Jacob Alonzo's List: Crowdsourcing

Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Meetup's mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.

Twellow is a directory of public Twitter accounts, with hundreds of categories and search features to help you find people who matter to you.

Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.

Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.

Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or a special link forwarded to someone else. The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site.  The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., that enables its users to send and read other users' messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their friends list. Users may subscribe to other author tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. As of late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors.
All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as, for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.

Facebook is a social networking website. Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information and other personal information. Communicating with friends and other users can be done through private or public messages or a chat feature. Users can also create and join interest groups and "like pages" (formerly called "fan pages" until April 19, 2010), some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.\n\n\nFacebook mobile graphical user interface\nTo allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see what parts of their profile.The website is free to users and generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads. Facebook requires a user's name and profile picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users can control who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in searches, through their privacy settings.

Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML.

YouTube is the world's most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. Read the full company history for more details.

The YouTube channel and blog are great places to go to find out what we're up to, as well as how to use the site. You can also watch the "YouTube 101" series to learn how to use our basic features:

Penzu is an exciting, up and coming new platform that takes a different approach to blogging. The idea behind Penzu is that not everyone wants to share their blog ideas with all the world, as such it’s built around privacy with the ability to share posts if you’d like.Penzu is most similar to a journal or diary, though integration with social media aren’t left behind. Media management and post writing are thoroughly enjoyable as the platform is focused more around you writing (like you would in a notebook, journal, etc) than spending time messing about with a control panel (as you would in WordPress).

Quora's service allows users to ask questions and give answers. Additionally, users can comment on the questions and answers and "upvote" or "downvote" the answers. An "Answer Summary" can be created to reflect the consensus of the community. This summary is a wiki that can be edited by any registered user. Recently a blogging feature called Quora Posts has been added.

BranchOut empowers you to create a professional presence on Facebook that is safe and easy to use. By leveraging Facebook's network of over 600 million users, BranchOut gives you inside connections to jobs and sales leads that you can't find anywhere else.

Whether you are a job seeker, recruiter, or just like seeing where your friends work, BranchOut is your professional networking service on Facebook.

Socialized Card holds your entire social identity. By sharing the card, your friends can access all your internet profiles. Thus they can connect with you on all social networks which you belong to.

With our information so widely spread across the internet, having a central hub where recruiters, customers, business contacts, family, and friends can go to learn about and contact you is vital. Consider it your introduction to the world.

Your Definitive Profile
Everything in one place

A central location for your personal info, and a gateway to all your online profiles and networks.

Your own content from those sites automatically included.