Chris Brogan provides a great list of 50 online Applications & Sites to Consider, well-organized and concise, to use for handy reference. 

I'd add Tweetdeck and TwitPic to the Miscellaneous category and put in a category for good aggregators (i.e. - Alltop).  What would you add?

Blogging

  • Blogger – free blogging and hosting.
  • Movable Type – paid software, needs host.
  • TypePad – paid blogging and hosting.
  • WordPress.com – free blogging and hosting.
  • WordPress.org – free blog software, needs host.
  • Tumblr – free blogging and hosting.

    Microblogging

  • BrightKite – microblogging, mobile, location.
  • FriendFeed – microblogging/ aggregator.
  • Identi.ca – open source microblogging.
  • Jaiku – microblogging, mobile too.
  • Posterous – microblogging, and/or sends to other sites.
  • Pownce – microblogging and file sharing.
  • Plurk – microblogging and threaded conversations.
  • Seesmic – video microblogging.
  • Twitter – microblogging and mobile.
  • Utterz – microblogging, mobile, video.

    Social Bookmarking

  • Delicious – bookmarking.
  • Ma.gnolia – enhanced bookmarking.
  • Sphinn – bookmarking/voting.
  • StumbleUpon – bookmarking and browsing.

    Social News Sites

  • Digg – social news.
  • Mixx – social news.
  • Reddit – social news.

    Social Networks

  • Facebook – general networking.
  • Flickr – photo and video sharing.
  • Last.fm – music sharing.
  • LibraryThing – book lovers.
  • LinkedIn – professional social networking.
  • MySpace – general networking.
  • Ning – white label social network.
  • Pandora – music sharing.
  • Yelp – rating restaurants and businesses.

    Miscellaneous and Useful

  • Twitter Search (formerly Summize) – search for what matters to YOU.
  • Picnik – free online photo editing. Good for avatar pic touchups.
  • Evernote – online and desktop note syncing/storage.
  • Upcoming.org – event sharing site (great for finding cool conferences).
  • Netvibes – web start page (has Ginger social features now, too).
  • Twingly – blog search.
  • Compete – web ranking analysis.
  • AideRSS – rates your blog posts.
  • Skitch – screen capture tool (mac).

    Video Platforms

  • Blip.tv – video hosting, sharing.
  • Google Video – video hosting, sharing.
  • Viddler – video hosting, sharing.
  • Vimeo – video hosting, sharing.
  • YouTube – video hosting, sharing.
  • Mogulus – live video platform.
  • uStream.tv – live video platform.
  • BlogTV – live video platform.
  • ooVoo – live video chat.
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    12 Comments

    1. LaRosa Johnson on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      Movable Type also has a free open source version of their software @ movabletype.org

      lj.

    2. david s. on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      Isn’t it crazy that one year ago, nobody thought myspace could be outpowered and now facebook is more popular than myspace – 90 million people!

    3. David Russell on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      Instant Messaging/Video Conferencing
      Meebo
      TokBox
      Yahoo Live

      RSS Readers
      Google Reader
      Netvibes
      Bloglines

      I’d also encourage another section on Webmail Applications. There are obvious contenders like Gmail and lesser-known options like Orgoo.

    4. Cynthia on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      @davidrussell Persistence is a virtue :-) RSS readers – of course, how smart.

      david s. – who do you work for?

    5. Willie Harris on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      I just found out Monitter, which looks to be better than Twitter Search (Summize).

    6. Monica @ Paper Bridges on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      secondbrain.com is like friendfeed. I don’t see that mentioned here.

      monica

    7. Cynthia on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      Monica – thanks, I’ll check it out (since I’ve never even heard of it!)

    8. Cynthia on the 07. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      Willie – skipped you and also never heard of Monitter. Miss Summize; I loved their logo but now it’s all twitterized. Thanks for your addition.

    9. Steve on the 08. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      Don’t forget GodTube.com

    10. Michael on the 18. Aug, 2008 remarked #

      Actually, I would prefer to forget godtube.com if I could.

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