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I want to find other people interested in (insert subject here).
The Web is a great place to find your community. Here are some sites to help you:- Ten Social Networking Sites: One of the primary concepts underpinning the Web 2.0 movement has to be that of community: sharing content and ideas with others on the greater Web. Social community sites on the Web offer the searcher anything from shopping to fitness. Here are ten new community Web sites that you might not know about yet, but should.
- Top 12 Free Online Dating Sites: Whether you're looking for romance or just a new friend, you can find both with my picks for the best free online dating sites on the Web.
- How to Find Message Boards: There are a huge variety of message board and forum communities to choose from on the Web, and you're sure to find a group that shares your interests.
- Top 10 Social Bookmark Sites: What are social bookmarking sites? Basically, these are sites that allow users to post their favorite sites, using tags (or keywords) to categorize and organize them; then other users can take these bookmarks and add them to their own collection or share them with even more users.
- Blog Search Engines: Blog search engines have become more and more sophisticated, and nowadays you can do a blog search on a variety of topics and hit paydirt.
- MySpace Questions Answered: Want to get some of your MySpace questions answered, as in why people use MySpace, what MySpace is good for, how to make the most of MySpace, and more? Read this article.
- How to Use del.icio.us: del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Help me buy something on the Web!
I find my best deals on the Web - here are the sites that I use:- PayPal: PayPal is one of the most useful sites on the Web today. Basically, it's a secure e-commerce site that allows buyers and sellers to conduct business on the Web, safely, securely, and with a minimum of fuss.
- Online Shopping Guide: Online shopping is something I enjoy immensely, since I don't have to get dressed up and get out of the house, and I can do it at 3 AM if I want to. This article about online shopping is in three parts: Shopping Search Engines, Comparison Shopping Search Engines and Online Auctions.
- Find Something You Need At Craigslist: Craigslist is one of my absolute favorite sites on the web for finding something I need and selling something I don't.
What are the best informational/news/reference sites?
There are a LOT to choose from. Here are the ones I use most often:- Find an Archive on the Web: Are you trying to find information about a historical event? Looking for online archives for news, music, popular culture, or movie information? I've put together a good, basic list of online archives for you, with everything from the National Archives to Papyrus Archives (ancient Egyptian hieroglypics!) to Simpsons Archives.
- Online Newspapers: You don’t have to go to the corner anymore in your bathrobe, or look for spare change under the couch cushions to get your daily news. Now, you can access your local daily newspaper by just a click of the mouse.
- Top Ten Ways to Search for News on the Web: Keeping up with the daily news on the Web is a snap. Here are the top ten ways you can search the Web for the daily news.
- The Best Reference Sites: Whether you're looking for the average rainfall in the Amazon rainforest, researching Roman history, or just having fun learning to find information, you'll get some great help using my list of the best research and reference sites on the Web.
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