces
with
friends and build communities.
MothersClick
- MothersClick
connects mothers in a neighborhood with each and provides parenting
advice to
them.
myfamily.com
- An excellent way to
connect with your family members.
OneGreatFamily.com
- An online
shared database with combined knowledge and data at a single place.
OurStory.com
- OurStory enables users
to share stories of their families with others.
Parentography
- A social network
offering advice and advice for families.
The
Family Post - A sharing
network for communication with family members.
Friends
Amitize.com
- Amitize is a worldwide
friendship network.
aSmallWorld
- aSmallWorld
is a private online community designed for individuals who would like
to
connect, re-connect to share similar thoughts with each other.
Badoo.Com
- Badoo is a dynamic
multi-lingual social networking site with innovative photo and video
features
that allows its users worldwide to gain an instant mass audience and
interact
both locally and globally.
Bebo - Bebo
is a hugely popular site
(especially in the UK), and similar in philosophy to MySpace. It allows
users
to communicate with their friends in multiple ways including blogging,
sending
messages and posting pictures.
Eons -
An online gathering place for the
elderly; most of the users are over the age of 50 years.
Facebook.com
- Facebook is a social
networking phenomenon connection people with their friends, family and
other
users with similar interests.
Faceparty
- A UK based community
social networking website. It started for youngsters but has now risen
to
popularity among all age groups.
Flingr
- Flingr allows users to connect
with all categories of friends – colleagues, college mates and school
buddies.
Friendster
- It is a popular global
social network for finding new friends and developing friendships as
well as
searching old friends.
hi5 - Hi5 is
a prominent social networking
service in India with over 40 million users. However, Hi5 has recently
experienced an upsurge beyond India and has shown increasing popularity
in EU
too.
Lovento
- Lovento allows you to
discover news friends and also find information about latest events.
Multiply.com
- Multiply is a social
networking website providing easy way to share digital media which
includes
photos, videos and music.
Mycool
- Mycool enables members to find
and share their interests with special groups.
MySpace.com
- MySpace is an
interactive social networking website consisting of personal profiles,
blogs,
groups, photos, music and videos. It’s currently the biggest social
networking
site out there, and while it might not be the most advanced one, the
users seem
to love its simplicity.
NetFriendships.com
- A
comprehensive social networking site enabling users to make new online
friends
and discover old ones.
Netlog
- A social community of more than
20 million young Europeans.
Ning
- Users create their own
social websites and social networks
Orkut -
Orkut is a social networking
service owned by Google. It enables users to meet new friends and
create
communities.
Passado
- Passado is Europe’s no.1
re-union website connecting members with friends from school to
workplace.
Piczo
- Piczo offers safe social
networking environment to youngster around the world. Piczo users can
design
their personal website with photos, videos etc. and share it with their
friends.
Plazes
- A social networking website
for connecting with local users.
Pownce.com
- Pownce is a mix of social
networking and microblogging. It enables users to send messages, files,
events
and links with each other.
ProfileHeaven.com
- A UK based
social networking site for teenagers.
reunion.com
- A leading online service
for discovering old friends, classmates and family members.
Vox.com -
Vox is a social blogging service
where users share their ideas, photos, videos with family and friends.
Xanga -
Xanga is one of the biggest
social networking platforms with features of sharing photos, photos and
videos.
XuQa - An
online college social networking
site with poker gaming features.
Hobbies
& Interests
ActionProfiles.com
- It is
social networking community for sports and action. The features of the
website
are profiles of users with photographs and videos, reviews of products
and job
discussion boards.
Arts community
- Arts community
provides a dynamic community experience by providing extensive listing
of
exhibitions, events and openings.
BeGreen
- BeGreen is a community
that aims to generate environmental awareness for users.
beRecruited
- beRecruited is a
dedicated online community for sportpersons and coaches.
BottleTalk
- BottleTalk is a wine
lover’s community making it easy for members to share their drinking
experiences.
CarGurus
- An automobile community
website enabling users to post car reviews, photos and share opinions.
Change
- Change is a nonprofit social
networking website that connects like minded users and allows them to
exchange
information.
ChangingThePresent
- A
nonprofit fund raising community with membership of over 400 nonprofits.
ChickAdvisor
- ChickAdvisor is a
sharing community for women users.
CircleUp
- CircleUp is one of the
best community website connecting users to groups, clubs for knowledge
sharing,
information exchange.
Coastr
- Coastr connects beer lovers
with each other.
ColShare
- ColShare is a community
for people who have hobby of collecting items like coins, stamps etc.
coRank
- A rating community for users
to share interesting information on internet.
DailyStrength
- A huge community
of over 500 groups dealing with health issues and various medical
challenges.
Dundoo
- Dundoo enables users to create
image collages out of social networking profile. A big amount of ads on
the
site somewhat diminishes the overall impression.
Flixster
- Flixster is a community
for movie lovers.
FuelEmpire
- FuelEmpire brings
automobile enthusiasts together at one place.
GirlSense
- A community for girls to
promote their fashion designs & creations.
Greenvoice
- An online networking
platform for people who are conscious about the environment, who want
to inform
each other on environmental issues and create a difference.
iYomu -
iYomu is an adult social networking
website and it allows users to search for site members who have similar
interests or for business needs.
Motortopia
- Motortopia is
community for automobile lovers. It consists of passionate lovers of
bikes,
planes, cars and boats etc.
MyCatSpace
- MyCatSpace is a
community for lovers of cats passionate to share experiences of their
cats with
others.
MyDogSpace
- MyDogSpace users can
share their dog pictures, write blog posts about dogs and communicate
with
other dog lovers, all in a very lovely community.
Uniteddogs
- A social networking
website for dog owners. The dog owners can creae profiles of their
dogs, create
blogs and share their thoughts.
vSocial
- vSocial is a video based
social networking platform allowing content owners, site operators to
deliver
the message online with video.
Language
Media (Photo, Video & Audio)
Buzdeo
- Buzdeo provides secure video
sharing service with friends and family.
Flickr
is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online
community
platform.
Fotki -
A photo sharing service enabling
users to connect with friends.
Fotolog
- A big online photo sharing
community.
Music
Asoboo
- Asoboo is a sharing network
for cultural artists from around the world.
BandChemistry
- A network for
musicians uniting music bands all over.
BandWagon
- BandWagon is a music
community website for music fans to manage their web pages, profiles,
videos
and music.
CrackSpace
- A common place for
fans of hip-hop music.
Moob - A
dedicated community of hip-hop
fans.
MOG - An
online community powering site
members to discover music and music lovers.
Mobile
CrackBerry
- A community dedicated
to BlackBerry users.
Dodgeball
- A New York based service
facilitating social interactions through mobile phones.
Friendstribe.com
- A mobile phone
based social networking site.
GotZapp
- A mobile social network for
sharing images, audio and graphics with your friends’ mobile phones.
Groovr
- An ultimate mobile social
networking site for staying connected with friends. It is compatible
with
iPhone.
Jaiku -
Jaiku is essentially a
microblogging service with an SMS gateway, very similar to Twitter.
They’ve
recently been acquired by Google.
Loopt -
Loopt is a cool mobile based
friend locator website. It uses GPS to show its users the location of
friends
by updating maps on mobile handset.
Mixxer
- Mixxer enables users to
content on their mobile with site members.
Mobango
- A mobile community service
powering users to search for user generated music content, videos and
other
data.
Mozes -
Mozes enables members to connect
& socialize with each other through mobile phones.
Partysync
- Partysync helps users
to interact with people using mobiles.
Peepsnation
- Peepsnation allows
users with similar interests to connect with each other on location
basis.
Rabble
- A location based social
networking service for mobile phone users.
Socialight
- Socialight is a mobile
based social networking site where users share their travel experiences
with
other mobile users.
Wattpad
- A mobile phone social
networking platform allowing users to discover, read and share their
stories
with each others.
Shopping
18
Sites for
Social Shopping and Deals
3LUXE
- A community generated product
research site.
AgentB
- A common place to find out the
best shopping deals on internet.
bringsome.com
- A global goods
delivery platform enabling community members to assist each other with
access
to best items from across the world.
boxedup.com
- Boxedup.com users add
their favorite products to their list and share it with others.
CoWorkersAds
- An online
marketplace listing allowing site members to discover and sell items
among
coworkers community.
iliketotallyloveit.com
- A
user generated marketplace where users submit cool products.
MyItThings.com
- A user generated
magazine for shopping.
MyStore.com
- A social market place
for buyers and sellers.
Productwiki.com
- ProductWiki is a
common place for users to share information about consumer products.
RedFlagDeals.com
-
RedFlagDeals.com is Canada’s most popular shopping community which
offers huge
discounts to site users.
Sale Grab
- SaleGrab is a social
shopping site for best sales and discount deals.
Shoppero
- Shoppero offers profit
sharing to site users for writing product reviews.
Smashing
Darling - A
collaborative market place connecting buyers and sellers at one place.
Social BookMarking
Students
AlumWire
- AlumWire has been created
to assist college students, alumni with professional opportunities.
B4Class
- A social network for high
school and college students.
Campusbug
- A college student social
networking website.
CampusRank
- CampusRank members
select and rate their old school friends and group them into various
categories.
College.com
- An online community for
college students.
CollegeMedium.com
- A student
classifieds website for buying and selling items, jobs search etc.
College
Tonight - A great place
to meet fellow college students and alumni.
DormItem.com
- A local classifieds
listings for schools in various cities.
Graduates.com
- A social networking
site assisting graduate school students to stay in touch post
completion of
course.
Half.com
- A leading
student market place for buying and selling textbooks at discounted
prices.
iHipo -
An international community for
college students and business professionals looking for networking
opportunities.
LocalSchools
- A networking site
connecting students with local US colleges and universities.
Pazap.com -
A student trading site for
buying and selling on-campus books with other students.
Quizilla
- Quizilla is a social
network for young teens.
RateMyProfessor.com
-
RateMyProfessor connects students aspiring to study similar courses by
assisting each other.
Student.com
- Student.com is a big
online community for college students, high school students and teens
with
around 1,000,000 members.
Studentbid.com
- Studentbid.com is
a student market place for sales and purchase of items without any fees.
StudentSN.com
- A social network
allowing users to create home pages with contact information, personal
information and photo albums.
Uloop.com
- Uloop allows students to
trade textbooks, promote community events and do host of other
activities.
Travel & Locals
Amicoz.com
- Amicoz is slightly
different from conventional social networking sites; it doesn’t have
some of
the common features found on socnets. It is dedicated to assist users
in
sharing their travel experiences, nothing more, nothing less.
Citizenbay
- Citizenbay is a user
community for discovering local information.
CityTherapy
-
CityTherapy is an easy way to find and share places of interest
(restaurant,
bars) in Europe.
CouchSurfing
- A global travel
network connecting travelers with local communities.
fatdoor.com
- A fun and an interactive
way to connect with the folks from your neighborhood online.
Going.com
- A fun way to interact with
people locally.
iloho -
An online travel community with
similarity to social bookmarking services like digg.
MatchActivity
- A site
connecting people on the basis of their activities. Users can find
things to do
and join people in their area.
Matador
- A travel based social
network with an integrated blogging service.
myTripbook.com
- myTripbook.com is
a place for people who want to share their travel experiences through
photos,
videos and blogging with others.
OurFaves
- OurFaves is a community of
urban savvy folks who enjoy the Toronto city and find out cool places
to hang
out at.
Outside.in
- A nice way to
explore local communities to keep track with neighborhood news.
Rummble
- Rummble enables users to
discover as well as share places of interest in your neighborhood.
TravBuddy
- TravBuddy is a cool site
for sharing travel experiences, finding new travel friends or reading
travel
reviews of fellow friends.
Travellerspoint
- An
international meeting point for worldwide travelers.
TravelTogether
- A travel based
social networking service enabling users to share travel plans, travel
deals
and experiences.
tribe.net -
Tribe.net is one of the easiest
ways to connect with people for finding a restaurant, a killer
apartment, a
gentle dentist or a hiking friend.
TripUp
- A travel community site for
finding travel information and planning for trips.
Triporama-
Triporama provides an
easy way to plan and collaborate on group trips.
VibeAgent
- VibeAgent is a site
about hotel reviews, travel meta-search and social networking.
WAYN - A
social networking website
uniting world wide travelers.
WeExplore
- WeExplore provides an
online platform for volunteers and travelers from all over the globe.
Wikitravel
- Wikitravel is
dedicated project for creating a trusted, up-to-date travel guide. It
has over
16,641 travel destination guides maintained and written by
Wikitravellers from
around the world.
Zoodango
- Zoodango is a website enabling
users to connect with urban professionals either online or face-to-face
at
local venues.
*Compiled from Mashable Mashup and
Wikipedia
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