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Name | Description/Focus | User count | Registration |
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43 Things | Goal and Dreams; Tagging | 1,007,433 | Open |
Advogato | Free Software and Open Source developers | 11,000 | Open |
Amina - Chechen Republic Online | Chechens | 3500+ | Open |
aSmallWorld | European jet set and social elite | 150,000 | Invite-only |
Bebo | Schools and colleges | 34,000,000 | Open |
BlackPlanet.com | African-Americans | 16,000,000 | Open |
Blue Dot | Link sharing | 80,000 | Open |
Broadcaster.com | Video sharing and webcam chat | 26,000,000 | Open |
Buzznet | Music and pop-culture | 500000+ | Open |
CarDomain | Car enthusiasts | 1,600,000 | Open |
Care2 | Green living and activism | 7,151,375 | Open |
Classmates.com | School, college, work and the military | 40,000,000 | Open |
Consumating | "Consumeetings" | 21,000 | Open |
Couchsurfing | Hospitality | 281,000 | Open |
Cyworld | Young South Koreans | 15,000,000 | Open |
Dandelife | Collective narratives or "shared biographies" | Unknown | Open |
DeadJournal | "Dark" blogs, based on LiveJournal | 490,310 | By invite or payment (OpenID) |
Dodgeball.com | Mobile location-based service, owned by Google | Unknown | Open |
DontStayIn | Clubbing (primarily UK) | 235,000+ | Open |
Doostang | Careers | 173,000 | Invite-only |
eSPIN | Teens | 4,400,000 | Open |
Started for colleges, then high schools, and now everyone. | 34,000,000 | Open | |
Faceparty | British teens and 20-somethings | 5,900,000 | Open to people 16 and older. |
Flickr | Photo sharing | 4,000,000 | Open (Yahoo! login) |
Flirtomatic | Flirting/Dating | 265,000 | Open to people 18 and older. |
Fotki | Photo sharing | 1,000,000 | Open |
Fotolog | Photoblogging | 9,000,000 | Open |
Friends Reunited | School, college, work, sport and streets | 12,000,000 | Open |
Friendster | General | 47,000,000 | Open |
Frühstückstreff | General | 11,600 | Open |
Gaia Online | Anime and Games | 7,000,000 | Open |
Geni.com | Families, genealogy | 100,000 | Open |
Graduates.com | School, college, and work | 650,000 | Open |
Grono.net | Poland | 1,000,000 | Invite-only |
hi5 | General | 50,000,000 | Open |
Hyves | General Dutch social networking website. | 3,266,581 | Open |
imeem | Instant messaging | Unknown | Open |
Infield Parking | United States NASCAR fans | 36,000 | Open |
IRC-Galleria | Finland | 400,000 | Open |
iWiW | Hungary | 2,600,000 | Invite-only |
Jaiku | Update friends with your status through SMS, IM, web interfaces | Unknown | Open |
Joga Bonito | Football (soccer) | Unknown | Open |
Last.fm | Music | 15,000,000 | Open |
LibraryThing | Book lovers | 214,425 | Open |
Business | 12,000,000 | Open | |
LiveJournal | Blogging | 12,900,000 | Open (OpenID) |
LunarStorm | Sweden | 1,200,000 | Open |
MEETin | General | 72,000 | Open |
Meetup.com | General | 2,000,000 | Open |
MiGente.com | Latinos | 3,600,000 | Open |
Mixi | Japan | 9,830,000 | Invite-only |
MOG | Music | Unknown | Open |
Multiply | "Real world" relationships | 5,000,000 | Open |
My.BarackObama.com | Political Campaign (Barack Obama) | 70,000 | Registration |
MyChurch | Christian Churches | 46,765 | Open |
My Opera Community | General (blogs, photo albums, forums, groups, etc.) | 834,753 | Open |
MySpace | General | 200,000,000 | Open |
myYearbook | General | 950,000 | Open |
Netlog | Formerly known as Facebox. | 24,000,000 | Open |
Nexopia | Canada | 1,019,372 | Open |
Ning | Make your own social network | Unknown | Open |
OkCupid | Dating | Unknown | Open |
orkut | Owned by Google. Popular in Brazil, India. 72% and 18% of users. | 67,962,551 | Open (Google login) |
OUTeverywhere | Gay | Unknown | Open |
Passado | General | 4,700,000 | Open |
Piczo | Teenagers, Canadians, photo sharing | 10,000,000 | Open |
Playahead | Swedish teenagers | 530,000 | Open |
Playtxt | Mobile social network, location, worldwide | 70,000 | Open |
ProfileHeaven | British teens | 100,000 | Open |
Pownce | moblog for websites, files, and short updates | Unknown | Invite-only |
RateItAll | Consumer ratings + social networking | Unknown | Open |
Reunion.com | Locating friends and family, keeping in touch | 28,000,000 | Open |
Ryze | Business | 250,000 | Open |
Searchles | Social Search + Social Networking ( hybrid ) | Unknown | Open |
Sconex | American high schools | 500,000 | Open |
Sermo | Physicians | 20,000 | Open only to registered D.O.s and M.D.s in the U.S.A. |
Shelfari | Online community for book lovers | Unknown | Open |
Skyblog | France, Belgium, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Senegal | 3,800,000 | Open |
Soundpedia | Web 2.0 based music community | 3,500,000 | Open |
Sportsvite | Recreational Sports | 18,000 | Open |
Studivz | University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries | 2,400,000 | Open |
Stumbleupon | Websurfing | 3,200,000 | Open |
TagWorld | General (tagging) | 1,850,692 | Open |
TakingITGlobal | Social action | 145,000 | Open |
The Doll Palace | Cartoon dolls and dress up games | 2,500,000 | Open |
The Student Center | Teens and colleges | 800,000 | Open |
Threadless | Custom T-shirts | 364,474 | Open |
TravBuddy.com | Travel | 760,000 | Open |
Travellerspoint | Travel | 105,000 | Open |
Tribe.net | General | 602,876 | Open |
Update friends with your status through SMS, IM, web interfaces | Unknown | Open | |
Vampire Freaks | Gothic industrial culture | 1,020,500 | Open |
Vox | Blogging | Unknown | Open |
WAYN | Travel & Lifestyle | 8,000,000 | Open to people 18 and older |
WebBiographies | Genealogy & Biography | Unknown | Open |
Windows Live Spaces | Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) | 120,000,000 | Open |
Woophy | travel & photography | 20,000 | Open |
Xanga | Blogs and "metro" areas | 40,000,000 | Open |
Business | 2,000,000 | Open | |
Yahoo! 360° | Linked to Yahoo! IDs | 4,700,000 | Open to people 18 and older (Yahoo! login) |
Yelp | United States adults | Unknown | Open |
Zooomr | Universal Photo Sharing | Unknown | Open (OpenID) |
References
- 43things, . May 1, 2007.
- http://daniel.haxx.se/advogato/stats-2006-06-03.html
- . May 18, 2007.
- International Herald Tribune article, Join? Well, if you have to ask.... 29 August, 2005.
- Chris Williams (March 28 2007). "Bebo squeezes Orange in exclusive deal". The Register.
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(help) - BlackPlanet, BlackPlanet homepage. Accessed 5 February, 2007.
- "Blue Dot Continues to Change the Way People Share with Friends" (PDF) (Press release). Blue Dot Inc. 2006-09-14. Retrieved 2006-12-14.
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(help) - Quantcast ratings for broadcaster.com. February 2007.
- Quantcast ratings for buzznet.com.
- http://www.cardomain.com/
- Care2 statistics, Care2 Homepage. Accessed 10 May, 2007.
- The View article, Take a Second Chance with that First Love. February 1, 2006.
- Consumating.com, . 10 August, 2006.
- Couchsurfing.com, . 9 August, 2007.
- Business Week article, E-Society: My World Is Cyworld. September 26, 2005.
- DeadJournal, DeadJournal.com statistics. 10 August 2006.
- http://www.dodgeball.com/
- http://www.dontstayin.com/pages/stats
- http://www.doostang.com/
- F8 Keynote, accessed 16 June 2007.
- Faceparty, Faceparty homepage. 13 April, 2006.
- Blog article, . April 3, 2006.
- Flirtomatic, Flirtomatic homepage. 14 February, 2007.
- Fotki Journal, Their "Blog" Entry - accessed 18 January 2007.
- http://www.fotolog.com/
- Friends Reunited, Their UK 'About Us' Page, accessed 1 February 2007.
- Friendster, , 2007.
- Frühstückstreff, , 2006.
- http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/ as of 25 April 2007.
- http://webreprints.djreprints.com/1651091471781.html as of February 15 2007.
- Graduates , as of 21 December 2006.
- Homepage: Usercount is available to logged-in members
- http://www.hi5networks.com/press.html
- http://hyves.nl/ as of 27 April 2007
- http://www.imeem.com/
- Infield Parking, Infield Parking search page showing active users. Accessed 20 June 2007.
- Homepage. Accessed 14 February 2007.
- . 17 August, 2007.
- "Jaiku homepage"..
- Interview with Martin Stiksel of last.fm. Accessed 18 February 2007.
- , accessed 5 June 2007.
- About LinkedIn, accessed 13 July 2007.
- Homepage (as of 10 May 2007).
- PressBox.co.uk Press Release, LunarStorm launches new, fun, young adult and teen service in UK. 17 November 2005.
- Meetin.com, accessed 28 March 2007.
- Meetup.com, accessed 27 March 2007.
- http://migente.com/
- News Coverage of quarterly result release by mixi, Inc. (in Japanese). 10 May 2007.
- Multiply staff blog entry. 6 June 2007.
- Official homepage Accessed 23 August 2007.
- Official homepage Accessed 21 August 2007.
- Official homepage Accessed 4 June 2007.
- Members' Homepage (you must be a logged in member to view usercount). Accessed 10 July 2007.
- Web generation preserves memories online. 25 June, 2006.
- Netlog Corporate Pages, accessed 15 August 2007.
- http://www.nexopia.com/
- Orkut Homepage (Count based on number of people available in primary network as of 19 August 2007).
- http://www.passado.com/index.aspx
- Wall Street Journal, "Myspace's New Rivals Are Winning Friends", September 29, 2006.
- Press-release MTG/Playahead acquisition, 9 January 2007
- ProfileHeaven Press Release, Profileheaven to Appoint Paul Myers to Board. March 18, 2006.
- Only page visits recorded, not usercount. Accessed 5 April 2007.
- Digital Media Wire, April 16, 2007 Online Social Network Reunion.com Raises $25 Million
- Ryze, Ryze business networking. May 2006.
- 'About Us' page July 7, 2007
- ClickZ article, Alloy Buys High School Social Networking Site. March 29, 2006
- Medical Marketing & Media Sermo Maestro's Got Docs Chatting, accessed 9 August 2007.
- Mashable article, Sportsvite - Evite For Sports. December 26, 2006
- http://soundpedia.com/
- Mashable article, Sportsvite - Evite For Sports. December 26, 2006
- June 13, 2007.
- Accessed August 17, 2007
- http://tagworld.com/
- http://www.takingitglobal.org/
- http://www.thedollpalace.com/
- http://www.student.com/mediakit.php
- http://www.travbuddy.com
- http://www.travellerspoint.com/stats.cfm
- "browse people". Retrieved on 17 January 2007. Open to members only
- "Twitter homepage". Retrieved on 7 April 2007.
- http://vampirefreaks.com/
- About Us page. 2 May, 2007.
- Profiles featured on http://www.webbiographies.com/ front page are a sample, and not a complete list of members--as per email from Web Biographies' staff.
- spaces.live.com, Windows Live Spaces: About Spaces. Accessed 1 April 2007.
- Woophy homepage. Accessed 23 July 2007.
- WPXI article, Warnings Issued For Popular Web Site. July 21, 2005.
- Pressrelease Over 2 million members on XING. 17 april, 2007.
- In the Race With Google, It’s Consistency vs. ‘Wow’. New York Times, 24 July 2006.
- Homepage. Accessed May 13 2007.