New Social Content Aggregators

Social data publishing

On-line social content aggregators or services based on user-generated content are fast becoming pervasive over the Net.In the beginning, social bookmarking services were generally developed to share bookmarks targeted at useful on-line sites/resources. On-line video services like Youtube furthered this concept by allowing the user to host her content and share its link with others. The new on-line data publishing service, Swivel (http://www.swivel.com/), is another user-powered service, where users can upload/share the content. Here, you can upload any data, explore it graphically and share it with others.

Slide Share (http://slideshare.net/), the on-line service, developed for enabling netizens share/discover slide shows on different subjects.

ProProfs WebSchool (http: //www.proprofs.com/webschool) , a user generated tutorial directory, where you can find links to various on-line tutorials on technical subjects, may serve as a good resource for picking up computing skills.

QoolSqool (http://www. qoolsqool.com/) is another social book marking service worth a regular watch. The service, created for compiling educational resources by its users, regularly displays links to educational content pertaining to topics such as business, science, health and the like. Those of you who wish to learn different technologies powering web sites may find the site Endihm (http://endihm.com/) very informative. Besides user submitted links to tutorials (pertaining to subjects such as PHP, CSS, HTML and the like), this service publishes its own content as well.

In this regard, you may also check out the people powered site, PeoplesToolbox (http://www.thepeoplestoolbox.com /web_designers/), where links to various tools meant for web designers can be found. Yet another content sharing service is Shvoong (http://www.shvoong.com/), where you can write abstracts and share it with others. You can write abstracts of books, web site pieces, newspaper articles and the like. Of course, anyone can read the abstracts published on this site for free.

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