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  • Wikipedia
    Is likely the most commonly known public wiki and according to Wikipedia, it is the worlds largest functioning wiki. It is a “free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit” and thus is an “open source”, where open source refers to allowing anyone to edit content.
  • MySpace
    Likely the most popular online social networking site in the English-speaking world. The over one hundred million user accounts and the current American legislation that seeks to eliminate its presence in public institutions both attest to its resounding popularity.
  • Second Life
    Second Life blurs the line between reality and the virtual-world. Members of Second Life meet, socialize, entertain, govern, work, pay taxes, and generally go about daily life in the virtual world.
  • Sharepoint
    A free application created by Microsoft which enables users to share information, collaborate on documents, and collect team knowledge over the internet or an internal secured corporate network. Think of sharepoint as the ‘business’ version of an online social network.
  • del.icio.us
    A service that provides a way for people to organize their favourite websites. Much like many other social bookmarking services, del.icio.us is not private; therefore, whatever information one puts in becomes available for everyone to see.
  • StumbleUpon
    Enables “social surfing” – it retrieves websites that other Net surfers deem relevant to you according to your user profile.
  • Yahoo My Web 2.0
    Taking a new approach to community-based searching. Users create a personal web and interact with a trusted community of contacts, upon whose expertise their searching relies.
  • Slashdot
    Predates the social bookmarking phenomenon, having been created in 1997, but it is a forerunner of the social bookmarking news sites.
  • Digg
    A social bookmarking site devoted to news. Users submit links to news stories, and other users vote on them (or “digg” them). The most popular stories appear on the homepage, sometimes within minutes of their original posting; alternatively, if a story does not receive enough “diggs” within twenty-four hours, it drops out of the upcoming stories queue.
  • Furl
    Both a social bookmarking tool and a personal archive; it saves a copy of each page a user bookmarks. This can obviously be very useful.
  • Flickr
    A photo sharing website, thus it is a unique social bookmarking tool because it contains digital images. Flickr serves the same purpose as the social bookmarking tools that contain links because Flickr photos are also tagged and browsed.
  • YouTube
    This is another example of a social bookmarking tool that deviates from the concept of linked text. YouTube contains videos - frequently homemade videos.
  • Connotea
    A free social bookmarking site that is geared towards clinicians and scientists. Users can save and tag links to any web pages that they want to remember and/or reference.
  • Many-to-Many
    A group weblog on social software.
  • Socialtext 2.0
    A fundamental redesign of the user interface, resolving the complexity that confronts new wiki users while preserving the power of a flexible enterprise tool.
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Can Twitter predict the future? Businesses are mining online messages to unearth consumers’ moods—and even make market predictions

Dr Watts thinks that simple search-volume forecasts will help spot consumer trends of this sort with increased precision. But the improvements they bring will be incremental. Sophisticated methods based on natural-language analysis of tweets, blogs, or Facebook pages, by contrast, hold greater disruptive potential. As users of social media grow accustomed to sharing highly personal information, apparently unfazed by market-research outfits like WiseWindow watching their every step, the feelings and intentions of hundreds of millions of people are there for data-hungry computers to see.
[ economist.com ]