- 13stripes
- That America Show - a community designed for Americans by
Americans. Encourages user interaction through forums, news
submissions, graphics, and comments.
- AOL:
People and Chat Directory - find AOL users that share common
interests for chat.
- bianca
- alternative online community. Home of bianca's Smut Shack.
- Bolt
- news and features, email, chat, message boards, and more.
- BuddyPic.com
- rate and meet guys and girls.
- Building
an Online Community: Just Add Water - advice from Matt Haughey in
Digital Web.
- Bumi-n
City - track the growth and suggest changes to this virtual
Japanese city with the focus on proper ecological management.
- CNN
Interactive Communities
- CommunityZero
- allows a group of people to communicate and exchange information
over the Internet in their own private and secure area.
- CouchSurfing
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- helps users make connections worldwide. Meet people from other
countries and offer your couch to your new friends when they visit.
- CPixel.com
- online community and picture rating site. Hate or rate!
- Cyber
Yugoslavia - provides a home on the Internet for those citizens of
former Yugoslavia. Citizenship is open to anyone.
- Cybertown
- the sci-fi community of the future.
- Dogster
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- post and share your dog's photos and facts. Site enables viewing by
breed, size, name, hometown, and more.
- domeus
- allows people to share passions, interests, and opinions by creating
and subscribing to free email groups, discussion forums, and mailing
lists. Previously eCircle.
- EdGateway
Communities - offer science, math and environmental educators and
their organizations the ability to find, organize, and share events,
discussions, information, and documents.
- Edgeofeverything....
- offers chat and forum space for a subversive, alternative take on
the world and all things in it. Zen and anarchy, psychedelia,
conspiracy theories, and madness.
- Everything2
- aims to catalog all human knowledge and show the interconnections
between all the people, places, things, and ideas.
- Evine
Online - family forum & online community improves
communications by granting group members access to message board &
chat room in private setting.
- eyebees
- the base camp of swarming offers downloadable software for a
collective surfing experience. Browse the Internet with your friends
and communicate while you surf.
- FaceParty
- build a personal website, upload pictures, send messages, chat, and
people.
- Findapix
- show pictures of yourself and send and receive messages with other
members.
- Fresh
City
- Friendeavor
- allows users to connect with other people in the same area who share
the same interests as them.
- Friendster
- online community that connects people through networks of friends
for dating or making new friends.
- Full
Moon Webs - member driven online community that offers web
hosting, weblogs, newsfeeds, and email.
- FunHi
- friendly gangsta, playa pimp, and banging hunie community to get
noticed, meet people, and have fun.
- Google
Groups
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- post and read comments in Usenet discussion forums going back to
1981.
- Google
Groups 2 Beta - offering a service where users can start their own
email discussion groups and browse Usenet archives.
- Groups@AOL
- communities based on common interests.
- Huminity
- social networking and chat software.
- ICERED
- online community of high-income professionals in Hong Kong,
Singapore, and elsewhere in Asia engaging in discussions of school,
work, and play.
- iSawYou.com
- home of Flirt Tag, the online/offline game for meeting people.
Allows users to send short notes to virtual message centers that
mirror actual locations.
- LinkedIn
- online service helping professionals find and connect with one
another through shared social contacts.
- Local2Me
- location-based communities for neighbors, small businesses, job
seekers, and others to share local advice and information. Groups
personalized by distance and age range.
- Makeoutclub
- online independent music and subculture community.
- Many
2 Many - a group weblog on social networking software.
- MapPlanet.com
- experimental community geographically organized on a high-resolution
map of planet earth.
- Meatball
Wiki - community that deals with online culture, especially how
people online come together naturally in groups.
- Mediachest
- share books, CDs, DVDs, and video games with people in your social
network.
- Meet
Up - connects people around topics of interest locally.
- MSN
Groups - communities of people as unique as you.
- MSN
Member Directory - allows users to share themselves, their
interests, even pictures with other MSN users.
- MySpace
- forum to meet new friends and old.
- New
Friends in Town - online meeting place for people who want to
build friendships. Members are typically new in town from a recent
move or relocation.
- Nowwwhere
- Virtual world featuring 3D ray-traced graphics. Wander around, meet
other netizens, and try to solve some puzzles. Features animation and
sound clips.
- Online
Community Report - online newsletter covering the development and
management of online communities.
- orkut
- online community that connects people through a network of trusted
friends.
- Paradise
- the plans for a deserted metropolis, waiting to be filled in.
Explore and write your own part.
- Petsburg
- immersing online village for pet lovers, designed for people who
love their dogs and cats as if they were their children.
- Picit.com
- dedicated to greeting cards, funny pictures, online dating services,
pic ratings, and other free stuff.
- Pinoy
Exchange - features message boards on variety of topics for
Filipinos.
- Pinoy
Forum - bulletin boards for Filipino community.
- Playdo
Community - create a unique character by choosing its appearance,
age, gender, origin, and interests, then enroll it as a citizen in
Playdo City where it can interact with other users.
- PLINK
- aims to create a web of machine-readable home pages describing
people, the links between them, and the things they create and do.
- PopMates
- personal networking platform for anyone with an interest in pop
culture.
- RateMyBody
- online community. Meet people, chat, and rate pictures of others.
- Ryze
- business networking community for people in in the high-tech,
finance, and digital media industries.
- SmartGroups.com
- helps to organize the different groups of people in your life using
email and the Internet.
- Square,
The - online community for Ivy League students and graduates
offering a range of services including job opportunities, local
events, personals, chat, home pages, and networking.
- StayingClose
- offers the chance to create communities and share files, images, and
more.
- Thefacebook
- an online directory that connects people through social networks at
colleges and universities. Use is limited to your own college or
university.
- TheFence.com
- connects enthusiasts on both sides of the political spectrum, with
background summaries of debate topics from politics to pop culture.
Which side of the fence are you on?
- threedegrees
- virtual community and messaging software from Microsoft where users
share a desktop space in which they can share conversation, music,
photos, video, and more.
- Tickle
- offers tests, matchmaking, and social networking.
- Tribe.net
- online social networking service that connects the people in your
personal networks and community.
- TruthBytes
- mechanism for finding out what people really think of you and other
people.
- Virtual
Communities and the Internet
- Volume.com
- community site that is the voice of the urban generation.
- waferbaby
- budding web community with content created by the users.
- Wallop
- research project of the Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research
where users can share photos, blog, and interact with friends.
- Webstock
Whole Earth Festival - 3D entertainment, information and
technology showcase.
- Well,
The - pioneering online community known for engaging conversation
and intelligent debate. Features more than 260 conferences ranging
from technical and specific to abstract and surreal.
- WildAbout.com
- collection of free member communities featuring calendars,
newsletters, chat, bulletin board, e-mail, and more.
- WordofMouthConnection.com
- aiming to build a community that fosters interaction between each
and every individual possible.
- World
Lounge - offers users the opportunity to meet people of the same
ethnic background through photos, chats, and other events.
- Yahoo!
Groups - create and manage online email communities.
- Yahoo!
Member Directory - find profiles of members with similar interests
and get in touch.
- Zamboozle
- Internet community with a variety of headlines, Flash games, and
active forums.
- Zanpo
- create a constantly evolving virtual city online.
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- create a free online picture journal using your camera phone or
digital camera, and share them with friends or make new friends too.