Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Social networking Sites

Digg.com – Originally a technology site, Digg has now branched out into a wider range of topics, including entertainment and business. Click the Digg button at the foot of an article to add the story and other community users will then "digg", or rate, your selection. The more people like your story, the higher up the digg home page it will go. Learn more about digg.com

del.icio.us – One of the most popular social bookmark websites. Delicious 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 we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you. Learn more about del.icio.us

Fark – Fark is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site that allows users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. Learn more about Fark
NewsVine – NewsVine is one of the leading online news communities, letting you decide which stories are important. NewsVines users can write their own articles, seed articles (which is what you’ll be doing by adding in links to our stories) or comment on existing articles on the site. With NewsVine you get to be editor of your own news by deciding which stories really matter, and your opinions will alter the overall ranking of the stories on the site. Read more about NewsVine

Facebook - A rapidly growing social networking site that connects you with people you know, allowing you to share photos and your latest news, as well as enabling a host of other activity including games and book reviewing. NEWS.com.au maintains a group on Facebook that allows you to connect with other readers and meet the staff – search for the group “NEWS.com.au readers and people”.

Kwoff - A new Australian social media site that allows you to share links and have your content voted onto the front page. It's like Digg, but much less tech-focused.Read more about Kwoff.

MySpace - Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, news, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends! Read more about MySpace.
Twitter - allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Flixster, Flickr, Bebo, Twitterrific,

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