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The modern version is merely doing the same thing online, on the internet. Most such sites are general, with the ability to belong to a range of subgroupings; but quite a few networking sites are for a specific purpose, such as business & career contacts, ethnic or national subgroups, photo-sharing, music sharing, etc. No commercial dating sites are included here: such sites treat relationships as a commodity. <p>Many social networking sites include their own blog {short for 'weblog'} function, or allow inclusion of outside blog site content. Blog content ranges from amateur to professional, and a great many are not updated very often. But the 'blogosphere' has grown in influence, such that even the corporatist media are repeatedly forced to cover news stories that first appeared on blogs. </font></td></tr></table> <p><hr width=450 color=#ffff20> <p><br><b><big><big>Major Social Networking Sites</b></big></big> <p><br><table border=1 width=750 cellpadding=8> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://www.Facebook.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/facebook.jpg border=0 width=190 height=60 alt="engine"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Facebook</b>, seventh largest after MySpace, began at Harvard University in February 2004, first with college students, then high schoolers, then expanded in September 2006 to the general public. The Facebook Marketplace feature - classified ads, in competition with Craigslist - was added in May 2007. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/twitter.jpg border=0 width=225 height=52 alt="TWITTER: Discover what s happening right now, anywhere in the world"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Twitter</b>, the social networking & microblogging site created in 2006, is a phenomenon. By the end of 2007, traffic was 500,000 'tweets' per quarter; at end of 1Q2010, traffic had exploded to 4 billion per quarter. Twitter finally incorporated ads {'promoted tweets'} on their website in April 2010. The basic transmission is limited to 140 characters &ndash; but you already knew that. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/blogger.jpg border=0 width=204 height=73 alt="Google's Blogger.com & blogspot.com"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Blogger</b> started in San Francisco in August 1999, narrowly survived the Dot-Com Bust, and was bought by Google in February 2003 for an undisclosed fortune. Google purchased Picasa in 2004 and added its photo-sharing capability into Blogger. The major 'beta' redesign in 2006 included moving all of Blogger onto Google servers.<br><center><a href="http://www.DatelineChamesa.com/" target="_blank">my blog 'Dateline Chamesa' at Blogger.com</a></center> </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/LinkedIn.jpg border=0 width=184 height=60 alt="LinkedIn - Relationships matter [est. 5/2003]"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>LinkedIn</b> launched in May 2003 and is 17th behind MySpace, and is designed for business professionals, for career & sales-contact networking. The basic service is free; the Premium Features (for a fee) options add posting resumes & job search, access to Fortune 500 executives & topical experts, and a priority email service. After signup, LinkedIn will search your email address book and alert you to LinkedIn members that you already know. Starting in March 2011, LinkedIn offers the <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/today/" target="_blank">LinkedIn Today news service</a> across 22 industry choices; they are also offering a new <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/advertising" target="_blank">advertising program</a>. <br><center><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/41/b2b" target="_blank">my LinkedIn profile</a></center> </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.plaxo.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/plaxo.gif border=0 width=156 height=54 alt="Plaxo: your address book for life"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The FREE <b>Plaxo</b> business networking & address book site launched circa 2000, and by the time that Comcast bought it in May 2008, it had 20 million members. The for-fee Plaxo Premium synchs with your Microsoft Outlook database. English & German & Spanish options on the website. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.myspace.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/MySpace.gif border=0 alt="Rupert Murdoch's sleazy MySpace social networking website"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The social networking site <b>MySpace</b> was #1 in users in mid-2007. It was launched in August 2003 by eUniverse, and rapidly populated by contests among employees for signing up the most users. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. purchased MySpace in July 2005 for $580 million; the company is now located at Fox Interactive Media head-quarters in Beverly Hills, California. MySpace was adding new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day in 2007. The influence of Murdoch has shifted the content toward sleaze, and when you log in, predator robots invite users to visit their <i>other</i> website which is usually a raunchy 'dating' site. <font color=orange>No longer recommended.</font> </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/tumblr.jpg border=0 width=180 alt="tumblr: the easiest way to blog"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The <b>tumblr</b> site launched in April 2007, and enables users to create mixed-media blog posts with elegance and simplicity; in late 2010, half of all posts on the platform were photos, and the community was comprised of over 24 million publishers and around 47 million unique visitors. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><img src=images/newredylo.gif><br><br> <a href="https://plus.google.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/GooglePlus.jpg border=0 width=200 height=62 alt="Google+ {Google Plus} 'social networking and identity service' [launched 9/2011]"></a> </td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Google+ {Google Plus}</b> is a new 'social networking and identity service'. The site launched on an invitation-only basis in June 2011, then to the general public in September 2011; visitor traffic spiked for a few days, but then plummeted by 60% (according to outside polls). Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and introduced new services Circles, Hangouts, and Sparks. So far, the website as well as mobile apps for Android and iOS exist, with further platforms planned. The "+1" button (similar to Facebook's Likes) gets clicked as many as 5 billion times per day. <br><center><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" target="_blank">Google+ entry at Wikipedia</a> </td></tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;<p><hr width=450 color=#ffff20> <p><br><b><big><big>Other Social Networking Sites</b></big></big> <p><br><table border=1 width=750 cellpadding=8> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <table cellpadding=6><tr><td bgcolor=white><a href="http://www.zynga.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/zynga.png border=0 width=180 alt="Zynga online games social network"></a> </td></tr></table> </td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Zynga</b> was founded in January 2007, and named after a founder's late bulldog (thus the logo); headquarters is in San Francisco, CA. The site describes itself as makers of social games that are free and accessible to everyone, though the games themselves seem designed for teenage and younger users. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.zorpia.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/zorpia-logo.jpg border=0 width=200 alt="Zorpia social networking site [est. 2003] of Hong Kong"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Zorpia</b> was founded in 2003 and is based in Hong Kong. The site is very self-promoting, both textually and with in-your-face sign-up boxes. (It is difficult to look over the site without first signing up, but you can try <a href="http://www.zorpia.com/help" target="_blank">this link</a>.) Also, their English-language skills need to be improved. Primary features are photo album, online journal, social networking, customized homepage, comment system, and discussion forum. There is a for-fee 'Royal Membership' option. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="https://www.zoominfo.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/zoominfo.gif border=0 width=210 height=59 alt="Zoominfo contact & networking database - Find people and companies"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Zoominfo</b> is a business-oriented contact & networking database, with 45 million people and 5 million companies. Basic membership is FREE, plus for-fee Powersell Premium Access option and an option to 'trade your contacts for a free two-month subscription'. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.youtoo.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/Youtoo-logo.jpg border=0 alt="Youtoo TV social channel [launched 9/2011]"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Youtoo TV</b> launched in late September 2011 and is the first television channel to give access to social networkers. Viewers will be able to create 15-second videos called 'Fame Spots' and then, within minutes, see themselves on television &ndash; with an audience of 15 million!; Youtoo will start by putting 500 people on TV each day. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.wink.com" target="_blank"><img src=logos/wink.gif border=0 width=160 height=52 alt="WINK: where people meet people"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Wink</b> is a free social networking site launched in August 2007 that brags about having access to over 300 million profiles; the site gleans from Facebook, Friendster, Internet Movie Database, LinkedIn, MySpace, Wikipedia & ZoomInfo. Free login/account allows posting of a Wink profile and-or contact with search results. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.volunteermatch.org/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/VolunteerMatch.gif border=0 width=183 height=80 alt="Volunteer Match social networking site"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Volunteer Match</b> connects individuals wanting to serve their community with possible opportunities at non-profits & corporations. The organization was founded as Impact Online in 1996, and the website was launched in 1998. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://www.talentville.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/talentville.png border=0 width=202 height=97 alt="talentville.com: the online city for creative minds"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Talentville</b> launched in April 2010 as an online community for writers of all sorts, with FREE membership and for-fee posting of scripts, fiction, non-fiction and even graphic arts material. Member professionals such as editors, movie producers, and agents are able to join and (after validation) search the manuscript & authors databases based on keywords. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.shootingpeople.org/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/SHootingPeople.jpg border=0 width=200 height=56 alt="Shooting People social networking site [est. 1998] for independent filmmakers"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The <b>Shooting People</b> website was launched in 1998 and bills itself as an "international networking organization dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking". The site now connects 38,000 members around the world (2011); annual membership is $45. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.ruck.US/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/ruckUS-orange.jpg border=0 width=200 alt="RUCK.US political networking site [launched May 2011]"></a> </td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The new <b>ruck<small>&#9733;</small>us political networking site</b> was launched in May 2011 and is designed to connect members with like-minded people based on issues & opinions rather than party lines or political labels. Registration is free, and you can use your existing Facebook or Twitter or email account to do so.</td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://www.000.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/ReferralKey.gif border=0 width=199 height=56 alt="engine"></a> </td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<Lb>ReferralKey</b> launched in October 2007 and is a social networking site for marketing your business. Membership is free; based in Boston. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://www.R360.com" target="_blank"><img src=logos/R360cloud.jpg border=0 width=208 height=77 alt="R360 Cloud Communication Suite based in Cyprus & Maryland, USA"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>R360.com</b> went live in January 2009 with its secure cloud com-munication suite for people who collaborate, communicate, and do business online. The site is promoted by word-of-mouth alone; signup is free, with several for-fee options.</td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.quepasa.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/quepasa-logo.jpg border=0 width=200 alt="QuePasa global Latino social network"></a> </td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>QuePasa</b> has offices in California, Florida, Mexico & Brasil, and describes itself as a 'global Latino social network'. The site makes it easy to join by using already-existing memberships in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Yahoo!, WindowsLive, MySpace & others. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/Pinterest.jpg border=0 width=199 height=53 alt="&quot;Pinterest is an online pinboard. Organize and share things you love.&quot;"></a> </td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Pinterest</b> is 'an online pinboard' launched in 2010, and is based in Palo Alto, California. The gimmick is that members 'pin' specific areas of interest, and then are part of that interest group; selections include Harry Potter, towns, teams, crafts, recipes, history, art, etc. There seems to be a time-out function so that members will revisit & re-pin each interest. Joining is simple: "Request an Invite". </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.orkut.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/orkut.gif border=0 width=166 height=60 alt="Orkut by Google"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Orkut</b> describes itself as 'an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends'. Orkut is second in membership to MySpace, yet has only 30% the number of users. Orkut is run by Google, and is extremely popular in India. You can choose to view pages in a dozen languages. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.Meetup.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/meetup.jpg border=0 width=101 height=68 alt="MeetUp.com -"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Meetup.com</b> is widely used for political and social connections <u>offline</u> &ndash; organized by ZIP code and topic. Founded in 2002, Meetup expanded rapidly, especially when the Democrats made use of it going into the 2004 U.S. elections. A housecleaning in July 2005 drastically reduced the number of groups. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.hi5.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/hi5logo.jpg border=0 alt="engine"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The <b>hi5</b> social networking website launched in 2003, and was for a time third in membership (behind Facebook & MySpace), yet had only about 25% of the users that MySpace had. The emphasis on romantic and friendship relationships (especially popular in Central America) has been moving toward 'social entertainment', i.e. multi-user games. The company laid off employees in 2009 and again in 2011, contingent with platform technology changes that 'require fewer personnel to maintain'. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.herorbit.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/HerOrbit.jpg border=0 width=180 height=66 alt="HerOrbit - Where Women Connect"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>HerOrbit - Where Women Connect</b> was launched in April 2007 as a social networking-slash-shopping site for women. For-fee listing of your products is optional; the networking is free. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.GreenDrinks.org/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/GreenDrinks.jpg border=0 width=200 height=93 alt="Green Drinks Intl. social network [est. 2008?] for people working on environmental issues"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The <b>Green Drinks Intl. social group</b> is for 'people working on environmental issues', and one of the mottos is "Saving the world one sip at a time"; branches exist all around the world, including Arabia, China, Latvia & Iceland; meetings are very local and usually monthly.</td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center> <a href="http://www.gather.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/gather_logo.gif border=0 width=146 height=78 alt="Gather.com social networking site"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Gather</b> launched in September 2005 to bring together listeners of public radio, thus its emphasis on books & authors, and music & other arts; Gather is privately-owned, with headquarters in Boston, MA. Members who participate regularly will earn Gather Points, which can be used onsite for services, or can accumulate and eventually be redeemed for dollars. <br><center><a href="http://genordell.gather.com/" target="_blank">my gather page</a></center> </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.gaia.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/GaiaCommunity.jpg border=0 width=158 height=73 alt="The Gaia Community - We're gonna change the world! {formerly Zaadz}"></a><p><img src=logos/poweredbyZaadz.jpg width=68 height=24 alt="powered by Zaadz"></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Zaadz</b> is the Dutch word for 'seeds'. The site launched quietly in February 2006, attracting new members by full-page ads in progressive print media in the U.S and elsewhere, using the motto "Let's change the world!" and emphasizing spirituality, social & environmental conscious- ness, and Conscious Capitalism. Then in January 2007, the site renamed itself the <b>Gaia Community</b> 'powered by Zaadz'; all the old Zaadz address links automatically redirect, the big change was the color scheme. <font color=orange>The gaia website shut down on 31 March 2010, and now redirects to the Gaiam 'branded lifestyle media' site.</font> </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.directmatches.com/marketwizard" target="_blank"><img src=logos/DirectMatches.gif border=0 width=194 height=26 alt="&quot;DirectMatches - The Business Space&quot; social networking site"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The for-fee <b>DirectMatches</b> website is set up to connect business people, business events, and 'yellow page' ads. The basic fee is $9.95/month (billed to your credit card), with higher fees for Managing Independent Representative & Executive Independent Representative status. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.delicious.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/delicious.jpg border=0 width=183 height=58 alt="&quot;Delicious&quot; {www.del.icio.US} social bookmarking site"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Delicious</b> {using the URL www.del.icio.US} is a 'social book- marking' site, designed to allow online storage of bookmarks and provide the ability to access your Favorites from any computer, plus search the posted Favorites of others around the world. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003 and sold to Yahoo! in 2005. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.boomJ.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/boomJ.gif border=0 width=180 height=53 alt="BoomJ.com - Redefining a generation"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>BOOMj.com</b> describes itself as a 'web-based lifestyle portal', and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. While MySpace is geared toward (and mostly used by) 'Generation X', BoomJ is geared toward older 'Baby Boomers' (born after WWII) and 'Generation Jones' (born 1954 to 1965, with teenhood during the 1960s & 1970s). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.blogarama.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/blogarama.gif border=0 width=174 height=60 alt="blogarama: the blog directory"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>blogarama: the blog directory</b> began in 2002; the <a href="http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/">Add Yours Now!</a> function is <u>free</u> and may take a week or so for approval/rejection by a human. The directory search results appear based on internal ranking, which requires having a simple button or text recip link on the page specified for your blog (no redirects). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.bebo.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/BEBOlogo.jpg border=0 width=170 height=49 alt="Bebo social networking site [est. 2005]"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;<b>Bebo</b> was launched in 2005 in San Francisco, California; the name stands for 'blog early, blog often'. Sold to A.O.L. in 2008 for $850 million; but unique visitors rapidly dropped due to migration to Facebook & Twitter; A.O.L. dumped the company for less than $10 million to a U.K.-based venture capital firm in June 2010. The site is recently redesigned, and still has 117 million users (July 2010). Signup is free. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=center align=center><a href="http://www.APsense.com/" target="_blank"><img src=logos/APsense.gif border=0 width=200 alt="APSense business social network"></a></td><td align=left valign=top>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;The <b>APSense</b> Business Social Network is free, and provides access to buyers and sellers of talents such as language translation (often just $5 per page), coaching, and graphic or web design. There are two levels of paid membership (higher ad revenue rates), and two affiliate programs. "All payments will be concluded via APSense Payment Processor." The company appears to be based in Houston, Texas. </td></tr> </table> <p><br>Suggestions? Possible additions? 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