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 [...]

Grouply is a site that collects your Yahoo Groups memberships into one place, giving members a convenient view of activity in different groups and help in recruiting new members to groups. It is, frankly, a redundant service to Yahoo’s social features that layers several services, such as photo- and bookmark sharing, tagging and community ratings [...]

 
Yonkly provides group micro-blogs assembled from Twitter messages into threaded conversations that allow members to follow different discussions within the larger flow of messages. Members can customize the background pages of their group micro-blogs and, for a higher fee, place their own ads and earn revenue. Existing groups, which number in the hundreds at this [...]

Kontain is a new site that promises to make blogging, photo- and file-sharing easier. We haven’t finished our review of the site, so start your reviewing now in Comments!

Blueworld is a South Africa-focused social network similar to Facebook.
The site provides the standard features of major social networks, including friend lists, photo- and video-sharing, groups, event calendaring, micro-blogging and chat. Communities include major South African cities and regions, and London, a frequent destination for South African expats.
Members seem to be primarily affluent young adults [...]

NetLog is a multi-language social network that serves young adults and teens across Europe. NetLog’s service is available in 25 languages, from English, German and Russian to Magyar, Slovene, Afrikaans and Turk. About 21 percent of the membership participates in English, in second place, and activity is focused on people who are currently online sharing [...]

We haven’t finished our introduction to RockYou, a slideshow-building and sharing service that can be embedded in social networking pages, but that shouldn’t stop you from adding your own in Comments right now!

We haven’t finished our review of LiveJournal, but don’t wait to add your review! Publish it right now in Comments.

We haven’t finished our review of Chinese-language social network Xiaonei (校内网), but you can give the world your review in Comments now!

We haven’t finished our review of Yahoo360 yet, but don’t let that stop you. Be the first to review the site in Comments!