Types of Social Media

Examples of Social Media

Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures, video, rating and bookmarking. Technologies include: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing,crowdsourcing, and voice over IP, to name a few. Many of these social media services can be integrated via social network aggregationplatforms like Mybloglog and Plaxo.

Examples of social media software applications include:

Communication

• Blogs: Blogger, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, WordPress, Vox, ExpressionEngine, Xanga

• Micro-blogging / Presence applications: Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, fmylife

• Social networking: Bebo, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Skyrock, Hi5, Ning, Elgg

• Social network aggregation: NutshellMail, FriendFeed

• Events: Upcoming, Eventful, Meetup.com

Collaboration

• Wikis: Wikipedia, PBwiki, wetpaint

• Social bookmarking (or social tagging)^[3]: Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, CiteULike

• Social news: Digg, Mixx, Reddit, NowPublic

• Opinion sites: epinions, Yelp, Znopit

Multimedia

• Photo sharing: Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket, SmugMug

• Video sharing: YouTube, Vimeo, sevenload

• Livecasting: Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam

• Audio and Music Sharing: imeem, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter

Reviews and Opinions

• Product Reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com

• Q&A: Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers

Entertainment

• Media & Entertainment Platforms: Cisco EosVirtual worlds: Second Life, The Sims Online,Forterra

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• Game sharing: Miniclip, Kongregate

Other

• Information aggregators: Netvibes, Twine (website)