FileRide is a “social desktop,” an application that runs on your computer that lets members share whatever file they drag into the FileRide application window. The service promises to “promote democracy through universal access to media related forums,” but it requires an invitation to use the application, which runs on Windows Vista and XP, at [...]

We haven’t finished our review of MyBlogLog, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

 
You too can be a television star. UStream.tv is a service that lets anyone broadcast from a PC with a connected camera. The site is both a hub for tracking the shows you want to watch and for creating and broadcasting your own programming. (Discover Social Media is preparing a show, which will debut soon at Disover [...]

We haven’t finished our review of Second Life-Teen Grid, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!
Free and fee. Free accounts can build in the virtual world and customize avatars, but cannot own virtual land. In addition to monthly fees, you will pay transaction fees when buying and selling Second [...]

Second Life has all the trappings of home and every imagination that has lived there

Second Life is a virtual place, one with every characteristic of the real world, from commerce and construction to nightclubs and sexuality. Members take on all sorts of shapes, from the human-appearing avatar to unicorns and angels. There is so [...]

 
The most famous, most infamous and most authoritative site on the Web by all measures is Wikipedia. While you may not think of an encyclopedia as a social site, this global reference is a community work produced largely by volunteer-enthusiasts. It touts 2.6 million entries in English, more than 800,000 German articles and 3.2 million [...]