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Marketing Organization and Consolidation

  1. Vidoop.com - Cutting edge password manager frees you from the password chains that bind you. Gone are the days of remembering multiple usernames and passwords. Features like one-click sign-in, auto fill, and unrivaled customization and security make surfing the web enjoyable again
    • OpenId - Is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, single sign-on, eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each site.
  2. Switchabit.com - Like the “Cc:” function in email, switchAbit lets you write content once and publish to multiple services. (e.x. Send a tweet and switchAbit will route it Facebook and Jaiku).
  3. Friendfeed.com - Is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites such as blog entries, social bookmarking websites, and micro-blogging updates. Users are able to use this consolidated stream of information to create customized feeds to share with friends
  4. Toluu.com - Lets you share your OPML or URL with others in order to discover new feeds, see what your friends are reading, and even discover new people who share your same interests
  5. Hellotxt.com - HelloTxt lets you update your status and read your friends' status across all main microblogging and social networks all at once.
  6. Alpha.Brabblr.com - With Brabblr, you can post to all your micro blogging services
  7. Digsby.com - Is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.
  8. Fuser.com - Use one login to send and receive your email, MySpace and Facebook messages from within a single inbox. Read and reply to Facebook and MySpace messages from within a single inbox.
  9. Shoutlet.com

Blog Marketing

Blogging

Free

  1. Wordpress.com – Express Yourself, Start a Blog. You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address.
  2. Blogger.com – Blogger was created to give you an easy way to share your thoughts — about current events, what's going on in your life, or anything else you'd care to discuss — with the world. We've developed a host of features to make blogging as simple and effective as possible.
  3. LiveJournal.com - Express Yourself, Share Your Life, Connect with Friends Online. You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.
  4. Xanga.com - All Xanga members receive a “Xanga Site”, a web site made up of a weblog, a photoblog, a videoblog, an audioblog, a “Pulse” (mini-blog), and a social networking profile.

  1. Typepad.com - The world’s premier blogging service, hosting the leading blogs and small business websites and powering the most influential voices on the social web.

Idea Generators

  1. Skribit.com - Skribit provides bloggers with the ability to receive real-time, user-generated suggestions directly from their readers via an easy-to-install blog application. Not only does Skribit help bloggers understand their readers, but Skribit also helps facilitate an interactive reader-writer blogging community.

RSS Syndication & Sharing

  1. Feedburner.com - Its Web-based tools, including an extensive feed and blog advertising network, help publishers promote, deliver, and monetize their content on the Web and make feed-based content more accessible and manageable for its end users.
  2. Toluu.com - Toluu is a free service for sharing the feeds you read and discovering new ones.

Microblogging

  1. Twitter.com - social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message.
    • Twitter Tools
      • TwitterFeed.com - You provide the URL of a blog’s RSS feed and how often you want posts to Twitter, and twitterfeed does the rest.
      • LinkBunch.ch - LinkBunch puts together all the links and provides you one link that you can share on Twitter. As you might have understood, this can be used not just with Twitter, but also with emails, IMs, SMS, etc.
      • Twhirl.org - A popular desktop client based on Adobe AIR. It has a lot of impressive features including multiple Twitter accounts, connect to Friendfeed, post image to Twitpic, post to Pownce and Jaiku simultaneously, and search using Tweetscan.
  2. Jaiku.com - Free service, it allows users to post thoughts, or “Jaikus,” via the web or using the Nokia S60 mobile phone. Users’ “stream” of Jaikus can be made either public or private. By allowing people to check their friends’ posts or to update their own micro-blog stream, Jaiku can be used as a way for individuals to remain in constant contact with others.
  3. Tumblr.com - Extreme simplicity will make luring users a far easier task than acquiring users for traditional weblogging. Anytime a user sees something interesting online, they can click a quick “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet that then tumbles the snippet directly. The result is varied string of media ranging links and text to pictures and videos that takes very little time and effort to maintain.

Blog Search Engine

  1. Technorati.com - Allows you to find the most relevant results on all media including blogs, photos, videos and audio files. Technorati used to focus solely on blog search results but have opened up to all media given that more mainstream users are using its service.
  2. Blogged.com - a directory that offers overviews, ratings, reviews, and comments on a categorized list of popular blogs. Their blog directory is completely free to use and does not require any registration or sign up process.
  3. Icerocket.com - They have a special focus on blogs, but their search services include MySpace, video, news and image search. IceRocket’s top blog search tools include Link Tracker, Topics and Trends.

Bloglines.com Paid Blog Marketing

  1. SocialSpark.com - provides blog marketing, social media marketing, word of mouth marketing, conversational marketing through an online blog advertising service
  2. PayPerPost.com - The platform connects advertisers with bloggers and other consumer content creators in order to develop and distribute compelling content throughout the blogosphere and social networks. Advertisers compensate bloggers to promote their products, services and websites, providing bloggers with a way to monetize their blog and traffic unlike ever before.
  3. Blogads.com - Blogads is a blog advertising specialist.
  4. Blogexplosion.com - “Imagine joining a blogging community where people can find and read your blog, get your blog reviewed or even chat with other bloggers all around the world!”
  5. Snapbomb.com - a blog marketing software platform that connects bloggers with advertisers, giving advertisers a simple way to use blogs to reach targeted end users with marketing messages, while giving bloggers a way to monetize their blogs.

Social Media Marketing

Social Networking

  1. Myspace.com - A popular social networking site that lets friends share, message and stay connected. The site lets you browse profiles, blog, email and join groups. MySpace also has videos, music and classifieds. Music artists can add friends, stream singles, and sell music.
  2. Facebook.com - The most popular social networking site.
    • Facebook Apps
      • Loladex.com – Local Picks from people you trust.
      • Photos - “With Facebook Photos, you can upload an unlimited number of albums to your Facebook profile. You can reorder photos, rotate them, and tag your friends in them.”
      • iLike - “iLike lets you add music to your profile and find your favorite concerts (not to mention see who else is going!). Bonus: Use it to get free mp3’s that match your tastes and try to beat your friends at the Music Challenge.”
    • Facebook Pages
  3. Badoo.com - One of the few non-advertiser-supported social networks, UK-based badoo offers standard social networking features and allows it users to pay to make themselves more popular across badoo’s network.
  4. Offsetx.com - “is a network of social action and entertainment websites that enables participants to “offset” the actions and support provided by enthusiasts of opposing interests and opinions through actions of their own.”
  5. Hi5.com - A international social network with a local flavor. It enables members to stay connected, share their lives, and learn what’s happening around them – through customizable profile pages, messaging, unlimited photo storage, hundreds of OpenSocial applications and more.
  6. Imeem.com - Is a social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselves with media, including music, video and photos, and form connections based on shared tastes and interests.
  7. 43Things.com - A social networking site where users create accounts and then share lists of goals and hopes.
  8. Friendster.com - Is one of the web’s older social networking services. Adults, 18 and up can join and connect with friends, family, school, groups, activities and interests. The site currently has over 50 million users.
  9. Orkut.com - Google’s online social networking site.
  10. Skyrock.com -Blogs, profiles, dating, chat, photos, videos, music… Create your friend network & share unlimited photos and video on Skyrock!
  11. Gather.com - Gather's design, features, and content are geared toward grown-ups.
  12. Socialu.com - “Personal browser that allows users to simply link, organize, and connect to all of their social networks and favorite websites from one central location to share with their friends or the entire community.”

Niche Social Networking

  1. Ideablob.com - Where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas
  2. FilmGravity.com – Global Community for Film Industry Professionals.
  3. DotBlu.com - is the place for friendly competition
  4. DeviantArt.com - “A community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose.”
  5. Essembly.com - “Is a fiercely non-partisan social network that allows politically interested individuals to connect with one another, engage in constructive discussion, and organize to take action.”

Community Group Sites

  1. Groups.google.com - A free service from Google where groups of people have discussions about common interests. Internet users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in threaded conversations, either through the Google Groups web interface, or by e-mail.
  2. Groups.yahoo.com - As both electronic mailing lists and Internet forums. Group messages can be posted and read by e-mail or on the Group homepage, like a web forum.
  3. Tribe.com - Similar to social networks like Facebook and MySpace, but allows users to create their own personal networks with other users; forming “tribes.”

Niche Marketing

  1. Squidoo.com - Squidoo allows users with little or no technical background to create content rich webpages regarding any topic they wish.
  2. Hubpages.com - The an online publishing ecosystem with user-friendly publishing tools, an author community, and a revenue-maximizing infrastructure.

Build Your Own Social Network

  1. Ning.com - Ning provides an online platform for creating your own social network for anything.

Social Bookmarking

  1. Digg.com - Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is user-submitted. After you submit content, other people read your submission and “Digg” what they like best.
  2. Reddit.com - Reddit is a social news website that displays news based on your personal preferences and what the community likes.
  3. Stumbleupon.com - Is a website and content discovery service enabled via a browser toolbar. StumbleUpon uses positive and negative user ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality.
  4. Blinklist.com - “Make lists & share with others! Or keep em' private Save websites for reference, research, or for fun Read those sites later! When you have the time Have them appear in your links on your blog instantly!”
  5. Fark.com - Allows users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. It is one of the top 100 English language websites
  6. Propeller.com - Propeller is a user-driven social content site, similar to Digg.
  7. buzz.yahoo.co - Yahoo Buzz is a Digg-like Yahoo product where users can rank stories from a set of pre-approved publishers.
  8. Bessed.com - “We’ve built it on a blogging platform, allowing you to not only find what you want, but also to comment on what you see, whether it’s to suggest a site, suggest a site be removed, or to discuss different topics that interest you.”
  9. bloggingzoom.com - A place where bloggers can share content that they and other bloggers have written. Blogging Zoom is the perfect place to go for people that are tired of the mainstream media and content.

Note: Automate using SocialMarker.com


Social Search & Interactive Conversation

  1. Answers.Yahoo.com - is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer asked questions from other users.
  2. Bitwine.com - Internet based service that enables individuals, in real time, to Search, Buy, and Sell services. BitWine’s platform provides a trusted environment where services are rendered in real time using high quality video and audio combined with instant payments.
  3. eurekster.com - With Eurekster, web publishers can build and customize their swicki search portal on any topic, and share and distribute the social search widget to grow a community of interested users.
  4. Scour.com - Is a social search engine that “scours” multiple other search engines, with the goal of offering the most relevant search results.
  5. Ma.gnolia.com

User Generated Information

  1. Wikipedia.org - is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
  2. Photobucket.com - A photo and video hub, offering image storage, linking and creative remixing tools, such as slide shows and video editing functions for consumers.

Video Sharing Marketing

Top 3 Video Sharing Sites

  1. Youtube.com - is the leader in online video, sharing original videos worldwide through a Web experience.
  2. DailyMotion.com - A social video site based out of Paris that offers a mix of both amateur and professional content. They are differentiating their site by offering a mix of professional content, contextual advertising, and paying top content producers through their MotionMaker program.
  3. Blip.tv - A video sharing service with a focus on video blogging (vlog) and podcasting. The site provides almost everything content creators need including free hosting, support for a variety of video formats, distribution to blogs.

  1. Jumpcut.com - Jumpcut is an online video editing service.
  2. Crackle.com - the Sony owned Crackle has taken a long and eventful path to its current status. Finding itself far behind competitor YouTube in terms of pure user numbers 
  3. Veoh.com - Veoh is an Internet TV service that gives viewers the power to easily discover, watch, and personalize their online viewing experience.
  4. Metacafe.com - Is a social video site that algorithmically filters what appears on the site. Users and content producers are allowed to submit any videos they want but Metacafe uses its filtering algorithm VideoRank to choose the “most entertaining” and “high quality” videos.
  5. Revver.com -  The first user generated video site to offer revenue share.
  6. Broadcaster.com - “We specialize in short-form original content - from new, emerging talents and established Hollywood heavyweights alike.”
  7. Break.com - is an entertainment website aimed at men. Most of the site’s content is humorous, with the majority of it being videos, pictures and flash games.
  8. OurStage.com - An online avenue for indie musicians and other types of artist to get exposure to a wider audience. Artists and fans alike can create profiles which serve as a homepage for their artistic work and a dashboard for their ratings, groups and everything else community related.

Podcasting

  1. Odeo.com - Odeo is  “portal through which they plan to unveil new tools and utilities that improve the podcasting experience.”
  2. Podcastpeople.com - is a powerful web-based service that makes it easy for individuals and businesses to create, distribute, and control video and audio shows over the Internet. There's no software to download and nothing to install, we take care of everything for you on the web.

Podcast Niches

  1. BlogTalkRadio.com - is a site where anyone can set up a podcast or “radio talkshow” over the web.

Video Advertising

  1. Zadby.com - An online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos tailored for sites like YouTube and MySpace. Zadby facilitates the creation, posting, tracking, and payment for online videos with product placement angles.

Video Promotion

  1. Graspr.com - video community that offers high quality instructional content on a wide range of topics.
  2. Clipsyndicate.com - is the leading video syndication platform that enables broadcasters and other video content producers to realize new revenue streams and extend their brand beyond their traditional market to the Internet.

People Directories

  1. BigSight.org - “Bigsight exists to help people share their work with the world. 87% of our members are at the top of Google and Yahoo.”

Website Directories

  1. Botw.org - A platform enabling the burgeoning online community to nominate and vote for best-of-class websites in a variety of categories.
  2. dmoz.org - “The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.”

Business Directories/Review Sites

Free

  1. Yelp.com -  “the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great (and not so great) in your world.”

Real Estate Marketing

 
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