Social software

aka Web_2.0

share bookmarks

 * del.icio.us
 * very useful because of accessing your bookmarks from everywhere
 * tags for every bookmark are helpful to find and organize them
 * see someone's bookmarks (if you know his nick) by entering http://del.icio.us/nickname
 * Wikipedia about del.icious
 * del.ico.us-extension for Firefox
 * extispicious gives you a textual scattering of a user's tags, sized according to the number of times that they've used each of them
 * del.irio.us
 * similar to del.icio.us, but open source
 * content is licensed under a Creative Commons license

share photos

 * flickr
 * you can upload photos and pics and tag it
 * recently purchased by yahoo


 * commons.wikimedia
 * upload pictures and choose your own license (go public domain or "dual-license")

share movies
put your clips and/or big files online
 * [YouTube]
 * [FilePut]
 * YouSendIt (up to 1GB!)

music
last.fm

meme trading
not really software but still very social
 * BookCrossing
 * FlashMob

Geographical
Software around the world
 * Foundcity
 * Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. From your computer or cell phone, you tag locations, add photos, label them with any words you want, and plot them to your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly.
 * plazes
 * Plazes is a grassroot approach to location-aware interaction, using the local network you are connected to as location reference. It allows you to share your location with the people you know and to discover people and plazes around you.
 * Roadcasting

share files

 * BitTorrent
 * A unique file sharing protocol
 * Azureus
 * BnBt

networking
not really web services, more remains of the community hype
 * orkut
 * powerd by google
 * openbc
 * business network
 * Flock (Alpha release)
 * A browser that integrates:
 * The Blog Manager
 * The Flickr Topbar
 * RSS integration
 * Favorites with del.icio.us integration
 * The Shelf
 * History Search
 * outfoxed
 * firefox extension
 * from the website: There are over 8 billion web pages. Most of them suck. Outfoxed uses your network of trusted friends and experts to help you find the good stuff and avoid the bad.


 * Jabber
 * An RSS feed browser
 * BitlBee
 * A daemon that allows you to use certain IM protocols (such as Jabber, ICQ, MSN, AIM and Yahoo) with your favourite IRC client