Communities

Big part of Blogcatalog and also a place where I know you will get some recognition.

It is to your benefit to get yourself a user name onto quite a few if not all of these services. As I mentioned before it helps you get known around the other networks without having to use them until you want to.

Personally I think that there is quite a few more to add to the list but I am sure they will come soon. The main one I would like to see is Blogsrecord as that is my blog directory and growing fast. Of course with blogcatalogs help it would grow a lot faster :).
So go through the list and spend some time adding yourself to the sites. Then add your user name to your Blogcatalog communities area. You don’t have to do all of them now, spread it out over a week or so. But the main thing is to try to use the SAME user name and avatar on the sites.

AI

AIM Instant Messaging
Instant messaging service, providing you with an instant messaging service for contacting friends and family. If your a member of aol though try not to use your email user name as you could end up getting some spam into your email box. Just your user name is need for this one.
Amazon Wishlist

Amazon Wishlist
With Earth’s Biggest Selection, Amazon.com has everything you could possibly ask for–so ask for it! It’s easy to create a list of what you’re hoping for: as you shop, click the “Add to Wish List” button on the page of any item that strikes your fancy. Make the list publicly searchable (or easily send it to friends and family) and presto–you’re simple to shop for.For this one you need the email address that you used to sign up to the service.


BUMPzee

Bumpzee
Connect with people with similar interests.
When you join a community, you are fed with an ever-updating list of blogs and blog posts submitted and chosen by like-minded individuals. Blogs are approved into a community by a community manager and their posts are pulled in automatically. Community members ‘bump’ the great posts so you can read everything as well as see what others think are the best ones.
If you have a blog, you can tap into a group of people who will visit your blog every day, or at least every time you post. You get great visibility on BUMPzee because the communities are small and focused.
User name is needed for this one.








del.icio.us
del.icio.us/
all your bookmarks in one place
bookmark things for yourself and friends
check out what other people are bookmarking
Great place to get noticed and should be a regular thing like stumbleupon to build up your profile
User name is needed for this one



Digg
Digg
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.
User name is needed for this one.


Facebook

Facebook
* Keep up with friends and family
* Share photos and videos
* Control privacy online
* Reconnect with old classmates
* Discuss interests and hobbies
* Plan parties and other events
Slightly different way of doing this one, you need to sign up then go to Status Stories then click My Status in the bottom of the right-hand side. Then add the URL you find there.






Flickr

Flickr
Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:
1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
Maybe they want to keep a blog of moments captured on their cameraphone, or maybe they want to show off their best pictures to the whole world in a bid for web celebrity. Or maybe they want to securely and privately share photos of their kids with their family across the country. Flickr makes all these things possible and more!
To do this, we want to get photos into and out of the system in as many ways as we can: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users’ home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their photos. And we want to be able to push them out in as many ways as possible: on the Flickr website, in RSS feeds, by email, by posting to outside blogs or ways we haven’t thought of yet. What else are we going to use those smart refrigerators for?
Flickr is the WD-40 that makes it easy to get photos from one person to another in whatever way they want.
2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos.
Once you make the switch to digital, it is all too easy to get overwhelmed with the sheer number of photos you take with that itchy trigger finger. Albums, the principal way people go about organizing photos today, are great — until you get to 20 or 30 or 50 of them. They worked in the days of getting rolls of film developed, but the “album” metaphor is in desperate need of a Florida condo and full retirement.
Part of the solution is to make the process of organizing photos collaborative. In Flickr, you can give your friends, family, and other contacts permission to organize your photos - not just to add comments, but also notes and tags. People like to ooh and ah, laugh and cry, make wisecracks when sharing photos. Why not give them the ability to do this when they look at them over the internet? And as all this info accretes around the photos as metadata, you can find them so much easier later on, since all this info is also searchable.
You need to add your Flickr URL for this one







Furl

Furl
Folks who use blogs know that they can accomplish similar things to Furl using blogging tools (especially with some customization). But just because something is possible, that doesn’t make it the right solution to the problem. Blogs are an amazing breakthrough for personal, digital publishing. If you have something original/insightful to say, blogs are your voice. On the flip side, Furl is focused on the consumption of digital media (including blogs). Many of us read hundreds of articles and other items online that influence our thinking (or are just amusing). Furl is our memory. Although Furl has some features that overlap with blogging tools, blogs and Furl approach Internet content in a fundamentally different way. Blogs focus on the content you create (which often contains links) while Furl focuses on the content you consume (i.e. what the links point to). This is why Furl offers powerful features such as archiving and full-text search, which apply to the linked page but don’t make as much sense in the blog space.
We believe that serious bloggers will be some of the biggest users of Furl. If you consume a lot of information through the Internet (as most bloggers do), you need a way to “remember” (i.e. save and recall) what you read, especially the most influential items. If you publish content in a blog, you already understand the power of sharing your thoughts with the public. Furl provides a turnkey solution to both of these needs, allowing bloggers to focus on publishing new content while saving and sharing their “latest reading” with their community at large.
You need to add your user name for this one.

iLike

ilike
Like is the Web’s leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on Facebook Platform®, Bebo, and Hi5. With over 20 million registered users, iLike helps consumers discover and share playlists, new music, and concerts that match their tastes. The iLike Sidebar for iTunes recommends new music, creates automatic playlists, and connects people through music. iLike’s Artist Service Platform is a suite of services to help artists build viral fan communities
You need to add your user name for this one



Jaiku

Jaiku
aiku’s main goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to share their activity streams. An activity stream is a log of everyday things as they happen: your status messages, recommendations, events you’re attending, photos you’ve taken - anything you post directly to Jaiku or add using Web feeds. We offer a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing your activities with them on the Web, IM, and SMS - as well as through a slew of cool third-party applications built by other developers using our API.
You need to add your user name for this one.


Last.fm

Last.fm

Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler music engine. More than ten million times a day, Last.fm users “scrobble” their tracks to our servers, helping to collectively build the world’s largest social music platform.
Last.fm taps the wisdom of the crowds, leveraging each user’s musical profile to make personalised recommendations, connect users who share similar tastes, provide custom radio streams, and much more.
Founded by Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel and Richard Jones, we are a London-based company with a music-obsessed team of developers and creative professionals from around the world.
It’s never been this easy to share your taste and discover new music. Welcome to the social music revolution.
You need to add your user name for this one.


LinkedIn

Linkedin
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 19 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.
When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.
Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.
Through your network you can:
* Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended
* Be found for business opportunities
* Search for great jobs
* Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
* Post and distribute job listings
* Find high-quality passive candidates
* Get introduced to other professionals through the people you know
You need to add your user name for this one


Ma.gnolia

ma.gnolia.com
At Ma.gnolia, members save websites as bookmarks, just like in their browser. Except with a twist: they also “tag” them, assigning labels that make them easy to find again. So when you search for something, you use words that people choose and look only at websites that people think are worth saving. Suddenly you have access to a human-organized bookmark collection that numbers in the millions, but is as easy to use as a search engine.
You need your user name for this one



Multiply

multiply.com
Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your “social network,” and also be alerted whenever they have something new.
You need your user name for this one.



MyBlogLog

mybloglog.com
MyBlogLog provides blogging-enthusiasts a forum to connect with their readers and the wider blogging community. You do not need to be logged-in to Yahoo! in order to take advantage of the many features that MyBlogLog and MyBlogLog-enabled sites have to offer, however, certain areas of the MyBlogLog site will require you be logged-in to Yahoo!.
You need your user name for this one







MySpace

Myspace
MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends’ friends.
Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends!
See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from Kevin Bacon.
MySpace is for everyone:
* Friends who want to talk Online
* Single people who want to meet other Singles
* Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends
* Families who want to keep in touch–map your Family Tree
* Business people and co-workers interested in networking
* Classmates and study partners
* Anyone looking for long lost friends!
You need to add your myspace blog for this one.


Pandora

Pandora
With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart’s content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.
You need your user name for this one.
Pownce

Pownce
What’s Pownce?
Pownce is a way to keep in touch with and share stuff with your friends. Send people files, links, events, and messages and then have real conversations with the recipients.
Pownce is brought to you by a bunch of geeks who were frustrated trying to send stuff from one cube to another.
You need your user name for this one.




Reddit

Reddit
Never reddit before? Here’s how:
reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you’ll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit is submitted and voted on by users like you.
You need your user name for this one.








SmugMug

SmugMug
Safe and Sound.
SmugMug keeps 4 backup copies of each photo in 3 states. Retrieve them anytime.
Secure your family’s privacy with your own secret SmugIsland.
Unlimited Storage.
No media intrusions at SmugMug
Your friends will thank you
They’ll see your photos without registering, and without spam.
White glove support
Real people who respond to every email every day.
We fuss over more than 315,000 mostly fanatical, paying customers.
You need your user name for this one.


Sphin

Sphinn
What’s Sphinn?
Sphinn is a social site for search and interactive marketers. It’s designed to allow you to share and discover news stories, read and take part in discussions, discover events of interest and network with others. Here’s a summary of how to get started:
* Read News & Discussions: The Hot Topics area of Sphinn is what you’ll see by default when you come into the site. That’s why the little Hot Topics “tab” will be colored green. This area shows you news stories submitted to Sphinn and discussions within the site that have been voted the most active recently by the Sphinn community. If you’re busy and want to know what’s hot, Hot Topics delivers this to you at a glance. You can even get information sent to you via email or news feed.
* Share News: Read a news story you want to share with others? Use the Submit Topics tab to enter the story’s URL, and then your submission will appear within the New Topics area of Sphinn. If enough people “Sphinn” it, the story might move into the Hot Topics area. Submit stories that got “hot” on a regular basis, and you could appear as one of the top Sphinners.
You need your user name for this one.




StumbleUpon

Stumbleupon
Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations.
Connect, Meet and Share
Connect with friends and share your discoveries, meet people that have similar interests.
You need your user name for this one.


Technorati

Technorati
Currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
Technorati is the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
But it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others vie for readership with national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.
Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.
On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.
You need your user name for this one


Twitter

Twitter
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Twitter, Inc. was born out of the offices of Obvious in March of 2006. They are located in the beautiful South Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
You need your user name for this one.



Upcoming

Upcoming
What is Upcoming? Why should I use it?
Upcoming is a community for discovering and sharing events. It can help you find stuff to do, discover what your friends are doing, or let you keep private events online for your own reference. If you’d like, read more about Upcoming.
What does it cost?
Using Upcoming is free, free, free.
How do you make money?
Historically, us developers of Upcoming had done our work on this as a labor of love in our free time, because we enjoyed working on it and are passionate about web stuff. Upcoming is a strictly free service and we make money with advertising.
You need your user name for this one.



Vimeo

Vimeo
People connecting through video.
Making video has never been easier. Now there is a home for the videos you make. Come on in.
All sorts of things you can do with videos and video editing here.
Seems very intense but should be interesting.
You need your user name for this one.


Yelp

Yelp
Yelp is the fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what’s great (and not so great) in your world. You already know that asking friends is the best way to find restaurants, dentists, hairstylists, and anything local. Yelp makes it fast and easy by collecting and organizing your friends’ recommendations in one convenient place.
Yelp is…
…the ultimate city guide that taps into the community’s voice and reveals honest and current insights on local businesses and services on everything from martinis to mechanics.
…just real people, writing real reviews, and that’s the real deal.
…a fun and engaging place for passionate and opinionated influencers to share the experiences they’ve had with local businesses and services.
…You get the idea
You need your user name for this one

YouTube

Youtube
About YouTube
Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
Everyone can watch videos on YouTube. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow.
You need your user name for this one.
Zooomr

Zoomr
Today, everyone can sign-up and share unlimited photos with their family, friends and the entire world as well. I enjoy helping people communicate in new ways and hope that Zooomr helps you do just that.
Seems very interesting and could provide traffic for photographers and bloggers alike.
You need your user name for this one.

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