IslandV, A New Social Networking Site For International Residents

IslandX is a new social networking site that special to people who want to move to other country. For these people, to know everything in new country, new area, and new home is very important before moving. So to find local residents who can tell you what you can do or not. It's easy to communication with other users, join group, ask or answer the questions. But, it needs more people join, so it still has a long way to go.

Watch Tenlant Show With Metheone

Some people got talent in different ways, that's why TV talent show is very popular around the world. If you are interested about talent show you should check out Metheone, this a website that collects talent shows around the world.

With Metheone you can watch talent performance without board, unlike TV show, you only watch talent performance in your country, this website have talent performance over 70 countries. From stage to street, music hall to house, different places, different ways, and different people. You can register a free account, upload your talent show, write down comments. It also looks like an online video community. Some videos are very cool!

500PX, A Popular Online Photography Community

When we talk about online photography, usually we think about Flickr, it is an online photography community, more social design. But you may take a look 500PX now, it is a web based photographer's community either, with clean interface, you can build your own photography page, check out amazing photos, follow interesting photographers. Compare to Flickr, 500PX have more professional photos, and supports Android, iPad devices.

500PX offers two versions, one is free version that limited upload photos pay week. Another one is commercial version, unlimited upload photos. Both versions are unlimited host photos, so you don't have to worry about space even you are free account. After Yahoo took over Flickr, it seems no change too much, even it doesn't develop app for other devices. Some reporters say, more and more users move photos from Flickr to 500PX.

Placeknow, A New Social Networking Site For Travelers

Placeknow is a social networking site for travelers, gives users a good place where put all about local information around the world. You can register an account, check any place where you interested, follow somebody, upload your photos to server.

This is a brand new site that based on Poland, but use English. For a new site, it is not easy to attract users. I think if you are traveler, this is a good place to share your experience with other people.

Build Your Family Photo Community With FamilyLeaf

We have some powerful social networking services, like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Flick, Picasa, they are very good to help users build own social networking on the internet, from family, friends, to co-workers, even strangers. But these social networking sites are good to share everything with friends, if you want to share photo and message with family member only, how can you do?

FamilyLeaf gives you a quite space where only for your family, you can share photos, send message to family members. It looks another kind of family tree, you can add family information like home address, telephone number, birth date, photos. The best point is, only a few clicks, you can import photos from some social networking sites, like Facebook, Flick, Picasa, so if you already have these accounts, just a few clicks will be done, you don't have to upload your photos again.

It supports multiple languages, very good for family members who live in different countries.

365Project, An Image Project For Your Daily Life

We have tons of image services on the internet, they offer web space for users store photos, some also give a tool edit image online. 365Project is special one, unlike other image services, this web service is an online image community that gives out a platform, users can take a photo each day and publish on this site. That's why it called 365 project.

It's easy to join this online image community, just register a free account, take a photo and upload to server. All done. Everyone can view your photos, and you can browse photos that took by other users. It looks like your life recorder in image version, records one thing each day. As an online community, 365Project lets users make friends and discuss everything about photo. If you are interested about this project, go there and take a look.

Identify Unknown Music With Watzatsong

Watzatsong is an online community that gives users a place to identify unknown music. If you like a song, but don't know what song's name is, you can register a free account, record a short sample of the tune or melody, post on Watzatsong, other users can listen it, if somebody knew he can give an answer.

Learn Other Languages With Busuu

I want to learn Japanese, but it seems difficult for me. Like most language learners, I didn't keep very long, then give up. I did try search on the internet, try to find a good language course, joined some online language communities. Of course, I don't want to pay language course, only to learn beginning level, and think about if I have this language talent.

Busuu is a new place where I found to learn my Japanese course online. It offers premium course and free beginning course, I just want to very simple words, that's my goal. Well, I start to learn some simple words, only twenty basic short words with audio and text in two languages. Pretty good! If you want to learn other language, don't expect you can hold this skill just one night. A long way to go. After "Vocabulary", it offers "Dialogue", "busuu talk", and "Review". I haven't finished "Vocabulary" course, so I can't say anything about other three steps.

Busuu is an online community, you can create your group, invite someone to join you, or join other groups. Easy to search someone who you want to make friends with, and practice language.

If you think this language community is good for you, you may upgrade membership. But for me, it's a very very long way.

Youspots, Mark Hot Sport Exercise Spots On Map

If you are a sport activator you should read this article.

YouSpots is a new website that mash up Google Maps and an online community, like a platform for everybody they are exercisers, such as surfing, skiing, hiking. You can mark spots on map, and make friends, exchange opinions, post photos and videos. For other users, they can browse some exciting spots on the world map, find exciting places.

Twitvid, Create Your Twitter Video Channel

We know Youtube is very popular, Twitter is popular, Facebook is popular, these three web services called social networking. How about put these three sites together? Take a look Twitvid, it's an interesting site with social networking features. No register request, just use your Twitter or Facebook ID to sign in, you can upload your photo or video, and publish them. You can create your own channel as Youtube, other users can follow you as Twitter. You can also discover interesting channels, follow other users.

An Anti-Facebook Social Networking Site, Unthink

We know some social networking services, like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, they are popular, have millions users around the world. But, some people don't like them because social networking is less privacy. Now, a new social networking site comes out, it called Unthink. The biggest difference is users can control their information completely, no any advertising with. It isn't like Facebook, Unthink isn't do anything for you, you make decision if you give out your private information. But, it is still a social networking site, with typical communication style, users can do everything same as Facebook. Unthink launches to public at end of last month, up to now, over 100,000 people registered.

Share A Movie Online With Others

Friends Movie Box is a new social networking site that helps users to share movie on the internet. As a social networking site, this new site lets users send message and movie link to other people, you can share and watch it.

Actually, it isn't new. Just like a normal social networking site, it doesn't offer any movie, only lets users to search movie from some file hosting sites, like Megavideo, Youtube, Videobb, Videozer, Nomamov, Putlocker, Sockshare, Dailymotion. After that, you can copy movie link in to "Movie link" bar, click "Publish video", you can watch movie on a framed page.

Share PDF File On Twitter With Twtebook

Twitter is very popular, people like it that cause "quick and simple", especially for people who carry smart phone all the time. Social networking service is perfect to smart phone, like Twitter. But the problem is, Twitter only allows short message, so some websites develop extensions with Twitter, like to share image, document, music, and video.

Twtebook is one of them, it lets Twitter users to share e-book (PDF) on Twitter. Just use your Twitter ID to sign in, upload PDF file, post it on Twitter, anyone can click link and read it.

Share Your Favorite Web Page With Bo.lt

Bo.lt is an interesting web service that lets users to share web page with others, like shorten web address service, it gives out a shorten url, you can save them into your account as bookmark, they also put in to public list, everyone can click them. It seems a little bit confusing to me, like to make a simple thing to difficult. If you want to a try, go ahead.

Liveminutes, Another Useful Online Conference Service

Liveminutes is another web conference service that lets you have a meeting with other people online. It also supports text chat, audio/video conference, and a tool to share files, like office documents, photos. It is very easy to do, after sign up an account, you can start application. You can get an individual address, send this address to other people who you want to share. Now, you both can have chatting, audio/video conference, and share files. Pretty cool.

Now, Liveminutes is free to use, it will develop premium service late.

Record Video, Publish On Twitter

Frtr.me is a web service that helps users record video by webcam, and publish it on Twitter. First, you must have a webcam, Twitter account. Just sign in with your Twitter ID, just follow steps you can easy to do. After all done, it gives out a shorten address to watch your video. This video stores on Frtr.me server.

Take a look some screenshots below.

Vidquik, Another Web Application For Video/Audio Conference

Vidquik is a new web service that offers web based chat/conference platform with video and audio. You can use it without register an account. After clicked "Invite Now", it gives a form that you can fill your name, email address, and friend's name, email address. Write down some words to invite your friend. Click "INVITE!" button, it will open another web page with your webcam. If your friend connected you will see him/her at once, you can talk to each other, and show some files on screen instantly now.

Now, Vidquik is free to use, and no any ads with, only one to one. But Vidquik will develop pro version which offer more functions like multiple ways connecting in the future, it may is a subscribe membership version.

Make Your Own E-Book With Movellas

Movellas is a web service that helps users to write own novel, and publish as e-book. It looks like an online community, so users can write own story, share e-books. Just register an account, make your profile, and write your story. If you want to publish your story, it can convert epub format, people can download and read it with iPad, iPhone or other e-book readers. You can also browse e-books which published from other users, download for free. Other option is you can buy e-book, rate e-book, become a fan of author.

Diglo, Share Your Digital Files Easily

Diglo is a kind of social file sharing site, with unlimited upload and download file, you can share your digital files with other users, that's also a social activity. It loos like an online community, lets you upload files, like photos, videos, and documents, these files can be open to public, and other users can download your file. This website is free to register, but you have to reactivate account every 30 days to keep free account, it is annoying.

Scapehouse, A New Social Networking Site That Crosses Web Platforms

Scapehouse is a new social networking site that crosses between Facebook and Twitter. Of course, it requires both accounts if you want to publish content to them via Scapehouse. You can use your Facebook ID to sign in. In other way, you can publish text or photos in Scapehouse only, if you do not like to share your content on Facebook and Twitter.

I know social networking is popular now, recently Google joins this web war. My question is, do we still need more social networking services?