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* [http://freesound.iua.upf.edu The Freesound Project]: Creative Commons licensed sounds (sound effects, etc.)
 
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===Banking===
 
===Banking===
* [http://www.kiva.org/ Kiva]: worldwide [[microloan]]s
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* [http://www.kiva.org/ Kiva]: worldwide [[peer-to-peer microloan]]s
  
 
===Brainstorming===
 
===Brainstorming===

Revision as of 22:53, 23 October 2007

Overview

This section is about the Internet as a place where people (users) connect and interact with each other. For technical information about the internet, see computing.

Articles

Reference

Directories

Search Engines

Directory

Advertising

Auction & Barter Sites

  • eBay: hugely popular auction site
  • MightyBids: online auctions
  • SwapAce: "buy, sell, swap, meet, barter, and negotiate for free"

Audio

see also #Music, #Radio

Banking

Brainstorming

Places where new ideas are collected and discussed

Chat Rooms

Communities

see also #Chat Rooms, #Collaborative Projects, #Social Networking

Collaborative Projects

Fonts

History

Hosting

Data Services

not sure if these services are available to customers globally, just in the US, or in certain countries only

Humor

Images

Literature

Maps

Maps of the internet

Music

see also #Radio

Radio

Radio stations listenable over the net (without special software or a subscription)

Rights

Social Networking

  • FaceBook
  • Flork
  • Friendster
  • LinkedIn: networking for professionals
  • MySpace: generally regarded as awful, although extremely popular
  • Ning: "Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds. You can make it public or private and for anything - and anyone - you'd like."
  • Orkut (now run by Google)
  • Twitter

Status