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Games
- AOL Games - Offers online and
downloadable games including card and board, puzzles, word games, and
classic arcade. Also provides cash-play and a community.
- eX-treme Play - Gaming Zone
- Offers online action, adventure, shooter, puzzle, and sports games.
- King.com - Community offering
online (flash based) skill games including card, word, puzzle, sport
and arcade games. Also offers gambling (Bingo) games. Play for free or
for cash.
Message Boards
- Adobe
Village - A general discussion forum with a variety of content.
- AfterHours
Forum - Both intelligent and irreverent discussions on a variety
of subjects.
- Alien Soup - Diverse
forum community. Get help with games, chat, laugh, gripe and debate.
- All Forums Network - Topics
incluce current events, sports, humor, and technology.
- AllTopix - Provides online forums
and a chat room. Also hosts the official Jacob Smith chat
- AnswerPool.com - Browse
message boards on many topics and consult over one-thousand members
who are ready to answer burning questions.
- AtForumz - General interest
message boards, with a specific focus on entertainment, music, and
political debate.
- Banned From Life Forums - Chat
about everything and nothing in particular on topics such as arts,
news and computers.
- BBC Messageboards
- Communicate your views nationally and locally through BBCi message
boards with hundreds of topics to choose from including music,
entertainment and science.
- Big Boards - Directory
tracking the largest message boards and forums on the web.
- Blah Forums - Topics range from
computers & Internet, sports, current events, politics and jokes.
Friendly community.
- The Cellar - Topics include
politics, current events, technology, entertainment.
- Chatbites -
International forum where people are invited to voice their opinions
on any subject. Users may post poems and pictures, or participate in
political and religious discussions.
- The Conversation Cafe
- A general forum for intelligent discussion, hot debates, creative
writing, support forums or fun and games.
- 2 Dark Park - Forum topics
include general chat, games, pictures, polls, society and politics.
User journals, links and propaganda.
- Dead End Society - An open
minded, edgy, artistic community for adults.
- Discuss Anything -
Off-Topic message board with subforums dedicated to society, debate,
news, arts or spirituality.
- Ebs:Live - Chit chat community
centered around its forums, also featuring journals, gallery and
arcade.
- The End of the Internet - TEOTI
is a content forum community with peer review and comment
capabilities. Registered users submit content that is subject to a
scoring system by other users.
- Eternal Allegiance
- Forum including a wide range of topics such as music, sports, art,
life and relationships.
- Flashback Underground
Forum - Underground discussion forum.
- Forum Garden - A general
forum to discuss news, politics, arts or religion. Also includes
regional forums.
- ForumClick - Discussion
forum for politics, media, conspiracy theories, editorials. Includes
lighter topics such as humor and sports.
- Forums at Treweeke.com -
General chat forum with emphasis on IT topics such as hardware,
software, internet, multimedia, security, technical and general news.
- Forums HQ - Multi-topic forum
including general chat, jokes, sports, cars, bikes, computing,
graphics, music, movies and life issues.
- Frappy Doo - Discussion
forums covering sports, entertainment, relationships, computers, and
money matters.
- Frost Jedi -
A board for the bored, or for the curious, the artists, the debaters,
and the gamers. Includes a roleplaying section.
- Gazm.org - Eclectic individuals
share their intellectually stimulating ideas, creativity, opinions and
wit.
- The Geek Forum - General
chat with sub-boards for computers and technology, politics, and
celebrities.
- Gia's Place -
General discussion at the wicked lair with topics including game
threads, life, opinions, entertainment and romanace.[Membership by
review.]
- 3GNmedia - Discussions on
music, mixing, movies, games and lifestyles.
- Hip Forums - Free
speech forums including music, sex, politics, news, poetry, marijuana,
psychedelics, gay, health, fashion, crafts, hippies, free classifieds
and personals.
- INReview - General discussion
forum featuring sub-boards of recent newsworthy topics from world
issues to entertainment.
- IWeThey
Forum - Over 40 sub-boards devoted to topics such as general
discussion, current events, humor, jobs, religion, politics, science,
money, sports, entertainment and computers and technology.
- Just Us - Just
nosiness, rants, fun and games.
- Live Love Chat -
General discussions about life, relationships, movies, music.
- Living With Style - A
general discussion forum with topics including video games, cars,
anime, sex, computer and technology, personal issues, drugs.
- The Mantel - A
Virtual Water Cooler - Diverse selection of topics including
relationships, gardening, philosophy, fitness and technical issues.
- Media Blvd - A safe
community to discuss television, movies, celebrities, and hobbies.
- Nightly.net
Message Board - Topics include TV, movies, science and technology,
Star Wars, and video games.
- NZ Boards - Off-topic
community, with specific areas dedicated to discussing lifestyle and
entertainment.
- OffTopic.com - General
interest message boards with discussion covering a very broad range of
everyday topics.
- Pathfinder
- Boards related to magazines published by Time Inc.
- Postfarm.net - General chat
forum featuring both a serious discussion area and a section with a
more laid back atmosphere.
- Rant N Rave - Uncensored
posts on current events and personal rants.
- Reality-Check - An
online discussion forum that offers people a place on the web to
entertain themselves and speak their mind. We welcome users from all
over the globe.
- The Red Scare - Web
based forum with arcade.
- RuNaked - Laugh about
life and forget the serious things for a while. Discussion includes
topics such as politics, sports, humor, food, computers and
technology, music, games and movies.
- Salon Table Talk - Topics
include books, work life, imagination, home and garden, music, movies,
private life, the Whitehouse and writing.
- Stress Bank Forum - Discuss
life, deposit stress, and have fun. Share passions, pain and pet
peeves. Find humor, play games and laugh. Submit creative writing and
art, or get help, support, and advice.
- Talk About Network -
A family of websites on a variety of topics including topics such as
pets, photography, pro football, programming, recovery, religion,
romance, and satellite TV.
- TFYATDT.com
- Message boards for venting anger and annoyance about a variety of
topics.
- TheSite.org - Advice and
information sharing community for young people.
- Tilted Forum
Project - An evolving community of thousands of mature adults.
Discussion of sexuality, politics, interests, art, and photography.
- Total
Nonsense Forums - Covering computer topics, arts and entertainment
and website reviews.
- Total Twaddle -
Friendly, general chat forum with member map, calendar and board
statistics. Includes sub-boards for freebies, pictures and blogs.
- Urban75 Forums -
Message board with discussions covering urban issues such as politics,
entertainment, drugs, sports and the media in large cities around the
world.
- Websavey.com - Off topic
message board available to everyone which includes a photo gallery,
email, and private messages.
- The Wind - General
discussion board where all subjects are welcome.
Online Communities
- AsianXO.com - Provides free
news, profiles, e-mail, homepage, chat, and forums.
- Buzznet - Users can create
communities and share blogs and photographs.
- Communities.com - Provides
chat rooms, communities, forums, instant messaging, detailed photo
profiles, photo galleries, and photo ratings. Search members by age,
sex, location, and interests.
- The Cult - A worldwide organization
of mostly high school and college students - a unique collection of
ideas and services.
- Dacity.com - Provides members a
free message board on many subjects, free chat services, free
homepages and free online games.
- Facemeet: - Worldwide
chatrooms, swap photos, rate and message each other. Free sign up and
membership.
- Flamingcube - Offer image
gallery hosting, webmail, albums, polls, and forums.
- Flork - Worldwide community of
interesting people. Find new friends easily by 'florking around.'
- Forums for Everything - PC
help, home repair, automotive and others.
- Found Myself - Provides a
forum for artwork, hobbies, and opinions. Has chat rooms, message
boards, games, contests, an online drawing program, and image gallery.
- Kancof: Greatness Among Nations
- From philosophy to world news to politics to religion to sports to
fitness to weapons.
- The Lost
Diner - Focused on the abandoned, forgotten, mysterious, and
unexplained. Has forums, chat rooms, and message board. Share stories,
photos, maps, conversation, links, and ideas.
- Meefo.com - Meefo is a place where
anyone is accepted. Features news, reviews, gallery, chat and random
banter.
- MyNeti.com: Next Online Community
- Personals, forums, chat, and shopping. Has message boards listed by
subject.
- NowTalking - Read and write
diaries, send mail to other members, and exchange messages in
guestbooks.
- Online Node - A community
aiming for multiculturalism by providing members with webpages,
guestbooks, journals, chatrooms, message boards, private messaging and
games.
- OpenGaia - Browse through
profiles, personals, shared interests, experiences and ideas, polls,
creations, job search. Participate, share, meet people.
- The Pork - Members can access
chat rooms, discussion boards, personals, and instant messaging.
- Rogues Tavern Online Community
- Online community of international rogues, scoundrels and rascals.
Offering chat, message board, graffiti and a scrapbook.
- Sciforums - Forum
discussions cover world events, science, religion, philosophy, and
technology.
- Spammers Paradise -
General discussion. Has forum, store, calendar, and member directory.
- The Spoke - Microsoft's
digital lifestyle club for students from around the world, with
message boards, hubs, blogs and 10 MB of upload space for members.
- Talk City - Participate in
discussions about relationships, hobbies, business, technology, health
and other topics. Socialize with friends, or start your own chat
group.
- TalkTrix - Described as a fun
place where you can meet other people and talk about anything you
want.
- Twitter - Social networking and
microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web
interface.
- Wanderlist -
User-contributed, user-evaluated lists of notes including lots of
links.
- Whyville - A virtual 3-D
world for curious minds where you can own land, build your own house,
play simulation games, win prizes, chat, and help the community grow.
- WireClub - Personal and group
blogs tied in with many other social networking features. Geared to
meeting people through shared interests. Free site.
- YouThink.com - Ask questions,
and discuss jokes, movies and trivia.
- BusinessWeek:
Internet Communities - Surfers are losing interest on website
content and want now to settle in online communities. (May 5, 1997)
Podcasts
Syndication and Feeds
- FeedTree - Collaborative RSS
and Atom delivery using using peer-to-peer multicast. Includes
information for readers and publishers.
- GeoRSS - Provides details of how to
add geographic data to RSS and Atom feeds using Geography Markup
Language (GML) or the simplified GeoRSS standards.
- Wikipedia: Web Feed
- Encyclopedia article on the topic, including benfits, technical
definition, and basic information on how to read feeds.
- Yahoo Pipes - An interactive
feed aggregator and manipulator. List of 'hot pipes' to subscribe to,
and ability to create your own (yahoo account required).
- What
is this RSS, XML, RDF, and Atom Business? - Article from the
eNewsletter Journal, including consideration of the likely impact on
the online newsletter business. (August 9, 2006)
- What
is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication? - Introduction to syndication from
the blog of Dave Shea. (May 19, 2004)
Syndication - Atom
Syndication - RSS Feeds
- CaRP: Caching RSS Parser
- Free PHP script to integrate RSS newsfeeds into webpages. Features
flexible formatting, caching for speed, and includes proxy server
support.
- Dave Winer's RSS
Weblog - Weblog that covers new developments in the field of RSS.
- MagpieRSS - A XML-based
RSS parser in PHP. Supports most RSS versions including Userland RSS
and RSS 1.0. Supports modules, and namespaces.
- Network World Fusion's
Do-It-Yourself RSS Feed - Instructions for creating RSS feeds on
any topic covered by Network World and Network World Fusion.
- RDF Rich Site
Summary (RSS) - News and history of RSS. By Robin Cover, XML Cover
Pages, OASIS.
- RSS 2 PDF - An online utility that
can convert RSS feeds into PDF files.
- RSS Compendium - News, resources,
tools and links.
- RSS DevCenter - A
collection of essays and guides to RSS, from O'Reilly, the technical
book publisher.
- RSS in Government - News about
how RSS is being used by international, federal, state, and local
governments.
- RSS Specifications
- Information related to RSS and XML, including software, newsreaders,
specifications, content syndication, and the history of rss.
- RSS Suite - Four separate RSS/Atom
online tools including a browser-based feed reader, an email-to-RSS
service and a submission service.
- The RSS Weblog - A blog
that covers all things RSS. Updated multiple times a day.
- RSS4Medics - An explanation
of how RSS can be used in medical research. Includes a directory of
medical RSS feeds.
- W3C RSS 1.0
News Feed Creation How-To - Guide offers a simple way of creating
RSS 1.0 news feeds from one's W3C related domain, activity or working
group home page.
- Web
Reference: RSS - A collection of RSS resources by Web Reference.
- XML Tools:
RSSApplet - This site contains XML tools for web masters, for
instance the RSSViewerApplet for displaying RSS headlines in an HTML
page.
- Yahoo! Publisher's
Guide to RSS - Provides a five-step process to support effective
RSS publishing on the Web.
- zShaped and zFeeder -
zShaped is a tool to post (syndicate) news (content) on your site.
zFeeder is a tool to show other's RSS content on your site, or
use it on your PC or intranet as a news reader.
- What
is RSS? - A how to covering all the various versions of RSS.
(December 18, 2002)
- The
WebReference/internet.com Multi-Feed RSS Sidebar Tab (1/6) - An
in-depth look at the WebReference/internet.com multi-feed RSS sidebar
tab; a combined Perl, XHTML, and JavaScript application. (May 17,
2002)
- LLRX.com
- RSS for Non-Techie Librarians - Steven M. Cohen explains RSS
with illustrated examples. (2002)
- RSS:
Lightweight Web Syndication - RSS, a simple XML application to
describe web site headlines, has had such enormous success that it has
been pulled in many directions. By Rael Dornfest, XML.com. (July 17,
2000)
- Registering and
Publishing with RSS - Explains how to register your RSS file with
one of the news syndication sites (July 3, 2000)
Web Applications
- Application Rental Guide - A
searchable directory of web-based apps and application service
providers (ASP) arranged by price, reviews, ratings, and hits.
- ASP
Greeting Card Starter Kit - Web developer software to add
professional greeting cards with pictures and music to your ASP
website. One hundred percent open source and customizable.
- ASP-Directory
- A searchable directory of Application Service Providers and hosted
business applications. ASP-Directory provides a comprehensive listing
of industry leading hosted software solutions.
- Checkbook Register Online
- A free program to manage, balance, and update one's checkbook
online.
- How Stuff Works:
Application Service Providers - Explanation of what an application
service provider is. Includes current examples and a guide on how to
select an ASP.
- Link Leecher - A free
online utility designed to grab and validate all the links from a web
page.
- Object Workshop -
Sanity is a software tool to design and depict relational database
structures using the entity-relationship diagramming notation.
- ReportsTrader.com -
Application Service Provider that develops and hosts online
interactive reports that can be viewed over the internet and exported
to PDF, Excel, CSV, and other formats.
- Zoho - Offers a suite of online
web applications geared towards increasing productivity and easy
collaboration. Office tools include a word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation tool, hosted wiki, notebook, mail, and CRM.
- Slashdot
| Articles | Applications Service Providers May Change Your Life -
Discussion of Jim Seymour's article. (November 8, 1999)
- Applications
for Rent - Suite101.com - A new breed of intermediaries, the
Application Service Providers, is redefining the IT landscape.
(November 1, 1999)
- Application
service providers: An old idea made new - The introduction of
outsourced Web-based shared resource business applications has
returned us to the bygone days of service bureaus and time-sharing.
(August 23, 1999)
- Application
Service Providers and e-business - John Morency of Network World
Fusion talks about the rapid growth and increasing potential of ASPs.
(May 7, 1999)
Web Portals
- My Netscape - Customizable
homepage with information allowing access to stock quotes, sports
scores, news, and weather.
- Yahoo! - Personalized content
and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
- All Site Cafe - Internet,
Hollywood, fun stuff and the Titanic.
- AOL - America On Line's portal,
offering search, shopping, channels, chat and mail.
- Beast Lair - Fun portal which
offers search and email, polls, tests, games, jokes and desktop
wallpaper.
- BrightPortal.com - A
collaboration and information portal. Includes message boards.
- Buzzle.com: Intelligent Life on the
Web - Features its own directory, free e-mail, message boards,
news, articles and short stories online. Provides information on
health, travel, science, technology and lifestyles.
- The Cannylink Internet Guide
- Offers a web directory, search, classifieds, stock reports, weather,
debt management, chat rooms and free email.
- Citibay - Portal offering a
parallel search starting with Google. Guide to US cities, news, travel
guide, e-greetings cards and email.
- CurryGuide - Global
metasearch engine and Web portal. News, weather, horoscope, shopping,
kids search, mp3, music, children, weather forecast, books.
- First Productions -
Features search, news, stocks, weather, recipes, comics, and
horoscopes. Offers free e-mail.
- Go - A searchable directory, news,
stocks, sports and free e-mail.
- G-Portal - News, stocks, weather
and links.
- Home-Page.com - Provides one
click access to popular sites in the personal, small business and
webmaster categories.
- JM Links - A mini-directory to
selected web links arranged by subjects: arts, business, education,
food & dining, government, health, home design, sports, travel,
society and culture.
- LavaCubed.com - Form access
to simple search on several engines one at a time, iSyndicate news.
Free e-mail, URL redirection, and chat.
- Lycos - North American portal
with email, YellowPages, heavily integrated search engine, personal
settings and weather.
- Main Portals - Listing of
portals by subject and country. Israel AI meta search of 30 engines.
- Maujmasti - Message boards,
horoscope, collection of quotations, greetings, photo album and live
chat.
- MaximumEdge.com - Internet
starting point featuring a metasearch engine, news, e-mail, weather,
stock quotes, comics, radio, and movies.
- MrEverything - Web portal
with search, directory using the ODP, real estate, shopping, news,
finance, stock quotes, recipes, indoor air quality information,
travel.
- MSN.com - Microsoft's newly
renamed portal entry. Features personalization, channels of content
sites like Carpoint, and integration with Hotmail e-mail.
- Nevaranta - This is the
portal for street-culture, politics, and art in general. From music to
movies, cartoons, and games. To fashion, teen matters and politics.
- nPorta - Web portal personal
information resource, web logs, and content provider in wireless
communication and technology for corporate and private users.
- PortalPlanet - Offers
free e-mail, news, customizable front page and links. Also available
for company branding.
- PrimeTap.com - Features search
engine, directory, online magazine, research resources, free stuff,
shopping, games and news.
- Quick Net Guide - Web
portal where users control the content. A searchable directory of
thousands of user-submitted websites, chat, news, jokes, and this day
database.
- Sasmail.net - Free email,
links, webmaster resources, and shopping portal.
- The Search Beat -
Directory that organizes the web by theme pages.
- Search Caddy - Meta search
engine, directory, stock quotes, weather, and yellow pages.
- Searchalot.com - Portal with
email, news headlines, weather, personals and greetings. Search with
drop-down selection of search engines; directory from the Open
Directory.
- SearchtheWeb.com - The
ultimate web search service providing access to weather, search,
shopping, stocks, and games.
- Sheilsoft Computer Systems -
Portal with wallpapers and web resource.
- Spinfinder - Free email,
chat and shopping.
- Start Web Page - Fast
access to major search engines, free email, stock quotes, shopping
coupons, news, weather.
- Surfing Sam - Sam's mission-
To make the Internet a more personal and enjoyable experience. A free
personal website with links and a quality search utility.
- Swirve.com - Offers horoscopes,
games, ecards and movie reviews.
- TheAllINeed.com - Portal
with news, free email, web directory, freeware downloads, user's
forum, greeting cards, online games and content articles on business,
home, family, kitchen, entertainment...
- TooLittleTime Start
Page - Links; search the top nine search engines at once. Guide
and tools for building a free web page.
- Total Surfer - Website
reviews on topics of culture, family, introspection, psychology,
recovery, spirituality and wellbeing. Ideal for counsellors and any
concerned individual.
- Voila - European portal, with
localized search and content solutions spanning many languages and
countries. Enables you to search "the best of" the American
content.
- Wapda - Offers recent news
articles, newgroups, free 10 MB email account, domain registration,
games, and an online chat.
- Web Portal, Inc. - Nice
searchable small general directory.
- Web-a-dex - Internet start
page that includes voice chat, language translator, universal search,
music, and news.
- WebPlaces.com - A
comprehensive guide to the Internet, including indexes, directories,
meta-search engines, FTP, chat (IRC), usenet (newsgroups), and
specialized directories.
- Wee Universe - Web portal
includes reference, news, entertainment, trivia and helpful
information.
- WhereToGoOnline.com -
An adventurous tour through the internet. Lots of hidden jems of the
web listed in an easy to use interface.
- World Knowledge Database -
Newsfeed with a directory of links.
- WorldHot.com - Provides portal
to categorized list of top 100 websites covering a variety of topics.
- ZenSearch - Collection of
shopping sites, articles, forums, music history, news headlines.
Web Rings
Web Cams
- ASN Webcam - NetCam is a
standalone remote digital camera system designed to stream high
quality live color images to an Internet web server without the need
for a PC.
- Cam Cruiser - Slide show
of images from webcams around the world.
- eSensual Studios -
Webcam hardware reviews and tutorial.
- How Stuff Works:
Webcams - How to set up a webcam and add images from it to a
website.
- Over Now: How To Set
Up Your Own Webcam - A straightforward tutorial. Includes a Java
applet to install.
- Tauranga City Webcams
- Live images of the Mount Maunganui main beach, the Cinema8 foyer,
Bayfair Shopping Mall and Harrington House.
- WebcaManiac - Tools for
videoconference, software and community reviews, member profiles,
message board, videochat, netmeeting area.
- WebCam.com - Webcam directory,
store, articles about running webcams, and message board.
Weblogs
- Blog Board Forum -
Forum for bloggers on the latest news and views from the Blogosphere.
- Blog Community
- Weblogs are fast-moving frequently-updated sites with links to
stories and weblog communities. Email list.
- Blog Party - A
community of bloggers discussing blog design, coding, promotion,
search engine optimization and new and better ways to get your weblog
seen.
- Blogger Talk Forum - A
community website for people interested in blogs.
- BloggerDev -
For discussion of the Blogger API.
- Blogging
Community - Group created for bloggers (web log users and variants
of these personal publishing formats) for social discussions related
to personal publishing, tech. advice, and current events.
- Google:
Bloggers Collective - Google Group for bloggers.
- Pimp My Blog - Discussion
of blog design and publishing tools.
- Swabbers -
Social webloggers around the San Francisco Bay area.
- True Blogging Forum -
Talk to other bloggers about blogging, blog promotion, monetization
and development.
- Weblogs
Reborn - Offers a place for webloggers to congregate and discuss.
Weblogs - Directories
- The Ageless Project - Web
logs by birthdate. Includes screenshots of the front page of each blog
listed.
- Alliance Of The
Anonymous - Lists members who have posted the organization logo on
their blog.
- Big Blog Media -
Containing articles and reviews.
- Bigger Blogger - Free
listings, sorted by category.
- Blog Announce - Free-for-all
links listing for sites, organized by category.
- Blog Catalog - Sites are
listed by category and can also be searched. Five are selected as top
weblogs, along with a spotlight weblog.
- Blog Dirs - Human edited
weblog directory. Sites from all languagues welcome.
- Blog Flux Directory - Based
on tagging with related weblogs.
- Blog Hot or Not - View
random weblogs and rate them from 1 to 10.
- Blog Point - Categorized by
topics.
- Blog Ratings - Allows
users to post and read ratings and reviews of sites organized by
topic. Part of the Ratingz network.
- Blog Search Engine -
Search engine and directory listings of weblogs and tools.
- Blog Toplist - Categorized
and sorted by popularity.
- Blog Universe - Directory
of weblogs as submitted and categorized by the site owners. Weblog,
podcast, and video log directory.
- Blog Watch - Categorized
directory with latest post excerpts.
- Blogadr - Free listings, with
no link back required. Human-edited directory of personal and
corporate blogs.
- Blogarama - Lists weblogs by
category. Users are invited to post reviews.
- BlogBunch - Topical
listings.
- BlogCharts - Find weblogs
by popularity or rating.
- Blogchild - Human-edited
directory.
- BlogDir - Free blog
directory, with no link back required. Human edited personal and
company weblog dire
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