How to be popular in social networks

by Mike Yamamoto

In this age of wikis, tags, blogs and the like, it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with the latest applications. So this site tries to simplify some things by listing some practical technologies that can be used for sharing and collaborating online in the expanding universe of social networking.

The best part of this page is its organization, which is broken into just two categories titled "I want to" and "Then use this."

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