Social networks have had giant growth spurts over the past couple of years, and it seems there’s one for everyone: from dogs to moms to book-worms to shoppers. Social networks, I think, more than anything give people a place to belong and to hang out. Because of the drastic growth, popularity and craze these days, I created a list for people who have their odd MySpace or Bebo profiles but would like to seek further and discover new ones.
Note: I haven’t included social bookmarking sites and sites with a ‘tinge’ of social networking (think YouTube or Flickr). Also, I’ve divided the list into two categories, General and Niche, and covered only publically open services (e.g. no invitation-only betas).
General
These social networking applications are mostly intended for the general audience, although some have been engrossed and in a way ‘taken over’ by specific demographics.
MySpace - Probably known as the biggest social network out there, MySpace has taken the U.S. by a storm. Currently with over 80 million users, MySpace was bought by Newscorp for $580 million, and continues to grow and be a general trend-setter in social networks.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults
Bebo - While MySpace is targetted at the U.S. audience, Bebo is a similar service gearing more towards other English-speaking countries such as the U.K, Australia and New Zealand. Bebo was originally founded to help keep in touch with friends, although soon outgrew that aim and currently has more than 40 million users.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults
Tagworld - Founded in the fall of 2005, TagWorld is a direct competitor to MySpace which features better implementation of Web 2.0 features such as tagging and AJAX. TagWorld also features a Music Discovery Engine and an IM client with Video Chat.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults
Orkut - Google’s social networking attempt made as ‘20% project’ by a Google employee in early 2004, Orkut started off strong in the U.S. although has grown widely into the Brazilian market with more than 65% of Brazilian users.
Best for: Young Adults (Brazilians)
AIM Pages - Probably the most recently launched ‘major’ social network, AIM Pages is AOL’s shot at breaking MySpace’s dominating market share by combining their dominating IM market share of AIM. Although it was expected to be ‘the-killer,’ it’s yet to show any promise.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults
Hi5 - Estimated to have around 40 million users, Hi5 is a social network which has been gaining user-ship. One of its unique features is to purchase songs via iTunes to add to your profile and upload photos upto 1GB on a free account. Celebrities such as Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson and Tyra Banks are also known to have Hi5 profiles.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults
Panjea - Founded earlier this year, Panjea aims to combine social networking with an economy; money. It enables several ways for artists to get paid, and has its own unique points system.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults, Artists
Cyworld [US] - First started in Korea and turned a national phenomenon with daily revenues averaging upto $300,000, Cyworld is slowly being bought into the U.S. It shares a unique concept of a ‘minihompy’ which every user has, and that is roughly their profile, and has its own currency of ‘acorns.’ Users can connect with each other and decorate their ‘minihompy.’
Best for: Teens, Young Adults, Koreans
Tagged - A social network mainly for teens, unlike other networks Tagged has a unique concept of being ‘tagged,’ building ‘tag teams’ and earning points to be the ‘Ultimate Tagged Team’. Tagged has been slowly growing on the teen population mostly in the U.S. although still remains secondary to MySpace.
Best for: Teens
Popist - Sharing a strikingly similar interface to MySpace and competing in the same space, Popist is known to have more open features such as the ability to integrate with other social networks.
Best for: Teens
Friendster - One of the first social networks first launched as a ’social experiment’ and recently awarded the patent for social networking, Friendster had a big start peaking a large number of users at first, although it has slowly lost market share and now owns less than 1% of the market.
Best for: Young Adults
Tribe - Recently acquired by NBC, Tribe is a social network focused more on the aspect of enhancing users’ own social networks rather than meeting new people or dating. It also features the unique aspect of joining and creating ‘tribes,’ and is highly localized with its communities.
Best for: Young Adults
Facebook - A Valley-based startup, Facebook has slowly had a large impact on the College/University market around mostly English-speaking countries and remains the second most popular social network after MySpace in the U.S. Although not available in many places in the world just yet, it’s growth rate has been substantial.
Best for: College/University students
ConnectU - A social network tightly focused on the College/University students, ConnectU is a social network very similar to Facebook. Although ConnectU is limited to only a number of Universities and Colleges around the world.
Best for: College/University students
Yahoo! 360 - Launched in early 2005, Yahoo! 360 is Yahoo!’s social networking attempt, also bringing together other blogging and photosharing. One of the noticeable things about Yahoo! 360 is that it only allows people 18 and above to join, hence disabling it to a large crowd of audience.
Best for: Adults, Middle-aged
PeopleAggregator - Marc Canter’s move towards ‘open’ social networks, PeopleAggregator is built upon open standards and functionality. One of the things that makes it unique is that it’s a demo of the software it is built upon which will be later available for license to companies.
Best for: Adults, Middle-aged
Niche
These applications share a specific goal for a certain kind of audience, whether it’s shoppers or moms.
MommyBuzz - Started only a couple of months ago, MommyBuzz is based around the idea of mom’s meeting up and connecting, sharing and exchanging ideas with other moms. A great niche for this kind of an audience.
Best for: Moms!
MuslimSpace - Created by a former computer science student at the American University of Sharjah, MuslimSpace lives true to its name — MySpace for Muslims. Currently estimated to have about 15,000 members, it aims to be cleaner and safer than MySpace and undoubtedly a place for muslims.
Best for: Muslims
Stardoll - How would you like dressing up celebrities as paperdolls? Originally called Paperdoll Heaven, Stardoll enables just that. With a strong social networking backend and with almost a million members, Stardoll is impacting the kid-teen world almost like Neopets did a few years ago.
Best for: Kids/Teens
Imbee - The teens have their places all right, but what about the kids? Imbee aims to be just that, a safe and secure social network for kids. So now when your big brother is showing off his MySpace profile and teasing you for not being able to join, Imbee away!
Best for: Kids
Dogster - A place where dogs [and their owners] can meet. talk and share with with other dogs [and their owners], Dogster is a place where every dog has its own web page. As their tagline goes, ‘Share dog photos, tell dog stories, make dog friends!’
Best for: Dogs; their owners
Catster - A sister site to Dogster and run by the same people, Catster is Dogster for cats. ‘Share cat photos, tell cat stories, make cat friends!’ Need I say more?
Best for: Cats; their owners
Fuzzster - In a way a combination of (but not related to) Dogster and Catster, Fuzzster is exactly that — a place for your cats, dogs and fuzzy pets. Founded in early 2004, it’s grown into quite a community of pet-lovers.
Best for: Fuzzy pets; their owners
BookCrossing - In the real world, bookcrossing is ‘the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.’ BookCrossing aims to turn this concept virtual, and exactly that.
Best for: Book lovers
Boompa - This one’s for every car lover out there (and there are many!), Boompa aims to be ‘your garage, online.’ Car lovers can show of their ‘rides,’ find guides are parts to improve them, meet other car lovers alike, watch videos and photos, and a lot more.
Best for: Car lovers
Spout - It’s database including more than 250,000 film titles, Spout is a social networking application for film-lovers. With reviews, recommendations,meeting film-lovers like you, the works — Spout is a good place to be at before you rent out your Saturday night flick.
Best for: Film lovers
MOG - A Valley-based startup, MOG aims to connect music-listeners which share similar interests. An interesting way to meet new people, you can also discover news types of music you never knew of before.
Best for: Music lovers
Gusto - There are sites for car, film, music, book, pet lovers, but what about the travellers? Gusto is exactly that, a place for travellers to connect with each other based on their lifestyles (set in preferences). You can also find a ton of travel information, recommendations, and reviews.
Yub.com - Combining social networking with shopping, Yub.com aims to enable smart shopping with the help of networking. It shares a concept of ‘cash back’ where if another member helps you or vice verca, both members are able to get CashBack. An interesting way to shop.
Best for: [Online] Shoppers
Yelp - From the founders of PayPal, Yelp is a social networking site much like Yub, designed to help shoppers make decisions by enabling user reviews. However, unlike Yub, Yelp is more focused on businesses and services rather than consumer-oriented products. It is currently only available in the U.S.
Best for: Anyone in the U.S. (more so in the larger cities)
LinkedIn - Questionably the most-popular choice in its niche, LinkedIn aims to connect colleagues and business-contacts and also help you find new ones. With approximately 5 million users, LinkedIn remains a popular choice for its targetted audience.
Best for: Employed individuals; business-folks
biddingBuddies - Often in trading sites like eBay, you meet and have to deal with a lot of people. biddingBuddies encourages this by being the ‘only social network exclusively for eBay members.’ So now when you have bidding wars with people, why not try and befriend them?
Best for: eBay members — buyers/sellers
Faqqly - There are so many things you want to know about your friends, so why not ask them through Faqqly? Faqqly creates an FAQ (frequently asked questions) page for every member and enables friends to ask each other whatever question they have in mind.
Best for: Curious people — teens, young adults
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- Craig
July 12th, 2006 at 12:00 am Great list of networks there Sid, you really did your home work
- todd
July 12th, 2006 at 3:29 am be on the lookout for a site named Virb. It will revolutionize the social networking landscape. The brilliant minds of purevolume.com are now bringing their skills to the social networking arena. - 33 Places in the Social Networking Era
July 12th, 2006 at 4:40 am […] Sid Yadav writes, “33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era,” a roundup of 33 different social networking sites, each with descriptions and recommended demographics. Sid covers general social networking sites that anyone can jump into as well as niche related networking sites that are perfect for someone with high interest in a topic. […] - Jinx
July 12th, 2006 at 6:56 am Hmm, dont forget
www.flingr.comBrand new as of 2 days ago
- Fei
July 12th, 2006 at 7:00 am Here’s one similiar to Linkedin
http://www.doostang.com/ - Blithe
July 12th, 2006 at 7:33 am My favorite combo site is http://www.theblackstripe.com It’s like flickr, facebook, and myspace all in one and it is based on real-life friends instead of random people. - scott rocher
July 12th, 2006 at 8:08 am i also like The Black Stripe http://www.theblackstripe.com - Dawn Foster
July 12th, 2006 at 9:12 am I was struck by how 14 of the general social networking sites were best for teens, young adults, or college / university students while only 2 were best for adults / middle-aged. My limited experience with MySpace is leading me to the same conclusion. I typically do not think of 35 as over the hill; however, in MySpace terms, I am positively ancient.It looks like those of us over 30 just need find our place in one of the niches!
- Adrian
July 12th, 2006 at 11:13 am Yet another niche social networking site is MyFreeImplants.com which touts itself as THE MySpace of plastic surgery. I swear this social networking trend truly has no limits! - Swifty
July 12th, 2006 at 11:45 am Another one for book lovers will be http://www.librarything.com where you get to record and categorize all the books you have, and find other users who have the same books etc. - Matrix Addicted / 沈溺殺人網絡 » Blog Archive » 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era
July 12th, 2006 at 12:34 pm […] Social networks have had giant growth spurts over the past couple of years, and it seems there’s one for everyone: from dogs to moms to book-worms to shoppers. Social networks, I think, more than anything give people a place to belong and to hang out. Because of the drastic growing number, popularity and craze these days, I created a list for people who have their odd MySpace or Bebo profiles but would like to seek further and discover new ones. [Source] […] - Community Next: Where social networks came from and where they are going… » Archive » Great Reference on All Social Networks
July 12th, 2006 at 12:49 pm […] Sid from Rev2.org writes up a great list of all the Social Networks out there. […] - Sid Yadav
July 12th, 2006 at 6:00 pm Hi everyone,
Thanks so much for your lovely feedback and suggestions, much appreciate it.The thing about this list was that I started off with a goal of 33, went and found as many as I could only to realise that there were way too many general ones. I had to cut quite a few down to equal them off — and they’re still not equal!
So I would edit the list and add LibraryThing, The Black Stripe (this one truly slipped of my mind), MyFreeImplants, Doostang, Virb, and possibly tens of others if I could, but then again it wouldn’t be ‘33 places to hangout….’ would it
- Sid Yadav
July 12th, 2006 at 6:06 pm Dawn,
How right you are, but then again the teens of today won’t remain teens forever
I think people 35+ tend to use social networks for very different reasons and tend to split out in their own niches (someone might be a work-o-holic and love LinkedIn while another might be a mom and use MommyBuzz). In the end I think there would be no use for something like MySpace for the middle-aged since they’re not dating, they’ve already socialized all their lives, and they don’t listen to hard-core punk-rock music. - 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - rev2.org at blackrimglasses.com
July 12th, 2006 at 6:27 pm […] 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - rev2.org: or you know, you could just GO OUTSIDE. […] - Richard Bergstedt
July 12th, 2006 at 6:51 pm Thanks for the great article on social networking sites. Now, where do I go?Hmmmm …..
- Isaac
July 12th, 2006 at 7:10 pm http://www.wealink.com, professional sns in China - » Archivo del weblog » Los 33 sitios más sociales
July 12th, 2006 at 8:06 pm […] Enlace: Rev2.org […] - Colin Donald
July 12th, 2006 at 10:01 pm Hi Sid,Excellent list. Also worth noting Facebook rival Xuqa http://www.xuqa.com/
And I listed some of the main UK social networking sites here:
- Jake
July 12th, 2006 at 11:47 pm You might also check out http://www.matchtag.com - Neal Campbell
July 12th, 2006 at 11:55 pm New on the horizon is http://www.PodShow.com. It builds social networks around individual podcasts and makes a whole lot more sense to someone over 25 than My Space. - Dan
July 13th, 2006 at 12:34 am Hi,I work for a small startup that would fit into the niche section. http://www.flirtomatic.com . It is aimed at fun friendly chat (as opposed to dating).
- Toby
July 13th, 2006 at 12:58 am Awesome list. With more and more to come. Thanks for putting this together. - David Scott Lewis
July 13th, 2006 at 1:16 am Don’t forget AlwaysOn at http://www.alwayson.goingon.com/ . It’s the best bet for online social networking for the Silicon Valley crowd. The Sand Hill Group also has an online community, of sorts. They’re at http://www.sandhill.com/ . And what about Second Life and all the other virtual communities? - Kamal Stan
July 13th, 2006 at 2:00 am An awesome niche social network player not listed here - http://www.stockarena.com - revolutionizing the investment community by handlng poster credibility issues… - Guigo
July 13th, 2006 at 2:36 am thanks for the list of sites, you’ve invested so much time to get it all together
anyway, i think the myspace thing is to be the first and only for a long time, before someone more “cool” will come and take it’s place.. - Marshall Sontag
July 13th, 2006 at 2:47 am What about Zaadz?! http://www.zaadz.com/ - Changing Way » Blog Archive » Social Networking Sites
July 13th, 2006 at 2:59 am […] Sid Yadav provides a rundown of 33 social networking sites. Thanks to Richard for the link to Sid. […] - Dan
July 13th, 2006 at 3:54 am http://www.listal.com/ for books, movies, games and music - Rockwell
July 13th, 2006 at 4:18 am And then there’s www.latenightshots.com - huge in DC - but you need an invite to join. - Jim
July 13th, 2006 at 4:50 am Don’t forget http://www.deviantart.com, for artists. - lawrence coburn
July 13th, 2006 at 5:27 am Nice list Sid… here’s a list of 57 social networking sites (with some overlap):http://www.rateitall.com/t-1900-social-networking-web-sites.aspx
- Honey
July 13th, 2006 at 6:33 am There’s http://www.care2.com for activists–everything from the environment, to women’s issues, to human rights, to animal activism, to…You can meet people who care about the same issues you do, and keep informed on activities surrounding them.
- ..
July 13th, 2006 at 7:06 am […] 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - rev2.org […] - barnabis
July 13th, 2006 at 7:44 am which one is the best ? what is each one for ?
which one is the best for the 50 year olds ?
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wednesday july 12 2006 4:40 p.m.
is there any more ? - Social Networking Overload at My Own Reality
July 13th, 2006 at 8:13 am […] 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - rev2.org […] - barnabis
July 13th, 2006 at 8:13 am which one is for the satanists the occults ? - Jo McKenna
July 13th, 2006 at 8:30 am Hi, I would like to request Bolt Media is to this list. Founded in 1996, www.bolt.com has evolved into a creative network focused on helping 16-34 year old find an audience. Bolt members upload anything – a photo, video, comedy sketch, song – to get feedback. Feedback spurs more creativity and the formation of a broader audience. Based in New York with 13 million unique users, Bolt gives members an audience. Here is a link to recent press on Bolt. http://mediakit.bolt.com/press/index.phpPlease let me know if you need anything else!
Many thanks!
Best, Jo
Tel: 646 382 4291 - April
July 13th, 2006 at 10:06 am What about Elgg? That looks like a site with a lot of potential. It’s kind of a like a social network for learning, but I think it could be used for many types of networks. http://elgg.net/ - albrenner
July 13th, 2006 at 10:10 am Interesting list. $560 million for myspace. Does anyone remember altavista or any one of a dozen sites which were so hot and then just faded away as they went out of favor. People are fickle. - Chris Car » Hang out online
July 13th, 2006 at 10:29 am […] Link […] - Social Intelligence - Custom Social Networking Research and Analysis » Blog Archive » Dogster - meet dogs (and dog owners)
July 13th, 2006 at 10:38 am […] (via rev2.org) Posted by justin.smith Filed in entertainment, pets […] - DealBreaker.com
July 13th, 2006 at 10:56 am Write-Offs: 07.12.06…$$$ Chimp Playing Sodoku. A take-off on Banker Playing Sodoku, but hairier. [You Tube] $$$ Greenspan shirts: jackpot [Cafe Press] $$$ “The anonymous bullshittings of an alcoholic, pessimistic, asshole, Korean-American-Roman-Catholic-Elmhurst-Bayside-N…
- noone
July 13th, 2006 at 11:53 am you should consider adding SFZero to the list - it’s a social network + game. http://sf0.org - tiara.org » links for 2006-07-12
July 13th, 2006 at 1:30 pm […] 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - rev2.org A few I hadn’t heard of. (tags: myspace marketing socialnetworking socialsoftware) […] - tingting
July 13th, 2006 at 2:30 pm where is “friendster”?? - Terry
July 13th, 2006 at 6:23 pm don’t forget xpeeps.com the porn networking site - I do » Blog Archive » links for 2006-07-13
July 13th, 2006 at 7:19 pm […] 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - rev2.org a collection of social websites (tags: web2.0 social list) […] - Plod
July 13th, 2006 at 8:36 pm links for 2006-07-13…[视频]这个MM长得还行，可是打嗝超恶心 (tags: video) Yahoo!推荐: (外国)男人该上的100个网站，没Plod，不算！ (tags: internet funny Yahoo Lists Links website) Pebble改名叫oomi，小巧玲珑却功能强大MP3播放器 (…
- Collum’s Column » Blog Archive » A List of Social Networking Sites
July 13th, 2006 at 8:55 pm […] Sid Yadav at rev2.org has posted a list of 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era. Each item within the list contains a short description of the social networking site and the site’s target audience. The comments that have been added to this posting are also worth reading. They greatly expand the list. […] - Catch ‘o the day - A Frog in the Valley - Technology Intelligence
July 14th, 2006 at 1:23 am […] An alternative approach to tagging - Tagging is hot but keep your eyes open for other stuff. The CakePHP Framework: Your First Bite - frameworks, frameworks, frameworks (sing to the tune of Balmers’ developers, developers…) Social Software and Web 2.0 YouTube hits the big time in a short time - fast and furious, how serious? How to Clean Up Your Digital Dirt - remember netiquette 101? NEver write in an email somethnig you would not want on the cover of national enquirer? Yeah, imagine MySpace! 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - like a “cool bars in this town” guide, but without the hangover. The Future of .Mac - Free? - Makes sense. Interesting trends Tremulous: The best free software game ever? - Games are way more important than most digerati think, just ask Mike. FX2 Visual Update/Default Theme Update - nice to see opensource project do formal UI and Usability work. Media Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry - Hehehe. I like it! SageTV Brings PlaceShifting To Linux - Shifting is all the rage. Place, Time… IT Business Microsoft hit with 280m euro fine - ouch. I think it’s deserved. Should Apple be fined to include the iApps in the OS? Dual-drive NAS server runs Linux, supports DLN - Storage is critical and now solutions for it are becoming commodity. Good thing. VMware Releases Server 1.0 - virtualization is liberation. […] - Plod On Planet Opera
July 14th, 2006 at 5:40 am links for 2006-07-13…[视频]这个MM长得还行，可是打嗝超恶心Yahoo!推荐: (外国)男人该上的100个网站，没Plod，不算！[url=http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news. ……
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July 14th, 2006 at 6:35 am […] 33 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era - rev2.org 33 social networks and their target audience (tags: social socialnetworking networking list links directory reference community) […] - Social Intelligence - Custom Social Networking Research and Analysis » Blog Archive » Orkut - popular in Brazil
July 14th, 2006 at 7:49 am […] (via rev2.org) Posted by justin.smith Filed in Uncategorized, brazil […] - Social Intelligence - Custom Social Networking Research and Analysis » Blog Archive » Tagged - American teens
July 14th, 2006 at 8:11 am […] (via rev2.org) Posted by justin.smith Filed in teenagers […] - Social Intelligence - Social Networking Market Research and Analysis » Blog Archive » Popist - like MySpace, except a little more open
July 14th, 2006 at 8:57 am […] (via rev2.org) Posted by justin.smith Filed in entertainment, teenagers, photos, music […] - On The Turning Away » Hangouts at Social Net
July 14th, 2006 at 11:38 am […] That’s the cosmic question. In the consumer-control era, naturally you’d reply on the pro bono bloggers for tips. According to rev2.org, there’s no shortage of places to hangout. […] - 泛泛其景 » 洋为中用:社会性网络站点大汇总(1/3)
July 14th, 2006 at 4:47 pm […] 原文：rev2.org （译文有所删节） […] - 蓦然回首 » Blog Archive » links for 2006-07-14
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July 14th, 2006 at 7:44 pm http://www.last.fm
http://www.musicmobs.com
http://www.musicstrands.comAll great sites for music fans.
- Ralf Bendrath
July 15th, 2006 at 9:21 am A popular European equivalent to LinkedIn - connecting colleagues and busuiness partners - is http://www.openbc.com (for “Open Business Club”). It includes nice features for micro-managing who can see what of your data. Subscription-fee for more features, no ads. Ranked among the 100 most promising European companies by Red Herring. - Telcotrash
July 17th, 2006 at 4:19 am Stealth Start-ups, Part I of III…Well, and then again maybe not so stealth as some of them have been around for quite a while by now (some of them since 2005). At the recent Under The Radar Conference in June, some 32 companies presented. Here’s…
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July 17th, 2006 at 10:36 pm […] Here is the list of the most popular social networking websites at this moment to check: […] - Web 2.0: un concepto, no una tecnología » ¿ Demasiadas Redes Sociales ?
July 18th, 2006 at 3:36 am […] Revisando este artículo sobre la variada oferta de redes sociales disponible, divagaba sobre si valdría la pena pensar en nuevas iniciativas y llegué a la conclusión que probablemente no hay espacio para más de dos o tres redes de tipo general como MySpace.com (recientemente superó al portal de Yahoo). Sin embargo creo que veremos aparecer muchas redes sobre dominios específicos, sobre grupos etarios específicos, etc. […] - Sin Adam
July 19th, 2006 at 9:36 am has no one heard of multiply.com? it combines everything you can find everywhere and it’s easier to use! - Peter Glyman
July 19th, 2006 at 12:21 pm Great list…I’m a big fan of LinkedIn. And for all you musicians out there you should check out bandspace.com - adf
July 20th, 2006 at 11:13 pm http://www.43things.com
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July 25th, 2006 at 7:42 pm […] What are your options for inspiration and research (in addition to the search engines) to generate ‘good’ posts? Well, they differ from industry to industry. The ones that I use: - a news aggregator (in my case – bloglines.com) - technorati.com and other popular blog search engines - del.icio.us and other social bookmarking websites (see the list of 33 services posted here) - top industry websites – RSS feeds or e-mail newsletters - top industry forums – unlimited source of wisdom and experience - industry printed magazines - top industry sources in other languages - wikipedia.org - trackengine.com/ webwatcher.com – the services alert you when there are changes on the pages you add to your account. Great if you keep an eye on the websites that do not send out e-mail newsletters or generate RSS feeds. But recently I seldom use them - eBay.com […]
