Mike Henderson's List: Social Media Overview

A good way to centralize content and interaction on a social network.
Updates, events, images, video, forum...

www.facebook.com/home.php - Preview

socialmedia facebook on 2008-07-10 and saved by 1270 people

An example of a highly functional blog

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blogs alpinemeadows on 2008-07-10 and saved by 4 people

A good example of a forum

forums.mtbr.com/forumdisplay.php - Preview

forum on 2008-07-10

Facebook is a general network based on "friending" and sharing of messages and media

www.facebook.com/profile.php - Preview

networking facebook on 2008-07-10

ning is a netowrk that is more specific to a particular topic, location or interest. It has blog, network, forum, and media sharing functionality, but is not particulary "contact" or "friending" based.

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networking ning on 2008-07-10 and saved by 4 people

Plaxo is a network cenetered around contact info and aggregation of content

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networking plaxo on 2008-07-10 and saved by 96 people

social bookmarking

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bookmarking on 2008-07-10

simple basic link stroing and sharing and hosting

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bookmarking on 2008-07-10

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bookmarking on 2008-07-10 and saved by 2034 people

eventful.com - Preview

events on 2008-07-10 and saved by 295 people

upcoming.yahoo.com - Preview

events on 2008-07-10 and saved by 245 people