Reddit - Socially Simple

Features:

Popular page, stats, awards, voting, shared comments, profile page, mailbox



Popularity:

High



General Users:

Reddit users are a mish-mash of all different types, but it usually results in humor, pop-culture, politics and technology stories hitting the home page. It is much less "serious" than Digg, but not as funky as FARK.

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Fark - Farking Links

Features:

Confusing as hell, categories, contests



Popularity:

Medium



General Users:

FARK is... a little different. This is where you go to find weird, off-the-wall news and strange internet memes. The users are very witty, tech savvy, and really like Adobe Photoshop.

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Wists - Social Shopping

Features:

Toolbar plugin, picture bookmarks, product bookmarks, categories, profile page, latest, widgets, popular



Popularity: Low



General Users:

The users on wists.com are mostly female, fashion-oriented shoppers and probably a fair bit of ecommerce website owners and marketers showing off their own wares. See the "what the research says" section below for more information.

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FURL - Funny Stuff

Features:

Toolbar plugin, one-click bookmarking, popular bookmarks, privacy options, subscription to popular feed



Popularity: Medium



General Users:

All different kinds of users have the FURL toolbar plugin for bookmarking their favorite websites, although the most popular stories tend to be Internet or technology related.

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Stumbleupon - Social Stumbling

Features:

Toolbar plugin, social networking, profile page, private messaging, discovery of new sites, social voting



Popularity: High



General Users:

Stumbleupon probably has the most diverse set of users and bookmarked pages out of all of the social bookmarking websites. What you stumble across or "upon" depends on the friends you make, what kinds of sites you submit / vote for, and the tags you choose as your keywords.

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DRM gives power to Microsoft and Big Media.




• They decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer
• They decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any
  given moment
• They force you to install new programs even when you
  don't want to (and, of course, pay for the privilege)
• They restrict
  your access to certain programs and even to your own data files




DRM is enforced by technological barriers. You try to do something, and
your computer tells you that you can't. To make this effective, your computer
has to be constantly monitoring what you are doing. This constant monitoring
uses computing power and memory, and is a large part of the reason why
Microsoft is telling you that you have to buy new and more powerful hardware in
order to run Vista. They want you to buy new hardware not because you need it,
but because your computer needs it in order to be more effective at restricting
what you do.

Even when you legally buy Vista, you don't own it.

Windows Vista, like previous versions of Windows, is proprietary software:
leased to you under a license that severely restricts how you can use it, and
without source code, so nobody but Microsoft can change it or even verify what
it really does.

icrosoft says it best:

The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives
you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights.
Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may
use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so,
you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow
you to use it in certain ways.

• If your copy of Vista came with the purchase of a new computer, that
  copy of Vista may only be legally used on that machine, forever.
• If
  you bought Vista in a retail store and installed it on a machine you already
  owned, you have to completely delete it on that machine before you can install
  it on another machine.
• You give Microsoft the right, through programs
  like Windows Defender, to delete programs from your system
  that it decides are spyware.
• You consent to being spied upon by
  Microsoft, through the “Windows Genuine Advantage” system. This system tries to
  identify instances of copying that Microsoft thinks are illegitimate.
  Unfortunately, a recent study indicated that this system has already screwed up
  in over 500,000 cases.