Social Site Reviews:
Qitera saves the content and look of a page in addition to the bookmark
Qitera is a social bookmarking and page-saving tool that helps members organize and share information. In addition to making bookmark-sharing easy, the site stores copies of pages, allowing retreival even when the original page is no longer online. It is offered [...]
Tags: enterprise, file-sharing, friend lists, social bookmarking
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Viddler is a video publishing site that lets members share programs through streaming video, podcasting and third-party applications running on many sites or the desktop. We haven’t finished our introduction to Viddler. Add your review now in Comments.
Tags: business video, discussion, friend lists, professional video, video-sharing
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Facebook is one of the most popular social network services in the world, with more than 150 million “active users,” more than 70% of them living in countries other than the United States. Founded in early 2004, the site was originally designed to provide college students with networking services. A “facebook” is a paper guide [...]
Tags: college, friend lists, messaging, photo-sharing, professional network, social network, video-sharing
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Blip.tv is a video-sharing and hosting company that helps videographers and videobloggers earn money from the programs they produce. We haven’t finished our introduction to Blip.tv, but don’t let that stop you from adding your review in Comments.
Home Page: Blip.tv
A videoblogging host that pays producers based on ad revenue generated.
Free
Tags: commercial, hosting, video-sharing, videoblogging
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Blip.fm lets members share MP3 music stored on their own computers with friends around the world. As a Blip.fm “DJ,” members share “blips,” their comments on songs shared by others, which is woven into a conversation about the song. Songs commented on are also available for listening by others.
As members add blips, the site displays [...]
Tags: friend lists, Friendfeed, micro-blogging, music-sharing, twitter
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Dwellicious is a social bookmarking site for real estate, allowing home shoppers (what few there are these days) to collect listings and share them with friends, family and real estate professionals. Using a bookmarklet, button users add to their browser toolbar, members can send a listing found on a collection of real estate sites to [...]
Tags: discussion, real estate, social bookmarking
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FlixWagon is a service that provides members the ability to record live video from their mobile phone. Qik is another option for mobile video recording. We haven’t finished our introduction to the service, but don’t let that stop you from giving the community your thoughts and review in Comments.
Home Page: FlixWagon
Provider of live video recording [...]
Tags: mobile, video micro-blogging
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Seesmic is a video discussion site on which people post messages and respond to one another only in video. Here’s a conversation by BlogQueen about what is the best kind of traffic to a Web site and a host of responses. Members’ activity is presented in a public timeline that allows easy browsing through their [...]
Tags: discussion, friend lists, social network, twitter, video micro-blogging
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Tooio is a Spanish social network focusing on entertainment and night life. It relies heavily on location-based services to provide local results for members seeking information, sharing photos and arranging gatherings or dates.
Members can use the site to explore postings by the community or download software for Windows Mobile, Nokia, iPhone or Java-capable mobile phones [...]
Tags: entertainment, nightlife, social network, Spain, Spanish
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Afrigator is a social network and aggregator that collects news articles, blog and micro-blog postings from and about Africa, creating a setting for conversation, photo and video sharing that is uniquely dedicated to all things African.
When joining the site, members are encouraged to submit their blogs for inclusion in the Afrigator site, so that their [...]
Tags: Africa, aggregator, social network
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