SOCIAL NETWORKING MASTER LIST OF 350+ Social Networking Sites
In the past several years, some networks have thrived, some vanished, while hundreds of new ones appeared. It has become a huge area to follow, and this article illustrates this well: a collection of over 350 social networking sites. We hope to have created an extensive and useful resource for anyone interested in social networking. Enjoy.
Feel free to add more social networks in the comments.
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
43 Things – A tagging based social networking site. Users create accounts and list a number of goals or hopes and these are parsed based on similarity to goals of other users.
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.
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
Chaula – Chaula is a pronunciation dictionary created by the community and a social network where you can help other people learn your language.
FriendsAbroad – An online community of language learners speaking over 80 languages across 200 countries.
Huitalk – This is a language learning community where you can chat with other Huitalk members, access the article resource, and join the forums to learn new languages.
iTalki – Language exchange network wherein you can find a partner and practice speaking a foreign language using an instant messenger or iTalki’s text and voice chat tool.
Kan Talk – This site will help you learn English by conversing with other members and sharing questions, recordings, and videos.
Lingoz – Online dictionary created by the community and providing a resource for language questions.
LiveMocha – Another language learning community where you can enroll for language lessons, and practicing conversing with text and chat tools with other community members.
MyLanguageExchange – Find a partner to practice a new language with a native speaker.
Novlet – A collaborative story writing tool in several languages. You can also read stories written by other users.
Open Language Archives Community – Network of institutions and people who are creating an online language resources like data, tool, and advice to documentation and analysis of human language.
SharedTalk – Chat on voice or text with other members to learn new languages.
Speak Any Language – Forums, chat, and tools for learning foreign languages and interacting with people speaking foreign languages.
TalkBean – You can tutor language students or be a student on the TalkBean community. Students pay to get language lessons and tutors can get paid to teach.
TalkConmigo – Barcelona’s language exchange community.
Top Language Community – This is an online language community site for bilingual and multilingual people living in London, UK, and Ireland offering language jobs, dating, flat sharing, directory, events and forums.
TraduWiki – A wiki where members and readers contribute to translate documents and texts. You can submit your documents for translation in select languages.
UniLang – This is a community where people can discuss and find language resources, linguistics and translation.
WeLang – WeLang is an online language community where you can learn new languages and communicate with native speakers.
xLingo – xLingo is a language exchange online community where you can find partners across the world to learn new languages.
Sites Offering Courses and Tools for Learning Multiple Languages
1-Language – Learn English with
1-Language’s audio course. The site also provides various resources
for learning different languages in different countries.
AlphaLearnr –
AlphaLearnr is a collection of Flickr pictures grouped according to the
English alphabet to help children learn English.
BBC Languages – Resources for
learning French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese,
Portuguese, Greek, Urdu, and more.
Digital Dialects – Provides
interactive activities for learning over 48 languages.
EduFind – Provides language learning tools, courses, materials, resources and news in more than 128 languages. The site also lists language schools in various countries.
eLanguage – Provides free online grammar guides in English, Spanish, French, and German. Provides slideshows of 32 world cultures.
eLanguageSchool – Resources for learning Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Engoi – Free vocabulary exercises of more than 12 languages.
Fonetiks – Online pronunciation guide to different variations of the English, French, French Canadian, German, Swiss German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Thai languages.
Goethe-Tests – Free online language tests.
InternetPolygot – Learn various languages with digital flashcards.
iTools – Provides word, text, and website translator tools.
Learn Indian Languages – Provides English, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu language word and sentence constructions in the scripts of your language.
LanguageGuide – LanguageGuide offers sound integrated language learning tools in 11 languages developed by its volunteers.
Linguanaut – Phrases and alphabets of 49 languages.
Mango – Free language learning course with each course comprising of 100 lessons. Courses available are for Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Geek, English for Spanish speakers, and English for Polish speakers.
Omniglot – Provides information of over 150 different writing systems with illustrations, origin, usage, notable features and the language(s) written with it.
PhraseBase – This is an online database of everyday words and phrases translated into over 90 foreign languages. There are live webcam language classrooms as well.
Scola – A non-profit educational organization re-transmitting native language TV programs from around the world.
Single-Serving – Learn common phrases and words that you can use while traveling to various countries. Provides information on more than 33 languages.
Stella Online – Online language courses for Danish, English, and Hungarian.
Transparent – Site offering free language software.
Transcon – This site provides important and need-to-know vocabulary of Middle East and African nations for military and civilians working in these conflict areas.
Virtulingo – Provides personalized language learning programs over the Internet through VoIP programs. Languages offered are Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. Standard lessons start at USD $35.00.
Vocabulix – Learn Spanish, English, and German with Vocabulix’s predefined lesson from over 90 choices or from a lesson created by another Vocabulix user.
Word2word – Links of various resources of learning new languages online.
Translation Tools and Services
101 Languages – Basic vocabulary
and translation service of various languages.
AjaxTrans – With
AjaxTrans, you can have your text translated, automatically in the
language of your choice, as you type. Supported languages are
English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Russian, Greek, and
Dutch.
AllWords –
Provides links to language dictionaries, language learning tools,
translation services, etc.
AltaVista Babel Fish – Translates a web page or up to 150 words of text in English to/from Chinese (Simplified), English to/from Chinese (Traditional), English to/from Dutch, English to/from French, English to/from German, English to/from Greek, English to/from Italian, English to/from Korean, English to/from Japanese, English to/from Russian, English to/from Portuguese, English to/from Spanish, German to/from French, Dutch to/from French, French to/from German,French to/from Greek, French to/from Italian, French to/from Portuguese, and French to/from Spanish.
AquariuasNet – Provides translation jobs, forums, and directories of translation agencies.
Babelplex – You can enter any word and search the web on the translation of that word in the language of your choice.
Foreignword – Provides links to language dictionaries, translation and language identifier tool, and directory of language translators.
Freedictionary.biz – This is a
multilingual dictionary supporting translations from and to these
languages – Dutch, Estonian, German, Italian, Lithuanian,Polish,
Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Google Translate –
This Google tool translate text and webpages in English to/from
Arabic, English to/from Chinese (Simplified), English to/from
Chinese (Traditional), English to/from French, English to/from
German, English to/from Italian, English to/from Korean, English
to/from Japanese, English to/from Russian, English to/from Spanish,
English to/from Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified) to/from Chinese
(Traditional), and German to/from French. You can also enter a
particular phrase in your language and search it among other
language sites. There is a multi-lingual dictionary too.
ImTanslator – Provides an online translator, spell checker, multilingual dictionary, virtual keyboard, and a Russian decoder tool.
iPhoneCedict – An online Chinese to English dictionary.
LingoDeal – LingoDeal is a translators’ open marketplace aggregating language deals from other different language translation job networks.
Netfinder – Directory of New Zealand sites that provides translation services of the sites its its directory into 8 languages.
PanImages – You can use PanImages to translate words into different languages and search Google Images and Flickr.
PopJisyo – This is pop-up dictionary for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other languages that you can use to read foreign language websites.
Proz – Proz is an online directory of freelance language translators & translation agencies. It also has translation job listings.
SDL FreeTranslation – Translates websites and text in English to Chinese (Simplified), English to Chinese (Traditional), English to/from Spanish, English to/from French, English to/from German, English to/from Italian, English to/from Dutch, English to/from Portuguese,English to/from Russian,English to/from Japanese,and English to Norwegian. there is an advanced translation option, chat translation, and human translation service available at a price.
TranslatorsBase – You can post a project at TranslatorsBase and get quotes from freelance translators and translation agencies.
TranslatorsCafe – TranslatorsCafe provides linguistic news and resources. You can also chat with other linguists and apply for work at translation agencies.
WordReference – Multilingual online dictionary that supports English to/ from Spanish, English to/ from French, English to/ from French, and English to/ from Italian translations.
WorldLingo – Resource for various free online language dictionaries. Also provides language translations of documents, websites, multimedia, and software by professional translators.
Yahoo Babel Fish – With Yahoo Babel Fish, you can translate a webpage or upto 150 words of text in English to/from Chinese (Simplified), English to/from Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified) to/from Chinese (Traditional), English to/from French,English to/from German, English to/from Dutch, English to/from Greek, English to/from Italian, English to/from Korean, English to/from Japanese, English to/from Russian, English to/from Portuguese, English to/from Spanish, German to/from French, Dutch to/from French, French to/from German,French to/from Greek, French to/from Italian, French to/from Portuguese, and French to/from Spanish.
Miscellaneous Tools
Orangoo – Online spell checker in 27 languages.
Project Readon – You can use this browser-based player to watch videos with foreign language captions.
RhymeZone – Enter a word and find its rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, definition, related words, similar sounding words, homophones. You can also check spellings, match consonants and letters, search for pictures and quotations, and search in Shakespeare works.
Talklets – Add this tool to your website and convert its content to life-like speech.
Media (Photo, Video & Audio
Stickam – The best site for live
video communications with multiple people. There is no major
competition for Stickam just yet.
Blogtv – Blogtv
is a recent discovery to the public. It allows you to do a live
video show, and you can stream it live, as well as archive it for
later use.
ooVoo – This
allows you to carry on video conversations with live video through
a Skype-like program.
Mogulus –
This site is basically an all in one broadcast solution for video.
You can create, edit, and add things similar to broadcast companies
could add.
Ustream –
Allows you to stream live video and you can also embed the player
in to your own website.
HeyCosmo –
A downloadable application that allows you to connect with other
people in many ways, even play games and more.
Operator11
– Go live with your camera and create your own channels. You can
also send video comments and remix your videos.
Online Video How-to
Better YT Video
Quality – This guide helps you with getting the best possible
video quality on YouTube, can be applied to other sites as
well.
Make
Internet TV – This guide has step-by-step instructions for
shooting, editing, and publishing videos on the Internet.
How to put your
readers at the scene – A scene-setting guide for online web
journalists.
Tips for shooting better
online video – learn the equipment, shooting and editing basics
from this collection of tips.
Online video tips – a
Squidoo lens with several useful online video shooting and editing
tips.
Home video
tips – Chris Pirillo’s tips for shooting better videos at
home.
Camcorderinfo – Every online
video comes from a camcorder, so here is the best place to get
opinions on your next camcorder purchase.
5 Ways To
Create a Great Video Podcast – A great article that applies to
both video podcasts and video production in general.
Online Video Editors
Eyespot – add effects and transitions
to the videos you upload, or use some of the large amount of free
video clips and music from Eyespot’s media partners.
MuveeMix –
Upload your movie, mix it with music, add cool effects and share it
on MySpace, Friendster, Blogger, and other networks.
Motionbox
– This service features the ability to link to a very specific
point or “segment” within the clip itself.
Cuts – Insert sound
effects in your videos, add captions, loop the best parts and in
minutes you can share your creation with the world.
JumpCut – a
free service that enables you to upload, edit and share your
videos. Offers keyframe-based editing, effects, transitions and
actions.
VideoEgg –
A video editing platform that you can add to create a social
network and offers opportunities for monetization.
Mojiti – Select
videos from popular video sharing sites, personalize them with your
annotations and share them with others.
Photobucket – Edit videos within a
browser using Flash and remix photos and home videos with other
elements, such as music, video captions and transitions.
StashSpace
– Upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record
videos directly from your camcorder or digital camera.
BubblePly
– Video
annotating service where anyone can add text bubbles that are
synchronized with video.
Veotag –
Service that lets you display clickable text, called “veotags,”
within an audio or video file.
Vidavee Grafitti – add graphics
and text into any video; the service is called a “legal form of
artful vandalism” by the creators.
Vmix – Vmix is a
community and a hosting provider for your videos, aimed at creative
authors who want to create remixes of their music and videos.
MovieMasher – a combination of a
video editor with a timeline and lots of various effects, a
standalone player and a media browser.
MixerCast –
Mix your media with professional video, images, music, and network
your MixerCast everywhere.
Fliptrack
– Make a free musical photo slideshow and music video. It’s easy to
do and you do it online.
Online Video Converters
Zamzar – converts all sorts of file
formats, including several video formats.
Media
Convert – a media converter with a huge amount of options;
resulting videos can sometimes be out of sync with audio.
Vixy – a simple
converter that can only convert Flash apps from the web to several
other video formats.
Hey Watch! –
an online video converter focusing on file formats that works on
portable multimedia devices, like the iPod.
MediaConverter – a video
converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can sometimes
yield really good results.
Movavi –
another video converter that allows you to upload videos and
convert them to formats you wish to use.
Video sharing
YouTube – YouTube is the king of the
video sharing sites, it has more users and videos than the others.
Any video you can think of it probably already on YouTube.
Google
Video – Since Google bought YouTube, Google’s Video player is
mainly used for for-pay content like TV shows. Also there is a
search here that indexes all of the video sharing sites on the
internet (well, most of them).
Blip.tv –
Blip.tv
is the perfect video sharing site for video podcast makers. It’s
designed to let them easily upload all types and qualities of media
and then send them to their feed for the users. They also let you
add ads to you video so you can make some money.
Ourmedia –
A great site where you can upload audio, video, images, and text
and share them with the world. The OurMedia community contains over
100,000 members.
Veoh – Watch long
form, television quality content and publish your own videos.
DailyMotion – Video sharing
platform with multiple video search options. You can join groups of
people who publish videos based on a common interest.
Metacafe –
A site that helps you discover the best videos through a community
that filters, reviews and rates new videos every day.
UnCut –
Video uploading and sharing community by AOL. Embed all the videos
you want in your blog.
ClipShack
– video sharing community that allows you to upload video clips,
make friends, keep a collection of your favorite videos and comment
on clips.
5min – Video
sharing site with a particular vision: collecting videos that can
visually explain anything in 5 minutes.
Brightcove – Search, click and
watch. Music videos, news, travel, recipes, adventure. Thousands of
channels, including the best in online video.
Viddler –
Viddler lets add tags and comments to video that will show up at
specific times. It also has unique features like flickr and twitter
integration.
Revver – The
first video sharing site that provides users with the possibility
to earn money from the videos they upload.
Vimeo – Vimeo is
a video sharing site that has an emphasis on it’s users. The
video’s you find there are more likely to be home movies or shorts
by aspiring film makers, and also a lot of lip dubs.
Yahoo
Video – Yahoo’s version of online video. Similar to
Google
video, but done the Yahoo way.
HelpfulVideo – Share your knowledge
and skills with others for free or little charge via video
clips.
BroadbandSports – A video
sharing site specifically for sharing sports related videos.
Travelistic – A video sharing
site that allows users to post video content specific to
travel.
Livevideo
– Video sharing site that lets you create personal channels. Upload
your own videos and share them with the world.
Kewego – A
video sharing network where you can upload your own videos and view
videos by others.
Godtube – It’s a
Christian version of YouTube. All things Christian welcomed.
Coull.tv – An
interactive twist to video, this site allows you to view video and
add interactive elements to it by using your mouse.
Mediabum –
Video sharing site focusing on funny videos.
VMIX – Another
video sharing website; All content is screened, so be sure
everything you upload is legit.
Grouper –
Video sharing site with a big selection of content; enables you to
create playlists and easily upload videos to MySpace.
Break – Break is
a video site and more for comedic based content.
Videosift
– a Digg-like site which lets you submit, vote, and
comment on videos.
GeeVee – GeeVee
is a video sharing site specifically for sharing videos of game
play in video games.
Stage6 – A video
site that uses the Divx player so you can upload High Definition
video, of course this also means longer upload times, and you need
DivX support (usually a browser plugin).
Tube
Battle – vote for the best videos, organized by category.
Video hosting
TinyPic – Host videos and images for
free; it is possible to upload videos in the most popular formats
and link videos on MySpace, eBay, blogs and message boards
Vidilife –
Upload videos and store them online. There is no limit in terms of
length of the files you can upload.
Dropshots
– Good site that lets you upload videos, share them and embed them
on other sites.
ZippyVideos – Upload and store
video files (maximum 20 MB) in the most popular video formats.
Supload – Free
service to host video clips and images. Maximum video file size
allowed is 20 MB.
Rupid – Another
provider of free video hosting: you can host your videos and share
them with others.
Pixilive –
Free images and video hosting for MySpace, eBay, Facebook and other
sites. Maximum size for videos is 10 MB.
Mydeo – store and
stream your videos online. You will be able to embed a video on any
website and send streaming video messages .
YourFileHost – Upload files
anonymously and share them with others. You can upload any file
format up to 25 MB.
Video organization and management
Aggrega – create and organize your
own music video channels and share them with others.
Feedbeat – a
fantastic service that lets you create playlists with videos from
different sources – YouTube, Google Video and others. Each playlist
gets its own subdomain on feedbeat.net.
Ajaxilicious – an online movie
catalogue which enables you to manage your movies and share them
with others via RSS.
Cliproller - create custom video
channels and add as many as you like to your personal Cliproller
page.
CozmoTV –
CozmoTV is a site that allows you to create and organize channels
of video already existing online.
Vidcasts & vlogging
BlogCheese – a simple way to
create and share a video blog – all you need is a webcam.
Revision3
– A video podcasting network that’s home to many well made video
podcasts, including Diggnation, which is Kevin Rose and Alex
Albrecht’s video podcast about the top stories on Digg.
Jabbits –
Social video blogging: Use your webcam to record your Post or Jab
with an easy-to-use recorder.
Ask a
Ninja – got questions? Ask a ninja! One of the most popular
vidcasts in the world, and definitely the funniest.
Galacticast – a weekly Sci-fi
comedy podcast, episodes usually consists of lots of really geeky
parodies.
Scriggity
– A news podcast, where the viewers send in the news that they
think should be on the shows.
SuperDeluxe – A site to find
videos that focus mainly on comedic content.
DL.TV – Some of the the
old TechTV crew back at it again with their own own show on all
things tech. One of the best video podcasts for tech geeks.
Webnation – Amber
Mac’s bi-weekly video podcast with news and interviews relating to
current events in the tech world.
Tom Green’s the
Channel – A daily video podcast that is recorded live and is
hosted by Tom Green. He usually has a celebrity guest on the
show.
GeekBrief TV – a daily podcast hosted by Cali Lewis, it’s a 3-5
minute update on the latest tech news.
This Week in Tech
– famous tech vidcast by Leo Laporte, one of the most viewed
vidcasts in the world.
The
Broken – tech show for teh 1337 h4×0rz.
Digg
Podcasts – a long list of popular podcasts, containing most of
the vidcasts on this list and many more.
Video Maps
Virtual Video Map – YouTube
videos on a Google map. Find out where do all those cool videos
come from.
RealPeopleStuff – a site
that combines CraigsList and YouTube, offering video clips related
to ads.
TagTV –
enter a tag and get results from Flickr and YouTube. Clean and
simple design makes TagTV a very neat way to browse photos and
videos.
I Love
Music Video – combines YouTube with info from your Last.FM
account. Great way to get videos (at least until Last.FM signs an
evil deal with all those content providers and starts offering
music videos).
MusicPortl
– information on bands and musicians containing biographies, Flickr
images, related blog posts and YouTube videos.
Magg – aggregates
videos from several video sites. Also works as a search engine.
RateMyDanceMoves – Hot or
Not-style site, presenting you dance-related YouTube videos to vote
on.
ReviewTube – a site that
enables you to add captions to YouTube videos. Nice idea, but
relatively poor execution – the captions frequently overlap, making
the text unreadable.
Mobile video apps
Youtube mobile – a stripped down
version of YouTube tailored for use on mobile phones.
Shozu – a free
service for your phone that makes it easy to send and receive
photos, videos and music
Abazab – a
universal video player that also works on your mobile phone.
Srobbin Mobile Video – An
unofficial search for Google video on your cell phone.
Yahoo
Mobile – Yahoo mobile allows you to search, find, and play
videos right on your cell phone.
MobiTV – MobiTV
allows you to watch television video from popular networks of all
kinds.
MTV Mobile Video – Anything
MTV related all for download to watch on your cell phone.
ESPN
MVP – If you are a Verizon Wireless customer and have the V
Cast service enabled, you can watch sports clips and more.
Moblr – Moblr
allows you to view videos uploaded to the site directly on your
cell phone.
Mobunga –
This site allows you to download videos to your mobile phone, as
well as iPod and PSP.
Video search
Blinkx – Perform searches within the
most popular video networks, such as CBS, Reuters and CNN. Users
can search for content and create TV channels that splice relevant
content together.
PureVideo
– Search within the most popular video directories and video
sharing sites. PureVideo features up to six channels and each
channel contains about six source sites.
SearchVideo – Search engine and
directory created by AOL. Users can also search within specific
video channels like MySpace and YouTube.
Search For Video – search
engine and video directory that displays results from hundreds of
video channels. Search For Video also provides an add-on for
Firefox.
Yahoo! Video Search – Yahoo!
has a video search engine that gathers videos from Yahoo! directory
and from many other online sources. You can also search within
specific domains or sites.
TubeSurf –
Video search engine that gathers results from popular video
directories, such as YouTube, Yahoo! Video, MySpace and Google
Video. TubeSurf is also available as an add-on for Firefox.
ClipRoller – Search across popular
video sites, such as: YouTube, Metacafe and more. As you continue
to search for videos, ClipRoller learns your preferences and
delivers content you like to watch.
Pixsy – A video
search engine that lets users search content across dozens of video
sites. Users are allowed to save searches and single videos.
ScoopVid –
Search engine that enables you to either search for videos or
browse through channels and categories.
Google Video Search – Google’s Video
search recently was updated and now searches many video sites other
than just YouTube and Google Video.
AOL Video –
once known as the great media search engine, the AOL-purchased
SingingFish, AOL Video kept some traits of the crowd’s favorite
place to look for hard to find videos, but true fans claim that the
site is not as good as its predecessor.
Truveo – Search
videos or browse by either channel or category.
Altavista Video – good
old Altavista isn’t what it used to be, but it does have a video
search section.
Online video downloading services
VideoRonk – Search and download
your favorite videos from YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe,
DailyMotion, iFilm, MySpace, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Revver and more.
VideoDL –
Download online videos available on YouTube, Google Video and
Break.com stright to your computer.
Vixy – Grab videos from
popular sites and convert them into various video formats
(including iPod and PSP).
KeepVid –
Download videos from many video sharing sites, including YouTube,
Google Video, MySpace Videos, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Revver and
other services.
VideoDownloader – Get
videos from video sharing sites. VideoDownloader is also available
as a Firefox extension, allowing you to seamlessly integrate it
within your browser.
YouTubeX –
Download videos from YouTube. It doesn’t have a lot of options in
terms of video sites among which you could choose, but it is very
easy to use.
DownThisVideo – This site lets you
download videos from YouTube, GoogleVideo, MetaCafe, Vimeo and
other services.
KissYouTube – A service that
provides two interesting and effective ways to download videos from
YouTube.
YouTubeDownloads
– Another site that lets you download videos exclusively from
YouTube (other sites are not supported).
Kcoolonline – Download videos on
your hard disk from more than 90 sites, including YouTube, Google
Video, Metacafe, iFilm and MySpace, Yahoo and many more.
YouTubia –
A YouTube clone that lets you download and save YouTube videos
within your IE or Firefox browser.
MediaConverter – A platform
that lets you download and convert videos straight from
YouTube.
Miscellaneous tools
Hellodeo – Record videos from your
webcam and post them on any web page.
Flikzor –
Send and receive video comments on your profile, blog and more.
Flixn – Record a
video message right in the web browser and share anywhere including
MySpace and eBay.
GabMail –
Service that enable users to send unlimited numbers of free video
email messages.
Bubble
Guru – A site for recording webcam video messages and getting
them onto your website or sending to others.
CamTwist –
Software package (for Mac computers) that lets you add special
effects to your video chats.
WebcamMax – Software that lets
you add videos, screen, pictures, flash and effects to virtual or
real webcam and broadcast on all messengers (Windows only).
StumbleUpon
Video – Just press “Stumble!” and a random video is presented
to you, you can also ask for random videos with in categories like
Humor, or Cats.
CrowdRules
– video answers to your questions.
ClipSync –
interact with other users while watching the same video as
them.
ClipSyndicate – publish
broadcast quality news on your web site.
Broadbandsports – a big
collection of sports-related videos.
Fauxto –
Advanced online photo editor with an interface similar to
Photoshop’s
XmgImg-
Image hosting service that provides an interface for users to
manage, edit, and share their images online.
OnlinePhotoTool – Edit
pictures taken from your hard drive as well as images that are
already on the Internet.
MyImager –
Upload images from your computer and from anywhere on the web and
edit them freely with the dozens of tools and filters
available.
SnipShot –
Edit photos from your hard-drive, your Webshots account, or your
Flickr account in one place, and then save them back to any of
those locations.
Pixenate –
Online photo editor with many special effects. You can also
integrate Pixenate on your website and allow visitors to edit
images.
Phixr – Edit
your pictures and directly upload them to Flickr, Fotopic,
Livejournal, Photobucket, Fotolog.com, Buzznet and Dropshots.
Pixer.us – Edit
your photos online within your browser, add special effects and
save them in the most popular formats.
Picture2Life – Edit pictures
available on the Internet or taken from your hard disk. You can
also import images from popular photo sharing sites.
Cellsea –
Upload pictures from your PC or from an URL. It provides over 15
ways to correct color, exposure, and lighting problems.
Preloadr –
Photo editor with good image manipulation functions that is
connected with your Flickr account.
Picnik – Photo
editor with many interesting features which is directly connected
to many photo sharing sites.
Pixelmator
– Pixelmator is a photo editing service for Mac users. The design
is superb and intuitive. There are selection tools, paintbrushes of
various size and shape, retouching tools, layering and much more.
You can enhance photos, analyze colors, add text, create stylized
scenes with halftones and image blurring.
Photo Sharing
Zorpia – Zorpia is like Myspace with some
more photo features, you can upload you photos and share them on
your profile.
Clickfriends -Document your life
with your own digital photo essay, then share it with friends and
family through ClickFriends.com. Now you can have the same site
take care of your online photo albums and your Facebook or MySpace
photo albums. Just upload your photos to the ClickFriends site, and
then have them exported to your profile on your preferred social
networking site. It´s free and easy to sign up.
Snappages –
Snappages.com provides space for you to save and organize your
photos, your online friends from virtual communities, and your
events in one well-designed web page. It combines various web
concepts, including online storage, file sharing, and
Facebook-style friend communication.
Photorgy –
Photorgy is photo uploading/sharing tool which works with
AIM.
Photo albums can be shared and owned by any number of friends,
family members, and colleagues.
SlideShare
– SlideShare is a content sharing site where you can host and
display presentations. Maybe you would use it to show your
professional work, or just for personal photo sharing, power point
presentations about your latest entrepreneurial idea, or graphics
you designed.
Zoomandgo –
Contribute your travel photos, videos, or general advice to the
Zoom and Go site, and they will reward you with cash. The site has
a system of points which can be awarded to the content you submit
according to what kind of content it is (written reviews receive
less then photos, and videos receive the most).
Zooomr – Store,
share, sort, sell, and search all your photos and those of other
users at Zooomr. Users can post comments on individual pictures,
therefore, gaining feedback on the photo, as well as gaining
insight into the other photographers who use the site. Photos can
be shared for free, or can be sold through the site.
BurstCast –
Burstcast offers space for you to upload pics from your camera
phone either by MMS or by e-mail, right from the phone. On the
site, you can choose for your photos to be made public and shown on
the home page (but it´s either all or nothing; you can´t have some
photos be public and some private).
Mostrips –
The photo sharing site is designed to let you create albums to be
easily shared on mobile phones. It´s a useful way to send work if
you are a photographer, or a head shot if you are a model or actor.
Or it can just be a fun way to share photos from your vacations
among friends and family.
DPhoto – DPhoto
is a photo sharing service which offers well-designed graphics and
a professional appearance. With DPhoto you can share your photos
with friends and family in an ad-free, secure site.
Invitr –
Invitr is a Flickr related application which simply extends your
sharing capabilities. With Invitr you can share your Flickr photos
with non-Flickr members; so photos that have been categorized as
private can now be sent and shared with anyone you choose.
DigitalRailroad – Digital
Railroad is aimed at aiding professional photographers connect with
more fans and even help them connect to content providers and media
companies who are looking to buy their work.
ContakMe –
Contakme is a new site where you can upload an unlimited number of
photos, create albums, and rate other people´s photos.
Flickr – The
most popular photo sharing site. Upload photos, create sets and
join one of the greatest communities of professional and
unprofessional photographers.
Picasa –
Google’s
answer to photo sharing. The main application is a download, but
there are also web albums.
Free Photo Hosting
Photobucket – one of the most popular
image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users.
Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites;
gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images
themselves being up to 1 MB in size.
ImageShack – The
most popular image hosting service. Upload images up to 1.5 MB and
embed them in any web page.
AllYouCanUpload- There
is no limit to the image size you can upload. You can also upload
up to three images in the same time.
ImageHosting – Upload multiple
pictures at one time. The maximum filesize you can upload depends
on what account you registered.
TinyPic –
Upload pictures and videos and embed them anywhere. The direct link
for your picture or video will be tiny (e.g. http://tinypic.com/1)
TheImageHosting – Upload
multiple images at once and zipped image files. Maximum file size
allowed is 1 MB.
BayImg – Free
uncensored image hosting provided by the Pirate Bay. The max file
upload size is 100MB and you can can upload about 140 different
formats.
XS.to – Upload your
images and embed them anywhere. You can also delete images you
previously uploaded. Max file size allowed is 2.5 MB.
ImgPlace –
Upload up to five images at one time. Maximum file size allowed is
1.5 MB
FreeImageHosting.net –
Register to host your images for free. Maximum file size is 3,000
KB.
FileHigh –
The free “Economy” account lets you upload up to three images
simultaneously and the maximum size for each file is 512 KB.
VillagePhotos – Upload pictures
straight from your browser and host them online. 1 GB monthly data
transfer.
ImageVenue –
You can upload up to five images in the same moment. The maximum
file size allowed is 1.5 MB.
ImageCross
– Free MySpace image hosting. You can upload images up to 2 MB in
size.
SmugMug –
SmugMug is a photo uploader, editor, and community portal all in
one. You can upload and share your photos, then store the photos
with up to four backup copies of each photo in three varying
states.
Photography Blogs
Digital-Photography-School
– Darren Rowse’s photo tips.
Thomas
Hawk – Zooomr’s Thomas Hawk on photography, Zooomr, Flickr and
general tech news.
PhotoCritic – A site for
photography criticism, with the intention of allowing photographers
to critique each others’ work and share opinions, suggestions, and
professional tips.
FlickrBlog –
While it’s not exclusively a photo blog, but from time to time the
Flickr staff will pick a few photos and feature them on the blog
and the users see this as a big honor.
DPreview –
practically the only resource you’ll ever need for digital cameras;
incredibly in-depth and timely reviews of most models available on
the market
Shutterlog – some great
photos here with attention to detail.
Chromasia –
no words, only great photos
Stuck In
Customs – blog by one of the greatest HDR photographers on the
net
Black
and White Photography – great photo blog focusing on B&W
photos.
Flappr –
A slick Flash-based Flickr interface that lets you do most of the
actions you can do on Flickr.
FlickrVision
– displays Flickr updates from various users on a Google Map.
Retrievr – an unbelievable
mashup that delivers photos based on your drawings.
Flickr Logo
Maker – Turns any text into a Flickr-style logo.
Spell with
Flickr – this tool enables you to write text in letters based
off Flickr images. Not all that useful but fun.
Tagnautica – a
slightly weird visual way to browse through Flickr images.
Captioner – adds
comic-style captions to your images.
Fastr – a “guess that
tag” style game; you are presented with a series of images and you
must guess their common tag.
PictureSandbox – Searches the
Flickr archive (as well as that of YouTube and some other sites)
based on the type of license; great tool for finding images you can
actually use in a project
FlickrFling – presents an RSS feed through Flickr images.
Completely useless but works as a fun experiment.
Colr
Pickr – One of the most useful Flickr Mashups; enables you to
search Flickr photos based on their color. Works surprisingly
well.
FlickrBall – a
six-degrees-of-separation scavenger-hunt game (yes, Kevin Bacon is
mentioned), using Flickr thumbnails and tags for clues.
Photo Tag
Mashup – Retrieves a number of Flickr images in a simple
interface based on a tag you provide
Flickr
Sudoku – a Sudoku game based on Flickr images.
Mobile
SnapZone – An online service that
lets you upload your photos directly from your mobile via a
wireless connection. Snapzone allows you to free up space on your
phone”s memory while also giving you an instantaneous way to share
your images with friends. SnapZone is also a community site, so if
your friends join you can use it to share your pictures easily in
one place.
Fotochatter – network that
enables you to share mobile pictures with your friends, as well as
receive images from your buddies on your phone
Radar – creates
picture conversations – you send your pictures to Radar and your
friends can instantly see them and comment on them
Shozu – Mobile
uploading to photo sites including Flickr.
Photo Mixing and Slideshows
Slide – create slideshows easily and
embed them on your site or social networking profile.
RockYou –
offers several free services, including slideshow creation, photo
hosting, photo enhancement and more.
Scrapblog –
An online service that lets you upload your photos from many of the
popular photo sharing websites and mash them up with hundreds of
stickers, shapes, text and YouTube videos to create a digital
scrapbook
Vuvox – Vuvox
lets you create online animated and interactive slideshows using a
range of effects, theme templates and designs
Mixercast –
Mixercast lets you mashup your photos and movies into animated,
interactive slide shows and throws in ag ood library of stock
photo, video and licensed music to use as a soundtrack
Flektor –
Flektor has a great set of tools for adding transitions, text,
stickers, effects and overlays into movies made out of your photos
and online videos
Photo Printing/Book Creation
Snapfish – Snapfish is run by HP,
they let you store and share your photos for free, and prints are
cheap with highest quality at 12¢ each. You can also have things
like mugs and cards made with your pictures on them.
Fotki – A
photo-sharing and hosting site, you can share you photos with
others or use it with your blog. It has some unique features like
FTP access, and users can choose to sell their photos. There is an
integrated printing service that lets you print at many different
sizes at good prices.
KodakGallery – Kodak Gallery is
owned by Kodak (no surprise there), like the other they let you
store and share photos and then make prints and have custom gifts
made.
Shutterfly
– Shutterfly not only lets you store and share photos and then have
them printed, you can also pic up your prints right at Target
stores.
Moo – Moo
currently has partnerships with many social networks including
Flickr, Vox, and Bebo, you can print small minicards and
notecards with the photos you have uploaded to these sites.
Photo Search
PicSearch – image search with some
interesting options; for example, you can choose to search only
black and white or color photos.
YotoFoto – a
search engine which claims to be indexing over a quarter million
Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other
‘copyleft’ images.
Google
Image Search – a resource so commonly used it doesn’t need a
special explanation; still one of the best ways to find images of
any kind on the web.
Pixsy – Image
search engine that’s striking a lot of partnerships. Also provides
PixsyPower, a custom video and photo search for your own site.
StockPhotoFinder – a search
engine specialized in finding stock photos.
EveryStockPhoto – this site
is indexing over 1 million completely free photos from various
sources.
Stock Photos
iStockPhoto – royalty-free images
for low prices; there aren’t any completely free photos here, but
photo quality is above average
Fotolia –
Another cheap royalty-free image provider, with nearly 2 million
photos in stock
SXC.hu – one of the
best (and biggest) repositories of completely free stock
photography on the net.
MorgueFile
– provides completely free photos; no registration required to
download.
PixelPerfectDigital –
5000+ free stock photos
StockXpert
– the commercial arm of Stock Xchange; offers cheap but quality
royalty-free material
Alamy – Alamy
is a search engine for stock photos which boasts millions of images
from thousands of photographers, picture agencies and national
collections. The site does the editing and classification of the
images.
Online Music
Last.FM – one of the most popular music
communities around, with personalized radio stations, a stunning
array of social networking features, RSS support and lots more.
Slacker –
personalized Internet radio which offers a desktop version of the
application and a hardware portable music player. Available only in
the United States.
ShoutCast –
A large directory of Internet radio stations, categorized by genre.
Streams work in Winamp.
Live365 – A
directory of web-based Internet radio stations – expect popups.
Yahoo! Music
– listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo’s music
portal.
AOL
Music – AOL’s take on internet radio. Offers music from XM as
well.
Pandora – a very
popular Internet radio/community which brings you new music based
on stuff you like. Works only in the US & Canada at the
moment.
Yottamusic
– a huge music library boasting over 3.4 million songs, accessible
from your web browser.
Music Discovery Tools
MusicMesh – browse through artists
based on their similarities; find tracklists and reviews for
albums.
Blogmusik –
browse through top lists and listen to popular artists for
free.
Musicovery
– discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.
Social Networks
Flotones is a monetized social
network for artists and their fans. The most interesting feature is
the possibility to promote and distribute artist’s content via
mobile phones (such as ringtones and mobile wallpapers). After you
register and add your content, you’ll be able to promote your
mobile content at your shows, on your website and on your
MySpace(
) profile.
You’ll be asked to sign a contract before getting paid.
Radio 2.0 from Mercora is a social network with an integrated free music listening service (that sustains itself through contextual music-centered ads), as well as a personal-webcasting platform. Mercora Radio 2.0 will search your hard disk for all the music tracks you have legally acquired and then you are ready to broadcast your own music library to the world. Each radio station has multiple channels and each DJ can also create his own playlists.
MOG is a social network that helps you “discover people through music and discover music through people”. Basically MOG makes it easy for you to find new music to listen to by using custom filters and personalized suggestions. The site also provides users with news, reviews and streaming audio. MOG also features a music TV that continuously broadcasts videos taken from YouTube.
Last.fm, which you’ve no doubt used already, is a service that keeps track of what music you listen to, and then helps you discover new music based on your preferences. You can use Last.fm to listen to music, find out about artists you may like, get in touch with other people with similar music taste, discover gigs in your local area, as well as create charts that you can publish on your personal site. Last.fm also allows artists and labels to upload their own music and videos and promote them for free.
iLike, another familiar one, is a service to help you organize your music, share your music tastes, and discover new artists through your friends. iLike basically helps you discover new music based on what you’re already listening to. It lets you share music libraries with your friends, browse and sample their most played songs, and compare your compatibility scores. iLike will also send you music recommendations directly in iTunes.
JamNow is a social network aimed at musicians that allows them to create audio content online in real-time. JamNow isn’t a site that simply makes you “post and listen” to audio content: its platform enables real-time music collaboration and lets you schedule live jam sessions and listen to musicians that are playing right in that moment.
MusoCity is a music-oriented social network. It provides accounts specifically designed for music fans, artists, musicians, music retailers and music venues. MusoCity is completely free to join and you can start browsing members profiles to make friends, discovering new artists, getting in touch with musicians in your area and finding events and music stores near you.
Haystack is a social network centered around people who want to find music through friends and taste makers. You can browse music, pictures, videos and reviews of artists as well as build your own profile and personalize it with images and videos (you can even add them from YouTube). Artists are welcome to sign up directly or through their manager or their label.
Sonific is a social network that offers a great way to promote your music, if you are an artist. It lets users put free music widgets with your music on their sites and promote it to their own audiences, for free. In exchange, Sonific users get free music to use and listen to (download is not permitted) and make their site look cooler – while you get free advertising for your music.
Midomi is a network that makes it easy to discover new music and people. The cool thing is that you can search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone and you will be able to connect to your favorite music, and to a community of people that share your musical interests. You can listen to other member’s voices, see pictures, rate singers, send messages and also buy music.
iJigg is a online community that lets you comment on music and share songs. You can rate music and influence what becomes popular, as well as upload your own music to share it with the community and make new fans. You will need to decide whether to open a “listener” or “artist” account, which will give you access to different features (e.g. listeners can download free mp3 of their favorite music, while artists can upload their own music).
Sellaband is a music social network that turns the fans and listeners of bands into their producers, asking them to invest in a band or artist they support so that they will be able to get a recording opportunity. Every single investor that supports a successful band will take home a small cut of the profits made by them. Artists not only get financial support but also share 50% of the ad revenue coming from the free downloads of their music.
iLike – a community that lets you
discover new music based on you and your friends’ tastes.
PureVolume
– a “MySpace for music”, albeit with a classier design.
ProjectPlaylist – popular site
for sharing playlists and posting them to other social
networks.
Imeem – another
playlist-sharing community for artists and fans that also supports
embedding of tracks on other social sites and blogs.
MP3.com – the
famous music site is now a social network similar to MySpace
Music.
iJigg – a place
for indie bands and artists to post their music, which the users
can download for free.
MOG – a place to
share your music and video library and exchange thoughts on music
with others.
Fuzz – discover
new music; artists can sell their music, but there are also free
songs to be found on the site.
eListeningPost – convert your
tracks into preview files, then sell them and keep 94% of the
profits.
ProjectOpus –
Music community for indie bands, complete with widgets to post on
MySpace and blogs.
Rapspace.tv –
social networking for rap and hiphop.
Musocity – a
music community with profiles for fans, artists, retailers and
music venues.
Haystack –
social networking, playlist sharing and band profiles.
Bandbuzz –
find and rate music playlists in a Digg-like interface.
Midomi – find
songs by humming or singing the tune. Then explore profile pages
and network with others.
Buzznet –
large pop culture community with news, videos, photos and member
profiles.
JukeboxAlive – Upload music and
share tracks with friends. Bands can sell their CDs, write a blog
and post events to a calendar.
MusicHawk –
track bands and see band-related news and reviews, as well as
information on gigs and new releases.
ReverbNation – social network
connecting bands, fans and venues.
MusicNation – find new music,
watch music videos; if you’re an indie/unsigned artist, join for a
chance to get exposure or even a record contract.
Grooveshark – an online service
that rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music
(currently in private testing – enter you email address on the
homepage to be notified of the launch).
Dopetracks
– upload and share your tracks and beats, and record music
online.
Funk
Player – a music sharing community where authors can upload
songs, while everyone can bookmark, select, listen and comment on
them.
FIQL – social
playlist sharing.
Soundflavor – create playlists
and share them with other users; meet people with similar taste and
discover new music.
FineTune –
pick an artist and receive a custom playlist featuring music by
that artists and other related artists.
MusicMobs –
browse through playlists and create your own in a simple
interface.
Music Sharing Applications and Widgets
uPlayMe – a downloadable application
that lets you meet people with similar music tastes.
DotTunes –
share your iTunes collection with friends through your web
browser.
Audiozue – A
Mac OSX application that posts your recently-played iTunes tracks
to your MySpace page or blog.
Sonific – a
music network where you can store the music you hold the rights to,
and syndicate it to other sites with SongSpot widgets.
Mediamaster – upload your entire
music collection and access it from anywhere in the world. You can
also publish this music via widgets to any website.
BooMP3 – upload
and share your MP3s; unlimited hosting.
Goombah – an
application that scans your iTunes library and connects you with
like minded users.
Maestro –
upload your entire music library and access it from anywhere.
Music Marketplaces
iTunes – Apple’s overwhelmingly
popular music download store is a service that requires little in
the way of introduction.
Amie Street –
music market where music starts with free price, and the price
increases as a track becomes more popular (the price never goes
above 1 dollar).
Emusic – one
of the most successful “indie” music stores, with over 100 million
DRM-free tracks sold.
Bleep –
high-quality MP3s with prices that are a bit high, but offering a
great assortment of quality music.
MP3
Tunes – an online music store offering 30,000 albums and some
360,000 songs in its catalog.
Amazon – a
soon-to-come music store which should have a huge assortment of
music from big and indie labels alike.
PayPlay.FM –
choose between over 1.4 million indie music tracks, and buy them in
either MP3 or WMA format.
Beatport – a Flash-based
music store with an embeddable player.
Audio
Lunchbox – choose between 2 million DRM-free songs in MP3 or
OGG format.
Indiepad –
buy music from indie artists; if you’re an artist, sell music to
people directly on the site.
Indistr –
another audio marketplace that connects indie artists with the
listeners.
Mtraks – an
indie music marketplace with a very interesting and quite strong
music collection in store.
MagnaTune –
here you’ll find an assortment of music from various genres,
ranging from electronica, rock and chillout to metal &
punk.
Jamendo –
an online music repository offering thousands of albums for free
while still protecting the artists’ intellectual rights.
Musicane – buy and sell
audio, video and ringtones.
Musiclovr –
music search, recommendations and a store. Purchases are made via
Amazon and iTunes.
MySpace
Music / Snocap – through Snocap’s embedded
music stores, bands on MySpace sell tunes to the social network’s
huge audience. Bands can also sign up for Snocap independently and
sell music elsewhere.
Jamming
Ejamming – jam with other musicians
and record music online.
Kompoz –
compose music with other musicians. Record a track, then invite
other musicians to add their own instruments.
Jamnow – a
musical collaboration site where you can jam with other musicians.
Jam sessions can be broadcast live.
Indaba –
listen to completed music or works in progress and give your
feedback; join in the music-making sessions or start your own.
JamJunky –
have a song that’s not quite finished yet? Or, better yet, have a
dozen? Organize them with JamJunky.
Karaoke
Singshot – the “YouTube of Karaoke”:
record yourself singing along to popular music and listen to others
doing the same.
kSolo – sing
along to backing tracks, and rate the recordings of others.
Remixing
Jamglue – remix your music online and
listen to other users’ mixes.
Splice –
upload samples, remix them and post them for others to hear.
YourSpins – mix
your own version of your favorite track, share it and post it to
your blog or MySpace page.
Mobile Music Services
Flotones – a mobile social network
which allows indie bands and artists to sell their content for use
on mobiles.
Entertonement – a large
directory of ringtones, with top lists and categorization for
easier browsing.
Mercora – a
social radio network that enables you to search and listen to over
3.5 million songs; offers an application for listening to music on
your smartphone.
Music Charts
Billboard – home of the Billboard
charts, with music videos and reviews.
MTV’s
music charts – MTV charts and videos. Videos playable only in
the US.
ChartU – a
“Digg for music”: vote on tracks to boost them up the chart.
Artist Databases
Allmusic – probably the most
comprehensive music database on the Internet. If your favorite
artists aren’t there, well, then you’re listening to some pretty
unknown artists.
Pandora
Backstage – artist profiles and discographies from the
personalized streaming service. You can create a custom radio
station straight from an artist’s page.
Lyric Databases
AbsoluteLyrics – Lyrics for
all major artists.
Hot Lyrics
– huge alphabetized lyrics database. Hard to navigate, but lots of
content.
Music Search Engines
Qloud – Music search meets social
networking. Currently back in private testing. The service that
launches next may be substantially different, however.
FindSounds
– a search engine for sound effects and music instrument
samples.
Musipedia –
find and listen to songs based on keywords you provide.
Audio Conversion Tools
Zamzar – converts all sorts of file
formats, including several audio formats.
Media
Convert – a media converter with a huge amount of options.
MediaConverter – a media
converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can sometimes
yield really good results.
Miscellaneous Music and Audio Tools
Bluegrind – converts text to
audio.
BePopular –
find gigs in UK and Ireland and get your tickets.
Getabuz –
create voicemail and audio e-cards online.
iden.tify.us –
can’t figure out where a certain melody comes from? Identify it
with the help of this service.
Houndbite –
share funny audio clips from your life with other users, with the
possibility to earn prizes.
Buzdeo – Buzdeo provides secure video sharing service with friends and family.
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
i89.us – Export to several formats, see popular & recent bookmarks, ability to shorten URLs.
AllMyFavorites.net – Create an organized page for your bookmarks that you can share with friends and family, access from any computer.
Backflip.com – Check out the most popular links each day, set “The Daily Routine” as your homepage so you can visit your must stop sites each day with ease.
BibSonomy.com – Public & private bookmarks, tag cloud, related tags, duplicate detection with the chance to merge their info.
BlinkPro.com – Dynamic folders, bookmark all links of a page plus all the usual features.
BlogMarks.net – Save your bookmarks, tag them with keywords for easy searching amongst your list, share with others.
Bluedot.us – Tabbed user page showing a network of friends, bookmarks, and related tags. Allows you to import contacts from all the major mail services such as GMail and Yahoo.
BmAccess.net – Bookmark a site, add tags, when you look up a tag, you get the names and a little thumbnail image of the site along with it.
BuddyMarks.com – Store your bookmarks online, share some or all of them, discover new sites to visit by searching the public bookmark area.
Chipmark.com – Browse random “chipmarks”, share them, sort, filter, and get personal recommendations.
Complore – 10MB of file storage, public & private sharing, tag cloud, popular feeds and more.
Connectbeam.com – A themed social bookmarking site for enterprise-scale business.
Connectedy – Import your bookmarks, batch edit them, check in on hot topics.
Connotea.org – A themed social bookmarking site specifically for researchers, clinicians and scientists.
Diigo.com – Highlight portions of a page, write on it like you would a piece of paper, share with your group, and search all publicly saved pages.
Excites.com – Organize your bookmarks by tags, add comments and notes, share publicly, subscribe to certain tags so you can be notified when a new site is added that may interest you.
Feedmelinks.com – All the usual social bookmarking goodies, but you can also add links via email.
GetBoo.com – Export your folders to HTML, import and remove duplicates, delete all bookmarks.
Givealink.org – Donate your bookmarks to this site to help them recommend sites and get a better understanding of how each person bookmarks.
Hyperlinkomatic.com – Import/export, categories, notes, sharing, block users, RSS, tags.
IKeepBookmarks.com – Folders, search folder names and more.
Lilisto.com – Ratings, notes, categories, smart categories and in-page editing.
Linkroll.com – Links open in new window, subscribe to tags, browse by archives.
Ma.gnolia.com – Discuss all the saved bookmarks in groups, see what the Featured Linker is all about, join discussions in the Hot Group.
Mister-Wong.com – Bookmark and tag, search for tags that interest you, make buddies with people who have interesting saved sites.
Netvouz.com – Save your bookmarks in folders, tag them with keywords, share them with others or password protect them.
Nextaris.com – Folders, tags, clippings; store up to 100MB for free.
Shadows.com – Share your already existing bookmarks, discuss and rate sites and see what you can find.
SocialBookmarking.org – User and global tag cloud, blogs, social networking, avatars and more.
StumbleUpon.com – Lets you “channel surf” the Internet and review sites; it learns what you like and recommends more of the same.
Unalog.com – A basic social bookmarking site, but with the ability to look back at specific days and see what was going on.
WireFan.com – You can vote on links as well as add thumbnails for sites.
Xilinus.com – Tags, rating, search, public & private listing, drag-and-drop sorting.
Yahoo! My Web – One button click adds your bookmarks to the search engine giants system, features duplicate detection to help you keep your bookmarks tidy.
Social Bookmarking Sites With Clipping
BlinkList.com – Save sites for later reading, share your list or keep it private, even send your saved pages to your blog for wider sharing.
Clipclip.org – Like an online scrapbook, you clip out the part of the site you want, then share it with whomever you want, and discover new places to visit.
Clipmarks.com – Allows you to clip just the chosen bits of a webpage, save them to the main website, or even insert them into your own blog. Think of it as fancy block quoting.
del.icio.us – You add your bookmarks and access them from anywhere. Check out what others are saving and see where it takes you.
Furl.net – Not only can you do the standard bookmarking and sharing, you can save archived versions of a webpage and even export all your saved pages to a ZIP file.
Linktopia.com – Keep private, share, mark as friends only, edit bookmark dates.
RawSugar.com – Can cluster your tags for you based on recommendations by other users.
Simpy.com – This social bookmarker does all the usual plus detects links that have changed, and distributes your bookmarks via your blog’s RSS if you like.
Spurl.net – You can upload your existing bookmarks to get started, add more for centralized access, check out hot lists and recommendations.
SyncOne.net – All the usual features plus the ability to add your own Google Ads to the top of your profile page.
URLex.info – Inbox, group creation, directory, all of the usual features, plus being able to send your RSS feed to the site.
Social News
Blog-buzz.com – Similar to Digg, but for blog posts.
Digg.com – Synonymous with social bookmarking: you Digg a story, others Digg it, the more popular it gets the better chance it has of hitting the first page.
Netscape.com – A former contender in the browser wars, and the “mother” of Mozilla, it’s now a a social news aggregator with voting of stories similar to Digg.
Newsvine.com – Users can write articles on current news events, save links to external content; vote, comment and chat on article pages created by both users and by journalists.
Reddit.com – You vote up or down on a story making it move around on the home page.
Shoutwire.com – Similar to Digg, except instead of “Digging a story”, you “shout it”. Still a way to vote on unique Internet news stories.
Thoof.com – Add news stories you find interesting, anyone can “improve” the article by fixing the URL, editing the summary and more.
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.
