Bloglines is a RSS reader with a difference - there is no software needed. Bloglines offer their users a central point to store all their RSS feeds and access it from anywhere. All you have to do is to sign up and then login to your account. After configuring your account, you can view your feeds anywhere in the world. You can setup and arrange your feeds in anyway you want. You can then share your blogs and news feeds with anyone. In addition, you can search for any topic and see what others have been viewing as well. And best of all, this service is free.

Bloglines

Facebook is a social networking club that helps connects people around them. From their workplace to where they live, it creates a community for people to know each other. Users can upload photos, share videos and links and get to know more about each other. Users can contact each other in the same region easily with Facebook. Or even around the same workplace, high school or college. And it allows users to keep their information private and only share with those in their "trusted" group. All is needed is a valid email address.

Facebook

Twitter is an social networking site meant for people around the world to share information. Basically the idea is to keep everyone in touch with each other through tweets which are small pieces of information. All information are shared via SMS texting, instant messaging or the web. However, it is meant s a general source of information and nothing more. Yes, that is what Twitter is all about. Users are in control of what tweets they want to receive and when they want to recieve it. It is easy to use and without a doubt, build on a very simple idea. But considering that a lot of people are embracing it, it is fair to say that their concept is right.

Twitter

This is a toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. This extension allows you to "bookmark" sites which you find interesting or useful to yourself and others. You can also discover new sites related to your interest or topic from what others have found. It is like social bookmarking but through an toolbar. You can rate a listing and tell others whether it was useful to you or not. StumbleUpon has nearly 2 million users and they are still growing. With this user base, they can get some really relevant sites and they can do that much faster than Search Engines.

StumbleUpon

Digg is a huge social bookmarking site which allows users to share what they found with their friends. Users of this site can then rate it, either giving it a digg or to bury it. Submitting webpages to Digg is simple, just login to your account and add a story. Some sites come with a script for you to automatically add the webpage to Digg. And what is a social networking site without the ability to comment on articles? Just login and say your piece. However, Digg is moderated so it will be less prone to abuse. All the services are provided free to their users.

Digg

Reddit is a social bookmarking for everyone. If you have or know an interesting piece of news, you can share it with the world through Reddit. You can also vote for articles you like and dump those you don't. Reddit has a specially created filter, which depends on what you vote for, will filter off articles that doesn't interest you and show only those that does. Sort of like a personalized article filter. Reddit also has something called a Karma, which you can gain by submitting good articles which others enjoy.

Reddit

FriendFeed is a social networking site that makes it easy for friends to share information. Yes, just like most social networking site, it allows users to share information on anything. Think of it as more of a personalized forum where you can post pictures, links and videos and discuss about it. Users can subscribe to feeds of their friends. Furthermore FriendFeed allows you to push feeds from other sites on the net and even push your own feed to other services like Twitter. It is fun, exciting and well, cool.

FriendFeed

Xanga is a social networking site with a difference. They are a community of online diaries and journals. With these powerful but user friendly tools, you can start your own blog and share your experiences with your friends or even with strangers. They can also leave comments on your posts. Other than blogs, you can share pictures and video as well. They provide a number of difference templates to help your customize your own weblog. Using their premium service, you can have up to 10Gigabytes of storage for your pictures as well as no ads free access.

Xanga

Bebo allows their users to create communities where people from all over the world can gather and share their life story. They can use this site as a main center of communication and interface between old friends, school friends, or just with others with the same interests. This unique social networking site strives to become the largest community based site on the Internet. You can share pictures, video or just discuss about anyting here. You can even have polls, quizzes and blogs on your own Bebo space.

Bebo

BlinkList provides users with a free toolbar which allows you to "blink" any webpage you find userful or interesting. Once you signed up for a free acount, you can then use this toolbar to bookmark sites and share them with others. This way, you and your friends can reference them anytime you want. They also provide a blog for you to share these bookmarked sites. The best part is that you can see what other sites people are viewing through their BlinkList blog. BlinkList also supports different languages.

BlinkList

Squidoo is sort of like a blog but for your products and services on your own site. And with a name like Squidoo, it will certainly help drive targetted traffic to your site. You can use Squidoo to explain your ideas or to showcase your services or even just to make yourself seen. And using this service, if the blog is good, you can give that blog a good rating. This powerful democratic rating system allows users to find the most relevant and useful blogs easily, since the highest ranked blogs will be given the most exposure. Squidoo is revenue sharing site.

Squidoo

Meta Filter is a community based social networking weblog. You can post interesting and unique stories on this blog and let others comment on it. And you join in the many discussions as well. They provide a simplistic interface for their blog for quick and easy access. And you can customize the look of your Meta Filter interface according to your preference. Furthermore, you can view the most popular posts and see the latest happenings on the Internet and interact with others who have the same interest as you.

Meta Filter

Boing Boing is a social networking site for anything interesting on the Internet. Be it a story or an article or even a funny picture, you can submit it to Boing Boing. However, you need to be descriptive about it and tell the readers what this article/blog is all about. Once submitted and approved (and this depends on the editors), it will be displayed on the site. And anyone can make comments on the article. It is a good and powerful way to get noticed on the Internet. You can share stories/blogs with your friends through this site as well.

Boing Boing

The award winning social browser. What Flock does is to "pull" all your favourite places, people, networks and information into one area for easy viewing. You can integrate different social networks into the browser, thus allowing you to get more out of these social networks. It is able to support different languages, allows feeds and media streams conveniently on their user interface. Based on the Chronium web browser and can be downloaded for free. They have a very active community as well.

Flock

Yes, just another social networking site. Ning allows you to create custom social sites - basically pages with your own profile. The same as most other social networking site on the Internet. So what makes Ning different from all the rest? Nothing. Absolutely nothing at all. Only thing that really differentiates Ning from the rest? Well, it is about making money from social networking. Not surprisingly, most social networking sites try not to make known about making money but Ning claims that you can use their platform for this purpose. But honestly, social networking is a good dough generator. People tend to trust social sites and will be more willing to purchase a recommendation from such sites. If you look carefully at popular blogs, that is exactly what they are doing to earn some revenue. You can also promote your brand, your products or your solutions through Ning's extensive community of sites.

Ning

Netscape used to be the name of the famous browser. However, now the site has become a social bookmarking and networking site. But Netscape browser is still available for download. They have revamped the website and it is a complete news portal and all news and articles are submitted by their readers. And users can then vote on these articles. They have a team of "anchors" that moderate the site and ensure that it is spam free and the articles are of certain quality. These anchors also select the frontpage recommendations.

Netscape

Where Are You Now (WAYN) is a different social networking site especially for travellers. Here, you can meet and talk with people who are travelling to the same place as you and to inform them of where you are now. You can keep a history of your travels and your future plans. Best of you, you can share your experiences, photos and even journals with thousands of other travellers. WAYN also has a forum for travellers to chat. You can even send SMS to any of your friends anywhere. Best of all, WAYN is free.

Where Are You Now?

Not too sure where to categorize this. Maybe a simple blog with social networking features all jumbled in. And they try to make this site as simple as they can, so users do not need to spend much time updating their profile, writing stuff or uploading images or photos. Users can also aggregate content from other sites to their profile. Lets say you like someone's review on some new mobile phone, then just link it on your profile page! It is free to sign up. Other than that, it is just another social networking site to let your friends know what is going on with your personal life, even if it is crappy like mine. But for me, I think I will stick to the bigger name sites.

Soup

Sometimes don't you just wish to meet people with the same interests as you? I mean if you have a passion for cars, don't you wish you could have a beer with people who loves cars as well? Or even just go online and have a discussion about cars? Well, you can do that - with Tagged. Basically it is some sort of "people suggestion" networking site which helps to recommend people to each other with the same interests. So you just key in your interests in your profile page and you can be able to find those with the same interests in your area. Other than that, it is just the usual social networking site where you can chat, play games, upload photos and videos and so on. Seems that everyone is getting into the social networking scene. Big companies, small start-ups and everyone in between is claiming to be the next big thing. I don't know about that, but I think social networking will remain big for the next few years.

Tagged

The social networking site formerly known as Reunion. Now it is known as MyLife. Why? Well because in the past, it is all about meeting lost and old friends from some event in the past. But I guess with the advent of the Internet and social networking, you will find less and less of such people. Just go on Facebook, you would most likely be able to find those friends anytime. And I guess probably it isn't really making that much money. More important that they start adding "businessmen" into the mix. So now you have it, the social networking site for everyone - you, me, your friends and relatives, your boss and his boss and that handyman that comes to your house to "fix" your things once per week. They claim to have over 50 million members. However, they are not that popular outside of North America, which is surprising considering what is normally popular in North America, is very popular elsewhere as well.

MyLife