My favorite social networking tools and services

[Bill Drew]

I posted this on BabyBoomerLibrarian:My favorite social networking tools and services this afternoon.

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I have been thinking about posting more about my favorite social networking tools and services. What I have decided to do is to write a series of posts about them. The posts will probably be short essays of no more than a few hundred words at the most. I will start here with a list of them. I consider tools to be computer programs, clients, or widgets that assist or enhance the social networking experience. Services I consider to be web based or internet based in some way. Some things I use may be both. I have written about some of them before and may recycle and update some of those posts. My Favorite Services

This list is not in any particular order. It is more of a stream of consciousness thing. Some are more web based applications than a web site. Some may not be strictly social networking services. Some are about who I am online. This

• Ning
• FriendFeed
• Twitter
• reTaggr
• claimID
• LinkedIn
• FaceBook
• LibraryThing
• StumbleUpon
• Del.icio.us
• Technorati
• Flickr
• Blogger
• Second Life
• Google Reader
• BrightKite

My Favorite Tools

This list is not in any particular order. It is also a stream of consciousness thing. Some may not be strictly social networking tools. They enhance the experience for me. All are are on my laptop furnished by TC3. Some are on my portable external hard drive in Portable Apps format.

• Twhirl
• FireFox and Add Ons
• • StumbleUpon Toolbar
  • ScribeFire
  • TinyURL Creator
• Pidgin
• Lok8

My social networking experience is mostly via laptop with some via my cell phone using SMS. I will write about both where appropriate. I use SMS quite a bit with my daughter and my son. We have unlimited texting. I do not use web browsing on my cell phone because of the data charges. I have a Motorola Razr on AT & T. My laptop is an HP Compaq with lots of memory and disk space. As I write the posts, I will link to them from this post via the lists above.
Thats it for now.

[Sandra Fernandez]

I had so many addons in Firefox that it was slowing down performance. Finally had to disable a lot of them so it would work faster.

Loved your list.