50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider
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
- Blogger - free blogging and hosting.
- Movable Type - paid software, needs host.
- TypePad - paid blogging and hosting.
- WordPress.com - free blogging and hosting.
- WordPress.org - free blog software, needs host.
- Tumblr - free blogging and hosting.
Microblogging
- BrightKite - microblogging, mobile, location.
- FriendFeed - microblogging/ aggregator.
- Identi.ca - open source microblogging.
- Jaiku - microblogging, mobile too.
- Posterous - microblogging, and/or sends to other sites.
- Pownce - microblogging and file sharing.
- Plurk - microblogging and threaded conversations.
- Seesmic - video microblogging.
- Twitter - microblogging and mobile.
- Utterz - microblogging, mobile, video.
Social Bookmarking
- Delicious - bookmarking.
- Ma.gnolia - enhanced bookmarking.
- Sphinn - bookmarking/voting.
- StumbleUpon - bookmarking and browsing.
Social News Sites
- Digg - social news.
- Mixx - social news.
- Reddit - social news.
Social Networks
- Facebook - general networking.
- Flickr - photo and video sharing.
- Last.fm - music sharing.
- LibraryThing - book lovers.
- LinkedIn - professional social networking.
- MySpace - general networking.
- Ning - white label social network.
- Pandora - music sharing.
- Yelp - rating restaurants and businesses.
Miscellaneous and Useful
- Twitter Search (formerly Summize) - search for what matters to YOU.
- Picnik - free online photo editing. Good for avatar pic touchups.
- Evernote - online and desktop note syncing/storage.
- Upcoming.org - event sharing site (great for finding cool conferences).
- Netvibes - web start page (has Ginger social features now, too).
- Twingly - blog search.
- Compete - web ranking analysis.
- AideRSS - rates your blog posts.
- Skitch - screen capture tool (mac).
Video Platforms
- Blip.tv - video hosting, sharing.
- Google Video - video hosting, sharing.
- Viddler - video hosting, sharing.
- Vimeo - video hosting, sharing.
- YouTube - video hosting, sharing.
- Mogulus - live video platform.
- uStream.tv - live video platform.
- BlogTV - live video platform.
- ooVoo - live video chat.
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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
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.
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.
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.
If you are including things in the Upcoming genre, you might want to include Meetup. (http://www.meetup.com)
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 http://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.. :)
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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:
http://www.Popego.com
http://www.Blipper.com
http://www.Profilactic.com
Great list Chris!
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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.
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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.
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
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.
you might want to add ScribeFire to your blogging list, as it allows you to add to whichever blog, from where ever you are.
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!
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How are your pics doing?
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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
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What kind of advice are you giving us anyway? :P
All joking aside, thanks for the list, keep up the good work.
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http://www.tweetburner.com
http://www.feedburner.com
http://www.technorati.com
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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 http://www.goodreads.com.
Thanks!
Joan
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what about qik?
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diigo for bookmarking.
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:) justa wait a week you'll have a new addition
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I don't see why everybody is sleepin' on Diigo
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Kwippy, Propeller, and Social Median should be added to the list, but Great job Chris!
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There are 10,974,601 apps I could add. That's where YOU come in. : )
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Thanks for the great list. I think I'll use about 3 of them.
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Agree on Diigo. Great site, we use it to share info across management team.
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Hi Chris, thanks for this aggregation, useful. But, what about adding an emerging category named Social Search? Xoost would fit into it. cheers, Felix
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Thanks, great list, but I wonder should Posterous be in microblogging category? It's more like usual blogging service... And +1 for Diigo =)
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perhaps instapaper, alexa, sitemeter, picasa, rssmeme ?
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Awesome list. A relatively new kid on the block: http://www.addictomatic.com - great tool for listening quickly.
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Great list but techmeme.com needs to be on here! Also rememberthemilk.com is a fun way to keep track of todos.
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Socialthing! is a cooler alternative to feedfriend http://socialthing.com
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And new ones are coming every day. That is why at mixin.com we are not trying to compete with any of them but integrate them. Because once you found something to do or you have a proposition to make, you need to discuss with your friends whatever social network they belong. And this discussion begins before the event, during the event and can continue after the event with the addition of pictures and videos from these services like Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Qik.
Ron McDaniel put together a similar list a while ago called “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”
http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2007/03/05/99-bottles-of-beer-on-the-wall-99-bottles-of-beer/
You two should connect if you haven’t already.