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BlueChipCareer.com - Find The Perfect Job For You

Blue Chip Career is a new professional networking platform that enables job seekers to connect directly with industry experts in order to develop job search and interviewing strategies.

The site facilitates personalized connections in an unprecedented way, as job seekers are allowed to...  read more

Shoutreel.com - Bond With People Who Are Just Like You

Shoutreel enables people who are spread all over the world to come together as one online. Through the site, they will be able to connect with others who share their very same interests and start interacting to the full. And these interactive discussion groups (which can be created in a matter of se...  read more

Superscout.com - A New Career Networking Site

To put it in simple words, Superscout is a new recruitment and career networking site in which employers and candidates can connect with each other through content-rich profiles. These are more indicative of a candidate’s skills and fitness for a position than a mere resume which won’t convey th...  read more

Bumped.in - Letting Commuters Make A Connection

At its core, Bumped.in is a community for people on the move. The ones who created it thought about the many people we cross paths with on a daily basis, and how they could actually enrich our lives if we actually interacted with them. Hence, this site was born. It will let us connect with that peop...  read more

BRRWR.com - A Social Network For Borrowed Things

BRRWR is a social network in which the kind of interactions that are established are entirely different from the ones that characterize a site like Facebook or Orkut. Here, people can post requests whenever they need to borrow something and find which of their friends will be able to help them out. ...  read more

CollegeOnly.com - A Social Network For College Students

I am sure mostly everybody knows that Facebook originated as a network for college students only and then it moved well beyond these boundaries, becoming a space for just everybody to interact with others. And those who don’t know as much are sure to do as they go and watch “The Social Network�...  read more

Toojistar.com - Print The Albums You Have On Facebook

Toojistar is a service that will let you take all the photo albums that you have on your Facebook account and have them printed in a lot of different ways. You will be able to have your albums turned into cards, calendars, photobooks and minibooks. In this way, you will be capable of celebrating the...  read more

iDislike.net - A Button For Disliking Pages & Content

Why on Earth there isn’t a button for disliking things on Facebook? That is the question that a lot of people ask daily. Some have gone as far as to create groups campaigning for the addition of such a feature. And others have gone a step beyond, and they have created these buttons themselves. iDi...  read more

NeerLife.com - Share Your Location Privately

You can quickly understand what Neer is all about if you think of it as a private location-based service. Neer is different from FourSquare in the sense that if you decide to use it you will be sharing your location with the people that you care about only. Individuals who might not even know who yo...  read more

Wiiff.com - A Nintendo Wii Social Network

Wiiff stands a social networking site, blogging platform and gaming clan destination for Nintendo Wii adepts.

It is quite curious, but it is a plain fact: even when the Nintendo Wii is a wildly popular console gaming platform, its potential for social gaming remains untapped. The system...  read more

Twudy.com - Twitter For Teen Girls

Twudy is a new Twitter network that is meant to be joined and used by teen girls and no-one else. On the site, they can start following their friends only and receive updates about these artists and performers that they love. They can discuss which character for “Twilight” is cooler, they can di...  read more

ShowTribe.com - For Lovers Of TV Shows

A community site for those who love watching TV, ShowTribe will let you interact with people who share your very same passion, discuss all your favorite shows and (hopefully) find new ones to watch.

On the site, you can “pledge” to watch shows that other recommend to you, and everyb...  read more

TurnSocial.com - Taking Social Promotion To The Limit

A toolbar for the promotion of content all over the Web, Turn Social will enable you to attract and engage customers in an entirely new way. When somebody lands on your site, he will be able to click on any of the icons making up the bar and access the information appertaining to your company that i...  read more

PedalRoom.com - Where Cyclists Socialize

The appropriately-titled Pedal Room is a social site for cyclists. Here, they can talk with like-minded individuals about bicycles, upload pictures of the ones that they own and have them discussed, and also share their favourite routes. The idea is that they will find new people not only to interac...  read more

Poig.com - Decide What To Do Next With Your Friends

A service that has just debuted, Poig will enable you to create spontaneous get-togethers in the real world. By using Poig, you are given the chance to share exactly what you want to do with friends or people who are nearby (and who have similar interests) for it to happen.

Poig is the...  read more

Tubri.com - Socializing With Groups Of Friends

Tubri is a new social networking resource that redefines the way you really connect with people. It is based on the premise that not all of the people who you befriend on a social network are friends in the strict sense of the word. It is not the same befriending a childhood friend than befriending ...  read more

HowsMyActing.com - Social Networking For Actors

How’s My Acting is a social networking site that is meant to be joined by aspiring actors and actresses. The one aim of the site is letting them hone their acting skills in a bid to land that role which could lead them to being (finally) discovered, and begin making true inroads in the industry. <...  read more

Hangchillparty.com - Hang Out With Your Friends

Hangchillparty is a web app for the social ones among you. Basically, it will let you pick a status from “I’m free to hang out”, “Probably down to chill” and “I’m busy or unavailable” and let everybody figure out whether calling you at any time is a good idea or not. Each status has ...  read more

NeighborTree.com - Social Networking For Neighbors

As of 2010, there is no dominant (or even major) social networking site for neighbors. Neighbor Tree aims to fill in that gap by letting neighbors connect and organize like never before. The key element here might as well be that the networking sites which can be created are built and run by the res...  read more

GroupTabs.com - Check In For Group Deals At Bars

What would be the result if someone were to couple Groupon with FourSquare? A site like GroupTabs stands as the exact answer. In general terms, the site will let you and your friends check in for group deals at bars and restaurants. That is, if you can manage to convince enough friends to check in a...  read more

Nettuned.com - A New Social Network For Musicians

At its most basic level, Nettuned is a social network for musicians. It can be joined and used for free, and everything is organized hyper-locally. That is, users and content are arranged in local communities. This makes it easy for musicians to actually find people to work with close to where they ...  read more

Sqoot.com - A Tool For Social Planning

The team behind Sqoot defines it as an “aspirational FourSquare”. It makes sense, really - Sqoot lets you create a social wish list and find friends who want to do something that you have always wanted to do. It can be just anything: traveling through the South of France, visiting Argentina, goi...  read more

WriterFace.com - A Facebook For Writers

WriterFace.com is a new social network that is aimed at writers, literary agents and the media. The idea is to let all these individuals (and every interested member of the public, or course) connect with each other through blogs, events, chat, photosa and videos. Writers get their work to be seen b...  read more

Mediaberg.com - A New Social Network For Musicians

Mediaberg is a new social networking site that is aimed at musicians and music lovers. Such a site lets bands showcase their most recent music, and connect with their punters in a direct way. Also, a site like this one enables performers to announce any gig that is upcoming and (in all likelihood) e...  read more

Emp.ly - Promote Your Job Postings All Over The Web

Emp.ly enables people to promote their own job postings across the width and breadth of the Social Web. You see, by using this platform it is possible to add incentives to any posting, so that others will be motivated to share them further on.

These incentives take the shape of $ 10 Ama...  read more

Talentag.com - The Birth Of Social Resumes

This site is based on a premise that is not only novel but actually very clever: letting users build up a social profile that gathers together the positive feedback of all their past and present coworkers. This feedback is presented both as words (IE, recommendations) and badges that your coworkers ...  read more

OneExtraLap.com - A Service For Social Quizzing

One Extra Lap is a new community that embraces the concept of social competition to the full, as it enables people who sign up to answer (and ask) content-rich quizzes. These quizzes can revolve around anything that you and your friends are keen on. From Star Trek and Buck Rogers to the works of Goy...  read more

WeePlaces.com - Measuring Your Foursquare Activity

The one thing about services like Twitter and Foursquare is that they can be incredibly addictive, to the point that they prevent you from doing other things that are actually more pivotal (IE, things that you are actually paid for doing). And unless other people point them out, our social habits ar...  read more

TalentMaven.com - Connecting The Entertainment Industry

TalentMaven is a professional networking site that is squarely aimed at these individuals who are part of the entertainment industry, or who want to become part of it. This new network will let them build up the necessary connections to let them either become discovered or consolidate the gains that...  read more

I-Blood.com - A Social Site For Blood Donors

A site like no other, we can say that I Blood is nothing but an online database of blood donors spread all over the world. The inspiration behind the site is to make every person instantly accessible in case there is an emergency and a transfusion is needed.

Every person who signs up h...  read more

MisoTrendy.com - The Trendiest Places In Town

Miso Trendy is the right service for those who have become hooked on location-based networking. You see, this new solution makes for discovering the trendiest places close to wherever they are.

In order to do it, all that the user has to do is signing in to his Foursquare account. Upon ...  read more

EmpireAvenue.com - An Influence Stock Exchange Game

Have you ever thought what would happen if online influence were a currency, or if it had a value at the very least? I bet many of you did, and that you arrived at the same conclusion: it all sounds very interesting in theory, but it would be a little awkward in practice. Well, this site proves that...  read more

RealtyJoin.com - A Networking Site For Realtors

Realty Join is nothing more and nothing less than a social networking site that is meant for people who are involved with Real Estate in one way or the other. Realtors, investors, agents, brokers, tradespeople… these are some of the individuals that this new social resource is clearly aimed at. Th...  read more

Shoutworthy.com - Endorse Friends On Facebook & Twitter

Shoutworthy is a new system that aims to turn Facebook and Twitter into platforms that can be used to endorse our friends. Think of it like a game opener that takes the recommendations inherent to LinkedIn and makes them something which can be handled using the two social services mentioned above, a...  read more

ScuttlePad.com - A Social Network For Children

Social networking has become a phenomenon that concerns everybody, and that includes children. Of course, responsible parents are none-too-keen on that. There are enough dangers in the physical world that surrounds anybody to open up to all the dangers that a networking site holds by its mere nature...  read more

StirTheMix.com - A Social Network For Drinkers

Stir The Mix is a social networking site for people who share a passion for alcoholic drinks. The site aims to let them connect and discover new beers and wines in a way that is only possible when people from all over the world start interacting among themselves.

The full family of feat...  read more

NeighborShare.it - Keeping It All In The Neighborhood

Neighbor Share It is a hyper-local networking resource. What does that mean? Well, basically that it lets you connect with people in a close proximity only (your neighborhood, in this case), and interact with them.

This site makes it possible for neighbors to tell each other about loca...  read more

Likeathon.com - An Alternative To Digg And Reddit

Likeathon intends to provide internauts with a whole new way to discover and recommend web content. In the most general terms available, it offers a Digg/Reddit voting system tied to a Facebook-centered experience. Instead of "digging" things as they have always done, users simply proceed to "like" ...  read more

NorthSocial.com - A Wide Range Of Facebook Apps

NorthSocial is a site that you would like to check if you have been thinking about putting a Facebook Fanpage together, and you just don’t know how to get started. Well, this site will let you do that and more - it will let you put the page together, and then spice it up until no person who chance...  read more

Partigi.com - Ask Your Friends Before Buying Anything

Partigi is a new resource that will let you check the opinion of your friends before buying or doing anything that has to do with culture - buying a book or a CD, going to the movies or to the theater, renting a DVD… The site is not that dissimilar to a social network in the sense that you connect...  read more

PlaceConnect.com - Make Friends Based On Common Places

Place Connect is a social site that will let you get in touch with people based on these places that you have been to. This means that if you attended a Kings Of Leon gig and you were left entranced with a girl/boy who was in the audience then you will be able to get in touch with him/her if he also...  read more

Tabfusion.com - Tab Applications For Facebook

Looking into ways of having a more realized presence on Facebook? That is certainly desirable if we are taking about your profile page, and it is absolutely vital when it comes to any fanpage. Well, this website will provide you with virtually enough applications to hook any person who is passing by...  read more

Timeinb5.com - Socializing At The Airport

TimeinB5 is social networking platform that is intended for people who are stranded at any major airport in the US. The idea is that they will use it to communicate with people who are in a similar situation, and have something of a more amenable time by exchanging messages back and forth.
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LikeMyTweets.com - A Like Button For Tweets

It just had to happen, I guess. A “Like” button for Twitter had to materialize someday. Well, the day has come. And if it did not happen before then that is simply because it is not really a service anybody would go out of his way for.

Theoretically, it is something that will have ...  read more

Kalengo.com - A Social Site For Investors

Kalengo is a social resource that is geared towards investors. The idea is to let them realize how well they are performing in a collective way. So, if you are one and you sign up, you will be able to measure your performance against the one of your friends/competitors, and use that knowledge to dev...  read more

Piryx.com - A Platform For Social Fundraising

The key concept that lies at the heart of Piryx is leveraging the power of the Social Web and letting people raise funds in ways that are not only entirely novel but actually more effective than traditional campaigns. You see, this service takes a typical social activity such as posting a status upd...  read more

Winkio.com - The Way The Whole World Is Feeling

The aim of Winkio is capturing minute by minute snapshots of the way the entire world is feeling - what people are doing, what makes them happy, what gives them a reason to be concerned… this is what the site terms “the pulse of the world”. This “pulse” is taken based on information that p...  read more

Deskarma.com - Sharing Your Business Knowledge

In an ideal world, the key directive for those who amass a certain level of knowledge would be sharing it with the rest so that everybody could excel at what he does. Of course, we all know it doesn’t happen like that in the real world. But an application like Deskarma might just redress the balan...  read more

PlayerMania.com - A New Sports Network

There is no shortage of social networking sites for those who love sports, and Player Mania is a new one that does all such resources have to do in order to succeed. It will let you create your very own profile, and use that as the starting point for meeting other people who are keen on the same spo...  read more

BranchOut.com - Career Networking And Facebook

Branch Out is a very interesting application that imbues Facebook with some of the characteristics of a career networking resource like LinkedIn. By procuring the provided application and installing it, users can research both what their friends and the contacts of their friends do for a living, and...  read more

MyBabyGuppy.com - Family Blogs Integrated Into Facebook

My Little Guppy is an application that will empower you to have a baby or family blog integrated into your Facebook account. That is, you will be able to have a blog whose content is updated via Facebook (no need to resort to any blogging platform), and that can be shared with whomever you want - a...  read more

Miio.com - Socialize With People Who Are Just Like You

Miio is a new social site where interactions are kept very concise. When you join the community, you have to specify these things that you like. Upon doing so, you will be instantly matched with other people who like these very same things. It all takes off from there, as you will begin chatting wit...  read more

StorefrontSocial.com - Sell Your Products On Facebook

That Facebook gives you access to a public that can help you make any product take off in ways that are synonymous with absolute success is evident. The one question is exactly how to set about advertising what you do or sell on Facebook in the way that would yield the best results. Storefront Socia...  read more

Buddify.com - A New Alternative To Facebook Emerges

Those who were burned out by Facebook over the not-so-distant privacy issue and who still harbor “anti-facebook” feeling are going to find a social site like Buddify worth a good look, and even a try. You see, it is a new social network which places a lot of emphasis on giving users full contro...  read more

Holibods.com - A Social Approach To Renting Property

Holibods offers an interesting variation on the way holiday homes have always been rented. You see, the site operates exactly like a social network, only that the people who become friends are the owners of the properties that are available for rental and those who are interested in renting them. In...  read more

RentAFriend.com - Rent A Friend For Any Event

Rent A Friend is a service that can be employed both by the ones who reside in the United States and in Canada. As its name implies, it will let you hire a companion for any kind of social event. You can use this service if you have to attend a party and you don’t want to go on your own, you can h...  read more

Kumbooka.com - Make Your Stuff Go Social

Kumbooka enables anybody to “socialize his stuff” by scanning the barcode of a product that he owns, and then attaching any digital media that he wishes to this barcode. It could be just anything, from a picture or a poem to a diary entry or even a recipe. By doing so, you are letting others kno...  read more

BarTab.WebTab.com - Buying Drinks Just For One Dollar

BarTab is a new iPhone app that will let you invite your Facebook friends out and buy them a drink for just $ 1. Now, before you get all excited and proclaim this the greatest app in the history of mankind you must understand that: A) For the time being, only bars in San Francisco are supported, and...  read more

Static520.com - Get A FBML Page Together

Static 520 offers you the chance to have a 520 pixels wide page on Facebook, and maximize the possibilities of presenting your videos, images, and contact forms in such a resolution. Basically, by using a page like that one you can add whatever you want without running out of space as quickly as you...  read more

CreatingTheHive.com - A Community Site For Artists

The Hive is a new social resource aimed both at established and up-and-coming artists, and anybody who is into the crafts and hobby industries. The site aims to connect creators with consumers in a direct way, letting each play a decisive role in the way in which the artistic world takes shape.
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HardHatCity.com - A Network For Constructors

Hard Hat City is a networking site that is aimed at members of the construction industry. Here, they can create a profile and list both their skills and previous professional experiences in order to let colleagues and members of the public at large know about who they are and what they excel at. In ...  read more

Mabzy.com - Just Like Foursquare But Only For Websites

If you want to quickly understand what this site is all about, simply visualize it in the following terms: it is like Foursquare for websites. Through the site you can check in to any webpage on the Internet. Upon doing so, you will receive two points that will (soon) be redeemable at the Mabzy onli...  read more

Fuseware.net - Improve Your Standing On The Social Web

Fuseware is a provider or research reports and custom-made social media analyses for companies that want to improve their standing on the Social Web. These reports include a combination of not only analytics and demographics but also the current sentiment about the company and any new product that i...  read more

Coaloo.com - Centralizing Your Whole Digital Life

Coaloo is a new platform that aims to become the port of call for those who want to show others their true online selves, without having to send them from one site to the other just to gather all the digital pieces of their identities. Coaloo aggregates everything, so that a person who visits the si...  read more

Face2Face.com.pk - Like Foursquare But More Private

A Pakistani startup, Face2Face offers a new approach to location based networking. In general, using the provided app you will be able to let other users of the service that you are near. You will not reveal your exact location, and that is the one difference that this site has got with services lik...  read more

InnerDinner.com - Have Dinner & Meet New People

InnerDinner is a new social resource that basically aims to connect people through dinners and gastronomical experiences in random places, and with random people. Through the site, anybody can host a dinner at his house and invite others to attend. (Actually, it doesn’t have to be a dinner. You ca...  read more

Avoidr.org - Avoid Unbearable People On Foursquare

I guess it was a mere matter of time before we saw the release of a tool like Avoidr - an antisocial location-based tool. The concept that lies at the heart of it is anything but complicated, as using Avoidr you will be able to keep yourself from running into people that you can't stand on Foursquar...  read more

ResearchCooperative.org - Making Academic Research Easy

The Research Cooperative can be defined as an online network which is focused on academic research. The fact remains that writing and publishing research is often the most overlooked aspect of academic research, and that is something this community resource has attempted to address ever since its in...  read more

TaskRabbit.com - The Birth Of Service Networking

If you want to understand what TaskRabbit is all about, simply think of it as a social service that is focused on letting people solve their daily tasks by looking for someone in their circle of friends who can take care of such tasks for them. This new paradigm goes by the name of “Service Networ...  read more

SocialShield.com - Look After Your Children On Facebook

Like anything that becomes so popular, Facebook has attracted the attention of people we wouldn’t want anything to do with in the physical world. As grown-ups we can always recognize anything that is not really what it seems to be, but our children can’t, and if they sign up for Facebook (someth...  read more

AdShouts.com - Aiming To Monetize The Social Web

By now, many web users have become accustomed to the presence of ads and they simply don’t pay them any heed. And the monetization of social media and social networks via traditional online advertising did never yield results that could be deemed as good - not in relation to the number of people w...  read more

Giv.to - A Platform That Facilitates Social Engagement

The true potential of the Social Web when it comes to promoting any cause becomes apparent when we are faced with platforms like this one. In general terms, Giv.to is a system for the engagement of readers and the raising of funds for any cause or campaign.

Giv.to does that in several ...  read more

Betable.com - A Platform For Social Gambling

Betable is a social gambling platform that will let you catch up with you friends and colleagues in social networking sites and bet on any old thing that you find either interesting or zany enough to merit the gambling. For example, you can bet on the result of any World Cup match, or bet that you w...  read more

SafetyWeb.com - Protecting Children From Cyber Threats

I know no single parent who isn’t concerned to a bigger of lesser extent about the safety of their children on the Social Web. Even those who have responsible, diligent and intelligent children are worried about who or what they can end up meeting online. But keeping an eye on what a child is actu...  read more

Endor.se - Recommending Your Friends On The Social Web

Endor.se is a site that will let us leverage our circle of friend on the Social Web in more ways than one. Generally speaking, it is a service that we can use to recommend a friend of ours for any job that has become available and that we can’t do ourselves not because we aren’t qualified but be...  read more

Vinyou.com - Social Networking For Wine Lovers

A social networking site for wine lovers and connoisseurs, Vinyou can be freely joined and used. Those who sign up are able not only to communicate with others to the full, but they are actually empowered to keep a very detailed profile in which they can track all the wines they have tasted and the ...  read more

WeReward.com - Earn Money For Checking In

We Reward is the latest app in the ever-lengthening queue of check in services that aim to conquer the imagination of internauts. In this particular case, things are kept very concise, and the app is true to its moniker in the sense that everything revolves around money. The company champions someth...  read more

PicknZip.com - Retrieving Images Uploaded To Facebook

A lot has been said about Facebook giving control back to its users, and a recurrent part of such discussions is that people should have the means to back up their entire profile when they leave. Jason Calacanis has recently made that point, and some argued that while such a thing would obviously be...  read more

MoodyMinds.com - For Those Dealing With Mood Disorders

MoodyMinds is a social site for these individuals that have to deal with a mood disorder in their lives, or that have a loved one who has to deal with such a situation. The most distinctive aspect of the site is its vantage point, as it has been built by a patient for other patients, in order to edu...  read more

Streamd.in - Twitter Meets Google Maps

Streamd.in is a new Twitter client that works entirely on the browser, and that couples the usual functionalities of such tools with the streaming of media and geo-location. The latter is mainly provided by actively integrating Google Maps into the application.

The above means that by l...  read more

12Like.com - Find A Match On Facebook

I am a little surprised that sites like this one do not surface at every turn. The potential that Facebook has got when it comes to dating is grossly underexplored if you ask me.

Essentially, 12Like will let you take a personality test and based solely on the results of such test it wil...  read more

ParcelGenie.com - Send Gifts To Social Network Contacts

The line that separates online and physical interactions is being redrawn constantly, and sites like Parcel Genie are at the forefront of that process. Essentially, Parcel Genie will let you send real gifts to these people that you have befriended on either Facebook or Twitter, and whose postal addr...  read more

BeyondCredentials.com - A Network For Bright Students

The tagline of this site is “Where top grads meet top companies”, and it aims to position itself as the network of choice for members of Generation Y who are looking into heading down the professional pathway.

The site functions as a springboard that such students can use to connect...  read more

TopGuest.com - Rewarding Travelers For Checking In

TopGuest is the closest we have come so far to a loyalty program for travelers that leverages the inherent power of location-based services. This new platform champions an approach whereby you get loyalty points and travel rewards for merely checking in when you are at a hotel or airport, or when re...  read more

Tunerfish.com - Discovering What To Watch Socially

Tunerfish is self-defined as “the social discovery engine for TV, movies, and online video”. I think that is a clear-enough definition, but in case you need some elucidation it suffices to say that the site will let you share what you are watching with your friends so that everybody can discover...  read more

Bragadoo.com - Recommending Service Providers

A site like this one offers nothing but a mirrored reflection of reality. You see, on Bragadoo you can learn about good service providers not via people who have nothing to do with you, but rather through your contacts on social networking sites - IE, people you do trust.

This is exactl...  read more

Tripping.com - Making Cultural Exchanges Possible

Tripping is a community site for travelers who are keen on assimilating the every nuance of these countries that they visit. There is only one way to do that: by sharing all your time on the country with a local, acting as your guide and even as your host. And that is something this site makes possi...  read more

Schoology.com - Education Meets Social Networking

Schoology is nothing more and nothing less that a free browser-based learning management system that is built atop a social network. Using this platform instructors and students can collaborate and create academic content that they can then proceed to share.

In this way, Schoology effec...  read more

SeeJoeRock.com - A New Network For Indie Bands

There is just no end to the social networks for independent musicians that are available, if only because the Internet has become synonymous with the discovery of new talent. Just look at Greyson Chance, and the way in which his career started overnight. Who needs shows like American Idol any longer...  read more

LooptStar.com - Like Foursquare But Even More Social

As far as location-based services go, Loopt Star is an interesting development that might as well stand as the shape of things to come. I am inclined to think like that if only because it takes the concept of checking in and competing with your friends like we have always known it, and it adds a who...  read more

UsersLike.me - For Users Of Gowalla

FourSquare may seem poised for dominance of the location-based networking scene, but if you thought that its rivals were going down without a fight then you have another think coming. And sites like this one simply underline that fact.

Users Like Me is a web-based application that emplo...  read more

JobSlackersOnline.com - Find A New Job Online

Those who are tired of asking just everybody the fateful question “Hey, do you know who is hiring right now?” are well-advised to give this networking site a good try. Job Slackers Online is a new resource that aims to bring some fun (or at least some flexibility) into the process of looking fo...  read more

PrivacyDefender.net - Protecting Your Privacy

Many have become truly worried about their privacy on Facebook, and while they know the network is not exactly the safest place in which to disclose information any longer they have also become too dependent on it to just leave. If that happens to be your case, then you will put something like Priva...  read more

BeTheMayor.com - Becoming The Mayor On FourSquare

The way FourSquare is growing and luring new users in, it was only a matter of time before services like Be The Mayor started surfacing left, right and center.

The goal of this site is to let any person who is keen on becoming the major of any venue learn how close he is to winning the ...  read more

Fanit.com - A Social Way To Discover & Recommend Music

Fanit is a new social service for the promotion and recommendation of music. It works along the following lines: fans support these artists and bands that they love by purchasing badges, and the money that is derived from these sales go straight (and entirely) into the pockets of the artists themsel...  read more

Gallery.Swingvine.com - Mixing Flickr With FourSquare

Are you fond of Flickr? Do you enjoy using FourSquare? If both questions were answered positively, then this new service will be one you would like to check. It will let you create a gallery showcasing photos from your FourSquare check-ins in an entirely natural way, and at no cost whatsoever. That...  read more

StudyDojo.com - A Smooth Way To Implement Study Groups

This is a new website whose services are only available to students of the University of Texas, but I think covering it is interesting because there is no real reason why other Universities across the country should not create and use one such site. Generally speaking, those who use Study Dojo becom...  read more

TheLikeList.info - A Way To Like Anything On Facebook

The Like List is a new application that can be employed by those who want to have a laugh or two at the expense of Facebook and its (by now) widespread “like” functionality.

In the most general terms, on the site you simply input any thing that you want to like for the corresponding...  read more

PirateDate.com - Find A Date On Facebook

Those who opposed to the Internet when it first arrived claiming it would make people isolate themselves have returned to where they came from with their tails between their legs. Many would say that the arrival of the Social Web was the one development that made the lines become completely blurred,...  read more

WhenWillIBeMayor.com - Learn When You Will Be The Mayor

Some people have taken to Foursquare with such a passion that I guess a site like the one under review right now is nowhere as pointless as many might think. In a nutshell, When Will I Be Mayor notifies you of the number of times that you need to check in at a certain location before you are actuall...  read more

iWingle.com - More Control Over Your Social Presence

It is too easy to lose track of who we are on the Social Web, for a number of reasons. Sites like Facebook and Twitter blur the lines between who we know and who are mere acquaintances in an irrevocable way. The concept of “friendship” has been modified to no end. And there is also this whole s...  read more

WiseStep.com - A Place To Make Professional Connections

WiseStep is a professional networking site. It enables such individuals to connect and refer each other, winning points and privileges in the process, and eventually redeeming these for tangible rewards (IE, monetary ones).

Profiles on the site are created at no cost, and once you are i...  read more

Zonkk.com - Build Your Own Social Site

This will be the perfect site to stop by if you have recently joined the anti-facebook brigade. In essence, Zonkk will let you come up with your very own social networking site. Yes, that’s right. No more annoying privacy issues and the like. Here you will be given a ready chance to have a network...  read more

Vinehub.com - All Your Networks In The Same Place

At its core, Vinehub is a site that aggregates all your social activity - IE, Twitter and Facebook. That is all the social activity a whooping amount of people ever gets involved with. Such a service is nothing radically new in itself. Services like FriendFeed have done that for some time now, and i...  read more

FriendSwapMeet.com - A New Networking Site

What happens when a service as big as Facebook steps out of line? Easy. A lot of companies offering a related service emerge, and older ones change their focus. That is what has happened recently - not only are sites like Diaspora coming on unstoppably, but MySpace (one of Facebook’s first victims...  read more

WeGather.com - Social Networking For Churches

In general terms, WeGather can be easily understood if you think of it as a kind of Facebook for church communities. The site will enable any Church to come up with a portal for engaging the involvement of its local community, or (as it is accurately said on the website) increase the involvement of ...  read more

BizChest.com - A New Professional Network

BizChest can be termed a new social platform that is aimed at businessmen who want to keep in touch both with their partners and customers. On the site, these individuals can come up with a profile of their own by signing up, or they can log in using their existing Facebook credentials. They are goi...  read more

BlockChalk.com - An Anonymous Messaging Platform

BlockChalk is a location-based system that takes a different approach to the one sites like Foursquare and Gowalla have taken, and that is a good thing as far as I am concerned - I don’t know how many of us really need yet another laser-copy of Foursquare. BlockChalk does something completely diff...  read more

Tripping.com - A Community Site For Travelers

People who love traveling should really become part of a specialized social network such as Tripping. These sites not only make for sharing photos and anecdotes with like-minded individuals, they actually facilitate giving and receiving advice on which places to stay at, which attractions to visit a...  read more

ProfileWatch.org - Learn How Private Your Profile Is

Was Facebook’s decision to give users a set of simpler privacy settings something that happened too late? Are you still worried about how much you are really revealing to others? If you do, then I think this site will be more than interesting. Its name actually gives you a very good indication of ...  read more

Latino2Latino.com - A Social Site For Latinos

Latino2Latino is a social networking site that lets people from such ethnicity review Latino businesses. The idea is to let them submit ratings and reviews for places and products such as restaurants, music, movies… every cultural manifestation is reviewable through the site.

For exam...  read more

DeHood.com - Social Networking For Neighbors

DeHood is a new location-based network that aims to keep things pretty circumscribed - the relationships that it makes possible involve neighbors and nobody else. Just like Foursquare and Brightkite, it will empower users to share their exact locations by checking in. Yet, this particular site place...  read more

AppBistro.com - The Best Apps For Facebook Pages

AppBistro is the place where Facebook page administrators can quickly find applications they could (or even should) integrate into their pages, in a bid to increase the degree of engagement of their visitors.

That is, we could call this service an application marketplace for Facebook...  read more

FaceItPages.com - Your Company On Facebook

The terms “social media” and “the biggest audience you could ever reach” go hand in hand. And the terms “Facebook” and “social media” also make for instant association. If your company is not there, then I am afraid you are not on most people's radars. And if you are absent from the ...  read more

SCVNGR.com - Play Games Based On Your Location

Think of SCVNGR as a social game that rides in the slipstream of location-based services and you will know what to expect if you eventually decide to give it a try. SCVNGR is all about going places and doing challenges in order to earn points and unlock badges.

This game can be played o...  read more

BizMe2.com - Business Trips Simplified

Business trips are complex by definition. It all has to do with the mere logistics at play. Leaving aside the actual travel, you have to find accommodation and arrange the transportation itself - two things that can be quite taxing when you are attending an expo or conference that draws people in dr...  read more

SharedLikes.com - See What Others Are Liking

If you have always been one of those who revel being part of a group and in the feeling of moving with a crowd, then I guess that you are making the best out of Facebook’s “Like” button. And I know for sure that you are going to enjoy this site, too. Named SharedLikes, it will let you realize ...  read more

GeoLorean.com - Checking In Made Simple & Smooth

A limitless number of applications and tools that are connected with location-based networks have surfaced in the last couple of weeks, and if you are fed up with it all already then that would be understandable. However, a handful of really good applications did see release over the last couple of ...  read more

MyBlueSofa.com - Giving Your Home A Touch Of Class

My Blue Sofa is both a community site for anything that has to do with interior spaces and designs as well, as an online marketplace where furniture can be transacted among members. The site will be perfect for owners of small furniture & decor shops to show what they have in stock, whereas artisans...  read more

ChatterTree.com - Network Only With Your Family

Nobody would blame you if you chose not to use any established social site for interacting with your family. The last thing you want is pictures of your newborn to become spread all over the Internet, or information that is too personal becoming accessible by people who have nothing to do with you. ...  read more

ReclaimPrivacy.org - All About Privacy On Facebook

There couldn’t possible be a better time for a site like this one to be released. Reclaim Privacy will let you know all there is to know about privacy on the mother of all social networks, and it will also provide you with a tool for scanning your profile page.

This tool works as a bo...  read more

Check.in - Checking In From One Central Location

The unavoidable result of having a monumental number of services for doing exactly the same thing in the very same way is that people end up joining one or the other more or less at random. And after they have joined one, they decide to give the other a try. At the end of the day, the person has fiv...  read more

HootCourse.com - Teaching In A Virtual Classroom

HootCourse is a new online tool that will be greatly appreciated by educators everywhere. In general terms, it will let any of them create a virtual classroom where the interaction with his students can be taken to a whole new height.

For example, a HootCourse (the name that is given to...  read more

TogetherVille.com - Social Networking For Children

As a parent, you are often put in the complicated situation of having small children who want to become part of a social site like Facebook, while common sense dictates that they are too young for becoming that exposed. But try explaining that to them.

Well, you won’t have to. This ne...  read more

HPGloe.com - Access Content Relevant To Your Location

Presented by Hewlett Packard, Gloe is a social experiment that aims to see how far the interactions of location-based networks can be taken. Gloe lets mobile users find information that is suited to their location at any given time.

Gloe works by matching web content with the exact loc...  read more