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Eurekster

Eurekster: a social search engine.

From the material on the web site, eurekster lets members set up social networks friendster-style (though without all that personal info stuff). as you search the internet, eurekster observes which links you follow. then when your friends do similar searches, eurekster promotes links in their results that you clicked on. and vice-versa of course. The result, presumably, is a sort of community-determined idea of what links are good.

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Orkut and so on

Of course, the blogosphere has been all het up over orkut lately, at least partly because it has the google seal of approval, and everyone loves google.

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2 million LJ users

According to this LJ status post, livejournal has passed 2 million users, half of which are active "in some way". they hit 1 million only 9 months ago (and for most of the intervening time, new memberships were throttled by the invite code/pay requirement). That's a lot of people.

URL-sharing

Snej comments on del.ico.us, a social URL-sharing site, comparing it to livejournal's friends mechanism (but just for URLs, not full-blown blogs).

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