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"If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends." - Jeff Bezos.

App Stores Browsers & Operating Systems Concierge Services
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Free Email Services Free Webbased Phone Services Search Engines & Resources
Services (Social) Bookmark & Sharing Managers Social Networking
Translation Services
    Browsers & Operating Systems
  • KERNEL - Wikipedia.
  • MOBILE BROWSER - Wikipedia.
  • MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM - Wikipedia.
  • OPERATING SYSTEM - Wikipedia.
  • WEB BROWSER - Wikipedia.
    • ANDROID - mobile operating system. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.
    • CHROME - web browser developed by Google.
    • IPHONE OS - is the mobile operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc.
    • LINUX - is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel.
    • LINUX KERNEL - operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software.
    • MAC OS X SNOW LEOPARD - the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system.
    • MEEGO - open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity.
    • Microsoft Explorer 8 - the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the Internet Explorer browser series.
    • MOZILLA FIREFOX - free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. The second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
    • NETSCAPE - official support ended on March 1st, 2008.
    • OPERA - web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company.
    • OPERA MINI - "Experience the full Internet with the fastest mobile phone browser in the world."
    • OPERA MOBILE - mobile browser.
    • SAFARI 4 - web browser developed by Apple.
    • SKYFIRE - mobile browser. Currently runs on Windows Mobile & Nokia, Symbian S60 3rd edition phones.
    • SYMBIAN PLATFORM - is Nokia's open source operating system (OS) and software platform designed for smartphones and maintained by the Symbian Foundation.
    • TWEETDECK - "TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more."
    • WINDOWS 7 - latest public release version of Microsoft Windows.
    Concierge Services
  • CONCIERGE SERVICE - Glossary.
    • AFFLUENCE.ORG - the exclusive organization of the world's wealthiest people.
    • AMOSU - free international concierge service included when you buy an Amosu mobile phone: "access the inaccessible!"
    • COUTTS WORLD - Coutts & Co, the UK’s leading private bank, is today reclaiming the top spot in the super-premium charge card market by launching Coutts World card a ‘cut above the rest’, offering an extensive concierge service, exceptionally high AirMiles collection rate, comprehensive insurance plus privileged access to a range of luxury goods, services and exclusive special offers that have been created with the lifestyle of Coutts’ clients in mind.
    • LAS VEGAS VIP SERVICES
    • LE CLUB - private concierge and best luxury services: events, leisures, vacations, shopping, on the move, beauty, business.
    • QUINTESSENTIALLY - the world's leading private members' club and concierge service.
    • TEN - a lifestyle management company that helps members get the most from their lives.
    • VERTU CONCIERGE - "Imagine a world where, at the touch of a button, you are instantly connected to a team of experts with a global wealth of knowledge, experience and contacts."
    • V1 PRIVATE JETS - offers luxury-minded and high-profile clientele on-demand private jet charter services for both domestic and international travel. Our comprehensive suite of jet charter and concierge services means you won't have to look anywhere else for all of your travel arrangement needs. From ground transportation bookings to dinner reservations, no request is too big or too small for our privileged clients.
    • WORLD CLASS CONCIERGE SERVICES - "24/7 World Class Concierge Services."
    Download Music
  • BILLBOARD: MAINSTREAM TOP 40
  • DOWNLOAD MUSIC - Wikipedia.
  • MP3 HISTORY
    • AMAZON.COM MP3
    • EMUSIC - works on any MP3 player.
    • GROOVESHARK - listen to free music online, Internet radio, free MP3 streaming.
    • ITUNES - "Download music and more with iTunes. Play it all on iPod."
    • LAST.FM - listen to Internet radio and the largest music catalogue online.
    • LEGIT TORRENTS - "Download free legal music, movies, games, software and more! Legit Torrents is the biggest and best free and legal torrent tracker!"
    • RDIO - coming soon. "Your Music Everywhere." Unlimited access to music from your computer and mobile phone, even when you're offline.
    • RHAPSODY - music downloads, music videos, lyrics and photos.
    • SPOTIFY - millions of songs on your computer, on your mobile and available offline. Brought to you ad free.
    • TUNECORE - digital music distribution.
    Free Webbased Phone Services
  • WEBBASED PHONE SERVICE - Glossary.
    • JAJAH - web-activated telephony.
    • OFONO - open source telephony. A place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.
    • SKYPE - free worldwide Internet and great value phone calls. "Do amazing things for free: voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype; conference calls with three or more people; instant messaging, file transfer and screen sharing; call landlines and mobiles worldwide.
    Search Engines & Resources
  • SEARCH ENGINE - Glossary.
    • 123PEOPLE - a people search engine that looks into nearly every corner of the Web to help you find information on everyone you (want to) know. Using our proprietary search algorithm, you can find comprehensive and centralized people profiles consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and Wikipedia profiles and much more.
    • ALL THE WEB - find it all.
    • ALLMOVIE - a commercial database of information about movie stars, movies and television shows.
    • ALTA VISTA - a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity has waned with the rise of Google.
    • AMAZON.COM - online shopping for electronics, apparel, computers, books, DVDs & more.
    • ANSWERS.COM - WikiAnswers: the world's leading Q & A site.
    • AOL SEARCH - enhanced by Google.
    • ASK - search engine (originally known as Ask Jeeves).
    • ASK US 24/7 - a service of cooperating New York State Libraries. We can find answers to your reference questions and provide information on your local library.
    • ATOMZ SITE SEARCH - the premier free search tool for your website.
    • BING - Microsoft's new search engine.
    • CHACHA - like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free! ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device - from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones - to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes.
    • CREDO REFERENCE - "Smart Research Starts Here." Puts the world's best citable information at your fingertips. Find: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, measurement conversions.
    • DMOZ - open directory project
    • DOGPILE - web search.
    • EBAY - new & used electronics, cars, apparel, collectibles, sporting goods and more at low prices.
    • EMBASSYWORLD.COM - absolutely all of the world's embassies in a searchable database.
    • ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA - online encyclopedia. Articles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors. It is regarded as the most scholarly of encyclopaedias.
    • ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM - get facts, articles, pictures, video.
    • EUROPEANA - Think Culture! Search through the cultural collections of Europe. It links you to 6 million digital items.
    • EXCITE - offers a variety of services, including search, web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage.
    • FIND A GRAVE - find famous graves, millions of U.S. records.
    • FOOTNOTE - the place for original historical documents online. 54,573,914 historical documents.
    • GIGABLAST - founded in 2000, Gigablast was created to index up to 200 Billion pages with the least amount of hardware possible. Gigablast provides large-scale, high-performance, real-time information retrieval technology for partner sites.
    • GOOGLE - largest search engine on the web by query volume. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
    • GOOGLE BOOKS - a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans.
    • GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS - home of longest, shortest, fastest, tallest facts and feats.
    • HITQUARTERS - world's largest music industry search directory, including contact information and individual track records.
    • HOW STUFF WORKS - learn how everything works!
    • HUNCH - decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of topics.
    • IA | INTERNET ARCHIVE - a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
    • IBDB | INTERNET BROADWAY DATABASE - the official source for Broadway information.
    • IMDB | THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE - visited by over 57 million movie and TV lovers each month!
    • IWON - the best free online games, casinos & sweeps.
    • JOEANT - providing a directory of quality sites for Internet users.
    • LINKS TO LANDMARKS AROUND THE WORLD
    • LYCOS - Lycos is one of the original (est. 1995) and most widely-known Internet brands in the world, evolving from one of the first search engines on the web, into a comprehensive network of social media web sites that foster online communities.
    • LYRICS SEARCH ENGINE
    • MAGMA - Magma is for exploring, discovering, collecting, sharing, and tracking videos from everywhere.
    • MAHALO - Mahalo is a human-powered search engine dedicated to help people easily find information and resources they can trust.
    • MAMMA - metasearch.
    • MSN - direct access to: Hotmail, Messenger, My MSN, download IE8, and more
    • MYBO.COM - the best search links on the net.
    • MYLIFE - people search. "Find everyone. All in one place. Get up-to-date info for anyone from over 100 social networks & public records sources!"
    • NATIONMASTER - world statistics, country comparisons.
    • NETSCAPE - official support ended on March 1st, 2008.
    • NNDB | NOTABLE NAMES DATABASE - "Tracking the entire world. NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead."
    • RADIO LOCATOR - the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet.
    • SEARCHME - the first multimedia search engine.
    • SLASHDOT - news for nerds and stuff that matters.
    • SPOCK - the world's leading people search engine.
    • THE FREE LIBRARY - FREE ONLINE LIBRARY (14,557,847 articles & books): news, magazines, newspapers, journals, reference articles and classic books.
    • THE GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT - trace your ancestry with DNA.
    • VIRTUAL PERPETUAL CALENDARS
    • WEBCRAWLER - the web's top search engines spun together.
    • WHEN IS - dates of religious and civil holidays around the world.
    • WHITE PAGES - people search. "Your go-to source for the most reliable contact information online. With accurate information for almost 200 million U.S. adults, we make finding and connecting with others incredibly simple—and incredibly free."
    • WHO IS - check the availability of a specific name in up to 10 Top Level Domains at once followed by either .com, .net .org, or one of the 246 country code suffixes.
    • WHOIS SEARCH - provides Whois (.aero, .arpa, .asia, .biz, .cat, .com, .coop, .edu, .info, .int, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, and .travel) domain registration information.
    • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS - a database of 4,461,423 (April 20th, 2009) freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
    • WIKIPEDIA - a free encyclopedia with millions of articles contributed collaboratively using Wiki software, in dozens of languages.
    • WOLFRAM ALPHA - computational search engine: Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.
    • WORLD INTERESTING FACTS - interesting facts around the world.
    • WORLD NAMES PROFILER - search for a surname to view its map and statistics.
    • WORLD TIME ZONES
    • YAHOO! - 2nd largest search engine on the web by query volume.
    Services
  • SERVICE - Glossary.
    • 1&1 - "World's #1 Webhosting Company."
    • ABOUT US - "The Wiki Way of Websites - the editable guide to websites."
    • ADOBE AIR - a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.
    • ADOBE FLASH PLAYER - is software for viewing animations and movies using computer programs such as a web browser; in common usage, Flash lets you put animation and movies on a web site.
    • ADOBE READER - (formerly Acrobat Reader) is available as a no-charge download from Adobe's web site, and allows the viewing and printing of PDF files. Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication.
    • ALEXA - known for its toolbar and website. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the website where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's web traffic reporting.
    • BUYDOMAINS.COM - "Business Starts Here." Buy premium domain names. Available & domain names for sale.
    • BUZZFLASH.NET - most popular stories as ranked by our readers.
    • BIT.LY - a simple url shortener. "Shorten, share and track your links."
    • BITTORRENT - the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet.
    • CIA: THE WORLD FACTBOOK - provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
    • CLASSIC LITERATURE LIBRARY - free public domain ebooks and classic books.
    • COMIC CONNECT - "The Online Marketplace for Buyers & Sellers!"
    • COMMISSION JUNCTION - global leader in the online advertising channels of affiliate marketing and managed search.
    • COMPETE, INC. - web traffic analysis service operating in the United States that publishes the approximate number of global visitors to the top 1,000,000 web sites in the world. This number is computed from sources including internet service providers, opt-in panels, application providers, and users of the Compete toolbar.
    • COMSCORE - a marketing research company that provides marketing data and services to many of the Internet's largest businesses.
    • COOL TOOLS - "Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it."
    • CRACKLE - watch free movies, television, original series now.
    • CRAIGSLIST - provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events serving 570 cities in 50 countries.
    • CREATIVE COMMONS | CC - a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. "We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof."
    • CREDO REFERENCE - "Smart Research Starts Here." Puts the world's best citable information at your fingertips. Find: encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, bilingual dictionaries, crossword solver, measurement conversions.
    • CROSSLINK BUILDER - "The art of search engine promotion." Search engine optimisation (seo) by building web links for free.
    • DLNA | DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE - connect and enjoy. Standard used by manufacturers of consumer electronics to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network.
    • DOUBLECLICK - develops and provides Internet ad serving services.
    • DROPBOX - the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. free download.
    • DRUPAL - open source content management platform. Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
    • E-GOLD - Internet payments 100% backed by gold.
    • EHOW - "How To Do Just About Everything! How To Videos (over 150,000) & Articles."
    • ELANCE - hire professionals, outsource work. Hire, manage, pay experts online.
    • ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA - online encyclopedia. Articles are aimed at educated adults, and written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors. It is regarded as the most scholarly of encyclopaedias.
    • EOFFICE - access 100 locations in more than 30 countries. Office spade, offices for rent, serviced offices, meeting rooms, conference rooms, virtual offices.
    • EUROPEANA - Think Culture! Search through the cultural collections of Europe. It links you to 6 million digital items.
    • EVITE - invitation, free eCards, and party planning ideas.
    • FLAG COUNTER - "Plain old "hit counters" are boring! You need a FREE flag counter!"
    • FLATTR - Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like.
    • FREE ADVICE - free legal advice in 100+ law topics.
    • FREE UNIVERSITY LECTURES - Lecturefox: computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and more.
    • FREE WEBSITE CONTENT - webmaster tools.
    • FULL TRAFFIC - "Internet Traffic Solutions."
    • GO DADDY - domain names, web hosting & SSL certificates.
    • GOOGLE - "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
    • GOOGLE ANDROID - Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.
    • GOOGLE APPS - "More than two million businesses run Google Apps. Reliable, secure online applications wherever you work: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Groups, Google Sites & Google Video."
    • GOOGLE BOOKS - a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans.
    • GOOGLE CHROME - Google's new webbrowser for Windows.
    • GOOGLE DASHBOARD - new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account.
    • GOOGLE DOCS - free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online.
    • GOOGLE EARTH - a virtual globe, map and geographic information program.
    • GOOGLE FEEDBURNER - Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers.
    • GOOGLE GOGGLES - allows you to use pictures to search the web.
    • GOOGLE LATITUDE - lets you see your friends on a map. Get it on your phone or your computer.
    • GOOGLE MAPS - a basic web mapping service application and technology.
    • GOOGLE OCEAN - allows users to zoom below the surface of the ocean and view the 3D bathymetry beneath the waves.
    • GOOGLE PROJECTS FOR ANDROID
    • GOOGLE READER - a web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.
    • GOOGLE SHARING - how to hide from Google. A special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit.
    • GOOGLE STREET VIEW - provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic views from a row of positions along the street (one every approximately 10 or 20 metres) for many streets in the world, from a height of about 2.5 metres.
    • GOOGLE TRANSLATE - free translation service into 52 languages.
    • GOOGLE WAVE - a service that melds e-mail, instant messaging, online forums, and wikis into a grand messaging service. Coming soon.
    • GROOVLE - Groovle - Your Groovy Custom Homepage - was created so people can customize their Internet homepage with images ranging from favorite celebrities or sports teams to more personal images of friends and family etc.
    • GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS - "Home of the Longest, Fastest, Shortest, Fastest facts and feats."
    • HOSTMONSTER - now hosting 600,000 doamins. HostMonster has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Professional Web Hosting for US$5.95/month.
    • HOW TO TAME THE PASSWORD JUNGLE - Four dos and four don’ts for managing your PINs and security codes.
    • HOWCAST - the best how to videos on the web.
    • IGOOGLE - iGoogle is your personalized Google page. Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across the Web to your page.
    • INSSIDER - an award-winning FREE WI-FI NETWORK SCANNER for Windows Vista and Windows XP.
    • INTERNET ARCHIVE | IA - a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
    • ISSUU - you publish. Turns your documents into beautiful online publications.
    • JCONNECT - fax and voicemail by email and conference calling.
    • KELKOO - "Find. Compare. Save." A European price comparison service founded in France in 1999.
    • LEGAL-EXPLANATIONS.COM - legal resources in plain English.
    • MAGENTO - open-source ecommerce web application.
    • MENSA INTERNATIONAL - check your IQ!
    • MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS - free software helps you avoid viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
    • MY AOL - your personalized home page that offers weather, calendar, horoscopes, mail, news, stock quotes, pictures and many more customizable features, and more.
    • MY FREE COPYRIGHT - FREE copyright protection. “How to Protect Your Creation in 3 Minutes.”
    • MY PR GENIE - the only, Do-It-Yourself, PR platform and newswire that gives you access to over 540,000 journalist contacts. Using MyPRGenie, you can create a business profile on search engines and directories, upload your press release in any language and significantly increase your exposure online!
    • NEWSVINE - updated continuously by citizens like you. Newsvine is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.
    • OFONO - open source telephony. A place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.
    • OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT - the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
    • OPEN ID - OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites (nearly ten-thousand), simplifying your online experience.
    • PANORAMIO - "Photos of the World." Also show photos not selected for Google Earth. Panoramio is a website that enables digital photographers to geolocate, store and organize their photographs–and to view those photographs in Google Earth and Google Maps.
    • PAY PAL - online payment, merchant account.
    • PERMALINKS - this website provides permanent links (so called PermaLinks).
    • PICASA - a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.
    • PROPELLER - is a social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you – the audience. Our members post links to stories from all over the Web. Many of these stories originate from the websites of traditional media, including newspapers and magazines. But you will also find many stories that seldom pop up in the mainstream.
    • RSS & ATOM FEEDS - available Google news feeds.
    • RSS READER - free RSS reader displays any RSS and Atom news feed.
    • SECUNIA PERSONAL SOFTWARE INSPECTOR | PSI - used by millions of home users around the world, the Secunia PSI is a FREE security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs.
    • SECURESAFE PRO - password and credit card manager software.
    • SEDO - the global marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites.
    • SHOZU - the leading provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset.
    • SMILEY WORLD - list of smiley's.
    • SOCIALOOMPH - TOOLS TO BOOST YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTIVITY.
    • SOFTPEDIA - free downloads encyclopedia.
    • TECHCRUNCH - a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies created by MICHAEL ARRINGTON.
    • THE BEST LINKS - watch & organize your favorite links.
    • THE FREE LIBRARY - FREE ONLINE LIBRARY (19,266,820 articles & books: March 21, 2010): news, magazines, newspapers, journals, reference articles and classic books.
    • THE OPEN SOURCE NEWSPAPER - 1.Promoting open source software CMS as an alternative to proprietary entreprise software for professional newspaper web publishing.
    • THE STRONGBOX PASSWORD SECURITY SYSTEM - website security: cryptographically secure site defense system.
    • TWEETMEME - "Hottest Links on Twitter." A service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular.
    • TYPEPAD - blogging software, business blogs and blog services.
    • U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK - real time.
    • WEBLOGS.COM - a ping server run by Moreover Technologies that automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website or blog. Essentially it acts as a central hub between publishers and consumers of content.
    • WIKIA - a collection of wikis that anyone can edit. Find and collaborate with people who love what you love.
    • WIKIBOOKS - a community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
    • WIKIHOW - the how-to manual that you can edit.
    • WIKILEAKS - publishes and comments on leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct.
    • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS - a database of 4,461,423 (April 20th, 2009) freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
    • WIKINEWS - the FREE news source you can write!
    • WIKIPEDIA - free encyclopedia with 13 million articles contributed collaboratively using Wiki software, in 271 languages.
    • WIKIQUOTE - free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language.
    • WIKISOURCE - an online library of free content publications.
    • WIKIVERSITY - is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
    • WORLDLE - a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide.
    • WORLDPRESS - blog tool and publishing platform. WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
    • YAHOO BUZZ - What's buzzing? You tell us. Top news and more.
    • YOU SEND IT - send, receive and track large and important files. FTP replacement.
    (Social) Bookmark & Sharing Managers
  • ADDTHIS - the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet.
  • LIST OF BOOKMARK MANAGERS
  • SOCIALOOMPH - TOOLS TO BOOST YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTIVITY.
    • BACKFLIP - stop bookmarking and start backflipping your favorite places.
    • BIT.LY - a simple url shortener. Shorten, share, and track your links.
    • BLINKLIST - discover, blink & share.
    • BLOGMARKS - a collaborative link management project based on sharing and key-word tagging.
    • BUZZFLASH.NET - most popular stories as ranked by our readers.
    • DEL.ICIO.US - search the biggest collection of bookmarks in the universe.
    • DIGG - a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.
    • DIIGO - web highligther and sticky notes, social bookmarking and annotation, social information network.
    • DROPBOX - the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. free download.
    • FANBOX - "Profit from your passion." Tools to share and monetize your thoughts.
    • FAVES - sites you'll love, from people like you.
    • FOLKD.COM - enrich your websurfing experience.
    • FLICKR - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
    • FRIEND FEED - enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
    • FURL - web highligther and sticky notes, social bookmarking and annotation, social information network.
    • GOOGLE BOOKMARKS - save time with quick links to your favorite websites. Get your bookmarks on any computer. Keep your bookmarks organized.
    • GOWALLA - "Discover, capture and share places and events with your friends."
    • LINKARENA die andre Suchmaschine: sammeln und finden. Social bookmarking.
    • LINK-A-GOGO - free online favorites manager and social bookmarking application.
    • LIVE - Your life. Your stuff. One place. Windows Live. Instant messaging, e-mail, photos and files—with you online, wherever you go.
    • MA.GNOLIA - Ma.gnolia is currently being remade as a by-invitation community bookmarking service.
    • MAGMA - Magma is for exploring, discovering, collecting, sharing, and tracking videos from everywhere.
    • MISTER WONG - helps you save all of your favorite websites to your personal account, so you have access to them online, no matter where you are.
    • NETVIBES - leading personal start page to manage your digital life. Add widget to read your newspapers, play games, watch TV, movies, listen to podcasts, manage your links.
    • NETVOUZ - save, tag and share your bookmarks.
    • NOWPUBLIC - Crowd Powered Media. User-generated social news website.
    • ONEVIEW - social bookmarking, deine Wissens-Community, Empfehlungen von Freunden.
    • PICASA - a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.
    • PROPELLER - "Look it up. I bet we have it!" A social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you – the audience. Once the link has been posted, you can vote on it, comment on it, share it with friends, or bookmark it to read later.
    • REDDIT - a social news website. "What's new online!" Keep up with the latest development updates, community announcements, and general reddit tomfoolery.
    • SEGNALO - bookmark sociale.
    • SIMPY - a social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag, search and share your bookmarks, notes, groups and more.
    • SPHERE - Connecting the Conversation! Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from blog posts, media articles, video, photos, and ads from across the web.
    • SPURL - on-line bookmarking service and search engine.
    • STUMBLE UPON - personalized recommendations to help you discover the best of the web.
    • TECHNORATI - as a member you can claim your blogs, and create a personal Technorati profile, and readers from around the web will be able to find what you've written.
    • THE BEST LINKS - watch & organize your favorite links.
    • TWITPIC - share photos on Twitter.
    • YAHOO BOOKMARKING - Categorize your bookmarks into folders with the touch of a button. Find recommended sites similar to the sites you've bookmarked. Easy access to your bookmarks from any computer, work or home.
    • YIGG - Die besten Nachrichten von heute.
    Social Networking
  • GEOSOCIAL NETWORKING - Wikipedia.
  • IMAGE HOSTING SERVICE - Wikipedia.
  • LIST OF ACTIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES
  • LIST OF DEFUNCT SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES
  • ONLINE CHAT - Wikipedia.
  • SKA DATE - advanced dating & community software. Dating layouts & social networking software templates.
  • SOCIAL MEDIA - Wikipedia.
  • SOCIAL NETWORKING - Wapedia.
  • SOCIALOOMPH - TOOLS TO BOOST YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCTIVITY.
  • TWHIRL - a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
  • WEB CHAT - Wikipedia.
  • WORLD MAP OF SOCIAL NETWORKS - created by Vincenzo Cosenza.
    • A SMALL WORLD - by invitation only!
    • AFFLUENCE.ORG - the exclusive organization of the world's wealthiest people.
    • AIM - instant message your online buddies for free.
    • ARENA365 - helps you, your team and your friends plan, communicate and reach goals within sport and active living.
    • ASIANAVE - your place to meet and connect with Asians around the country.
    • AUDIOBOO - the iPhone audio blogging app.
    • BEBO - "Blog Early, Blog Often". Hottest bands, sexiest celebs and fresh new videos. Keep track of friends on other social sites from one place. Find friends and invite your network to join.
    • BLIPPY - "Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying." A social media "sharing" site for users to post and follow each other's updates about their purchases of goods and services. It has been described as the "Twitter of personal finance".
    • BLOGGER - create your free blog. Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world.
    • CBOX - free tagboard and chat widget for your site.
    • CHATROULETTE - a website which pairs random strangers for webcam-based conversations. Visitors to the website randomly begin an online stranger chat (video and text) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat and initiate another random connection.
    • CLASSMATES.COM - find friends from college, military, workplace.
    • CROWDGATHER - "Our rapidly growing network allows forum owners, forum goers, and marketers to interact and develop deep, meaningful ties."
    • EONS - lovin' life on the flip side.
    • EXPAT NETWORK - expat jobs abroad.
    • FACEBOOK - launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than 500 million active users in July 2010.
    • FAME GAME - a rapidly-growing website that maps and analyzes your social connections and media attention to help you promote meaningful ideas, people, and organizations in culture.
    • FANBOX - "The world's largest mobile community." FanBox enables people to buy, sell, and promote their digital content through web & mobile technologies.
    • FARK - is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site.
    • FAVORITES - upload and share your own videos with the world.
    • FLATTR - Flattr is a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like.
    • FLICKR - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
    • FLIXTER - "Watch movies. Tell friends." Flixter is a community for movie fans of all shapes and sizes. Whether you are a die-hard horror fan or lover of romantic comedies (or both), Flixster is a place where you can find others who share your taste and through them discover new movies that you will love.
    • FOURSQUARE - location-based social networking website, software for mobile devices, and game. Users "check-in" at venues using text messaging or a device specific application.
    • FRIEND FEED - enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
    • FRONTLINE SMS - allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal
    • FUNNY OR DIE - a comedy video website that combines user generated content with original, exclusive content. The site is a place where celebrities, established and up-and-coming comedians and regular users can all put up stuff they think is funny.
    • GOOGLE BUZZ - social networking and messaging tool from Google that is integrated into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox.
    • GOOGLE BUZZ FOR MOBILE - see what's going on nearby, post a message tagged with your location, and follow your friends on the go.
    • GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT - grow traffic by adding social features to your site.
    • GOOGLE LATITUDE - lets you see your friends on a map. Get it on your phone or your computer.
    • GOWALLA - "Discover, capture and share places and events with your friends."
    • HI5 - an international social network with a local flavor. It enables members to stay connected, share their lives, and learn what's happening around them.
    • ICQ - whether you want a personal communication tool or to target your campaigns to a young and captive audience, ICQ is the solution.
    • IDENTI.CA - a social microblogging service similar to Twitter, built on open source tools and open standards. Allows users to send text-based posts up to 140 characters.
    • ILIKE - "Do you love music? Get personalized concert alerts from your favorite artists in iTunes. Share playlists and recommendations with friends. Join over 50 million music lovers across Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, hi5, and iGoogle."
    • JAIKU - social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter.
    • KABOODLE - have fun shopping with friends, share and discover new products.
    • LAST.FM - "Last.fm is a music service that learns what you love... Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too."
    • LINKEDIN - the world's largest business network.
    • LIVE SPACES - access Hotmail, Messenger and Xbox LIVE.
    • MIGENTE - Your home for what's relevant to you & your community.
    • MIXX - registered users of Mixx can submit great content, vote for their favorites and mixx it up by adding comments and making friends.
    • MULTIPLY - secure, family-friendly media sharing.
    • MUMSNET - a British community website set up by mothers to give advice on parenting and family issues.
    • MY.ARFIE - show off your pets on Dogpile's Online Community!
    • MY BLOG LOG - the source for all things.
    • MY NIKKI BEACH - the Jet Set social network.
    • MY SPACE - social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.
    • MYBATANGA - encuentra amigos, crea estaciones de Internet radio, sube fotos y más.
    • NAYMZ - reputation management and networking for professionals.
    • NETWORK FOR GOD - Network for Good is a website where users can donate to charities and search for volunteer opportunities.The website was founded in 2001 by America Online, Cisco Systems and Yahoo!.
    • NING - lets you create and join new social networks for your interests and passions.
    • OMEGLE - used for talking to strangers and "meeting new friends" via stranger chat. The service randomly pairs up users online into one-on-one chat windows, where they can chat anonymously using the handles "You" and "Stranger"; either party can disconnect at any time.
    • OPEN SOCIAL - defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites.
    • ORKUT - social networking and discussion site operated by Google.
    • PHOTOBUCKET - offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. Upload your photos, host your videos, and share them with friends and family.
    • PICASA - a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.
    • PING.FM - "Update all of your social networks at once!" Free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.
    • PLAXO - "Your Address Book For Life." Online "smart, socially connected address book" and social networking service.
    • REDDIT - a social news website. "What's new online!" Keep up with the latest development updates, community announcements, and general reddit tomfoolery.
    • ROTARY INTERNATIONAL - more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Motto: Service Above Self.
    • SCRIBD - the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents.
    • SECOND LIFE - a free online virtual world imagined and created by its Residents. From the moment you enter Second Life, you'll discover a fast-growing digital world filled with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity.
    • SEESMIC - stay connected and share information with your friends.
    • SLURL - location-based linking in Second Life.
    • SOCIALTEXT - private "Twitter" network for you and your co-workers, free.
    • TECHNORATI - help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation.
    • THE MESSAGE CENTER - exchange made easy.
    • THIS NEXT - recommend, share and discover great products.
    • TUMBLR - a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog.
    • TWEETDECK - TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.
    • TWINITY - "Powered by Real Life." A 3D mirror world based on real cities and real people. The world’s first mirror world made of real people and real places. The virtual cities of Berlin and Singapore have already launched in Twinity, with London set to join them soon.
    • TWITPIC - share photos on Twitter.
    • TWITTER - is a micro-blogging service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
      Also visit: The Big Juicy Twitter Guide, 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence, CoTweet: how business does twitter and Twitter 101: Guide for businesses.
    • VIMEO - "Video Sharing For You." Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. 3,400,000 members as of May, 2010.
    • WAYN.COM - the fastest growing travel and lifestyle social networking community website in the UK. Present in 251 countries and membership of over 15 million.
    • WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER - (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft.
    • XING - find business contacts at the click of a mouse.
    • YOU TUBE - "Broadcast Yourself."
    • ZYNGA - "Connecting the world through games." Web 2.0-based social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.



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