The Best of the Rest of the Social Media Sites

There are many other Social Media sites. Here are ten major players – the best of the rest …

What is Digg?

www.digg.com

Digg is a social destination for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web such as news, blog, articles, videos and images. Digg is a user driven social content website split up into two sections – ‘Popular’ stories and ‘Upcoming’ stories. The content is user generated and members vote on what they ‘digg’ best with the most popular content promoted to the home page and ‘bury’ the content they don’t like.

What is StumbleUpon?

www.stumbleupon.com

StumbleUpon is a recommendation engine that lists great websites, photos and videos that have been endorsed by your friends or one of 8 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to yours. More than an information portal, it is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos and offers almost 500 content topics. StumbleUpon claimed to have more than 8,772,000 members as of December 5, 2009.

What is Delicious?

www.delicious.com

Delicious owned by Yahoo!, is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that the website can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, the search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find new bookmarks from people with similar interests.

What is Propeller?

www.propeller.com

Propeller previously known as Netscape.com and owned by AOL-Netscape, is a social news media networking site that allows you to share news stories you have found on the Web from online magazines and newspapers as well as quirky, offbeat articles from other non-mainstream sources. More than a news portal, once articles are posted, people can comment on it, share it with friends or bookmark to read later to make this site a rich, online community.

What is Reddit?

www.reddit.com

Reddit owned by Conde Nast Digital is a user generated content website which is a source to know what’s new and popular on the web. Users provide all of the content and decide, through voting, what’s good and what’s not. Links that receive community approval are ranked higher on the home page which is constantly updated with fresh, interesting links. Reddit also includes topical sections called “reddits” which focus on specific topics, such as politics, programming or science.

What is Diigo?

www.diigo.com

Diigo stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff” and is two services in one – it is a collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. Diigo allows you to share quality content, filtered and annotated by the community, on almost any subject you may be interested in and allows you to connect with others who share similar interests.

What is MySpace?

www.myspace.com

Owned by News Corporation and originally inspired by Friendster, MySpace grew quickly to become one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. The social media network allows people to connect through around personal expression, content and culture. User pages are highly customisable and support integration with widgets such as Slide or YouTube. Musicians such as Lily Allen and Sean Kingston were first discovered through MySpace.

What is Friendster?

www.friendster.com

Friendster was one of the first social media networks with more than 115 million members worldwide. As Friendster’s name suggests, it allows people to meaningfully participate with others in exciting and fun ways and keep in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them via social media. Friendster prides itself in delivering an easy-to-use, friendly and interactive environment.

What is hi5?

www.hi5.com

hi5 is a social networking destination where young people meet and play. Members create an online profile and can create personal photo albums, play online games, and set up a music player in the profile. With over 50 million monthly visitors, hi5 is aimed at the youth market with almost 70% of their users falling in the coveted 18-34 age bracket. hi5’s users are highly engaged – spending, on average, over 20 minutes and 50 page views per day as at May 2010.

What is flickr?

www.flickr.com

Flickr owned by Yahoo! is one of the largest online photo management and sharing application in the world. However, it is not just a hosting and sharing application, it is an online photo community which allows members to not only upload your photos but share them on other blogs and social media sites and allow people to add comments, notes and tags. As of October 2009, it claimed to be hosting more than 4 billion images.

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