Social media: a labyrinth of initiatives

Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wiki’s, podcasts, pictures and video. They use technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowd sourcing and voice over IP, to name a few. Well-known examples include Google Groups (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook (social networking), Last.fm (personal music), YouTube (social networking and video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), Flickr (photo sharing), Twitter (social networking and microblogging) and Jaiku and Pownce (microblogs). Many of these social media services can be integrated via social network aggregation platforms like Mybloglog, LinkedIn, Blogcatalog, and Plaxo.
(source: Wikipedia)

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