I thought it would be pertinent to this discussion to toss in this link about SNS usage by country (incomplete, of course...). http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-651865,54-999097@51-999297,0.html Similar things have been posted to the list many times, but I just happened upon this particular one. I wish you well in your research. T. Kennedy wrote:
Not sure if this is what you're looking for
There's a web 2.0 directory located Here:
Also - a list of SNS I saw from someone on another list:
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Ryze: http://www.ryze.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com Orkut: http://www.orkut.com Friendster http://www.friendster.com
Politically oriented OSNs Essembly: http://www.essembly.com DFALink: http://www.dfalink.com PartyBuilder: http://www.democrats.org
For Second Life related OSNs, there are SLProfiles: http://www.slprofiles.com SLUniverse http://www.sluniverse.com BlogHud: http://my.bloghud.com Rezzed: http://www.rezzed.net
For media sharing, there are the video sites Youtube: http://www.youtube.com Blip: http://ahynes1.blip.tv/ Flickr: http://www.flickr.com
MicroBlogs Twitter: http://twitter.com Jaiku http://jaiku.com MySay http://www.mysay.com Pownce: http://pownce.com
Reader Rolls MyBlogLog: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz BlogCatalog: http://www.blogcatalog.com BumpZee: http://www.bumpzee.com BlogCave: http://www.blogcave.com
Tagging and Social Bookmarking sites: del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us StumbleUpon: http://stumbleupon.com ma.gnolia.com: http://ma.gnolia.com Digg: http://www.digg.com Technorati: http://www.technorati.com NewsTrust: http://www.newstrust.net
Reputation sites: Wink: http://wink.com
Music preference sharing last.fm: http://www.last.fm
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******************************************** Tracy L. M. Kennedy PhD Candidate - Department of Sociology
Graduate Fellow - Knowledge Media Design Institute
Research Coordinator - NetLab - Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 2J4 tkennedy@netwomen.ca www.netwomen.ca www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative
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