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Social Content Sites

http://reddit.com/

Reddit allows the community to control the editorial content of the site by adding content resources and voting on the content submitted by others. Over time, Reddit learns your likes and dislikes and can filter the content based on your specific tastes.

Digg

http://digg.com/

Digg is a social content website in which the community drives the content. Users submit news stories (articles, blog entries, etc.). The community votes on the articles submitted. The most popular stories rise to the top. You can also track your friends' activity on the site to follow the news stories they like and dislike.

del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking (or tagging) site. Sign up for an account to create a collection of your favorite web sites, blogs, news stories, etc. Share your favorites with other users or check out the sites that others have bookmarked. Search by keyword to find sites users have tagged related to that keyword. Each result includes a link to the site and shows the number of users who have saved that site in their bookmarks.

LiveJournal

http://www.livejournal.com/

LiveJournal is a social network for sharing journals and blogs with friends or groups. Members can decide if they wish to share their journals or blogs with specific people, with anyone or keep their information private (not share at all). Friends can keep up with the blogs and journals of other friends, or connect through communities. Members can join existing communities or start new ones. The Basic membership is free; premium memberships are available.

Yahoo! 360°

http://360.yahoo.com/login.html?.done=http%3A%2F%2F360.yahoo.com%2F&.src=360

Yahoo! 360° is a free social networking site where users can share photos, blogs, and other interests with friends. Users create and design their own web pages. Children under 13 can join only a family group set up by their parents.

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/

Flickr is a photosharing community where you can upload and store your photos, share them with friends and family, search for images posted by the community, and more. Create a free account and upload pictures from your computer, digital camera, or mobile device. Keep your photos private, share them with a selected group or make them available to the entire community.

Xanga

http://www.xanga.com/

Xanga is a social network for sharing diaries and journals. There are three levels of membership. The Classic membership is free. Xanga features include photo hosting, publishing, security, remote posting, archives (access and downloading), and design.

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/

YouTube is a video sharing site. Users can share their videos, watch other member's videos, joins groups with similar interests, create play lists, subscribe to other member videos, save favorites, integrate videos on web sites, and elect to make their videos public or private. Video categories include arts and animation, autos and vehicles, comedy, entertainment, music, news and blogs, people, pets and animals, science and technology, sports, travel and places, and video games. The Channels tab shows the most popular videos, how many people viewed the video and how many subscribed to it. The Videos tab shows you the most viewed videos of the current day and tells you when it was added, who added it, the number of times it has been viewed, the number of viewers who rated the video and the video's rating (1-5 stars).

Update :: May 24, 2012
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