Thursday, August 7, 2008

50 Sites and Online Applications to Consider

    Blogging

  1. Blogger - free blogging and hosting.
  2. Movable Type - paid software, needs host.
  3. TypePad - paid blogging and hosting.
  4. WordPress.com - free blogging and hosting.
  5. WordPress.org - free blog software, needs host.
  6. Tumblr - free blogging and hosting.

    Microblogging

  7. BrightKite - microblogging, mobile, location.
  8. FriendFeed - microblogging/ aggregator.
  9. Identi.ca - open source microblogging.
  10. Jaiku - microblogging, mobile too.
  11. Posterous - microblogging, and/or sends to other sites.
  12. Pownce - microblogging and file sharing.
  13. Plurk - microblogging and threaded conversations.
  14. Seesmic - video microblogging.
  15. Twitter - microblogging and mobile.
  16. Utterz - microblogging, mobile, video.

    Social Bookmarking

  17. Delicious - bookmarking.
  18. Ma.gnolia - enhanced bookmarking.
  19. Sphinn - bookmarking/voting.
  20. StumbleUpon - bookmarking and browsing.

    Social News Sites

  21. Digg - social news.
  22. Mixx - social news.
  23. Reddit - social news.

    Social Networks

  24. Facebook - general networking.
  25. Flickr - photo and video sharing.
  26. Last.fm - music sharing.
  27. LibraryThing - book lovers.
  28. LinkedIn - professional social networking.
  29. MySpace - general networking.
  30. Ning - white label social network.
  31. Pandora - music sharing.
  32. Yelp - rating restaurants and businesses.

    Miscellaneous and Useful

  33. Twitter Search (formerly Summize) - search for what matters to YOU.
  34. Picnik - free online photo editing. Good for avatar pic touchups.
  35. Evernote - online and desktop note syncing/storage.
  36. Upcoming.org - event sharing site (great for finding cool conferences).
  37. Netvibes - web start page (has Ginger social features now, too).
  38. Twingly - blog search.
  39. Compete - web ranking analysis.
  40. AideRSS - rates your blog posts.
  41. Skitch - screen capture tool (mac).

    Video Platforms

  42. Blip.tv - video hosting, sharing.
  43. Google Video - video hosting, sharing.
  44. Viddler - video hosting, sharing.
  45. Vimeo - video hosting, sharing.
  46. YouTube - video hosting, sharing.
  47. Mogulus - live video platform.
  48. uStream.tv - live video platform.
  49. BlogTV - live video platform.
  50. ooVoo - live video chat.

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