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Category: Productivity

eBay is an online auction marketplace. It was one of the first auction sites on the Internet, and has become hugely popular as a way to buy and sell goods on the Web. PayPal requires user registration for both buyers and sellers and has instituted a user-credibility system with both karma points and a buyer and seller review to let users police themselves. The more frequent and well-respected users get certain advantages over new users, and commercial sellers are able to get discounts on listings and payment options.

eBay makes its money by charging its sellers a listing … Read more

Category: Media

YouTube is one of the most well-known video services on the Internet, and more recently the battleground for copyright and intellectual property protection. YouTube lets anyone share videos online. It uses Flash and a simple video player that starts playing videos right away. While the quality isn't that great, it's become incredibly popular for the sheer amount of content that's made its way onto the site from its massive group of users.

YouTube has paved the way for a variety of other services and evolved its own services with new features such as user profiles, … Read more

Category: Data

Pando is a peer-to-peer file sharing technology. Pando users must be running the Pando client software, which lets them share files that are too large to share via e-mail or instant messaging conversations. Users can select any file on their hard drive and make it sharable using a link that can be sent through e-mail.

Pando is free, but it comes with a limit of 1GB on file sizes, and download links that expire after a week. For power users, Pando offers three other premium services that let users transfer much larger files and do it at faster … Read more

Category: Community

Me.dium shows you who else is on the site you're visiting. It also shows you where your friends are hanging out online. And it shows you where people go to from the site you are on at any moment. You can chat with people who are on the site you're on, too. It's one-part social network, and one-part social bookmarking. Users who have signed on to the service and have it installed on their browser can share their activity with others and toggle the service on and off whenever they feel like going "… Read more

Category: Community

House pets can now join the social networking scene, assuming their owners feel like making profiles for them. Dog and cat owners can join one of these two social networking sites, and show off their canine and feline companions to the world. Each pet gets its own profile, complete with photo galleries, a blog, and compatibility with third-party widgets, just like you'd find on most social networks for humans.

In addition to profiles, owners can also use Dogster and Catster as a way to meet and interact with other owners. Users can find local owners of the … Read more

Category: Community

LinkedIn provides a way for people to keep track of connections, both business and personal. Users can build out their own network, and use it as a reference to see how people are connected to one another. More importantly it's a great way to see friends of friends, and get leads on jobs. While there are quite a few job-hunting sites out there, LinkedIn is one of the few that's part social network too. You can keep track of where your friends are working, sort them based on field or location, and even ask about a … Read more

Category: Community

Friendster is an incredibly popular social network, and also one of the most talked-about in the Web community. Friendster was one of the first sites to offer user profiles and the capability to network with others. This very functionality led to a patent by the United States Patent office that has been the subject of some criticism both about patents in general and their effect on Web services.

Friendster turned down a bid by Google to buy the service in 2003, which is right around the time when the site grew too large and popular for its servers … Read more

Category: Community

Digg is a user-driven site that employs social democracy to bring new and upcoming stories to its front page. Users can submit their own links, be they stories, videos, or podcasts. Any registered user can then vote on the story by "Digging" it. When stories get enough Diggs, they make the front page, where they receive a considerable amount of eyeballs.

Since launching in 2004, the site has gone on to become immensely popular and is currently in its third iteration. Digg has created several ways to integrate story submission and user voting to third-party sites, … Read more

Category: Community

Facebook is a popular social networking service. Originally offered to college students, the service has since opened up its doors to anyone with an e-mail address. Facebook gives users a place to make and explore personal profiles and interact with friends. While offerings were initially limited to a comment board called "The Wall" and a personal picture, the site has now built several in-house services like photo hosting, interest groups, status messages, link sharing, a personal blog, and the news feed.

The news feed is the integral part of the service. It records user actions, and … Read more