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How To Create Your Own Social Network

Social networks are not new – they have been around forever…

Clubs and associations are the oldest forms of social networks. Oh, and of course religion! Now, there’s a huge type of social network!

As I am sure you know (or have guessed by now), a social network is simply a place where like minded people congregate with others who also share similar tastes and/or interests…

However now, with the Internet this can take on an even richer experience.

And the tools to create your very own social networks are freely available!

Are you into ’57 Chevy’s? Knitting? ABBA music?

No matter how specific or esoteric you may think your interest or hobby is – there is someone else out there who also shares your same passion, interest and/or hobby…

I have been testing a very good application that you can use to build an unlimited number of your own Myspace style social websites for any niche that you choose.

In a hurry?

Check out this 12 minute video that will show you exactly what your websites will look like wiith this program.

http://SuccessOnTheFly.com/with/SocialNicheBuilder

So, if you have a particular passion, interest or hobby and would like to hook up with other like minded individuals in your very own social network – create your own!

http://SuccessOnTheFly.com/with/SocialNicheBuilder

Let me know if you end up creating your own social network.

I am sure that we’d all love to check it out!

A Quick Start Guide to Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?

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Essentially, Web 2.0 is all about social networking commentary at it’s best!

Everybody gets the opportunity to express their opinion about what’s going on – about what’s “hot” and what’s not – and everything in between!

Web 2.0 is about people, and so – it is all inclusive…

Web 2.0 is big on including tools that let people collaborate and share information online…

Following you will find a list of the most important and relevant Web 2.0 places, websites which address various Web 2.0-related issues, demonstrate important Web 2.0 technologies, provide tightly integrated social networks or are simply relevant to us in a certain way.

Digg (http://www.digg.com) Digg is a user-driven website, employing social democracy in order to decide which of the submitted news make it on the front page. Digg also functions as an article directory.

Bebo (http://www.bebo.com) Bebo is the little giant behind in Web 2.0. It offers several features not available on other websites. Even though it has grown somewhat slowly, it is steadily increasing in user base.

StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com) StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking service with popular Firefox and IE set of extensions.

Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us.com) Del.icio.us is the most popular social bookmarking service. It has the largest user base and offer excellent tag-based browsing.

De.lirio.us (http://de.lirio.us.com) De.lirio.us is an open-source clone of Del.icio.us. Although less popular than its rival, it has a steady user base.

Flickr (http://www.flickr.com) Flickr is a very popular photo-sharing website. It employs a number of social networking features, but its first use remains media sharing. It is one of the most popular Web 2.0
sites, and, as such, offers very good advertising possibilities.

Fotki (http://www.fotki.com) Fotki is a photo-sharing website with a few twists. It offers blogging service and holds regular photo contests. The premium service is excellent.

Last.fm (http://www.last.fm) Last.fm is a music tag-based discovery and listening service. It also offers a wide range of social networking features.

Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org) Slashdot is an online news service. It has a huge user base, ensuring that, if your website is featured in a newsline, it can get tens of thousands of visitors. However, it concentrates mostly on technology-related issues.

Metacafe (http://www.metacafe.com) Metacafe is Microsoft’s answer to Google Video. Although not as popular and more restricted in terms of content, it has a steady user base that can prove useful.

WordPress (http://www.wordpress.com) WordPress is a blogging service that offers both free and paid accounts. It is one of the largest blogging networks and offers a wide range of features. The WordPress CMS (which drives the WordPress blogging service) is also available in case you want to host the blog yourself.

Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) Blogger is another free blogging service. It offers a large blogging community, like WordPress does. It’s simpler to use compared to WordPress, but offers fewer features.

Technorati (http://www.technorati.com) Technorati is a blog aggregation website. It indexes a large amount of blogs (more than 76 million blogs, as it claims) and offers a tag-based browsing system.

Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com) Bloglines is Technorati greatest rival. Although it indexes fewer blogs, it has a steadier user base and is less controversial.

Findory (http://www.findory.com) Findory is a blog and podcast aggregation website.

Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com) Squidoo is a powerful social networking and content sharing website. It offers several excellent business opportunities, including the excellent SquidOffers.

Odeo (http://www.odeo.com) Odeo is a website that offers recording, sharing and browsing facilities for podcasts.

PodShow (http://www.podshow.com) PodShow is a podcast publishing and indexing service.

TalkShoe (http://www.talkshoe.com) TalkShoe is a live podcast (talkcast) service.

Skype (http://www.skype.com) Skype is a powerful voice IM application which can be used for skypecasting.

Moo (http://www.moo.com) Moo is an online printing service. Using Moo, you can create postcards and stickers from various content sources (like Flickr), which are printed and mailed to you.

AmazingMail (http://www.amazingmail.com) AmazingMail is an online printing service, just like Moo.

Zlio (http://www.zlio.com) Zlio is a French affiliate marketing website which allows you to set up an online storefront at almost no cost.

Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us) Scriptaculous offers a wide range of Web 2.0-related scripts. It can serve as an inspiration for what else you can add to your website.

Hittail (http://www.hittailcom) is a service that reveals, in real time, the keywords and phrases that users search in order to get to your website.

Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) Twitter is THE leading presence streaming website.

Jaiku (http://www.jaiku.com) Jaiku is a presence streaming website. It has more features than Twitter. The user base is currently smaller, but it is growing.

Dodgeball (http://www.dodgeball.com) Dodgeball is a presence streaming website. Although currently lagging behind Twitter and Jaiku, it has a very steady and rapidly growing user base.

AdWords (http://adwords.google.com) AdWords is Google’s own advertising program. It allows you to employ several interesting strategies and is very reliable.

AdBrite (http://www.adbrite.com) AdBrite is a banner advertising company, similar in many aspects to Google’s AdWords.

Pligg (http://www.pligg.com) Pligg is a very powerful PHP-based content management system.

Fleck (http://www.fleck.com) Fleck is a powerful online annotation service.

Yedda (http://www.yedda.com) Yedda is an ask-and-answer website with several social networking features.

Meetup (http://www.meetup.com) Meetup offers various services for setting up ad-hoc meetings.

Creating a comprehensive list of all the Web 2.0-related websites you can have is almost impossible to do.

There are literally thousands of them…

However, a list of the best Web 2.0 websites can be found at http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/

“Social Marker” – A wonderful and free recourse!

Though “social book marking” powerfully promotes a blog or website – going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time consuming.

This is where SocialMarker.com comes in to play!

This free service is designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website…

It can help you spread a link to 32 of the best social book marking sites in under 15 minutes!
• It helps you get a lot of backlinks
• It helps you increase your traffic.
• Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.

Get going here at: http://www.socialmarker.com/

Now, here are the Web 2.0 sites you may want to submit to:

Propeller.com
Slashdot.org
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Del.icio.us
Stumbleupon.com
Twitter.com
Reddit.com
Fark.com
Newsvine.com
swik.net
De.lirio.us
Connotea.org
Blinklist.com
Bluedot.us
Spurl.net
Netvouz.com
Diigo.com
Backflip.com
Shadows.com
Rawsugar.com
Bibsonomy.org
Folkd.com
Linkagogo.com
Dotnetkicks.com
Indianpad.com
Plugim.com
Myjeeves.ask.com
Kick.ie
Google Bookmarks
Sk-rt.com
Wirefan.com