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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of 8 April 2010 (2010 -04-08), LinkedIn had more than 65 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. LinkedIn's CEO is Jeff Weiner, previously a Yahoo! Inc. executive. The company was founded by Reid Hoffman and fou...

Top 20 Social Media Sites

Base on ComScore traffic stats for November 2008, ComScore keeps a list of what it calls “social networking” sites, but these include blogging platforms and other social media sites as well. While the audience for blogs is still showing healthy growth overall, Facebook stands out as the social gorilla taking share from not only other social networks but blogs and other social media as well. Blogger (222 million) Facebook (200 million) MySpace (126 million) Wordpress (114 million) Win...

Mixx

Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools. Users of Mixx can control a personalized blend of web content that includes text-based articles, images and videos. Mixx users can search and discover media relevant to their interests, and interact with friends and other Mixx users who share their common in...

ShareThis

ShareThis provides a widget for easily sharing content found online with others through social networks, social news sites, and other online services. Users can also email content to friends with the widget. The first version of the widget was launched in November 2007. The latest was launched in March 2008 and features tracking and usage reports for web publishers. From sharethis website ShareThis believes that sharing should be for everyone. It is becoming increasingly difficult to...

LeapFish

LeapFish is a multi-dimensional search aggregator that retrieves results from several of the top search portals, including Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Blogs, Videos, Shopping and other popular search engines. It is a registered trademark of Dotnext Inc.. The search engines obtains its notability by how they display their results. Unlike Dogpile, LeapFish does not combine and reorder search results. It allows the user to set what and who they want to obtain results from. In addition, it displ...