50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider

August 5, 2008 · Comments

bingo For those of you already pretty much deep into social media applications, skip ahead and blaze through the list. If I’ve found five sites/applications that you haven’t seen or considered, leave a comment and give me a point. For the rest of you, here’s a list I put together the other day when thinking about just how much of my computer use is spent online and attached to the web. Some of the applications I point out aren’t things I use currently, but I have used them, and/or have an account there.


For those of you who are getting involved in social media a little bit at a time, consider this a list of things you might check out a little bit at a time to see what appeals, what fits into your workflow, and what you can dismiss as unnecessary for your needs.

AND, if you have some resources you think would be good to add to the list, feel free to add them in the comments section.

50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider

    Blogging

  1. Blogger – free blogging and hosting.
  2. Movable Type – paid software, needs host.
  3. TypePad – paid blogging and hosting.
  4. WordPress.com – free blogging and hosting.
  5. WordPress.org – free blog software, needs host.
  6. Tumblr – free blogging and hosting.

    Microblogging

  7. BrightKite – microblogging, mobile, location.
  8. FriendFeed – microblogging/ aggregator.
  9. Identi.ca – open source microblogging.
  10. Jaiku – microblogging, mobile too.
  11. Posterous – microblogging, and/or sends to other sites.
  12. Pownce – microblogging and file sharing.
  13. Plurk – microblogging and threaded conversations.
  14. Seesmic – video microblogging.
  15. Twitter – microblogging and mobile.
  16. Utterz – microblogging, mobile, video.

    Social Bookmarking

  17. Delicious – bookmarking.
  18. Ma.gnolia – enhanced bookmarking.
  19. Sphinn – bookmarking/voting.
  20. StumbleUpon – bookmarking and browsing.

    Social News Sites

  21. Digg – social news.
  22. Mixx – social news.
  23. Reddit – social news.

    Social Networks

  24. Facebook – general networking.
  25. Flickr – photo and video sharing.
  26. Last.fm – music sharing.
  27. LibraryThing – book lovers.
  28. LinkedIn – professional social networking.
  29. MySpace – general networking.
  30. Ning – white label social network.
  31. Pandora – music sharing.
  32. Yelp – rating restaurants and businesses.

    Miscellaneous and Useful

  33. Twitter Search (formerly Summize) – search for what matters to YOU.
  34. Picnik – free online photo editing. Good for avatar pic touchups.
  35. Evernote – online and desktop note syncing/storage.
  36. Upcoming.org – event sharing site (great for finding cool conferences).
  37. Netvibes – web start page (has Ginger social features now, too).
  38. Twingly – blog search.
  39. Compete – web ranking analysis.
  40. AideRSS – rates your blog posts.
  41. Skitch – screen capture tool (mac).

    Video Platforms

  42. Blip.tv – video hosting, sharing.
  43. Google Video – video hosting, sharing.
  44. Viddler – video hosting, sharing.
  45. Vimeo – video hosting, sharing.
  46. YouTube – video hosting, sharing.
  47. Mogulus – live video platform.
  48. uStream.tv – live video platform.
  49. BlogTV – live video platform.
  50. ooVoo – live video chat.


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  • Ron McDaniel put together a similar list a while ago called "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"
    http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2007/03/05/...

    You two should connect if you haven't already.
  • And dont forget, Under Misc. and Useful.... http://www.blogcatalog.com
  • Ed
    Thanks for the compilation Chris.

    Minor OT thought:

    Zemanta should have added this in related:

    http://www.chrisbrogan.com/do-what-works-for-you/

    Best,
    Ed
  • How about Kwippy - Microblogging & Diigo - Social Bookmarking?
  • This is a very useful list. Thanks Chris. Some of you might also find useful: http://technorati.com/
  • A new startup that's a video platform that you might find interesting is Qik, a video platform site that you use to upload video from your phone straight to Qik. Novel, and unprecedented in it's easy-to-use manner and social feature.
  • I'm with genieyclo and could not imagine the world before Qik. I run it as my storylining technology, capturing video and audio moments that my creative multimedia students later consult when crafting two minute video clips of their own. Qik upstreams from my Nokia phone, in private or public streams, interactive when they're being made.
  • Gregory
  • Great list! MT is free, btw.
  • I thought this list would be pretty superfluous, as most of the things listed are pretty well-known, but I found some great new services here, thanks very much!
  • You might want to include http://12seconds.tv/
    Even more succinct communication. You have 12 seconds of video.

    Donna
  • I use most of these already, but Upcoming.org was a great find, Chris, thanks a lot. I will hit a lot more events now.
  • I like bloglines for feed reading.

    http://www.bloglines.com/

    Just used Pandora on my iPhone 1.0 yesterday and it works great on both WiFi and the EDGE network. IT also stops playing music when the phone rings.
  • Ken
    www.mygeolog.com Location based social mobile network
  • If you are including things in the Upcoming genre, you might want to include Meetup. (http://www.meetup.com)
  • Just4Moi
    Plaxo seems to be missing from your list....
  • Wow! What a great list! I am on quite a few of those. I am also on the E.Factor - the online connector for Entrepreneurs and Investors.

    Stephanie Frasco
    http://efactor.com/?page=profile&id=219
    http://www.twitter.com/askfrasco
    http://friendfeed.com/askfrasco

    Feel free to connect.
  • Awesome list Chris.
    Here are a few additional tools to consider. I have an account with most of them, but am by no means a power user or a fan of all of them.

    Plaxo - social network / address book
    Jott - similar to Utterz, post voice to your social media properties
    Social | Median - similar to FriendFeed
    Merchant Circle - local biz referral and networking
    Naymz - name reputation community
    Ryze - processional network, strong in Europe
    Ecademy - processional network, strong in Europe
    Spokeo - Searches for info about you all over the web (spooky)
    MeetUp - local events and networking
  • Hi Chris, although new to the mix, let's add http://www.sohobiztube.com, Blogtalk radio, and seesmic. Good business blog would also be smallbiztrends.com

    The list is great, I plan to visit most and add some tools to my arsenal.
  • The music discovery site/game www.thesixtyone.com is starting to take off as a platform for underground and upcoming artists. I'm starting to see more recognized artists like MIA, We Are Scientists, Ted Leo/Pharmacists show up and become quickly popular in the 61 system, bringing more credibility to the site.
  • I give you a point. (At least 5 sites I hadn't heard of.)

    Not sure if I'll thank you for bringing them to my attention... ;)
  • Great list, I'd add Ping.fm for Microblogging broadcast.

    This guy, Bob Stumpel has put together an impressive Web 2.0 list of services (over 300 blog apps):
    http://bobstumpel.blogspot.com/

    Change is Brilliant!
  • Six Apart offers a free personal license of Movable Type for non-commercial web logs; there's also an open source version that can be used however you wish: http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/.
  • How about Monitter (http://monitter.com) - it lets you view 3 real-time streams of tweets from twitter.

    You just type in 3 keywords, and it feeds the tweets... check it out.. and let me know what you think at: @monitter on twitter.. :)
  • You might add- Mac Journal and- Win Journal Paid software by Mariner Software:)
  • Very useful list. Most of them are useful but not all of them I am a member. Hmmmn, I will...
  • I am a registered user of about 80% of these items. But since the advent of Ping.Fm, some of them have become redundant. Ping lets me cross post to many of my favorite social messaging/microblogging sites.

    Plurk, Pownce, Jaiku, and some others just don't have the appeal of identica and Twitter.

    Then of course, FriendFeed and Strands do a great job of collecting "stuff" from my friends.
  • Three other simple sites:

    www.Popego.com
    www.Blipper.com
    www.Profilactic.com

    Great list Chris!
  • Thanks for the compilation Chris which I found via danleach.co.uk Very useful.
  • No Doodgeball? I guess it isn't "cool" anymore. (I'm not being sarcastic). I'm not from the States so I don't have access to Dodgeball (Unfortunately) I don't know how well it is running right now.

    For Music I love sadsteve but I don't know if that would figure on your list.
  • Great list. I'd say I'm about 60%.
  • This is a very helpful list, Chris. Here are a few that I always throw out there for specialty areas and non-profits:

    Eons.com (http://www.eons.com) - social community for baby boomers (I've found that the question "How do we reach out to 60+ crowd?" comes up a lot.)

    Gather.com (http://www.gather.com) - social community for the intellectual set.

    Changents.com (http://www.changents.com) - connecting agents of change with backers.

    Change.org (http://www.change.org) - social community for non-profits.

    Idealist.org (http://www.idealist.org) - community and resources for non-profits.
  • Sterre
    Beth! You are a great profesional on social media. I have read some of your blogs on your own personal site. I would like to ask you to take a look @ www.pifworld.com.

    Social Media can also be very valuable for charitable organisations/causes. Pifworld.com is an online platform that brings together people and development projects from all over the world. Their point is to build up a loyal community around projects and create a positive change worldwide. The Social Media aspect makes is possible to keep the crowd updated about the projects and keep them involved. They can be the witness of the change they achieve.

    I you have any ideas or suggestion, feel free to contact me.

    Regards,
    Sally
    saly@pifworld.com
  • For bookmarking social network, ever try http://mento.info ?
  • I'd also add http://www.kirtsy.com under Social News sites.
  • Great post!!
    this is really useful collection for me.
    Thanks a lot for devoting time to collect and share with all.
    bookmarked and foreworded to friends.
    Suresh
    - wwww.realgroup.co.in
  • Joe
    What about Remember the Milk? I can't imagine not having this!
    ... and Craigslist.
  • Beth Bates blogged a link here and mentioned Eons as one of the ones I didn't add. Funny, I had Eons on the list, but realized I had 54 for my list of 50.
  • Why stop at 50?
  • Great list - thanks for sharing!
  • Jay
    you might want to add ScribeFire to your blogging list, as it allows you to add to whichever blog, from where ever you are.

    http://www.scribefire.com/
  • Great list! I have forwarded this to a few friends who aren't too "into" the Social Media/Web2.0 scene. Hopefully it will give them the resources to give it a try!
  • A lot of good information here. I'll add my companies offering as well. My Company Great America Networks Conferencing offers simple cost-effective Video and WebConferencing usable anywhere there is an Internet connection on any type of computer.

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  • You missed Hictu!, video microblogging.

    http://www.hictu.com

    Best,

    Luca
  • Francisco Giordao
    Great list! What about The Hype Machine?
  • And for convenient photo editing you should check us out at www.wowApic.com

    Cheers,

    Dave
    wowApic.com
    How are your pics doing?
  • Excellent list!
  • BINGO! You had 7 on the list that I hadn't heard of before, although some listed in comments I did know. Great list!
  • Check out this new concept - an online soap opera where users can decide what happens in the story
  • Bill Weberer
  • I love http://www.jingproject.com/ for screen capture that goes straight to flickr
  • Gotta say, I love my friends at TypePad!!
  • Chris,

    Excellent and most helpful post! Some additions from my side:

    Feed management:

    - Feedly.com: great feedreader; posts shown are based on the interest of your friends on other Social Media sites such as Twitter and FriendFeed. This results in very targetted reading.

    - Toluu.com : matches your feeds with those of others; and suggests other feeds that might be interesting for you.

    Regards,

    Jeroen
  • I think you definitely forgot Twine, www.twine.com
  • dancinjul
    Hulu.com under Video!
  • Addition: full URL's of these sites:
    http://www.feedly.com
    http://www.toluu.com
  • What, no apps like Dropbox ( http://getdropbox.com ) to keep working data synced seamlessly between a couple of computers?
  • Hi Chris, thanks for this aggregation, useful. But, what about adding an emerging category named Social Search? Xoost would fit into it. cheers, Felix
  • I love Asaph (http://www.phoboslab.org/projects/asaph). Essentially let's you run a simple tumblog style blog on your own server. http://internetjogging.com/things is where mine lives, I customized a bit and love having a visual archive of favourite things on the web.
  • wonder why Friendster is not on the list of social networking site..in my country its very famous, though.
  • Should there be an online Calendar or Social Calendar category? I love www.30boxes.net. As Felix suggested, also need the category of social search, or alternatively the newish term: social discovery (see BiblioCommons and the new library catalog/social discovery tool they are rolling out now--Oakville Public Library beta). I agree Plaxo/Pulse should be on here, as a way of keeping your virtual contact list and networking at the same time. Anyone who uses libraries should be aware of LibraryThing and Library Elf. Any suggestions on what category to place these in?
  • Superb. Excelent. Good
  • NYHC 4 Life at www.hardcorenyc.com is an online community for hardcore music fans and NYHC Tattoos.
    It was built with KickApps Social Networking software.
  • BEBO !!! best social networking site out their !!!
  • This is a super list, thanks Chris,
    JR
  • Re: #7, Brightkite - http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan/statuses/882576497

    What kind of advice are you giving us anyway? :P

    All joking aside, thanks for the list, keep up the good work.
  • You left out Web Analytics tools to measure how you are doing. I use many, but here are the top 4 that I use more frequently than others:

    http://www.google.com/analytics
    http://www.tweetburner.com
    http://www.feedburner.com
    http://www.technorati.com
  • Thankyou for your knowledge thx.
  • Skinflakes
    Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com is a a slightly prettier version of Netvibes and is worth a look.
  • yep, nice compilation
  • Great list! About 10 I'd never heard of, so you get 2 points from me. :) You missed two of my standards: Ping.fm and Profilactic, but others mentioned them. One more that falls under Social Networking is www.goodreads.com.
    Thanks!
    Joan
  • Lots of great sites that I use and that I never heard of! Great list indeed!
  • Rob
    For a different kind of Social Network, a lot more grown up, try http://www.FindLikeMinds.com
  • You cannot compete with services like Twitter that in place for so long and so popular. So you need to take it into account and integrate in your strategy. Plus if you want to make a microblogging service, you need (IMHO) to rely on SMS and as you cannot afford SMS out, you need to use such services (Twitter, Jaiku, etc) for that.

    That is why we (mixin.com) consider these services (Twitter, Jaiku, Plurk, etc.) as new communication channels for our social agenda. When you found something to do or would like to do something you need to discuss, suggest, and decide where and when. So you need to send it to your friends that are not always on the same social network or are not on any social network at all (yes it is possible ;-)
  • Like the list...but in the social networks category you should add myheritage.com; a social network for families..
    what facebook is for friends, linkedin for business, myheritage if for families.
  • saucyshits
    How about http://wallbrawl.com for music?
  • While these new social tools are great, don't forget the older forum-based sites. Often these are great for users, though certainly more difficult to spam/hijack/penetrate. See for example Two Peas in a Bucket - massive traffic, active user base, but if you aren't into scrap-booking they will chase you out like Pooh in a beehive. Also, there is are growing communities of interest around open source apps in Google Code.
  • Wow, what a great list of resources. Thanks for compiling it together.

    http://twitter.com/loveurmindnsoul
  • I found this post’s link on another blog under resource section and now I’m glad I clicked it. I have already registered in few sites to see how they can help me in my online efforts.

    Happy holidays!

    SMMWatch
  • Thanks for putting all this great stuff in one easy place that we can keep referring back to. Where does Max Levchin's Slide play a role in all of this? I see its not on your list.
    Kind regards
    Kevin
  • Thanks for all the sites, thoughI'd add a word of caution. I'm over my head on keeping track of what I've signed up for, what it does, how it can help me, etc.... so I've had to back off most of the sites, ignoring them while I familiarize myself with a select few.
    Perhaps bookmarking your article, including some fascinating additions in the comments, signing up for a few of the sites, play with them for awhile until you're comfortable with what they do, then continue down the list a few sites at a time.
    Molly
  • Good list, kept me for a little while
  • Sterre
    Thanks for the list. Chris, you however forgot one important site: www.pifworld.com. The site is launched only fours weeks ago, so I forgive you ;-)

    Social Media can also be very valuable for charitable organisations/causes. www.Pifworld.com is an online platform that brings together people and development projects from all over the world. Their point is to build up a loyal community around projects and create a positive change worldwide. The Social Media aspect makes is possible to keep the crowd updated about the projects and keep them involved. They can be the witness of the change they achieve.

    Take a look, and who knows, maybe next year we will see pifworld in your list next year!
  • Technorati should be mentioned. I guess its one of the top3 bookmarks in the world.
  • Very very good list of social networking sites. Probably the best so far i have seen on the internet.
    Thank you so much
  • mbt1451
    That’s something,That's what I was thinking.Brilliant idea.
  • this is very helpful list, resources links are excellent
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